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Satellite That Beamed Down 4.8 TB of Data in 5 Minutes While Doing 17K MPH Dies on the Job (www.autoevolution.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As long as you've taken science/math in school, you should be able to piece it together. No one uses imperial units for computation really, especially in academia. Also if you say 17 KMPH, most will read it as 17 kilometers per hour..even those steeped in the metric system. Please attack the American education system in general and "no child left behind" instead of our choice of distance/speed units on road signs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hell, I'm old enough to be a parent/grandparent to most of Lemmy, and I learned metric over 40 years ago...in a small rural US grade school.

Guess what - back then the UK still hadn't fully settled on metric, they didn't "fully" convert until the mid-80's if I remember right.

And they still use feet, mph, stone, etc, as they choose.

This whole metric arrogance thing is tiresome (and I vastly prefer it for many things, because of Base 10, so really it's a Base 10 preference).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm an american and I'm generally agreeing with you but our education system is trash mostly because of consistently lowering standards just so everyone passes. Don't get me started on the funding and peivate/charter schools though.