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::If inches, slugs, and poundals are good enough for the NASA Mars Climate Orbiter, they're good enough for me! [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 22:06, 28 February 2007 (EST) | ::If inches, slugs, and poundals are good enough for the NASA Mars Climate Orbiter, they're good enough for me! [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 22:06, 28 February 2007 (EST) | ||
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| + | ::: Well, it creates cognitivie dissonance when one talks about science using other units. It is somewhat similar to using SI to talk about halachah rather than using things like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ke%27zayit Ke'Zayit] (ok, maybe not the best analogy, since everyone agrees on the conversion from SI to English). As for the Mars Climate Orbiter, you do know that that was just the <small>FNORD</small> Illuminati coverup for what really happened to it <small> FNORD </small>? Joking aside, giving it in English units only just makes headaches for citation issues and forces people to make more conversions when trying to actually use the data. [[User:JoshuaZ|JoshuaZ]] 22:19, 28 February 2007 (EST) | ||
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U. S. Customary units
I don't know what Conservapedia's policy on units and dimensions is, but taking the lead from the "American" spelling policy, I have used U. S. Customary units rather than SI ("metric system") units throughout this article.
But please discuss, as SI units are more appropriate for scientific articles. Dpbsmith 19:54, 28 February 2007 (EST)
- To be blunt, using miles to describe distances in space is almost painful. However, it might make sense if the audience is mainly American to use both, maybe with a slash, or put the English unit in parentheses or brackets. JoshuaZ 20:41, 28 February 2007 (EST)
- Why is measuring space in the paces of a Roman soldier any more painful that measuring it in terms of two scratches in a platinum-iridium bar at Bureau Internationale de Poids et Mesures? (Yesyesyes I know it's really the distance light travels in 1/299142857.142857 seconds...)
- If inches, slugs, and poundals are good enough for the NASA Mars Climate Orbiter, they're good enough for me! Dpbsmith 22:06, 28 February 2007 (EST)
- Well, it creates cognitivie dissonance when one talks about science using other units. It is somewhat similar to using SI to talk about halachah rather than using things like the Ke'Zayit (ok, maybe not the best analogy, since everyone agrees on the conversion from SI to English). As for the Mars Climate Orbiter, you do know that that was just the FNORD Illuminati coverup for what really happened to it FNORD ? Joking aside, giving it in English units only just makes headaches for citation issues and forces people to make more conversions when trying to actually use the data. JoshuaZ 22:19, 28 February 2007 (EST)