☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agoChina’s ‘artificial sun’ sets nuclear fusion record, runs 1,006 seconds at 180 million°Fcharmingscience.comexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1131arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareSpiderFarmer [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoCould be a communication thing. As much as I love the metric system, for frontfacing stuff like articles, scientists have to sometimes use freedom units. At least that was my experience with school.
minus-squareOnno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radiolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 months agoAnd that is precisely why the Mars Polar Lander failed. https://everydayastronaut.com/mars-climate-orbiter/ Face it, the USA has defined the inch as 25.4 mm. It did so in 1933. The country is already metric, it’s been metric for 92 years. It’s time.
minus-squareimogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoisn’t it used by science and the military already lol
minus-squareOnno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radiolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoYeah, it’s just the rest of the country that needs being brought into the 21st century.
minus-squareGalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoThat temperature is hotter than anyone could really imagine to the point that any scale is meaningless
Could be a communication thing. As much as I love the metric system, for frontfacing stuff like articles, scientists have to sometimes use freedom units.
At least that was my experience with school.
And that is precisely why the Mars Polar Lander failed.
https://everydayastronaut.com/mars-climate-orbiter/
Face it, the USA has defined the inch as 25.4 mm. It did so in 1933. The country is already metric, it’s been metric for 92 years.
It’s time.
isn’t it used by science and the military already lol
Yeah, it’s just the rest of the country that needs being brought into the 21st century.
That temperature is hotter than anyone could really imagine to the point that any scale is meaningless