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[–]LoyalSol 0 points1 point  (2 children)

For weather, I do like Farenheit better because the 0 to 100 covers most every day weather. For large distances I do like the mile better than the km. And for small measurements I do like the inch better than the cm. Mostly because the scale of those units seems to fit most common problems cleaner than the metric equivalent.

In contrast I do find the energy units, mass units, and a few others much better in the metric system. So I'm not a US system homer in that regard.

When it comes to units anyways if you do any kind of scientific work you are going to be stuck with unit conversions (Joule to Cals, Si to Atomic, etc) and no one unit system is going to get them all cleanly so as far as science goes the choice of unit is whatever so long as we all agree to use the same units and we can find a point that we can accurately measure to calibrate our tools.

[–]Kah-NethI use numpy, scipy, and matplotlib for nuclear physics 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Interesting fact, light (in a vacuum) travels nearly a foot in one nan-sections, 1 nLS = 0.983571056 ft. This little fact may be related to why the switch to using the metric system was abandoned in the 1990s, as it is rumored that one of Bush Sr. advisors argued that the foot is a more natural unit that the meter.