americans carefully using imperial units instead of metric to waste time of the rest of the world
… and themselves as well.
That was the most confusing discussion I've heard in a while. Don't even know what the initial question was. Had to rewatch the video
What's the difference between 6 and 7/8t and 7 and 1/4
The initial answer of 3/8 was right, but then he changed it and I just got confused.
Okay so NASA lost a $327 million Mars probe because said was transmitting trajectory corrections in the SI Units of Newton-Seconds, but the home base software was interpreting and calculating it as Pound Seconds.
Remembering that there was endless amounts of scientific equipment aboard that took years to make, and the whole enchilada took 10 months traveling through space before it could even crash.
wasting time
getting used to converting between units.
Pick one.
I’ll have you know converting out of slugs was absolutely a waste of time. My prof searing 2.54cm/in into my brain was quite useful though
If your goal is to teach new material, you teach that material specifically. You dont mix other things into it because 1) it makes it harder for them to learn that new material and 2) it makes it harder for you to figure out what they dont understand.
At least it's easy to remember the conversion between hours and seconds.
if you ever forget, heres a neat mnemonic device: 3600, because 60*60=3600
Yeah because it'll make it easier to calculate how long it takes to travel 50km distance if you calculate 14m/s instead of 50km/h
