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5 days agoI know right? It’s like they’re toddlers who never grew up, except in this case they never grew out of Obscurantism.
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Amerikkkans (well, Tekkkans) will do anything but use the Metric system.
1·12 days agoThat’s a fair point. And I hear the transmissions they send and receive are making even scientific appliances from the 90s onwards look like bitches. My math might be far off but isn’t a transmissions from the Voyager currently reaching us at a power about six orders of magnitude lower than a pin falling on the ground? And the dishes still catch them.
(“In space no one can hear you scream” my ass)
Looooong may she reign!
One would think we should just ship it some upgraded parts on a door dash rocket, since we presumably have far better technology now.
No? No? Oh well I guess the USA is not that great then,
To be fair, if you pick your scales such that the numbers read ridiculous, nothing has an intuitive feeling. There’s nothing much intuitive about a plane flying at an altitude of 16 thousand feet either, no matter how much they closetedly fetishise footstuff, in just about the same way there’s nothing much intuitive about measuring the size of a star in meters.