Tag: Imperial

  • The Metric System Makes Sense to Everyone: American Misguided Exceptionalism and a $327 Million Spacecraft. 

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    When I was a kid, we started learning the metric system in school. There was an actual plan. America was going to join the rest of the world and switch from the imperial system — you know, the one built on the length of some king’s foot — to a logical, base-ten system that scientists,…