When drunken lobsters invent units of measurement

Doesn't NASA use metric?

Sorry, can't hear you over the sound of us dropping the sun on Japan. Twice.

Actually NASA doesn’t always use metric. Remember the Mars mission crash? As a matter of fact (and as it pertains to the moon landings specifically), the readouts on the Apollo modules were in Feet, distance by feet, and so on. But NASA also uses metric. NASA, like the USA, has increased its use of metric with time, and after the aforementioned Mars mission crash, has made some hard calls on metric. Of course- countries like the UK also use a combination of metric and Imperial/Si. The Stone is still more commonly used to give a persons weight for example, than metric units. So.... the whole “Si is dumb” or “only America’s uses it...” is not really true.

The average person will pretty much NEVER need to convert miles to feet. What are you doing.... putting up 4/16ths of a mile of aluminum siding on your PALACE? And I mean... like I pointed out- unlike metric where we use decimals generally- “.5 meters” vs “one half meter...” generally it isn’t common to say “.6 yards” or “.5 miles....” we say: “half a mile.” It doesn’t really matter either way- because well... if you need to know how many feet .5 or 1/2 mile is..... take the 1- and that’s a mile- times one... aka 5280. Now take the second number.... 2- and divide the first number by it. Yay. You now know. .5 miles? 5280...... multiplied by .5..... yay.

Now, I don’t know what the schools are like in every country in the world. In the US, these operations- fractions, division, multiplication.... they are usually covered by 3rd grade or so. I don’t want to make anyone feel bad if they’re country doesn’t teach math like this, or they don’t learn until a later age or maybe graduate school (it seems that may be the case since so many folks seem to think this is so hard...) But- to help you out- most phones and personal electronics devices have calculators if it is hard.

Also- usually if you’re converting miles you’re converting them to yards anyway. FYI. But if you’re talking about things like speed and force over distance, you might need to convert large distances to get a speed in feet per minute or second. But that is generally not common as over distances of miles speed is USUALLY going to be given in Miles per hour or miles per minute/second/etc. but I mean... I like metric for lots of things. I use it every day of my professional life. And I also use SI. I know cursive too, and how to drive a manual transmission. There are easier ways to do those things- but knowing and using those things are also often useful.