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by ihsw2 2907 days ago
The US put a god damned man on the moon, they're far from dark ages.
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And lost a mars orbiter thanks to the US customary units.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...

Think what could have happened if the Apollo Program was an international effort and not a U.S. only one.

Probably wouldn’t have left low Earth orbit [0].

For better or worse more effective organizations generally present themselves as a unit with aligned interests. Organizations with misaligned internal interests get as far as the lowest common denominator among their interests weighted by the relative power of members. That’s a far more significant factor than choice of measurement standards.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station