[manish_gill]

Isn't the fact that the rest of the world uses those definitions an advantage in and of itself? What is there to be gained by being inconsistent?

Relevant picture I found on twitter: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bdp2YLFCIAAM1Dy.png

[raldi]

What's that a map of, countries that have placed a man on the moon?

[reubenmorais]

I think it's a map of countries that lost a 125 million dollars Mars probe after failing to properly convert between imperial and metric units.

[raldi]

Exactly! This is why it's dangerous and irresponsible to allow the metric system into your space program.

[edvinbesic]

Which is precisely the reason why the US military has adopted the metric system.

[adolph]

Metric mils? Ha!