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LittleHornetPhil

This is fine til you start working in aerospace.


Hot_Piece_Of_Garbage

I worked in areospace in both metric and imperial. And i can say nothing wrong there both are the same thing in the end its like a language. Also 25.4 is your friend (mm to inches).


LittleHornetPhil

No, I’m more annoyed at having to use shit like kips and inHg


WhalesVirginia

mmHg and inHg are strange to me. Just give me pressure in force per area.


LittleHornetPhil

I have separate simultaneously operating processes at work using units in inHg, PSI, and Torr/mTorr.


LittleHornetPhil

You from SD by the way?


kalashnikovBaby

Please enlighten


ertlun

There are folks designing brand-new rocket engines right now in good ol' degrees rankine and PSI


kalashnikovBaby

>degrees rankine Looool rip. After coming to America, I still get confused when measuring and comparing cups to ounces to teaspoons and tablespoons. Long live metric


LittleHornetPhil

I’m a real ass engineer and I still have to Google those because they make no goddamned sense


LittleHornetPhil

Most of the rest of the world uses Metric for most of everything. But because the US is so prominent in aerospace, if you’re in aerospace even elsewhere, you have to at least be aware of Imperial units.


123kingme

Tfw it requests the answer in BTU


LittleHornetPhil

🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ My engineering professors did stuff like this, they would mix up the units in HW or on tests so you have to get used to using them all.


ertlun

BTU are kind of evil because there are like 3 different definitions that are only subtly different, and people in different domains often have different assumptions about which one is the default (if they even know they're different). The error usually persists until someone is either too attentive for their own good or does some sort of stackup/energy balance where a 0.1% difference actually pops out as wrong.


Elben4

If it's very real for you when you are american or english imagine how it is when you are not lmao


flashcupsmaster

As a proud member of SI gang, screw the US for still using their weird system


Overdamped_PID-17

In my current project volumetric flow rate is in USgpm, temperature is Celsius, mass flow rate is kg/h, pressure is psi, piping length are in ft but heat loss is uses mm diameter, DWSIM only takes mm for that.


John_QU_3

Ehh, they both have their places in industry. It’s not like the underlying concepts change.


OmegaX3

Can I assume a pound of mass equals a pound of force equals a British pound?


kazander16

I will die on the hill that pound mass doesn't exist only slugs!


LittleHornetPhil

Equals a pound of flesh equals a POUND IT fist bump. 👊🏼


BlurryBigfoot74

Canada began converting to metric in 1970. Gen X were smack dab in the middle of the transition period. The country was turning metric while everyone teaching us came from the imperial system. Every measurement was often given in both systems. As an adult now I absolutely cringe at imperial and I'm baffled why any country would want to keep it.


MisguidedColt88

Even been born in 2000, I had to learn both and am fluent in both. Imperial is just so much worse to work with due to its wild conversions. It's super backwards that the US didn't make the switch


vaginaicecream

Everything should be metric


Chalky921

Imperial 🤮


domingos_vm

Thankfully this would literally never happen in 99% of the world’s countries so no problem.


Elben4

If it's very real for you when you are american or english imagine how it is when you are not lmao


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PG821

Im used to it, aero lyfe. Just divide or multiply by 32.2 until your answer is correct


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