Why the time has come to adopt the metric system –or– The continuing story of bungalow climate research

Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Climate research on Mars lacks auditing, unlike same on Earth

Because Americans—not all, but, to reuse the word again so soon, a plurality—are too quantitatively addled1 by generations of the exaggerations of media and marketing to even know how much distance a yard covers. What difference if one says meter instead?

Also because it’s funny when multi-hundred-million dollar climate research projects burn up around Mars.

1 “Fucking stupid” in dialect.

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