[Hot Air] We are used to arguing about the merits of the Imperial vs Metric systems of measurement. As we should. Imperial units are clearly superior to the metric system, as is proven by the fact that the Metric system was first adopted by France during the revolution.
Nothing good came out of the French Revolution.
The only country to have reached the moon—the United States, of course—uses the Imperial system. Inches, feet, miles, Fahrenheit, pints, gallons... All the useful units. None of that Frenchie stuff. Too bad Brexit didn’t extend to measurement units. Although the Brits still use "stone" as a unit, and I have no idea what that means.
How many stones did the Saturn V weigh? Who cares. We had the Saturn V, and the UK had Jaguars that couldn’t even start back then.
In any case, when it comes to asteroids the units of measurement are neither Imperial nor Metric. Rather, they are analogies.
An asteroid roughly the size of 14 flamingos flying foot-to-beak is set to skim past the Earth Wednesday, March 1, according to NASA's asteroid tracker. jpost
But 14 flamingos are probably more dangerous since this won't hit us. |