• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    15 days ago

    Um, ACU is a result of British Imperial.

    Brits still use Imperial in day-to-day conversations.

    Metric is still largely bound by human scale - Celsius is bound to water at earth pressures and temps. Meter is bound to earth circumference:

    one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the meridian

    Today it’s defined as:

    the distance light travels, in a vacuum, in 1/299,792,458 seconds

    Utter arbitrary nonsense to continue to use the yard and calling it by a different name.

    This whole meme is a joke fueled by hubris. At least Kelvin is tied to a universal constant.

    (I use both ACU and metric every day, they’re simply different).