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[-] F_State@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago

For day to day life, weight and mass might as well be the same. I love science and astronomy but I'm not buying a pound of lunch meat at the deli counter to take into space.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Well, when I buy a pound of lunch meat in the EU, they give me 500 g of lunch meat, because this is what for us is a pound. The SI system are round clear and related numbers which make it easy to calculate, the Imperial system isn't, nothing to do with going in space or building a quantum computer, but simply calculating the amount of plants with a distance of 2 inches in a garden with 20 feets.

[-] F_State@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago

I was talking about weight vs mass

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