• morriscox@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    It’s not meant to be real accurate. It’s meant to “do for now”. There’s a reason that the metric system took so long to come into existence. We have the advantage of hindsight. Any society starting over might not have access to that experience.

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      8 hours ago

      I prefer using bananas to feet though. Both are just as accurate measurement tools.

      Metric would be easier to re-establish exactly because we have hindsight and prior knowledge of it. Everything is basically just multiples of 10, once you establish the base measurement.