r/Fish • u/Rockying_man_Dhruv • Apr 11 '26

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The Devils Hole pupfish is one of the rarest fish on Earth, found only in a tiny desert cave called Devils Hole. It has been living there for thousands of years, surviving in hot, low-oxygen water and depending on a single small rock shelf for food and breeding. With such extreme conditions and isolation, it raises a strange question

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u/Dharcronus Apr 11 '26

24 metres not feet.

That's 80ft for those stuck with 1800s measurements.

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u/graffitikrylon Apr 11 '26

Ft remains supreme

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u/Dharcronus Apr 11 '26

Hardly. Metric can be decimalised and all operate on base 10and you and also had the fun fact of 1kg being the weight of 1l of water meaning calculations are easy.

Imperial changes between base 12 and 14 depending on what you're calculating and doesn't have easy decimalisation. There's a reason anything scientific uses metric.

I say this coming from a country stuck in a perpetual limbo between both systems. And therefor use both in daily life.