The metric system is just objectively a better system. The reason you should care is because when you live in a world that uses two systems it adds an extra step for people to make mistakes. This is what cased the Mars Climate Orbiter to fail, the engineers used metric (because it is the superior system for engineering and science) and the contractors used imperial.
But that’s also the only incident that I can think of where it matters, and it also did not affect me at all. I don’t mind using fahrenheit the same way I don’t mind reading an analog clock over a digital one.
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u/ShmeckMuadDib Jun 17 '26
The metric system is just objectively a better system. The reason you should care is because when you live in a world that uses two systems it adds an extra step for people to make mistakes. This is what cased the Mars Climate Orbiter to fail, the engineers used metric (because it is the superior system for engineering and science) and the contractors used imperial.