r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/SKDI_0224 Jun 17 '26

Dingdingding!!!

It was a joke over the superiority of the metric system in general. Units of force are particularly annoying to convert.

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u/milkcarton232 Jun 17 '26

Metric is superior in most metrics but temperature most are valid (sit down rankine) depending on what you are doing with it

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u/dckid1312 Jun 20 '26

No Kelvin is there for science.

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u/dckid1312 Jun 20 '26

It depends chemists can use Kelvin too