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    Neil deGrasse Tyson‏Verified account @neiltyson 12 Jun 2013

    .@alkemann: As a scientist and a rational man, shouldn't you use the decimal system? // Not when I'm talking about Baseball.

    11:00 AM - 12 Jun 2013
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      2. BJ Nemeth‏ @BJNemeth 12 Jun 2013
        Replying to @neiltyson

        @neiltyson @alkemann I’m going to assume he meant “metric system” and not “decimal system.” Surprised you didn’t correct that.

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      3. Alexander Morland‏ @alkemann 12 Jun 2013
        Replying to @BJNemeth

        @BJNemeth @neiltyson metric is a decimal system. Though truthfully any base system that is fine with me. Specially 12 :)

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      1. Ashley Kerlin‏ @AshleyInTheory 12 Jun 2013
        Replying to @neiltyson

        @neiltyson @alkemann why? It's played in far more metric nations than Imperial!

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      2. PsychonauticExpress‏ @PNauticExpress 14 Jun 2013
        Replying to @neiltyson

        @neiltyson @alkemann why talk about baseball as a scientist and rational man? Weird watching other grown men play games. Oh the resource.

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      3. Conspiracy Forecast‏ @ConspiracyFcast 14 Jun 2013
        Replying to @PNauticExpress

        @PNauticExpress @neiltyson @alkemann I see no harm in passing time w/sport.

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      4. PsychonauticExpress‏ @PNauticExpress 14 Jun 2013
        Replying to @ConspiracyFcast

        @Sawyer666 @neiltyson @alkemann until we can deflect an asteroid or feed everyone I see issue with passing so much time/resource/brainpower

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      5. Conspiracy Forecast‏ @ConspiracyFcast 14 Jun 2013
        Replying to @PNauticExpress

        @PNauticExpress If anything is a waste of brainpower it's worrying about whether or not baseball is valid enough for society's time.

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      6. PsychonauticExpress‏ @PNauticExpress 14 Jun 2013
        Replying to @ConspiracyFcast

        @Sawyer666 so thinking about different paradigms is a waste of time? How would they ever emerge. What hurts in you that you veer to the rude

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      7. Conspiracy Forecast‏ @ConspiracyFcast 14 Jun 2013
        Replying to @PNauticExpress

        @PNauticExpress Everything is chill man. Not trying to sound rude just bouncing perspective.

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      1. Joel‏ @polyparadigm 14 Jun 2013
        Replying to @neiltyson

        @neiltyson Also, once you convert .22LR into metric, it ceases to specify a cartridge, only a diameter. And no one's fully rational.

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      1. Jenny Parsons‏ @jkpars84 13 Jun 2013
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        @neiltyson @alkemann If you're rational, shouldn't you use fractions? ;-)

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      1. Patrick Hughes‏ @Time_Trvlr 13 Jun 2013
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        @neiltyson @alkemann You mean like 3.25 inches, or 1.5 feet?

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      1. Jesse Corbeil‏ @jescorbeil 13 Jun 2013
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        @neiltyson as I said in episode 1 of http://yetanotherscienceshow.com , I love the poetry of inches, but I respect the order of the metre.

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      1. wrenson‏ @NinjaWarren 12 Jun 2013
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        @neiltyson @alkemann or bullets.

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      1. Dave Hastel‏ @DaveHastel 12 Jun 2013
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        @neiltyson @alkemann Using the metric system when talking baseball makes things easy. The distance from home plate to 1st base is 2,743.2cm.

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      1. Richard Fredrick‏ @Cycleknutt 12 Jun 2013
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        @neiltyson @alkemann It's a real shame that everything that we ever talk about isn't in the metric system. It's the 21st century!

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      1. Matthew Taws‏ @mattloops 12 Jun 2013
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        @neiltyson @alkemann I think he did mean "decimal...". No decimals in the baseball stats, when in fact many of them are (eg batting avg...)

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      1. Chris Theorin‏ @SlurpTheo 12 Jun 2013
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        @neiltyson @alkemann ... running on metric time. Remember this time people, 80 past 2 on April 47th, it's the dawn of a new enlightenment.

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