What would it take to actually make the metric system standard in the US?
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I’m personally also in favor of a global reset on electrons being defined as being positively rather than negatively charged. But I feel that has somewhat less buy-in at present.
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Wed have to rename positrons NEGATRONS and... ok, I don't need any other reason to get behind this.
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No exception legislation mandating its use on DOD and NASA contracts would do it. For the metric thing, not the other one. As a mechanical engineer at heart, I'm pretty sure electrons are a myth.
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Of course, getting that passed would be tough, since units are now a political issue. As is hummus. We're a weird and broken place.
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Unintended consequences. You realize the disruption that would cause to all the good folks currently living in North Carolina (South Carolina)? Oh, the mis-delivered Amazon package apocalypse that would ensue. I think there was a Twilight Zone about this.
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Can we have a hundred minutes in an hour as well though? And preferably a hundred hours a day?
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Don't be so negative.
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negatrons and positrons
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