A pizza-sized ocean predator and a tribe are trying to protect each other. Here's how

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/16/nx-s1-5928398/endangered-sea-stars-release-pacific-ocean

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KnitWit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d (6 replies)

C/anythingbutmetric

Kind_to_Everyone@slrpnk.net · -1 pts · 1d (5 replies)

What irony. In this case, literally no metric practitioners would use metric. They would use a mix of metric distance and imperial time which is just bizarre.

Feet per minute makes sense to most. Meters per hectosecond is inscrutible. I have yet to see a metric clock in my long life and I'm from a metric country.

Well, I'm going to call it a day, or to you metric fans, an 86.4 kiloseconds.

KnitWit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d (1 reply)

‘A pizza sized ocean predator’

Kind_to_Everyone@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 20h

What do you have against traditional Italian unit?

HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1d (2 replies)

m/s is a perfectly reasonable unit for speed and easy to visualise.

Kind_to_Everyone@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 16h (1 reply)

So you would prefer to visualize 0.025 m/s to 5 fpm?

HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 11h

Yes. Or go with 25mm/s in that case, but because metric is trivial to move up/down to different sized units that is simple to do.

Meanwhile in imperial, fuck knows. 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard and then some number over 1000 yards to a mile.

Even worse with volume, which fucking gallon are you using? There are different ones! It might be (vaguely close to) 3.5L, or 4.5L! I think there might even be another one somewhere.