Comments by "redfish337" (@redfish337) on "Voyager 2's 11 billion mile journey at a human scale" video.

  1. Yes, how hard is it to google unit conversions? Hard enough for most of you apparently.
    25
  2. Metric is better overall but you people are so %#$# elitist it's sick. Don't forget you still use "Imperial" time day to day.
    9
  3. Imperial has good points. Remember that we use "Imperial" time, like it or not, and everyone can still manage to use 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day even as they curse Imperial weights and distances. I'm not saying Imperial is superior- it could definitely have used a governing body to simplify it if nothing else. I'm not saying it's superior for this video- metric would have been, though using a single imperial unit would also have worked. Switching imperial units was foolish. BUT, Imperial does some things easily that metric has difficulty doing, so you're at an advantage knowing how to use both.
    3
  4. I understand common metric and imperial units. It's not hard. If metric is better for scaling up and down to very large and small numbers. Imperial is better at subdividing at practical human levels. So yes, I think a video like this with large scaling would work better in metric. However, it's perfectly reasonable for other videos to be BETTER in imperial. Is it great if everyone speaks the same language? Well, sure, people being able to communicate with everyone else at a basic level would be great. But we Americans usually just read over your metric numbers, do the conversions in our head or otherwise, and move on. We're mostly bilingual for measurements, just a bit slower with some metric, and we don't have as good of a natural grasp on the values. But NO language out there is as comprehensive as ALL languages put together. All languages have strong and weak points. If you're a bilingual person talking to another bilingual person you have a greater degree of expression and clarity than if you had only one language to choose from. Homonym or similar sounding in one language? it's probably not in the other. Fifteen and fifty ... can be a bit hard to differentiate. Quince and cincuenta? Much more clear. So is Spanish better than English? Here, yes, usually- though you may actually WANT to be vague or confusing sometimes. But Spanish has its own issues where a bilingual person may prefer English for clarity.
    2
  5. There's obviously been a resistance to moving away from "Imperial" time anyway. Decimal time failed. But all these units are shoe-horned in. They have a kg... so they make a statue and call it the kg. Then they decide to define it by .planck constant (or something similar). The problem is it's defining a preconceived kg by planck constant, not determining a logical kg (or frankly, let's be serious, GRAM) based on something natural like planck constant. Defining it this way is just a messy conversion.
    2
  6. Maybe. That doesn't mean Latin is useless though.
    1
  7. It was supposed to be 12 but somehow along the way it got #$@% up and became 16 which is less useful.
    1
  8. Second is from the days of Imperial... that's why it's 60 seconds to the minute, 60 minutes to the hour, 24 hours to a day... They just defined a second based on something in nature.... that's why it's 9,192,631,770 periods to a second and not 10^10 periods to a second.
    1
  9. Metric system was adopted in France in 1799. I doubt they had the period of Cesium in mind either- that's why it had to be shoe-horned in later as 9,192,631,770 periods to a second instead of just changing the base unit to one that was 10^10 periods.
    1
  10. Their figures were from the NASA site. They have a page for each..
    1