09-16-2010, 11:08 AM
(09-16-2010, 06:55 AM)--Pete Wrote: I am against the 'you must use metric units for everything' mentality of the metrication morons.
If that mentality existed, how do you explain that the scientists and engineers who you describe as metrications morons actually use ...
Quote:Things like star masses in terms of the solar mass, atomic mass units for atom and molecule sized units, bars for pressures from one atmosphere to about a million or so, mm of Hg for low pressures and vacuum (it even has a name, I believe the mm of Mg is the torr), barns (and sheds and doghouses) for atomic cross sections, etc.