Comment by garbagecoder
3 years ago
That one incident is because they didn't use metric in a domain where it would benefit from it. You won't save that rocket by changing how my clothes are labelled.
3 years ago
That one incident is because they didn't use metric in a domain where it would benefit from it. You won't save that rocket by changing how my clothes are labelled.
Consistency across all domains is a benefit in itself.
Yes, but as with everyone else, you are not factoring in the empirical value of the costs and just asserting it would be better.
And as already noted, since the switch can happen over 1-2 decades but the permanence of units is measured in centuries. The benefits of clarity and consistency over that timeline necessarily outweigh the downsides.