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Ukrainian drones now spray 4,000° F thermite streams right into Russian trenches (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Even in the US, science is mostly metric. But most US people are not exactly the scientific kind...

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Modern science is, but there's plenty of old journals from the 80s and earlier that use degrees Rankine and gallons.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fucking BTUs and shit.

PSI is another one that seems to be used over the metric/SI alternative in some science-adjacent applications.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Until you start looking at old stuff and have you figure out if they were working with the "millions scheme" or "thousands scheme," and if "1 billion" is equal to 10^12^ or 10^9^

https://www.affixes.org/numberwords.html