OFFS "On the station, crews rely on more than 4,000 pounds of exercise hardware spread across roughly 850 cubic feet." 🙄

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NASA's use of Imperial measurements is similar to if US biologists started using species names in the Texas dialect instead of in Latin.

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I can't overstate this. NASA's use of pounds and cubic feet in its outreach efforts does not come across to science-literate people, inside or outside the US, as a sign that the country is a badass superpower that can do what it likes and ignore everyone else.

Instead it suggests that the US is a provincial nation of dungaree-wearing banjo players.

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@mrundkvist
Or that NASA, USA funded, is trying to appeal to its target audience of voters in the measures they actually USE.

Trumpler’s assault on science has hit NASA hard, this could be an attempt to fight back. Get their population to relate.

Also, mocking a country for its legal language, customs, currency, or systems of measurements is not okay. Ever. Just because someone believes their ‘system’ is better, does not make it so. Opinion is just a consensus. Not everyone has to agree.

I grew up with UK Imperial measures, and currency, yet somehow have a genius IQ and science degrees. Does the fact that the UK still uses MILES on all our roadsigns, and sells beer in PINTS (bigger than a USA pint btw 😉) make us all hicks?