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kleinbl00 · 2828 days ago · link · · parent · post: Bolt took apart a Juicero. Now I want one, goddamn it.
And when you study engineering in America, you get to do problems in dynes and slugs and lbf so that your professors can say "and this is why the entire scientific community is behind the metric system." Inches/feet/yards/miles is one thing. it's all fun'n'games until you have to invoke dimensional analysis and suddenly the entire system of measure explodes in a pyrotechnic nightmare of single-use coefficients.