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They measure things with body parts and random units. Eating industrial waste, believing it's food.
My feet are always with me. Do you carry a meter stick everywhere you go? I thought not.
Ok, if it is allowed to remove your shoe to measure a furniture, i.e. only if your foot actually measures exactly one foot
My guy, every foot measures exactly one foot.
Yes, and 1 pound is everywhere 1 pound, even on the Moon. The US don't have even a different unit for weight and mass. because when the imperial system was invented they thought that it was the same.
Uh... But a pound IS a pound on the moon, it's a unit of force/weight not mass (I wish we [the US] used metric, just being annoyingly pedantic for fun)
Edit: Aaaand apparently my brain didn't read your whole comment, you already addressed the weight/mass thing. Long day, laying in bed w headache, can't read
Limmy [sic] explains: What’s heavier, a kilogram of steel or a kilogram of feathers?
You say it, a Pound is a Pound weight on earth, but weight depends on gravity, so a Pound is only 1/6 Pound on the Moon Imperial system is obsolet crap, maybe enough for a farmer, but in tecnology, science, where you need to work with measures of μ, feet and inches are as usefull like roman numbers for integrals.
A pound is still a pound on the moon, since it's a unit of force not mass. It just requires more mass for a scale to measure that force. I'm an engineer that works on spacecraft, I know units, and hate the imperial system and all the conversions I have to do
Edit: and it's still useful to differentiate between mass and weight/force, just depends on the context. A doctor would want to know an astronaut's mass to accurately track health. But writing up a fitness plan to maintain muscle mass and bone density, force/weight is more relevant because squatting 100 kilograms on the moon isn't as useful a metric as setting it to a specific force in pounds/newtons
my foot or your foot ?
Yes.
On your ass? I don't mind which foot 😂😎