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A pizza-sized ocean predator and a tribe are trying to protect each other. Here's how (www.npr.org)
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Sunflower sea stars are critically endangered in the Pacific Ocean. University of Washington researchers are working with the Samish Indian Nation to bring this 24-armed creature back from the brink of extinction.

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[–] 3 points 2 months ago*

was this written by american news, wtf size is pizza sized...

round, square?

slice, small, medium, large, xl, twin...

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de

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    [–] 3 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    C/anythingbutmetric

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    What irony. In this case, literally no metric practitioners would use metric. They would use a mix of metric distance and imperial time which is just bizarre.

    Feet per minute makes sense to most. Meters per hectosecond is inscrutible. I have yet to see a metric clock in my long life and I'm from a metric country.

    Well, I'm going to call it a day, or to you metric fans, an 86.4 kiloseconds.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    m/s is a perfectly reasonable unit for speed and easy to visualise.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    So you would prefer to visualize 0.025 m/s to 5 fpm?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yes. Or go with 25mm/s in that case, but because metric is trivial to move up/down to different sized units that is simple to do.

    Meanwhile in imperial, fuck knows. 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard and then some number over 1000 yards to a mile.

    Even worse with volume, which fucking gallon are you using? There are different ones! It might be (vaguely close to) 3.5L, or 4.5L! I think there might even be another one somewhere.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    So you struggle to remember there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day? Again, having never seen a metric clock in my life, I assumed people could remember imperial identities or at the very least look them up if they cared.

    Imperial evolved over centuries to contain units people actually use. I do not expect it to be used in science, Metric has its purpose. However, units that vary when it matters have value.

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    [–] 6 points 1 month ago*

    As soon as I read pizza-sized I knew which sub this belongs in...

    I'm not even sure if that comparison evokes the right dimensions in everybody's mind.

    Cultural differences, too:

    table: common pizza sizes

    So the starfish can be anywhere between 22 and 40cm in diameter? OTOH if that reflects the natural variation maybe the comparison isn't so bad after all.

    The article itself appears to be quite good btw.

    And they have these amazing round-tipped feelers:

    starfish

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    [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de

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    [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    That headline...

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