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Re:NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever by steventharlow on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @02:26AM (#29563022)
For one, the NASA article says 5 million miles (12 solar radii), not kilometers. So it's actually about 2/3 the quoted number.
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Re:NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever by kwhitefoot on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @04:28AM (#29563727)
Doesn't NASA have some sort of educational duty? Surely they should be using SI units always so as to avoid exactly this kind of confusion.
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Re:NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever by nine_k on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:11AM (#29566982)
I'd rather have them always use both units, so that people would eventually learn intuitively, by example, what a km is relayed to a mile, or a kg to a pound, etc.
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Re:NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever by kwhitefoot on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @02:14PM (#29570335)
Yes, but the primary units should always be SI. They can put the US Customary units in brackets after.
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