Oh, yeah, knowing a different unit for length or weight has most definitely put us at an absolute disadvantage in sciences here in the US.
NOT! Big hairy deal. It doesn’t make one illiterate or less capable using a different unit.
SI is for those that find multiplying or dividing by anything other than 10 too difficult.
NOT! Big hairy deal. It doesn’t make one illiterate or less capable using a different unit.
Scientists -- even American scientists -- uniformly use SI. Are you seriously claiming that not having the sort of intuitive, reflexive grasp of a system of weights and measures that can only come from being immersed in it constantly is no disadvantage?
By the way, to everybody else in the thread who's blathering about changing gravitational constants and different local gravitational strength: MASS IS INDEPENDENT OF GRAVITY, YOU SIMPLETONS. My God, do you think that every single scientist in the world is a moron? Do you think that none of them is aware that gravity is locally variable?