[Politicalities]

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.

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?

[CodeToad]

P.S. From a scientific standpoint, SI makes no practical sense and has nothing but POLITICAL merit.

[CodeToad]

"My God, do you think that every single scientist in the world is a moron?"

You seem to think they are. You state that they need SI as though they cannot figure out any other units of measure.

(hint: They do every day and it works well for them.)

[CodeToad]

"Scientists -- even American scientists -- uniformly use SI."

P.S.S. I am a scientist and work within an advanced research and development group for one of the leaders in a particiular industry and we don't use SI. No need to use a French system of conversion from other more useful values. (Another Hint: Newton didn't say F=ma)

[ConservativeMind]

Yes, I’m saying it is not a disadvantage.

By the way, I also believe that people who grow up knowing French are not at a disadvantage, linguistically, as compared with those who know English.

There is no disadvantage for mastery of either COMPLETELY DIFFERENT language, so how, on Earth, can having different units be such a limiting problem?

[Nathan Zachary]

"My God, do you think that every single scientist in the world is a moron?"

Well, yes. According to the UN they are anyway. After all they all agree Al gore is bang on with his global warming theory. Those "top scientists" even gave him a nobel prize, so it HAS to be true.

True, MASS is independent of gravity, but weight isn't, and thats what we are talking about.

[doc30]

Just ignore Nathan Zachary and CodeToad. These two are prime examples people who like to talk a big game, but don’t really know a thing. And they’ll probably be upset at me for point out the obvious.