Saturday, February 2, 2008

Why I Can't Be an Engineer or Scientist

Quite simply, I hate units. More specifically, I hate worrying about them.

Whenever someone says, "This formula takes kilograms and meters/second, but we're working with metric tons moving at kilometers/hour, so you'll need to convert" I think "Why didn't we just measure it in kilograms and meters per second up front and save ourselves the effort of converting back and forth?" Whenever someone says "And now we need to convert to use the next formula" I think "Why don't we convert the formula once rather than the inputs every time?"

Is this a little petty of me? Yeah, it probably is. On the other hand, UNITS ARE ARBITRARY ANYWAY, and I like mine that way.

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