"metric is better because a meter is 1/407^2 the distance a photon travels during the half-life of two radiocarbon atom deteriorations 3π/1.7 x 10^2δe grams at 10,000 ft altitude if we round the gravitational constant to 9.8 m/s^2 and assume an average wind velocity taking into account the fluctuating quarks at Roanoke in the early 1610s."; me who can measure a distance by walking