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Devac  ·  3050 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

I went with the lazy solution and asked the Holy Wolfram Alpha to bestow the solution upon us ;). My solution is closer… for a given definition of a gallon. ;)

Either way, I agree with this: It's not as unbearable amount as intuition suggest. I've posted that mainly because something felt fishy, but that's not the reason to split hairs.

    And fuck the Imperial System.

Amen! I'm less tense about solving and explaining some completely unintuitive special relativity problem than when I'm being asked to convert some ounces per cubic foot to metric myself.