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		cheerlessbog on Feb 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon cargo plane crashes in Texas Even in academia doesn't the US use CGS, and most of the rest of the world uses SI/MKS? We can't use the same physics textbooks.

mypalmike on Feb 24, 2019 [–]

I took high-school and college physics in the US around 30 years ago. It was all SI then, and I suspect it still is.

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