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>>surpri+(OP)
A mile is exactly 1000 paces, or 4000 feet. You may disagree, but consider: the word mile come from latin for "one thousand". Therefore a mile must be 1000 of something, namely paces. I hope you find this argument convincing.

>>f33d51+RC1
Maybe after society has collapsed and been rebuilt we'll end up with km and cm having a weird ratio to the meter. Same for kg. At least celsius is just about impossible to screw up.

>>fc417f+o22
Celsius is already screwed up because it's not zero-based.

>>accoun+gL2
Celcius is eminently practical (similar to power of two prefixes). Absolute zero is completely irrelevant for day to day human life.

>>fc417f+VS2
Fahrenheit is even more practical for daily life, as it was designed to be.

>>NetMag+lu3
How so? 0 = freezing water, 100 = boiling water is at least more useful than more or less arbitrary points of F.