The worst part is we understand the concept of meters. A meter is very roughly the size of a yard. When a youtube vide says "100 meters or 328 feet", that really doesn't help.
I can visual 10 meters because I can visualize 10 yards. I understand the rough size of 100 meters because I know how big a football field is. I know how big two meters is because it's (again very roughly) the size of a person.
In the context of these types of videos the 9% difference is size from yard to meter makes absolutely no difference.
> The worst part is we understand the concept of meters. A meter is very roughly the size of a yard. When a youtube vide says "100 meters or 328 feet", that really doesn't help.
> I can visual 10 meters because I can visualize 10 yards. I understand the rough size of 100 meters because I know how big a football field is. I know how big two meters is because it's (again very roughly) the size of a person.
While I think pretty much every American knows what a yard is, as a practical matter I think people almost never use it. IMHO, it totally makes sense for NASA to ignore it in some video, because people have about 1000x more familiarity with feet for estimation and visualization.
And for intermediate lengths (like your 100 meters), it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to use yards to help someone convert into "football fields" when you could just give a comparison to football fields directly.
I can visual 10 meters because I can visualize 10 yards. I understand the rough size of 100 meters because I know how big a football field is. I know how big two meters is because it's (again very roughly) the size of a person.
In the context of these types of videos the 9% difference is size from yard to meter makes absolutely no difference.
So just gimme the darn meters.