Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (2009)
I thought it was like the rest of the Imperial system: just to fuck with people. No rhyme or reason at all. In my hobby work I use metric wherever I can, metric bolts, nuts, metric sizes. Sadly this is not possible with some electronic components where pin distances are in mils. My car (a BMW) is also set to metric and so is my home thermostat and phone. All the CAD and 3D modeling work I do is metric. The imperial system needs to go IMO.   I&#x27;ve read that NASA has gone metric everywhere it could circa 2007. Do good engineering, be like NASA.