The metric system is the way to go for any serious endeavour, like science or war. Unfortunately, sailors are superstitious and very set in their ways, hence the use of odd and antiquated measurement units like nautical miles... which, by the way, is so inconvenient that it doesn't even have the courtesy to measure the same as a "land" mile, nor a "surveyour's" (I think that's what it's called) mile neither.
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