They are trying to trap it, but were too stupid to figure out that they should be on the outside of the box. This hunting trip will not go well for them.
Imagine packing the court with conservative stooges, doing something SO unconstitutional that those stooges tell you to stop, then defying the orders of your lopsided Supreme Court, that you built yourself.
I haven't been back to reddit in a month (minus one link from a search that didn't even have the information I was looking for). I don't even notice anymore.
I think a lot of people don't realize that the book and movie aren't REALLY the same story. They were written in parallel together and Kubrick has never been one to make faithful recreations of source material anyway.
I do love The Day the Earth Stood Still also. A lot of people will right it off because it seems a little hokey due to it's age.
I won't think anyone was trying to say that any metric unit nation would convert to imperial (unless I missed something). It's just unfortunate that it is so difficult to get imperial nations to convert to metric since it would make life easier for the very people who refuse to change (in the long term of course, short term would be chaos).
What's the advantage to using 0 for freezing than 32 or 100 instead of 212? If anything there is a higher precision built into the whole numbers on the Fahrenheit scale for the sake of calibration. It would only be an advantage if you couldn't wrap your head around a different number to represent those states.
The new twitter or whatever.