'Personal Drone' Crash Causes 335-Acre Wildfire In Coconino National Forest (azcentral.com)

McGruber writes: A "personal drone" that crashed and burst into flames was the cause of the Kendrick Fire, a 335-acre fire in the Coconino National Forest in northern Arizona. Coconino National Forest spokesman George Jozens said that about 30 firefighters from the U.S. Forest Service and Summit Fire and Medical worked to quell the fire.

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Re:So what?

[cogeek]

Um, Yes!

If you crash your car and it's your fault, you are liable. We have people prosecuted for accidental wildfires regularly in Colorado.

bashing of measurement standards is booooring

[OrangeTide]

There is nothing inhernetly superior with the metric system over the US customary system. It's just numbers and names and you can standardize and be equally accurate with either. And while there are anachronism to this system, much of the obscure parts are considered obsolete and not normally used by people (including scientists and engineers who do still use the US system in industry). NOTE: UK / Imperial system is a related but not identical system.

What was a tremendous problem was when Europe had a different system in each country and sometimes different systems in different parts of the same country, and those systems are often using the same names to mean slightly different standards of measurements. Total freaking nightmare, and thank the gods (or Frenchmen) for its wide adoption.

That said, we could do much better than the metric system. Celcius is a particularly unfortunate unit.