why can't we use the metric system like everyone else in the world?
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Did you know that the metric measurement standards were actually adopted as the fundamental measurements for length and mass for the United States in 1893?
A brief history of metrics in the U.S.A.:
http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/200/202/lc1136a.htm
A brief history of metrics in the U.S.A.:
http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/200/202/lc1136a.htm
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by RodneyK
[B]Did you know that the metric measurement standards were actually adopted as the fundamental measurements for length and mass for the United States in 1893?
[B]Did you know that the metric measurement standards were actually adopted as the fundamental measurements for length and mass for the United States in 1893?
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Top Five reasons why we here in the U.S. STILL use and WILL CONTINUE to use S.I. units for most things. . .
5. No one wants to figure out how many liters its takes to fill our gas tanks (liters are for soda bottles). . .
4. People like saying 6'5" or 200lbs. . . No one really wants to figure out how many mm or kgs that equals. . .
3. We all know a 450 foot Big Mac homer is really FAR!!!!
2. We DON'T want to call a BK Quarter Pounder a Royale with Cheese
1. Three words. . . National Football League
We all like the field the way it is. . .
5. No one wants to figure out how many liters its takes to fill our gas tanks (liters are for soda bottles). . .
4. People like saying 6'5" or 200lbs. . . No one really wants to figure out how many mm or kgs that equals. . .
3. We all know a 450 foot Big Mac homer is really FAR!!!!
2. We DON'T want to call a BK Quarter Pounder a Royale with Cheese
1. Three words. . . National Football League
We all like the field the way it is. . .
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Imperial units are still around because we as a country refuse to accept them. Metric is so much simpler and everyone else uses that system, but the US continues to stick to the damn imperial. I'd much rather go 100 then 65, even though it's slower.
And I'm 1.9 meters tall, 95 kg, big mac hits the ball 140 meters, a tank in the S is about 40 liters (unless you run it down to vapor), the NFL could figure out that 1 yard is just under 1 meter and switch, and 30 degrees is pretty damn hot everywhere else. Don't know about the royale with cheese though
I did these conversions in my head (ok, so I just finished my engineering degree and had to know a lot of this crap) and they're not hard to estimate.
And I'm 1.9 meters tall, 95 kg, big mac hits the ball 140 meters, a tank in the S is about 40 liters (unless you run it down to vapor
), the NFL could figure out that 1 yard is just under 1 meter and switch, and 30 degrees is pretty damn hot everywhere else. Don't know about the royale with cheese though I did these conversions in my head (ok, so I just finished my engineering degree and had to know a lot of this crap) and they're not hard to estimate.