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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Sugabearcrisp]
#26402582 - 12/27/19 07:13 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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So uh, where were the inconsistencies that brought it down?
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Amanita86]
#26402586 - 12/27/19 07:19 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Amanita86 said: So uh, where were the inconsistencies that brought it down?
Basically Lockheed gave them measurements in foot per second and they thought it was meters per second iirc... the end result was instead of slowing into orbit it crashed into the surface
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: lavod] 1
#26402587 - 12/27/19 07:20 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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lavod said: No. 357 magnum. 454 rat. 9 inch rear. 55 gallon drum. 'Murica!
I have to admit I prefer countries that use a mix like England. Pure metric countries still feel a little odd to me, but that's only because of what I grew up around and what feels better.
Metric is objectively a superior system, IMO.
Imperial just sounds cooler.
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Sugabearcrisp]
#26402588 - 12/27/19 07:20 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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So it was a communications problem, not a measurement issue?
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#26402590 - 12/27/19 07:21 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Jokeshopbeard said: Metric is objectively a superior system, IMO.
They both work if you use them right..
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Amanita86] 1
#26402591 - 12/27/19 07:25 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I could use a hammer to put a screw into a wall too.
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#26402604 - 12/27/19 07:36 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Not correctly.
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Jokeshopbeard] 3
#26402607 - 12/27/19 07:37 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Jokeshopbeard said: I have to admit I prefer countries that use a mix like England. Pure metric countries still feel a little odd to me, but that's only because of what I grew up around and what feels better.
Metric is objectively a superior system, IMO.
Imperial just sounds cooler.
I agree.
I very rarely watch porn. Does foreign(to me) porn use the metric system? If so they should adopt imperial IMO. I think "Ram all 9 inches inside my ass" sounds better than "Ram all 225 millimeters inside my ass".
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: lavod]
#26402609 - 12/27/19 07:40 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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As if I hadn’t made my case clear cut enough, my man lavod offering up the alley oop slam dunk..
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Amanita86]
#26402642 - 12/27/19 08:09 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm all for going to metric. Right now, I work with a lot of metric parts, especially metric fastener. But I have to machine pockets, holes, parts in imperial units because metric tooling is too pricey here in the States. And most tool holding is imperial as well, so you get hit double. So if I design in metric I then have to program in Imperial because all my tooling is Imperial, or I have to convert Imperial tool sizes to metric, but that fucks up my entire tool table. It's a mess.
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: christopera]
#26402648 - 12/27/19 08:15 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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British wankers invented the imperial units.
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Jokeshopbeard] 1
#26402659 - 12/27/19 08:23 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Jokeshopbeard said: I could use a hammer to put a screw into a wall too.
When you have a hammer in your hand everything looks like a nail.
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Amanita86]
#26402678 - 12/27/19 08:36 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Amanita86 said: So it was a communications problem, not a measurement issue?
You can summarize 85% of failures as communications problem, according to the project management institute.. so yeah in summary a communications failure resultant from the use of two different measurement systems, to be complete.
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: mycosis]
#26402684 - 12/27/19 08:38 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Jokeshopbeard said: I could use a hammer to put a screw into a wall too.
When you have a hammer in your hand everything looks like a nail. 
Yeah some people must be walking round with dicks in their hands the way they fuck shit up
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Amanita86]
#26402689 - 12/27/19 08:43 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Amanita86 said: Not correctly.
I was with a guy this Christmas to got a ratcheting spanner set. I have one myself back in England, they're great. However I couldn't help but feel sorry for this guy; for he had twice the amount of them - a set for metric and a set for imperial - and that's just unneccesary IMO.
The sooner America stops holding out the sooner the transition can happen so that people don't have to have twice the amount of sockets and spanners!!
Do it for the love of your tools!
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#26402695 - 12/27/19 08:46 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Every English car I've ever owned has had a mix of Imperial and metric fasteners. It's maddening!
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: christopera]
#26402720 - 12/27/19 09:01 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Must've been old or very niche cars?
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Asante] 1
#26402728 - 12/27/19 09:05 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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If the US and states could afford to replace every traffic sign, i'd say sure, but we're too busy squandering all our tax revenue blowing up innocent women and children. Not to mention, it would take two rounds of signs over the next generation or two. The first round of signs would be both Metric and SAE, followed 30-50 years later by another round of signs Metric only.
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Jokeshopbeard] 2
#26402733 - 12/27/19 09:09 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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A mix of both, yes. Multiple MG's and Morris's, then a number of English race cars as well.
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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: christopera]
#26403319 - 12/27/19 05:26 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I work in engineering and it's really annoying how half of our customers have dimensions on their drawings in metric and half imperial. I was trained by a Japanese company so I'm used to metric. It's so much easier. 10 +/- 0.1 compared to 0.393701 +/- 0.00393701 come on goddammit why? Why?! The really annoying thing is when I'm working with some of the old timer engineers and I say we need to adjust something by 0.1 they are like what is that four thousands? Then I have to comvert it.
On the other hand I'm so used to mph and pounds it would be confusing to me if someone said they weight 80kg I would not even have a clue how much that is unless I looked it up. km/hr is pretty easy to convert to mph though. I'm fine with liters also.
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