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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: searching]
    #26403388 - 12/27/19 05:58 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I think it’s the cost of converting everything and everybody to the metric system has been holding it up.


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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Antigov] * 1
    #26403397 - 12/27/19 06:03 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

A long time ago I helped install some German made crap where the drawings had been converted from metric to standard.

The tolerances were extremely tight and there were a bunch of off the wall measurements like 37/64".
It was a huge pain in the ass. :facepalm3:


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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: mycosis]
    #26403405 - 12/27/19 06:07 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Lies, Germans don’t make crap.


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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Crazy_Horse]
    #26403412 - 12/27/19 06:12 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Yeah you're right it was some super expensive rich kid school shit that went on Kenyon College in Ohio.

Over priced super nice way too tight of tolerances for a standard tape measure.


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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Crazy_Horse]
    #26403436 - 12/27/19 06:27 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

Crazy_Horse said:
Lies, Germans don’t make crap.






cough *stihl* cough

(i kid, i kid, i'd give my left nut for a new MS461 or 462)


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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Tulipslave]
    #26403614 - 12/27/19 08:22 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Knowing america I imagine that the US is holding out for everyone to come around to "our" system

Anything besides units of freedom (farenheit) is slavery though. Keep the celcius shit right the fuck off of me. Kelvin can go strait to Guantanamo


Edited by ichugwindex (12/27/19 08:25 PM)


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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Aegis]
    #26405600 - 12/29/19 02:11 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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Aegis said:
Use inches,feet for larger measurements rather than millimeters or centimeters. Use mm and cm for smaller measurements. Feet come in handy in the gap between cm and meters. Etc.




:mindblown:

I'm having a hard time disagreeing with this.


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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Asante] * 2
    #26405673 - 12/29/19 04:17 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

The standards of measurement in the United States are not a singular system, but a set of systems to which the metric system has already been adopted into. We largely know how to use the metric system already, unless you are older and have never been in a position where it was necessary.

Medicine and science use the metric system. We build things to metric standards when it's necessary to. A base 10 system is logical, yes. But the imperial systems are not illogical. There is no compelling reason to abandon the systems we've used for centuries when it comes to buying gas and building houses, beyond pleasing people's insecurities about it. 

A base 12 system for measuring distance makes complete sense if you've grown accustomed to it, it too is based on divisible numbers as a base 10 system is. It's only confusing if you're not accustomed to it. It's not all that complicated.

There is no immediate concern with our system of measurement. We largely adopted the metric standards when everyone else did where it mattered. It's taught in schools, it's known, we largely understand how it works without issue. If anything, knowing more than one system of measurement is better than abandoning older systems entirely.

We are already there with standards of measurement. We incorporated metric into our other systems and use it.

I wouldn't seriously suggest all nations legally make English the primary spoken language of their people to ease my understanding when they talk - but I don't think the use of Latin as a standard in the sciences is bad precedent to come to shared understanding. I wouldn't seriously suggest we make time a base 10 system to better incorporate it into the metric system for everyday usage - but I don't think the use of metric standards of measurement to define the second definitively is bad precedent. What I'm getting at is there seems to be a push from outside the US and from within to change these things... just because... other countries are doing it. Because it's easy to divide by 10. Because things get lost in translation.

Changing road signs from miles to kilometers wouldn't be groundbreaking. Buying milk and gas in liters instead of gallons wouldn't fundamentally change how we live. Fahrenheit is logically sound if you've grown accustomed to it, and measuring distance in base 12 works just fine and divides well. I'm with everyone else in believing that metric is logical in sciences and medicine. We already do that, we've adopted.

Our system of measurement isn't disabled, it never was. It makes sense if you know how to use it just like anything else. Other people not knowing how to use it is not an adequate reason to abandon it entirely. I'm happy to use it along side the metric system, and do.


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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: searching]
    #26405876 - 12/29/19 08:09 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

We should go to metric on nearly everything but hold out on a few like a pint of beer. Unless you want to be like Farva in Super Troopers and insist on a liter of cola.


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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Brian Jones]
    #26406575 - 12/29/19 03:47 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I enjoy abducting people into black holes.

It's a lot of fun to get freaky.  I know we all hang out forever to understand me.

It's a lot of fun being in a collider.


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Re: Should the USA adopt the Metric System? [Re: Morel Guy]
    #26406583 - 12/29/19 03:53 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

For temperature maybe but for speed/distance hell no why should you have to multiply every time you need to know how fast you're going.


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