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OfflineTurntableJunky
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The metric system.
    #7538180 - 10/20/07 03:01 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Start using it America :crankey:


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Re: The metric system. [Re: TurntableJunky]
    #7538205 - 10/20/07 03:13 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I use both quite happily... actually, I switch between the two...  Temperatures I usually use imperial as there is more resolution per unit measure, short distances I tend to use metric, long distances I tend to use imperial, weights I am about 50/50 tending towards metric, pressures imperial (for the most part), velocity imperial, and anything else metric.  :smile:


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Re: The metric system. [Re: Seuss]
    #7538229 - 10/20/07 03:39 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

The metric system is a tool of the devil :hellfire:


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Re: The metric system. [Re: DirtMcgirt]
    #7538259 - 10/20/07 04:15 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

:crankey:


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Re: The metric system. [Re: TurntableJunky]
    #7538264 - 10/20/07 04:27 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

At least metrical system has some logic in it.


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Re: The metric system. [Re: Individual]
    #7538289 - 10/20/07 05:00 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

what is this logic you speak of?


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Re: The metric system. [Re: wrestler_az]
    #7538295 - 10/20/07 05:08 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

it's the same logic that imperial system might have, but I don't see it.


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Re: The metric system. [Re: Individual]
    #7538436 - 10/20/07 07:37 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I hate it when people don't use the metric system. I think in miles for long distances, but for everything else distance wise I think in metric. I don't really use it for volume or weight though.

I hate it when I say something is x cm and everyones like ok wtf how many inches is that.


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Re: The metric system. [Re: TurntableJunky]
    #7538484 - 10/20/07 08:07 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I can use either comfortably. But I lived in Australia for two years so that helped. Most Americans I know who haven't spent time out of the country have trouble with that goofy, foreign, logic-based system of weights and measures.


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Re: The metric system. [Re: Individual]
    #7538580 - 10/20/07 08:53 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Individual said:
At least metrical system has some logic in it.



:werd:


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Re: The metric system. [Re: TurntableJunky]
    #7538585 - 10/20/07 08:54 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

TurntableJunky said:
Start using it America :crankey:




We have bombs to build, it would cost far to much to change all those signs and school books.


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Re: The metric system. [Re: TurntableJunky]
    #7538604 - 10/20/07 09:05 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Inches, feet, miles, ounces, pounds, pints, quarts, gallons, fahrenheit.. all that weirdo stuff has become second nature since I became a shroomerite.

But its fucked up though. You guys should do the same with the Metric system.

Microgram, milligram, gram, kilogram - hops of one thousand each.
Micrometer, millimeter, meter, kilometer - are we learning yet :P

If a measured pendulum swings one meter, its one second.

0'C freezing point & 100'C = boiling point of water at sea level.

The Metric System was thought up by scientists to do away with the mess of silly measures. It makes more sense than measuring distance with someone's foot.


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Re: The metric system. [Re: Asante]
    #7538605 - 10/20/07 09:06 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Oh, now come on, my foot is the best measuring tool on the earth.


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Re: The metric system. [Re: Asante]
    #7538620 - 10/20/07 09:14 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Never being taught the metric system in school I have yet to learn how they aquired the standars for it.

Temperature is easy (boiling point of water) but who decided how long a meter was and how much a gram weighed? And what is the standard for them? There must be some measurable standards since it was developed by scientists. I'm sure I could google it easy enough but I figured I would test the knowledge of those who were raised with it.


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Re: The metric system. [Re: ToTheSummit]
    #7538653 - 10/20/07 09:24 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

fack that - the rest of the world should ditch the metric system and conform to us


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Re: The metric system. [Re: ToTheSummit]
    #7538657 - 10/20/07 09:25 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

A 90 degree swing of a pendulum with a length of one meter is one second.

A kilogram is a liter of water.


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Re: The metric system. [Re: Asante]
    #7538660 - 10/20/07 09:26 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

All that science has to be wrong, amerika is a christian place and we believe Jesus will decide.


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Re: The metric system. [Re: TurntableJunky]
    #7538661 - 10/20/07 09:27 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

the metric system is so easy to work with.


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Re: The metric system. [Re: Adom]
    #7538663 - 10/20/07 09:27 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Then I guess you have to buy your drugs in ounces instead of grams


I've adapted to the point of using non-metric measures that even weird Americans out, such as measuring Opium in Apothecary Grains lik they did in deQuincey's time.


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Re: The metric system. [Re: ToTheSummit]
    #7538669 - 10/20/07 09:30 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

a meter is the distance a ray of light travels in a vacuum in 3.34 nanoseconds.

the kilogram, the unit for mass, is currently defined os the mass of the international prototype. this is not the best way to define a unit so they're working on ways to define the kg in terms of universal constants.

then there are the seconds, candelas, amperes, kelvin and moles. but right now i don't remember the exact definitions for them. google is your friend.


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Re: The metric system. [Re: Asante]
    #7538674 - 10/20/07 09:33 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

LOL, fuck I'd love to share a joint with you, I can't even keep up with that one.


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