Imperial Or Metric?

[Winner]

When Celcius hits -20°, you also know it's REALLY cold.

If you're comfortable with the medieval system, it's simply because you've been raised in it. I'm fine with this, it's totally understandable.

Yeah. Why they even use the cars? It's too modern. Let's get back to horse riding

 

[Fetus4188]

I'm all for horses as long as I get a lance.

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

I want a white sword of Hoeth.

 

[Lambert Simnel]

@the person who called base 30 "ludicrous" and evidently didn't understand my mathematical proof for why it is the best:

This is not a "mathematical proof", Cierdan. Yes, if you just multiply lost of numbers together then you'll get something which has more factors - duh.

Your basic asumption is that having 5 is a more useful factor to have than 4 - well, that's fine, but it's hardly logical, and falls back into the trap of valuing some numbers more than others based on the number of digits at the end of each of your limbs - hardly mathematical or scientific.

 

[Zarn]

You would be a sheep in using the metric system in a country where this country is used. As long as you're in the US, being a ship means using the medieval system.

What kind of ship? Is this a fat joke? j/k. I know what you meant.

With the internet, the flow of metric propaganda is flowing into the minds of many Amercians. Some of them posted here. Besides, there are some measurements in the metric system. The most well known is the measurement of soda in liters. You see, it is here already.

 

[Xshayathiya]

I'd have to definitely say metric. Unfortunately my american textbooks do not agree. anyone that has had to struggle with slugs and lbm will know what i mean. Or spending hours trying to figure out why i got an answer wrong, only to figure out i was supposed to use brittish gallons, not american gallons.

 

[wit>trope]

What kind of ship? Is this a fat joke? j/k. I know what you meant.

I THINK she was alluding to the SHIP in Edmund Burke's conservative philosophy

(just kidding)

 

[oagersnap]

Metric by far.
Anyway, the American system is really hard to use when you're converting between distande and area, weight etc.
Metric is just easier.

 

[Steph]

You mean, like an acre is 43650 square feet?

compared to hectare which are 10000 square meters?

 

[Azash]

Amen to that! Temp's from the states always confuse me at first:

It's dropping down to 30 degrees tonight! Frost warning in effect!

When I was a kid, hearing "I have a 120-degree fever!" freaked me out

 

[aaglo]

The only good thing about imperial system is, that we aren't using it.

Metric

BTW, Isn't 1 mile something like 5360 feet? And how the heck does it come to that?

 

[Mr. Blonde]

Metric as it is more logical and a must for science.

Annoyingly some HP instruments (Gas Chromatographs) use psi (pounds per square inch) as pressure unit whereas their Liquid Chromatographs use bar.

 

[MCdread]

Basicly the only good reason people have come up with to justify the Imperial system is that it is easier to factorize 12, the number of inches in a foot. But only for divisions by 2, 3, 4 or 6 within a foot. How about 5 feet and 1 inch by 2? How about 1/10 of say half a mile? How much is that in feet and/or inches? And what if I want to divide an acre, how much is half an acre in square feet? Dear God, what a mess!

As to Lambert and his extremities theory , you're quite right about the ultimate arbitrarity of that, but why don't you complain to those that decided to invent a base 10 system millenia ago? The metric system is juts 10 based because all our mathematical world is too. If we had 16 fingers instead of 10, we would have had a hexadecimal metric system.

 

[nonconformist]

Metric Uber Alles.
I'm a science student. Go figure.

Metric rocks, because you can easily convert between units.
1000m? A km!
0.001g? A milligramme!
And it's excellent for standard form. I'd like to see 3*10^8 in Imperial.

Plus, it's logoical for mtewmperatures, based on the properties of water. 0 degrees is freezing anything negative is below, 100 is boiling.
Plus 1 degree=1 Kelvin.

 

[Lambert Simnel]

As to Lambert and his extremities theory , you're quite right about the ultimate arbitrarity of that, but why don't you complain to those that decided to invent a base 10 system millenia ago?

I would, but they're dead.

 

[Lambert Simnel]

Plus, it's logoical for mtewmperatures, based on the properties of water. 0 degrees is freezing anything negative is below, 100 is boiling.
Plus 1 degree=1 Kelvin.

Water ? Pah. What's so special about water ? (apart from being requried for life and having the highest specific heat capacity or somesuch...). And viewing 100 as being special is falling into the same base 10 complacency which undermines all of the metric system

Besides anything else, the main reason to support the metric system is that it's simply more interesting. How many rods to a perch ? How many virgates to a hide ? How many walloons to a pick-axe ? How many science students does it take to change a light bulb ?

It's clearly too straightforward and dull using the metric system, and also, it's too easy for stupid people.

 

[Stapel]

The best about the imperal system is the differences between US gallons (3.8 liters) and UK gallons (4.5 liters) Is a UK gallon 8 pints?
Also, a hp is not a hp.

And I hear people referring to 12 being better than 10.
Where does this 12 come from?
12 cubic inches in a gallon? or what?
Thsi 12 is indeed occasionally used, but most certainly not consequently!

 

[Mercade]

Imperial system is obsolete and impractical for the modern world.

But there are far worse things like the Fahrenheit scale

Hear hear.

Although F was proposed earlier (1724) than C (1742) it's amazing various sensible people still use it.

 

[Mercade]

The best about the imperal system is the differences between US gallons (3.8 liters) and UK gallons (4.5 liters) Is a UK gallon 8 pints?

Yup. UK pint is bigger than a US pint, too. Although I suppose Texas would disagree with that.

 

[MCdread]

Water ? Pah. What's so special about water ? (apart from being requried for life and having the highest specific heat capacity or somesuch...). And viewing 100 as being special is falling into the same base 10 complacency which undermines all of the metric system

Besides anything else, the main reason to support the metric system is that it's simply more interesting. How many rods to a perch ? How many virgates to a hide ? How many walloons to a pick-axe ? How many science students does it take to change a light bulb ?

It's clearly too straightforward and dull using the metric system, and also, it's too easy for stupid people.

Why don't you admit that you're just too lazy to learn a new system? There are only two possible reasons to defend Imperial over Metric: either people don't want to make the effort or don't want to "give up" on a system invented by the french, and revolutionary ones to make matters even worse.