Marla_Singer
United in diversity
The gallon is a superior unit because that's exactly the size of a bottle in the supermarket.
Should the U.S adopt the Metric system completely and why?
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Yes; it's overwhelmingly stupid we haven't done so yet. End of story really, metric system is necessary for pretty much any sort of technical work everywhere else in the world and students should learn it in math/science in school.
Also, there was a good comic posted somewhere recently, maybe in our funny pics thread that I liked, about a "gang that went around doing stuff for the metric system" like vandalizing signs and so on. Punchline being a random guy drinking soda out of a two liter bottle "That's gross - but it doesn't disagree with our metric philosophy
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Also, there was a good comic posted somewhere recently, maybe in our funny pics thread that I liked, about a "gang that went around doing stuff for the metric system" like vandalizing signs and so on. Punchline being a random guy drinking soda out of a two liter bottle "That's gross - but it doesn't disagree with our metric philosophy
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kulade
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Yes, the Glorious United States should adopt the metric system; there is absolutely no good argument against conversion beside, "Oh well gee whiz, that metric stuff sure seems a doozy!" The metric system is entirely intuitive; get over it yardfags.
Furthermore, we should adopt decimal time to maintain our individuality and be able to calculate derived microwave times more easily.
USA #1
Furthermore, we should adopt decimal time to maintain our individuality and be able to calculate derived microwave times more easily.
USA #1
Also because the New Year would start on my birthday
I approve
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
The bugger is that the calendar almost works as thirteen months of twenty-eight days, but there's one day spare, and two on a leap year. Stupid slow orbit.
kulade
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ah yes well the calender industry actually is part of a well-known lobbying group for keeping the temporal status-quo.
we should probably just speed the earth up to an orbit of about 360 days, so we get a nice sexy highly-divisible number to work with.
or i guess we should slow earth's rotation just as well.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
tl;dr
I don't know if this has been covered yet, but if you mean US by "here" the military most certainly has not adopted it. Actually, I think they are the primary reason why the US has not done so. Until they convert there will still be an overwhelming need for imperial spec fasteners and the tools necessary to use them.
I personally think this is a great failing on our part. The world should have standardized on metric long ago. It likely would have done so if not for the US lagging woefully behind yet again.
America's view towards metric is like green eggs and ham. Stubbornly refusing to try it because of a certainty that it will be hard. Like I said, it took me about a day to understand measurements and volumes. Seriously, you convert the speedometer in your car and you'll be thinking in Km/H within 5 minutes.
I'll admit temperatures took ages longer.
This is a brilliant post.
I'll admit temperatures took ages longer.
This is a brilliant post.
Miles Teg
Nuclear Powered Mentat
The fact that you are too lazy to remember what temperature water boils and freezes at is not "superior."
We should stop using barbarian units ASAP.
sophie
Break My Heart
No, because if we re-evaluate our measuring system, new findings may suggest that US is no longer #1.
That is ground upon which I CANNOT STAND.
That is ground upon which I CANNOT STAND.
Skwink
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Then do what we Americans do best, forget the facts and start going around yelling what we think is the truth!
JohnRM
Don't make me destroy you
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Yes. Because the Metric System is superior to the Imperial System in every possible way other than by how it is understood by the average American.
Yes. Because the Metric System is superior to the Imperial System in every possible way other than by how it is understood by the average American.
rugbyLEAGUEfan
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I think the more American`s get hassled to convert the more they will dig their heels in to stick with it .
as the saying goes after all "give them a centimeter and they`ll take a kilometer"
as the saying goes after all "give them a centimeter and they`ll take a kilometer"
Cheetah
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Well, at least the Earth's orbit is a good proof that there was no "intelligent designer"...
On topic:
Start to switch over dammit! Think of all the problems we could have avoided - and will avoid in the future - if we can just standardise on a sensible system.
Furthermore, I want us all to adopt the convention that there was a year 0 before year one, and move all years before the Common Era back one year. THERE MUST BE A YEAR ZERO!
Oh, and I think I just found my favourite Wikipedia-page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_standards!
