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Suicide Sam E. posted:This reminds me of an important fact: The metric system was directly responsible for the Apollo 13 disaster. But what mean ol' metric did not count on was that the stalwart United States astronauts would defeat it and return home safely. Along those lines, the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost because an outside contractor team wrote some control software that worked with imperial units instead of the metric units NASA's systems used. To some degree metric use in the US is naturally increasing as a consequence of globalization. Lots of stuff in the US is designed with metric units and parts since we live in an era of international markets where goods are manufactured and sold overseas. Most modern CNC machines, digital scales and other electronic devices use metric internally and just convert to inches or pounds/ounces when taking input or displaying output. Liquor and wine are labeled in liters. Even the US Bureau of Weights and Measures officially defines the imperial units in terms of metric units. The official definition of a yard is 0.9144 meters, 1 pound is 453.59237 grams and 1 gallon is 3.785411 liters. Unfortunately, we're never going to see a full change in any of our lifetimes since there will always be weird backwards old people who yell about how "the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile" or some poo poo about how imperial units are "more compatible with the human experience". These are actual arguments that were used against metrication in the 70s. The first bit about the west was actually the tagline of a lawsuit against metrication by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.
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JnnyThndrs posted:If you're old like me and went to elementary school in the late Seventies, you were told that the United States was going to be 100% metric by like 1985 or so, and therefore spent half a school year learning the system, including hectares and deciliters and such. Yeah, they started to convert us the metric system then suddenly stopped and never mentioned it again. It was one of those progressive 70s programs where everyone went "ROFL @ Jimmy Carter" and voted for Reagan then 25 years later were all "Why didn't we do something about this years ago when everyone else did?" edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUXutV6Vk6k Syd Midnight fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Jun 29, 2014 |
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girth brooks part 2 posted:also we landed on the moon six times ya dummies Pumpy Muffinz posted:So? It is fantastic in scientific work. But why should Bob the plumber change?
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DeepQantas posted:That would be like ten times in metric. Moon sewers can be measured in feet.
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The_Franz posted:These are actual arguments that were used against metrication in the 70s. The first bit about the west was actually the tagline of a lawsuit against metrication by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. why did i even look this up when i already knew it was true how does the u.s. collectively live with itself is my actual question here
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Jun 29, 2014 22:16
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It's a six shooter not a ten shooter, bitch.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:18
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lol at eurotrash lecturing americans on proper governance and sperg units as their system collapses
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SplitSoul posted:why did i even look this up when i already knew it was true we just dont care.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:19
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Where do you live, splitsoul? Does it matter to you that we don't use the metric system?
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SplitSoul posted:how does the u.s. collectively live with itself is my actual question here because it's easy not to lose sleep over tiny poo poo like how we measure things
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It's severe OCD. Look at the map posted earlier in the thread: Oh god, something's different. My brain can't handle it. gently caress. If we wen't metric these same spergs would start posting maps of what side of the road everyone drives on.
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Germstore posted:It's severe OCD. Look at the map posted earlier in the thread: Japan should be light red because, while they are mostly metric, they still use their own goofy measurement system based on the size of a straw mat when it comes to construction materials and real estate. Really, the imperial system is pretty simple and consistent when you break it down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7x-RGfd0Yk
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Ootrek posted:because it's easy not to lose sleep over tiny poo poo like how we measure things i meant re: national cowboy hall of fame v. metrication obviously
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SplitSoul posted:i meant re: national cowboy hall of fame v. metrication obviously you never answered either of my questions
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Jun 29, 2014 22:49
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Pumpy Muffinz posted:you never answered either of my questions denmark and no
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SplitSoul posted:denmark and no Then why do you care?
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Pumpy Muffinz posted:Then why do you care? because absurdity on that scale is hilarious.
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SplitSoul posted:because absurdity on that scale is hilarious. what absurdity? It works well for us?
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Jun 29, 2014 23:18
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Pumpy Muffinz posted:So? It is fantastic in scientific work. But why should Bob the plumber change? it's also fantastic in everyday use 
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Touched by Insanity posted:THE ANCEINT EGYPTIANS for crying out loud used inches & feet to measure the pyramids 5000 years ago. A KNOTTED STRING was used and even then modern instruments show only a ONE HALF INCH error along 1 755 Ft. side! this mentally ill person on the internet sums it up pretty well, as always Pumpy Muffinz posted:what absurdity? It works well for us? i don't care, you are going to adopt the metric system and you are going to like it! you hear me?
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Pumpy Muffinz posted:what absurdity? It works well for us? i'm glad the national cowboy hall of fame works well for you in your battle against a proper system of measurements
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Jun 30, 2014 00:01
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Nauta posted:it's also fantastic in everyday use its not for people who know thing in inches.
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SplitSoul posted:i'm glad the national cowboy hall of fame works well for you in your battle against a proper system of measurements its not a battle. Americans are still going to use the imperial units.
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Jun 30, 2014 00:04
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Pumpy Muffinz posted:its not for people who know thing in inches. adopt it
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Pumpy Muffinz posted:its not for people who know thing in inches. yeah because ur stupid human being americans 
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Jun 30, 2014 00:07
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i dont like people who are different or do things differently
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Nauta posted:yeah because ur stupid human being americans i guess so, use what you know.
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Jun 30, 2014 00:08
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me enither
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quote:a lawsuit against metrication by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
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That Cowboy was a hero!
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waitwhatno posted:i'm really happy that you have seen the light, wasn't that hard now, was it? we have to talk about your lovely presidential system of government next, you really need to switch to a parliamentary system ASAP Yeah ive aways wanted a fascist party ti have a seat in the legislature great idea
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Cream_Filling posted:Yeah ive aways wanted a fascist party ti have a seat in the legislature great idea our honest-to-god fascists, wearing their little swastikas and goosestepping around like it's the 30s all over again, are probably still more moderate than the crazy poo poo you have going in your legislature nowadays
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We use both imperial and metric units here in the US. We learn and use both in school or at work. At least we don't use stones as a measurement of weight, what the gently caress is up with that?
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waitwhatno posted:our honest-to-god fascists, wearing their little swastikas and goosestepping around like it's the 30s all over again, are probably still more moderate than the crazy poo poo you have going in your legislature nowadays So your solution is to give the tiny groups of crazies more power grweat plan
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Jun 30, 2014 03:29
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2 parties is what god intended you communist faggots
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Elukka posted:This is actually the best because then you know if it's gonna be wet or not outside. This is really loving stupid. Everyone knows that water freezes at 32F. Literally no-one is confused by this.
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I like Fahrenheit but not anything else in imperial.
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Metric would be a lot more usable if it had shorthands for halves and twos, and no, just saying one half or two does not count.
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literally every American child learns both
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It would be nice if ormadeupfred posted:Metric would be a lot more usable if it had shorthands for halves and twos, and no, just saying one half or two does not count. "Point 5" But it would be nice if people actually used the decimeter. It would help keep things from being hundreds of centimeters or fractions of a meter.
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