I remember back when I was working, we tried to convert the entire City of San Francisco to the metric system. As soon as everyone realized how much the conversion would cost, that plan was over!
At least a gigasecond , maybe 2.
As an avid runner, I use the metric system quite oftenl; in training and races. About half of all races are measured in kilometers (which is about .62 miles)....I do a lot of my training based off of kilometers.....but, generally will add up my miles each week (in miles, not kilometer's).....
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The most useful stuff like milligrams of a drug have made it into the mainstream....I won't live long enough to see people discussing how many kilometers it is from NYC to LA, or talking about the weather in degrees Celsius ( that one is hardest for me). I could do liters, meters, grams and such OK enough, but the temperature scale would be toughest.
So when is that Metric system I learned in the late 70's going to finally kick in ?....
I'm still waiting for global cooling to kick in.Like they were advocating in the 70's.. And I am also waiting for the worlds oil supply to run out that was supposed to happen by the year 2000. (Theres more oil now then there was back then)
or maybe you can live your lives and we can live ours, just saying
converting is not exactly the same as flicking a light switch, there are costs and consequences
didn't AIDS kill most of us already?
and those that survived were wiped out by bird flu or swine flu or the Katrina like hurricanes we were going to have every year
anyone with engineering training knows what a giant pain in the butt its to deal with the imperial system (specially in force calculations, in heat /temp its also a mess but not as bad as having to introduce artificial factors here and there lbf/lbm blabla)
there are costs, consequences AND ALSO benefits
3 countries in the world that are yet to oficially adopt the metric system
the United States.......Liberia and Burma (aka Myanmar) ...and yet according to Wikipedia they (Liberia/Myanmar) use the metric system in many things
but its all good , as manufacturing in the US keeps on the decline.....the phasing out of antiquated units can only speed up , there have been aviation accidents and a NASA probe that crashed due to people trying to convert units back and forth
I'm kind of for the US going metric to basically match the rest of the world.
5280 feet in a mile 32 ounces in a quart. etc makes little sense to me...I could easily adapt to more logical metric units, with little difficulty. I'd certainly be cool buying liters of gas and such.
I get the milli, centi, deci, kilo, stuff
5280 feet in a mile 32 ounces in a quart. etc makes little sense to me...I could easily adapt to more logical metric units, with little difficulty. I'd certainly be cool buying liters of gas and such.
I get the milli, centi, deci, kilo, stuff
You work on engines or anything mechanical, it all now all metric. I hate it but have had to buy expensive metric mechanical tools. The metric sys is a 'hundred' times better than the stupid clumsy wacky english sys which is why the rest of the world adopted the metric sys 200 years ago. Everything in science and research is metric. All metric measurements are so easy to use that it make you wonder why.... oh maybe this was the reason- it was a technical tariff to protect american goods from world competition as long as possible. The conversion is a drag and expensive but necessary and not without historic costs (changing the mile to 1600 meters is a sad historical loss but it has already happened).
