Metric just makes sense, it's designed for easy math. I'll never understand how Americans stick to imperial measurements, even though I'm old enough to know them and convert in my head.
How many cheeseburgers per bald eagle does your car get?
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Imperial measurements are all in relationship to common real world things
For example:
An inch is a thumb
A foot is a foot
A yard is one stride
A fathom is the height of a person
It was a standardized system before the scientific revolution used base 10 math for everything
Sure itโs a relic but it โmade senseโ before mass produced rulers and such
I like the human-centric measurement system.
Like Fahrenheit: 0 to 100, 0 being the coldest it gets and 100 being the hottest.
That's interesting, because to me celsius makes more sense. 0 is freezing +10 & -10 are slightly warm and slightly cold. +20 and -20 are warm and cold, and +30 and -30 are very hot and very cold.
I think it had more to do with what you were raised with, rather than either being objectively better in any way.
It does make for a shit post that gets some comments though ๐
It's definitely what you grew up with, because in the end it's arbitrary. Fahrenheit made a statistical scale based on the climate he lived in, and Celsius made one centered on the freezing and boiling points of water.
If your in any sort of real world (non design space) construction or maintenance work imperial system is โmilesโ better. You can visualize inches and fractions of an inch much better in the real world.
Once you get the hang of thousands of an inch, 1/8โ,1/4โ,3/8โโฆ and so on it all clicks.
I would disagree with this. It's more about what you learned initially and what you are familiar with. Someone who learned metric and had to adopt imperial later see it the other way, as I do. Metric was taught in school, but I'm aware of imperial due to my older relatives being imperial native.
My own experience I only used metric all the way to university engineering graduation.
As soon I started working got introduced to imperial and once it clicked i liked it million times better. All the way from machining, building, measuring, thermal units, mass, force. Itโs more intuitive. It works. Thatโs why itโs still the standard.
Another example if someone tells me this beam can only handle 5000 psi (pounds per sq inch) it makes so much more sense than someone telling me itโs rated for 30 MPa.
enough to fill a swimming pool
Fahrenheit is a scale from 0-100 of the coldest it usually gets to the hottest it usually gets, in most places. Simple, intuitive.
0 is freezing, 100 is boiling. Simple, Intuitive.
try telling this to a machinist in the USA lol
So what you're saying is empirical is more sophisticated and commu-metric-ism is simplistic so Eurotards can grasp it? I completely agree.
Lol. Communism & eurotard ๐๐
Smells like freedom units to me ๐
Depends on if they're What-a-Burger cheeseburgers or not...
Ya, you don't want McDonald's cheeseburgers per Seagull. That's not nearly as good ๐๐
Definitely not, no BK whopper with cheese per pelican either ๐
Eww ๐
Seriously though I had a lady friend once who managed at BK. Her after work smell turned me off whoppers forever ๐๐คข
Depends... highway or city driving? On weekends I average 3 cheeseburgers per eagle with light tailwinds.๐
I could swap to metric tomorrow and be fine other than temperature, I'd dig my heels in to stay on Fahrenheit though
Itโs true for height and weight. More so on the anglophone side. But fr side too lol
This is true. If I need my weight or height in metric I do a conversion from imperial in my head. Longer distances are km, but I know miles too due to growing up on the grid roads, 2x1 mile grids. It's all conversions all the way down.
I've always been willing to use metric rather than freedom units. We actually had a law that was shut down, as people were preparing for metric to become law.
Of course, we'd go ahead and stop that entirely.
Wait until you use knots, nautical miles, degrees minutes and seconds! The world all of a sudden makes sense ๐
Aeroplanes fly around in feet at knots. Some, few, countries use metres. English is the default language. SI units OK for science. Any other (furlongs, miles, gallons etc) OK for daily living
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I can make the same argument about English. Rules for grammar and spelling make zero sense logically.
Its just what we learned on.
Funny thing is, its the same game theory for Bitcoin.
--Anyone can make a better Bitcoin... The trick is getting people to use it (instead of what they already use)
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Engineering is much better in metric.
But a system based on a tangible reality most of us inhabit is also useful.
Explaining why distance was based on a measurement that equals 1 ten millionth of the distance between the equator and the north pole is far less tangible.
Never mind the 2 primary changes since.