The Metric System

SteveHd

Another metric pissing battle?

Metric System and the USA

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MASSIVEPKGO_CHUCK

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LongRod

Easy answer. It is too expensive. The USA has too much invested in USA weights and measures. We have built a whole nation measured in inches, feet, yards, ounces, pints, quarts gallons so that we can't suddenly change to cm, mm, meters, liters kilograms, etc. If we started manufacturing everything in millimeters, cm, liter, etc, then nothing will fit. 6 millermeter Tools won't work on 2 inch bolts. Trains with wheels axles 2 meters wide will not fit on tracks 7 feet wide.

losangelestim

inches are so much more "manly" than centimeters in my opinion. i think that even if the USA went metric that penis length and girth should still be measured in inches.

SteveHd

In a similar vein, I call our system the "Macho System".

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kalipygian

It is not an entirely correct statement to say that the US has not adopted the metric system.

Also many other customary units are in common use in other countries.

The US authorized use of the metric system in 1866.

the US joined the international metric convention in 1875.

In 1893 all customary units were officially defined by international metric standards.

It has been used for science and science education at least from the 60's.

In 1975 it was adopted for use by federal agencies and the military. A metrification board was set up. I saw some federal road signs in Kilometers in the late 70's. (I bought a new dodge van in 1977 that had a metric speedometer) This was stopped by Reagan in 1982.

In 1985 metric was made the preferred system for commodity labels.

Since 1994 commodity labels are required to include metric measure. Currently, metric only labels are legal, avoirdupois only are not.

You will not find a single SAE fastener on a new car built in the US. The automotive and electronic industries are entirely metric, as is anything made for export.

Some states have road signs in both systems.

Though Britain may be 'officially' metric, they do not seem to be changing their road signs over in much of a hurry, and still measure their beer in pints, and themselves in stone. Canadian lumber does not seem to have changed from customary measure. Canadian food etc. labels seem to be still using dual denomination. (bilingualism is in the constitution, right?)

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No_Strings

'Metric countries' also use miles, inches, feet, yards, ounces, pounds and stones, surprisingly.

Most containers are labelled with both form of measurements.

I square peg doesn't usually fit into a round hole either, but a 5.08cm or 2.13m peg will.

StapledShut

Those are only approximations though, and often times even being off by just under a hundredth of an inch can dangerously offset the final result. Trains being one of those cases.

It’s akin to chewing on a rain soaked car tire.

No_Strings

Aye, but I'm no engineer.

Regardless, having jugs and bottles measured in litres doesn't suddenly make all imperial units and tools obsolete. Some here seem to think it has to be a cut 'n' dry switch.

StapledShut

Well, people are suggesting that the fact that we still use the imperial system for anything at all means we haven't converted. And if throwing it out altogether is what it takes to truly convert, it's not going to happen.

It’s akin to chewing on a rain soaked car tire.

lorne

I have to say life would be easier in the long run though it would be a massive pain. I am Canadian and was raised on the metric system in school, but being raised in a family with carpenters, and tradesmen I have a better natural understanding of imperial measurements. I can judge distances accurately and weights in feet, inches and pounds but when it comes to metric I may as well be blind, I have to either measure it or use a calculator. In Canada if you want to built something the permit boards and city require your plans in metric, but then when you want to build it you have to convert to feet and inches when you go to get your supplies at the lumber yard anyways. I just find it weird and kind of useless. But must admit traveling in km feels like Im going farther on one tank of gas heheh

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Northland

Yes, it is a well known fact that Iraqis in the United States have exceptionally high education levels. (I's evened gradiated frum colladge).


As to the metric system, it is happening very very slowly. Products now show the metric measurement (at least for weight). Soda is bought in liter, 2 liter or 3 liter bottles although milk is still sold in pint/quart/half gallon/gallon measurements (it does however have a notation showing the metric equivalent).

When I was going to school, back when Dick Nixon was screwing us all, the metric system was introduced each and every year. This was the New York City Public School system in those days. Again and again we were told that soon the entire world would be using the metric system and for approximately 2 weeks it was part of the science curriculum, culminating in an appropriately simple test (appropriate, since, in those days, it was considered best to push students on from one grade to the next). After those weeks were over, we returned to normal units. Inches, feet, yards, ounces, pounds, quarts and gallons. Soon we forgot our metric learnings and life was good again. The following September it would begin all over again. It ended somewhere during the high school years.

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liberalcynic

If every other nation can do it why can't the US do it? The decimal point does exist... 2.1m...

invisibleman

I remember learning the metric system in school. I think that hard part was conceptualizing things that are in imperial into metric. That is all.

I use the metric system at my job. I dunno if it is easier.

liberalcynic

Not an easy switch, but think about this while the rest of the world using the litre, and metre when the world's largest publisher of English books, The USA, is throwing imperial measurments at us from every direction.
In Australia and other such nations we are taught how to convert from one to the other. If you can remember three things; that 452 grammes is 1 pound, and 32 mililitre/grammes is 1 ounce, and 1 inch is 2.54 centimetres you'll be fine. Your nation will have to go through a transition, use both for a decade or so, and change capital goods slowly.
The world is bigger than the US.