(August 27, 2016 at 4:07 am)Atheist_BG Wrote: Some time ago I watched a video about the differences between US English and UK English and on that video they mentioned the reason for that difference was made in spite of the British. So that behavior to reverse things in spite of UK made me wonder why they didn't change the measurement system too.
Well the kilogram wasn't a widely accepted thing when the U.S. was formed. It wasn't officially defined until the 1790s. The MKS system wasn't adopted until 1901, and the International SI standard wasn't published until 1960.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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