Americans: Do you favor switching to the metric system?

[Anomalocaris]

Oh dear a gun related pissing contest

From your lack of sense of wit or irony, I deduce your mother visited the United States 9.50 months before you were born.

[zebo-the-fat]

I am surprised Nora that you still learned Imperial at school, given your various comments about events you must still be in your early 2Os. I was taught both way back in 1972. My Elder Brother learned Pounds Shillings and Pence.

Imperial is pointless and US measurements aren;t even the same as imperial ones. they have no idea what a pint is and have different sized gallonsa dn Ounces of fluid

Change can;t happen overnight. We decided to go metric in the early sixties then started teaching it in schools until only a few years ago we abolished its usage completely for weights.

Metric was started by Posttheists (ie those who rejected Christianity but took up pantheism or Atheism during the aftermath of the French revolution) and is a standard si unit. Si units are incredibly easy to work out. They are based on 8 different constants.
The Meter is the distance between the Equator and the North Pole. The Kilogram is the amount of water at its heaviest temperature (about 4*c) contained by 10cm cubed which by complete coincidence happens to be a litre all SI Units work out perfectly based on the 8 constants.

Only 1 meter between equator and the pole, what planet are you on?

[NoraBrimstone]

I am surprised Nora that you still learned Imperial at school, given your various comments about events you must still be in your early 2Os. I was taught both way back in 1972. My Elder Brother learned Pounds Shillings and Pence.

Imperial is pointless and US measurements aren;t even the same as imperial ones. they have no idea what a pint is and have different sized gallonsa dn Ounces of fluid

Change can;t happen overnight. We decided to go metric in the early sixties then started teaching it in schools until only a few years ago we abolished its usage completely for weights.

Metric was started by Posttheists (ie those who rejected Christianity but took up pantheism or Atheism during the aftermath of the French revolution) and is a standard si unit. Si units are incredibly easy to work out. They are based on 8 different constants.
The Meter is the distance between the Equator and the North Pole. The Kilogram is the amount of water at its heaviest temperature (about 4*c) contained by 10cm cubed which by complete coincidence happens to be a litre all SI Units work out perfectly based on the 8 constants.

Only 1 meter between equator and the pole, what planet are you on?

A really really small one, obviously.

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Only 1 meter between equator and the pole, what planet are you on?

A really really small one, obviously.

Yes I should have stated that 'the meter's' not 'the meter' is the distance between the equator and the North pole since Its was the constant belonging to the meter which is the distance mentioned.

Anyway the distance from Equator to N.Pole is 10,000 KM

[Jackalope]

A really really small one, obviously.

Yes I should have stated that 'the meter's' not 'the meter' is the distance between the equator and the North pole since Its was the constant belonging to the meter which is the distance mentioned.

Anyway the distance from Equator to N.Pole is 10,000 KM

FWIW, that definition of a meter hasn't been used since the 19th century. It's currently defined as length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.

Under the modern definition, the Earth is 40,007.86 km in circumference, measured through the poles.

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Yes I should have stated that 'the meter's' not 'the meter' is the distance between the equator and the North pole since Its was the constant belonging to the meter which is the distance mentioned.

Anyway the distance from Equator to N.Pole is 10,000 KM

FWIW, that definition of a meter hasn't been used since the 19th century. It's currently defined as length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.

Under the modern definition, the Earth is 40,007.86 km in circumference, measured through the poles.

I was explaining its origin since 1/299,792,458 of a second. would be ,otherwise, a completely arbitary number. Also the distance from the equator to the south pole HENCE I used the distance to the North pole

[Neo-Scholastic]

Speaking purely as an architect I like the way feet and inches break evenly into halves and thirds. Maybe the could convert metric to base 12.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Speaking purely as an architect I like the way feet and inches break evenly into halves and thirds. Maybe the could convert metric to base 12.

[Whateverist]

Speaking purely as an architect I like the way feet and inches break evenly into halves and thirds. Maybe the could convert metric to base 12.

Interesting idea.

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Speaking purely as an architect I like the way feet and inches break evenly into halves and thirds. Maybe the could convert metric to base 12.

Interesting idea.

[pocaracas]

Speaking purely as an architect I like the way feet and inches break evenly into halves and thirds. Maybe the could convert metric to base 12.

Interesting idea.

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Speaking purely as an architect I like the way feet and inches break evenly into halves and thirds. Maybe the could convert metric to base 12.

Interesting idea.

It must indeed be an interesting idea, if you had to say it twice!