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Converting to metric
alledan
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This last weekend I was reminded at the pace we are converting to metric. I was on I-75 in Ohio when I saw a sign that said:
All signs metric
Next 20 miles
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All signs metric
Next 20 miles
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I guess they will want me to change from 45 acp to a 9mm. NO NO
No, you just have to go from the .45 ACP to the 11.43mm ACP.[:D][:D]
3.785 liters per gallon. I always thought it was a scam to convince us we were getting more for less money. Hope that never happens again. I'm too oriented to English/American measurements. Can't figure cups to grams. Too old to change now.
Doug
* edited for spelling
As far as travel goes, people from Michigan measure distance in Hours, not Miles or Klicks.
Pot holes per second - now that's a velocity!!!!
Much better then furlongs per fortnight
Doug
Metric system designed by a french guy and is impractical since it gets it's base unit, the meter from an ever changing variable, 1/40,000,000 of the Earth's polar circumference or somthing like that.
Not any more: The meter is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second. And a second is defined on the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.
The kilogram, however, is defined on a ball of silicone that sits in a vault somewhere in Europe....and it's losing mass. They can't figure out why. They're fighting about if and how the KG should be redefined. One camp says it should be defined as a mass that can be supported by a machine supplied with certain amount of power. Others argue that would be too derivative, and that it should be defined as a certain number of molecules of a certain substance.
I'm all for the metric system. Our system has body parts as the basis of many of it's base units.
...Superior my butt. Maybe for the Euros, this aint Europe, thank God.
...no sense in going backwards to join the Euros with their second rate industry and methology. OH! I forgot!...Outside large metro areas most of the Euros still have those quaint villages where their main mode of transportation is a horse and wagon, plow with mules,no electricity, dirt/mud roads, haul water from a well...yeah buddy we should hurry and change over to metric so we can be as "advanced" as these backwards peasants...[;)]
Metric system designed by a french guy and is impractical since it gets it's base unit, the meter from an ever changing variable, 1/40,000,000 of the Earth's polar circumference or somthing like that.
Not any longer - the meter has been redefined to be based on the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
And before that, there were those meter-long platinum-iridium bars that were kept in France. True, the original definition was a variable, not a constant, but ever since those bars were made the meter has had a fixed length.
Sounds exactly like the dream of the Gun Broker gang, real America where a man can be a man without the need of big cities with their crime and corruption or big government programs.
...screw the metric system...and it is obvious I am not alone with this thought...we didn't change, now did we?
...Superior my butt. Maybe for the Euros, this aint Europe, thank God.
...no sense in going backwards to join the Euros with their second rate industry and methology. OH! I forgot!...Outside large metro areas most of the Euros still have those quaint villages where their main mode of transportation is a horse and wagon, plow with mules,no electricity, dirt/mud roads, haul water from a well...yeah buddy we should hurry and change over to metric so we can be as "advanced" as these backwards peasants...[;)]
I hope you're joking.
...Well, it's a good thought anyway! Unfortuanately with the number of defense plants, high tech industry located here...they have long since converted to this "commie" form of measurement...and it may just be a matter of decades ([:D]) that us under educated "folk" with only one degree...may very well be forced to follow .
...our cattle may get awfully confused about that!...they will be exspecting a 2,000 lb round bail to be dropped off the bail stabber...and only end up with a 907 kilo bale...the cows (not to mention me) will be confused and dissappointed!...[;)]
Right!
i don't have a problem with it, i think it is reverse of most thoughts here on it, it is not going backwards, it is going forward
You can sense the fear in the hearts of the Gun Broker gang as the very name metric system is mentioned. This would be just another nail in the coffin for the few remaining American widget factories and the widgeters who have assembled those widgets using feet and inches since the first water wheel drove a buffalo hide belt in the factory where grandpa and pop once worked.
No fear here, just tired of being forced to conform to the standards of others.
Feet and inches is what we have always used. It has worked just fine for this nation so far, so what is the problem?
Is it because the rest of the world uses metric and by God, we are part of a Global Community, so we must align ourselves with everyone else? I haven't seen us shut out of international trade, or other functions, due to our system of weights and measures.
Personally, I don't want to be a part of one big happy world. I like America as she used to be and should be again.
It isn't broken, leave it alone.
quote:Originally posted by kristov
You can sense the fear in the hearts of the Gun Broker gang as the very name metric system is mentioned. This would be just another nail in the coffin for the few remaining American widget factories and the widgeters who have assembled those widgets using feet and inches since the first water wheel drove a buffalo hide belt in the factory where grandpa and pop once worked.
No fear here, just tired of being forced to conform to the standards of others.
Feet and inches is what we have always used. It has worked just fine for this nation so far, so what is the problem?
Is it because the rest of the world uses metric and by God, we are part of a Global Community, so we must align ourselves with everyone else? I haven't seen us shut out of international trade, or other functions, due to our system of weights and measures.
Personally, I don't want to be a part of one big happy world. I like America as she used to be and should be again.
It isn't broken, leave it alone.
amen
correct, but guess who bares responsibility of converting it?, nothing comes in or goes out of this country with out being converted here first