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John1040 the Soldier (59) ProphetJoe the Irreverent got all philosophical
The title says it all…
Christine the Lioness pontificated
As patriotic as I am, I do wish we’d switch to the Metric system. A system based on tens would be so much easier than the English system which is based on… threes? I don’t even know what ours is based on.
Abysium the Soldier mentioned
even english use metric this days…
and its much more practical for all the calculations…
Abysium the Soldier penned this
besides whats with the Fahrenheit scale? its bloody fucked up
Celsium scale atleast has a direct corelation with the Kelvin scale(which is the basis for temperature)
ProphetJoe the Irreverent thought this
Come on, people… what’s wrong with you? There’s a long and storied history about “American standards”.
We all know that a foot was the standard length of a man’s foot. but did you know that an inch was the average width of a thumb? A cubit was the length from a man’s elbow to his outstretched middle finger? A yard (3 times a foot) was the distance from a man’s nose to his outstretched fingers? A grain (used in small measurements such as gunpowder, was the weight of a single grain of wheat (used originally by the Egyptians). The Arabs used a “karob” for measuring precious metals and gemstones — today, we call it a carot.
What does the metric system give us? A “simpler” standard thrust upon us by some bureaucratic moron who believes we should all be and act the same? No, thank you! I prefer my archaic standards — viva la difference!!
Christine the Lioness spake, and sayeth
Ha, PJ!
Abysium the Soldier stated
psha-
how human-o-centric of you PJ
but i bet you dont do science for a living cos different standards play merry hell with my calculations….
Christine the Lioness got all philosophical
But isn’t all science done using the metric system– even in the U.S.?
Abysium the Soldier stated
Nope,
you can (and sometimes must) switch systems many times during calculations…
ProphetJoe the Irreverent up'n wrote this
Science schmience — you ought to have to program computer code for international usage!
Still, where would we be without Fahrenheit 459 — 237.222 Celsius???
ProphetJoe the Irreverent hunt n' pecked this
Christopher: As an aside — is the rate of abortion per capita greater in metric countries or English standard nations? 
Christopher the Pyro scribbled
lol…
Metric countries by far.
Mara the Peacemaker pontificated
The metric system is sooo much easier…though it’s totally annoying that I can never remember how to convert from Celsius to Farenheit…
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