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Well Steve- I got to tell you, I grew up with Imperial and now have to use metric OR Both.
There's nothing wrong with the Imperial system - I was always happy with Pounds Shillings and Pence as well - but you Yanks changed to metric money early on, so us Aussies had to change in 1966. Even the Poms have changed to metric money and metric measurements.
So what will be next after weights and measurements - TIME perhaps, buggered if I know how they will work that one out. Perhaps 100 sec to a minute and 100 minutes to the hour etc, etc.
I know, if you really want to stick it to the rest of the world, change the TIME to metric system and of course degrees 100 degrees to a circle etc.and anything else you can think of - that should stuff things up good and proper.
Me I like things in 12's- it just seems more logical!?
Anonymous!
I don't get it. All measurement systems are arbitrary. The "English" system certainly came from some odd roots. But so did the railroad track gauge (it was the width of a horse drawn wagon track.) And guess what else? The Space Shuttle booster rockets were designed around the same gauge so it could be shipped to its final destination. The metric system was designed around what they thought was the circumference of the earth. They got it wrong. And, 1 cc is not the same as 1 ml., though that was the intent. Now, all measurements are based on a metal rod, or other device, residing in a refrigerator at a constant temperature in the National Weights and Measures office for the US and somewhere in France for metric measurements.
OK, the SAE system may be a little convoluted, but once you learn it, it works just fine. Oh, I forgot, we should change just because the Europeans use it. Should we also adopt soccer as our national pastime just because the "rest of the world" sees soccer as their national pastime? I mean, almost no one adopts our version of football. Just because "they" do it is not an a-priori reason do to so.
Will we eventually migrate over to metric de-facto even though we have rejected a de-juris solution? Maybe. But in the interim, SAE works just fine, and in the absence of a compelling economic reason to do so, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Best Regards,
Steve
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On Nov 25, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Bulent Aliev wrote:
I just think it is embarrassing that the US cant seem to adopt the international system...
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