/sci/ - Science & Math

Cus no goddamn commie frog is gonna tell 'murica to use use reasonable units of measurement.

It's just difficult to get people to make changes... and probably because we're told that a paper clip weighs a gram and weighing things in paper clips is silly.

cuz america is fucking retarded.

and i'm american.

>>2652900
>It's just difficult to get people to make changes
Ummm...the evidence kinda points to the contradictory.

>>2652900

kg is the standard unit, not g.

Last time I checked, the US still had the largest GDP of any country.

Checkmate faggot.

>>2652917
Ausfag here, yeah we measure everything in bags of flour.

because of cold war propaganda
yes really
after this generation we will change

>>2652916
>Religion is still around

Like I was saying it can be pretty difficult to get people to make changes.

>>2652917
Then why is it misplaced? Shouldn't the mass assigned to kg be what's known a g.

It's a pretty silly flaw to have the standard unit be 1000 of the base unit. It'd be like us in the US measuring everything in tons instead of ounces

>>2652923 well EU is ahead currently... but yeah.

Because there is billions of dollars in infrastructure which makes use of imperial units. Altering or replacing that infrastructure costs money. Lots of money.

>>2653066
>implying the EU is a single country.

because christian talibans

>>2653077

>>2653085

So why waste billions of dollars changing road signs, scales, etc. if it doesn't gain us anything. We only use Imperial for day-to-day stuff. Almost all of our science and engineering uses Metric.

Piss off and don't try to force your shit on us

>>2652874
because we can

>>2653128
>Piss off and don't try to force your shit on us
Ahahahahhahahaha
So be it.

Oh boy 'er we go.

>>2652900
>It's just difficult to get people to make changes

Then why in equestria has every otherpony switched over?

were special snowflakes

OP is just mad because he has a three inch penis

I live in aus and am pretty ignant but when I heard about americana using a buncha centimeters for an inch and a buncha inches for a foot I got smartser

>>2653236
Well, third world countries don't have a scientific establishment to speak of, so they simply adopt what Europe taught them.

The map in the OP assumes full adoption in the Anglosphere, which isn't even true.

>>2653424
UK changed. US are just lazy.

>>2653077
There are billions (probably in the hundreds) uselessly wasted each year in maintenance of two septate sets of units.

For instance it costs $57,268 to launch 1 kg of cargo in the space shuttle and they are sending up two sets of tools each time they go to the ISS because half of it is built metric and half is built US customary.

>>2653447
Not entirely. And the UK is like.... the smallest part of the anglosphere. Sun never sets, bro.

Because US is an immature country and is trying to be rebellious.

>>2653480
Size doesn't matter. 50 millions or 350 millions or 6 billions.

>>2653508
>Claim "everybody has done it"
>Claim "6/7 people not doing it doesn't matter"

The worst shit is when you have physics or engineering textbooks that give you mi/h and you had to convert to m/s, or some example as equally shitty like an acre to m^2 or something. This is after all the professors talk about how we use the metric system in the class blah blah blah but then you have to convert across two systems. Where, in every other country, you get one system in base ten and thats it.

So don't be hatin' on your science/engineering compatriots in America. We have to deal with additional bullshit as if science/engineering in itself wasn't tough enough. We'd change it if we could.

>>2653447
>UK changed.

what? no stones, furlongs, fortnights and firkins anymore? they even killed the pint?
and your KING didn't intervene?
i'm disappoint :(

>>2653066
its has 200 million more people and a much lower GDP per capita

these threads always make me feel weird because I live in Myanmar

>>2653634

Uk doesn't have a king anymore, only a queen. Buncha sissy fags is what they are

Why are they green and interesting while we are gray and boring? Obvious bias much?