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10326789 No.10326789 [Reply] [Original]

Why America keeps using imperial system?
It's literally La Luz Extinguido of measurement systems. Doesn't make any sense in any way.

>> No.10326793

They are too retarded to adapt and too rich to be forced to.

>> No.10326798

>>10326789
not like anlgostards stoped using it long ago
angloshits are 130 years behind

>> No.10326983

>>10326789
I was thinking about this the other day and I can understand why it came to be. The imperial system is all tangible units that people are familiar with. You tell a farmer to start laying out fencing in meters and he's going to be like "what the fuck is a meter". Try telling him that a meter is the length travelled by light in a vacuum in 1 / c seconds and see how well that goes. On the other hand you've got a foot, 12 inches, length of the average real foot, so if you don't have tools you can use your own foot and you'll be approximately right. I'm all for the metric system, but anyone who argues that metric in the year 1776 was superior to imperial is not fully thinking this out and probably being elitist about the whole metric vs. imperial thing. Imperial was useful in it's time and metric is now superior, but there are situations where imperial is preferable.

>> No.10327063

>>10326983
I think it's also a matter of just being used to it. To most people outside the US, metric system quantities make intuitive sense because they're just used to it.
One place where I think Imperial units do succeed in is temperature, just because 0-100 on the Farenheit scale matches pretty well with human experience.
At the end of the day, all systems of units are arbitrary. Hell, NASA did pretty well using Imperial units back in the day. We just need to be consistent, and this is why it's frustrating that the US is still stuck.

>> No.10327076

>>10327063
Actually NASA used metric units. Look it up.

>> No.10328360 [DELETED] 

>>10326789
you just dont get it because you are born into your system.
i didnt get it either til i thought about it. they are different ways of counting but imperial is actually superior because it is more harmonic and uses circle-style instead of square-style

>> No.10328366

>>10326789 (OP)
you just dont get it because you are born into your system. also because you have 10 fingers and have probably used your fingers to count creating all kinds of connections. i didnt get it either til i thought about it. they are different ways of counting but imperial is actually superior because it is more harmonic and uses circle-style instead of square-style

>> No.10328397

Only everyday retards use it. The big boys doing important jobs use metric. Same thing in the U.K. with our old units.

>> No.10328514

>>10326983
Or you could just tell him
>you know, 1/40000 of the north-south circumference of the earth
and he'd know immediately what you mean.

>> No.10328530

>>10327063
>NASA did pretty well using Imperial units
...except for crashing the first two Mars landers.

>> No.10330097

>>10327076
And Slockheed Marmle used imperial. Sattelite went plopp.

>> No.10330252

>>10328514
Or you could just tell him: "This fucking big." And stretch your arms.

>> No.10330577

>>10326983
Are all your farmers like that?

>> No.10331242

We use all unit systems:
-some are better in specific areas -tradition
-we can

The """"agreed"""" standard isn't always the best and sometimes completely wrong like with si units for computer data storage sizes, bunch of weasels.