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/r/ing the comic showing how absurd the standard/english system is, compared to how much sense the metric system makes. I remember at the end it said, trolling at its finest, go USA!

In return, random pics.

>> No.1835592

There's nothing absurd about the english system. The metric system may be more convenient for scientific measurements, but it isn't particularly more useful for everyday life at all.

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anyone?

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>>1835592
lol k

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nvm, finally got it.

>> No.1835622
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Nations that use the metric system that have landed on the moon: 0

DEAL WITH IT.

>> No.1835624

>>1835607
>implying Fahrenheit isn't superior for meteorology and therefore weather and everyday life

lol stupid jelly idiots.

>> No.1835627

Well lets see. We use metric for science and both systems are taught in schools but use the English system for things not career or science related. You're just mad because we know two systems instead of one. 50 years later, you'll still be mad.

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>>1835622

NASA uses SI

also who built that fancy rocket of yours.

VON BRAUN

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Nations that have lost an expensive probe due to a metric/english screwup: 1

Deal with it.

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>>1835617
>MFW they use a picture of the space shuttle for the metric system

>> No.1835634

Could someone explain what's wrong with the metric system? I only really learned it a little and it seemed to make far more sense to me.

>> No.1835635

>>1835630
>NASA uses SI

No, it doesn't. Here's an article where fags like you bitch about NASA using imperial units.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17350-nasa-criticised-for-sticking-to-imperial-units.html

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>>1835630
He knew the superior nation. Buttmad somewhere else.

>>1835632
You jelly? How many probes did you send up?

>> No.1835641

>>1835634
Nothing's "wrong" with the metric system. Switching to metric a bit like learning German when everyone in your country already speaks English. Maybe German is easier to conjugate and has simpler rules but it's not big enough to offset the expense of trading everything over to a new language.

>> No.1835642

>>1835634
Base 10 isn't hard. English is. The rest of the world is angry they can't comprehend the English system on nations who can use both.

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>>1835635


>Indeed, NASA lost an unmanned mission owing to a mix-up between metric and imperial units. In September 1999, its $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter probe was destroyed because its attitude-control system used imperial units but its navigation software used metric units. As a result, it was 100 kilometres too close to Mars when it tried to enter orbit around the planet.

>Units have also played a role in other spacecraft problems. In 2006, the guidance system on NASA's DART spacecraft went awry and caused it to ram into a military satellite it was merely meant to dock with.

>Before DART's launch, NASA found that GPS data on its position was mistakenly being read by its computer in feet. Ironically, correcting this to metres in a simulator resulted in an incorrect change to another parameter that was programmed into the spacecraft – a problem that led to the collision.

>MFW

>> No.1835651

in what way is English system superior?
I'm not trolling or anything, just genuinely interested.
I only hear "it's convenient", "we use it in everyday life" and so on. So the only plus of English system is that everyone in US uses it, so you can't switch over to metric even if you wanted to? Or are there any other advantages?

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>>1835641
Which is why everyone has been taught the metric system in schools for decades now. Our system is here to basically piss off foreign filth. Despite this, people around the world still come to this country by the millions to visit. Rest of the world, are you even trying?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_travelers_by_nationality

>> No.1835661

>>1835647
these fails aren't related to any of systems being superior/inferior, problem here is NASA can't get it right. If they used only one system, everything would be fine, no matter which system in particular, be it metric or imperial.

Therefore, NASA screwups are unrelated.

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>>1835607
fixed

>> No.1835665

>>1835647
And NASA still manages to do more than the rest of the world combined. A few set backs is nothing short of exciting.

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>This Thread

>> No.1835673

>>1835667
correct, except the guy on the right has to weight 200kg's (or 85,2 1/3 feetyards or whatever)

>> No.1835676

>>1835667
Fuck yeah, we're here to kick ass to chew bubble gum and we're all out of gum.

>> No.1835678

>>1835676
chew ass then.

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>>1835673
Don't make me sit on you, twigboy.

>> No.1835684

>>1835678
Alright, you have to bend over first.

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WTF is this shit.
Amerifags attributing sucess of NASA, universities to thier shitty unit system.

It makes sense to use metric because its easy, everybody uses it.

Americans who promote imperial system are shame to /sci/

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>>1835667
>>1835676
>>1835678
>>1835684
>Me when the trollthread turned into gay foreplay

>> No.1835692

>>1835685
It's hilarious though. We already use both on things that matter and they're bitching about it like we actually care.

>> No.1835695

>>1835684
And thus began the Euro/American gay orgy. Meanwhile, the wimmins came over to NZ and Australia, but the lardass ones were left to return to the ocean and become whales. Some still got beached in New Zealand and got fucked by the Maori before being pushed back out to sea.

Then we all got wicked drunk and had a good time overall. China kept making our stuff, India did the same, Africa was left to it's self-mutilation and general faggotry, and the Middle East was just wondering where the Americans went.

Oh, and South America got into the US while they were busy rimming Europe.

>> No.1835697

Nobody knows how many yards are in mile (nobody knows what a chain, furlong, rod etc etc are) without googling it

>>1835692
>Thinks people use body parts and random rocks to measure important stuff

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>>1835697
You're just mad you can't figure out how many furlongs there are per fortnight, faggot.

>> No.1835702

>>1835701
The fortnight is a measure of time, not distance, you stupid whore

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>>1835702
>doesn't know how many furlongs per fortnight

lol stupid faggot

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>>1835702

>> No.1835706

>>1835697

i know there are 5280 feet and 1760 yards in a mile right off the top of my head.

chain and rod are NEVER used for anything, and a furlong only matters at horse races.

>> No.1835708

>>1835704
>implying that the fortnight is a unit of distance
>or implying that the furlong is a unit of time

>> No.1835711

>>1835708
>implying

derpherp

>> No.1835712

>>1835706
I don't think the faggots from the other countries realize that measurement units are arbitrary. Sure, a base 10 system is easy but we've been learning feets, inches, and cups since 2nd grade.

>> No.1835719

>>1835712
Yes morons we are saying change the whole damn system.
They are arbitary so why use one system for real life and diffrent one for science. Why just start using the simple system.

>> No.1835731

>>1835719
Because the costs would be astronomical. It's cheaper to just teach everyone both like we've been doing for decades. Despite a few mistakes from time to time, the USA is still the research and innovated center of the world. Eventually the future generations will hopefully faze it out. It's not like we don't already use kilograms, meters, and centimeters. It will happen eventually but the world sure a fuck cares a lot about what we do or think. You guys really need to fuck off. Why do you care so much about what system nonscientists and nonengineers use?

>> No.1835733

all off the top of my head:

1 mile = 1760 yards = 5280 feet = 1.609 km

1 cubic foot = 7.48 gallons = 1440 cubic inches = 28.3 liters

1 gallon = 4 quarts = 8 pints = 16 cups = 128 oz = 8.36 pounds of water = 3.785 liters

1 cup = 16 tablespoons = 48 teaspoons = 236.6ml

1 pound = 16 ounces = .454 kg

1 inch = 25.4 mm

thread = dildos

>> No.1835737

>>1835733

shit, meant to say cubic foot is 1728 in^3

>> No.1835736

People born in the 70s and beyond thoroughly know metric. Go away with your shitty troll thread.

>> No.1835742

>>1835733
I remember when we learned this in the 4th grade and I had my flashcards. I can do it all in my head now. Just let them be bumhurt about it.

>> No.1836860

>>1835651
The (meteorological) temperature range seems more intuitively obvious; we're very used to grading things on a 100 point scale. ~0 = really fucking cold, ~100 = really fucking hot, ~75 = the C+ of tempuratures.

>> No.1836864

>>1836860
(the same range in Celcius is -18, 37, and 21. So intuitive!)

>> No.1836882

Amerifag here:
I strongly believe USA needs to switch to the metric system for two reasons
1) it will put us in line with the rest of the world
2) most educated americans know the metric system

that being said, I also believe that an AU should be the distance light travels in 10mins, rather than the earth-sun distance (about 8min lightspeed).

>> No.1836889

Here you go OP:

Q: What is the normal force produced by a 20 pound weight?
A: That would be 20 pounds of force, sir.

A: What is the normal force produced by a 20 kg weight?
Q: One minutes sir, while I run back to my car for my graphing engineering-fag calculator....
...
...
...
...
...
sorry about that sir, I'm kind of a fat ass...
...that would be...
...shit wrong button...
...that would be 196.13300 newtons, sir

>> No.1836919

>>1836889
>implying using the same name for two different units that have different dimensions is a good idea
>implying defining a unit from acceleration due to gravity, which varies across the earth, is a good idea

Inb4 ounces. Fucking ounces. THREE OF THEM.

>> No.1836945

Lol Americunts bitch about their metric system but they aren't able to say how many gallons there are in a cubic foot. On the other hand, who isn't able to say how many meters there are in a kilometer?

>> No.1836949

A pint's a pound, the world around.

One pint of lead = one pound = one pint of water.

One pint of lead weighs the same as one pint of water.

>> No.1837005

>>1836949
approx 0,5 Litres of lead weighs the same as 0,5 litres of water?
not sure if troll.

>> No.1837155

>>1836949
one dm^3 of water = 1 litre = appprox. 1 kg of water at 20 degrees C

>> No.1837224

Why even argue ? Metric system is more reliable, because it is standartized. For example, 1 cubic metre, is defined exactly, condition at which it is, are precisely defined, imperial units are not. So is for weight units.

>> No.1837234

>>1836919
It's a great fucking idea, which most of the calculations you do are on the surface of the fucking earth. I'd probably still be calculating some shit from a year ago if I didn't have a normalized system, where I can just substitute in a pound force for a pound mass, and thereby do the problem in my head, instead of explicitly multiplying it by g. It's no wonder Europeans have never made it to the moon.

>> No.1837265

>>1837234
>BAWW i can't multiply by 9.8 in my head

>> No.1837319

>>1837234
That's one point for imperial, 12342324 for metric