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9633233 No.9633233 [Reply] [Original]

>taking engineering classes in America for semester abroad
>tons of refrigeration
>slugs
>yards of mercury

How do they ever get anything done in this country with these retarded units?

>> No.9633255

America is a bubble of naivety

A circle jerk for comfortable consumers who think they operate in isolation from the rest of the world

They will contest that their way of doing things is the best way regardless of the rest of the international scientific community

I hope a trade war does kick off to pop their bubble and teach the burgers a lesson about dependency

>> No.9633284

>>9633233
idk either man, all these fucking retarded units piss me off.

>> No.9633293

>>9633233
Simple, don't do engineering. We scientists use proper fucking units, the engineers use imperial units and plug and chug formula tables.

Though apparently alot of the engineers here will immediately convert to metric to solve problems and convert back to imperial at the end.

>> No.9633298

>>9633255
>international scientific community
You realize that all of the scientists in the US use metric units right?

>> No.9633323

>>9633298
This is simply false, I had an engineering internship in the United States and they used English units, such as pounds for force and pound-feet for torque.

>inb4 engineers aren't scientists

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9633804

>>9633233

>> No.9633860

>>9633804
fake

>> No.9633891

>>9633233
What the fuck retarded school are you going to? I'm in mech engineering and have legitimately never encountered imperial units in my coursework

>> No.9633942

>>9633298
Yeah, NASA does all their shit in metric and then converts it to imperial strictly only when needed.

>> No.9633974

>>9633293
>>9633298
>>9633323
American Professional Engineer for decades. I used lbs and slugs only when professors demanded it (and was very careful.) The problem is the Imperial System uses the same NAME ambiguously whereas Metric uses Newtons and Kg. I always write LBF and LBM and never get into trouble.
In private practice, I prefer to convert to Metric ASAP and only convert the answer back if the customer demands.

The naming convention is really the only important thing. Since computers, the "easier to convert units in Metric" has become a non-issue.

>> No.9633980

>>9633942
NASA does but Lockheed-Martin doesn't.
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/01/news/mn-17288

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9634029

>horse power

>> No.9634040

>>9634029
Yeah.
And not a very good unit either.
Watt must have measured broken-down nags to make his engines look better.

>> No.9634082

>>9633891
He's not going to any US school. He's just trying to justify his literally who European universities to us.

>> No.9634172

>>9633980
>1999

>> No.9634574

>>9633233
>>tons of refrigeration
I thought it was useless to but it's been the only useful real world thing I learned in college so far