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Should the United States of America begin to commonly use the metric system?
For at least most uses. A few areas will probably still use US units, like surveying and construction.
Yes
 
 84.4%, 27 votes
No
 
 15.6%, 5 votes
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Posted on 10-04-09 01:58:31 PM Link | Quote


Yeah, kelvins are better for science because it's an absolute scale, so it fits into equations better It's awkward for daily use though, and the freezing point is the weird 273.15 K. Celsius is better for everyday non-scientific use

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Posted on 10-04-09 05:10:46 PM Link | Quote
Kelvin is based on Celsius at least (but with 0 moved to the absolute zero temperature), so it's still metric ... it'd just be weird how 250 is cold and 310 is hot, making normal temperatures seem like such a small range

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Posted on 10-04-09 05:18:41 PM Link | Quote
The rest of the world should change to Imperial, simply because many of the metric units are far, far away from practical use (Coulomb being freaking huge and Pascal being extremely small).

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Posted on 10-04-09 05:20:02 PM Link | Quote
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That's what the prefixes are for

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Posted on 10-04-09 05:21:00 PM Link | Quote
Kilopascal! Megapascal! Gigapascal! Terrapascal!

Plenty big enough.

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Posted on 10-04-09 05:26:18 PM (last edited by Terra at 10-04-09 02:29 PM) Link | Quote

Me pascal?

I think it's terapascal (one r).

And a lot of the units are weird sizes because they are formed by multiplying and/or dividing other units

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Posted on 10-04-09 06:00:39 PM Link | Quote
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix#List_of_SI_prefixes

Tera is one "r".

Also, I'm very sure Pascal is mesured with the metric system.

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Posted on 10-04-09 07:32:58 PM Link | Quote
Volts, Amperes, Watts and so on all use metric prefixes, but so do other things like Hertz and bytes (and bits), both of which are well into the giga (and even tera) for computers ... when the single unit is too small or too large for any practical use, that's easily fixed with prefixes (like the atmospheric pressure is always around 101kPa)

Hertz is used in a very wide range too, at least for the electromagnetic spectrum (AM radio in kHz, gamma rays in EHz), which also has wavelengths ranging from pm to km, and that definitely wouldn't work well with imperial scaling

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Posted on 10-05-09 06:22:31 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by BlackNemesis13
It's like people don't even realize that our system is actually HARDER than metric, the same way that they don't even realize that the English language is one of the most fucked up ones on the planet.

But... but I enjoy writing and speaking english

Anyway, metric system is , at least I like it more than gallons, yards, whatebah.

Originally posted by Teyla
Originally posted by Tanks
The gallon should remain as well. Economically, the switch to the metric would mean the milk producers would demand the same amount of money for less milk being sold. Same goes for gas and any other marketed liquid.

That's why they change the price.
Do you think they would pass the chance of ripping more money?

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Posted on 10-05-09 11:26:55 AM (last edited by Okuu at 10-05-09 08:27 AM) Link | Quote
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Originally posted by Pandaren
Originally posted by Teyla
Originally posted by Tanks
The gallon should remain as well. Economically, the switch to the metric would mean the milk producers would demand the same amount of money for less milk being sold. Same goes for gas and any other marketed liquid.

That's why they change the price.
Do you think they would pass the chance of ripping more money?
That's why they change the price. Usually it tends to be rounded up.

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Posted on 10-05-09 01:18:30 PM Link | Quote

I'd be all for changing to metric, but it's not just as simple as announcing it one day and expecting everyone to follow it. You'll have to people who don't know metric, people who keep forgetting to use metric, and people who don't want to change to metric. Not to mention we'd have to replace millions of signs, possibly twice. Even if we did make the switch, we'd still be teaching the imperial system so that people later on can interpret anything that references "feet", "inches", "miles", "yards" etc.

Another issue is that the older the person, the more attached to the current system they probably are and the longer it will take to adjust. It wouldn't be so bad if the scale of the units weren't so different from each other. As Tanks said, with Fahrenheit, numbers like 100 are really hot and 20-30 are cold. Celsius is more useful scientifically, but it condenses the scale of ºF to 5/9 the size, almost half, and the natural temperatures on earth never really get high enough to use over half the scale. For length, feet are around 30cm/3dm, while 1m is a little over 3ft. People will have to adjust to using either really large numbers or small numbers with decimals to measure each other's height instead of numbers like 5 and 6. Miles would be an easy switch becuase they're both really big and pretty similar. I'm not even going to go into grams because that is a measure of mass and not weight.



I expect it would be a slow transition, one that starts in the classroom.

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Posted on 10-05-09 01:24:54 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Peardian
I expect it would be a slow transition, one that starts in the classroom.

Yeah, you would have to start there. And make sure everything is available in the metric system. (Aka, using both on the same time.)

Even if it takes 50 years to convert you still have to start SOMETIME.


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