Why America can't just use the metric system? I don't

Did you not learn metric in school?

stubbornness


(yes, I learned a new word)

>>26975355
Who gives a fuck?

Anyone who goes to a decent school learns both by their sophomore year anyway.

hello proxy I see you enjoy your time with American flag posting! good

Imperial is better for a lot of purposes.

>>26975355
Because Murricunts are autistic fuckers that have to be special snowflakes :^)

we learn it in school and use it for science, is that not enough?

>>26975355
>that pride flag on St Pete's

Fucking faggots seriously

kek someone hanged that LGBT flag on the St. Petersburg plate.

>>26975397
it only would be good if we used base-12 numerical system.

We don't, so it's shit.

>>26975355
>gay flag on the sign that points to St. Petersburg

yeah that'll show those evil oppressive Russians

>>26975355
It's not that simple though. Getting 300+ million people to stop using a system that they've always used is pretty hard. Then there's the fact that every single fucking thing would have to be relabeled. I'm not saying that it shouldn't be gradually implemented, but you can't change a huge country's infrastructure and thought process overnight.

>>26975406

It is, people just like to nitpick

>>26975397
not really. metric is superior in every way but of course if you're used to imperial you'll think it's better. here we are taught metric in school but many also learn imperial due to parents/grandparents and will usually use imperial for certain things(weight and height mainly) and metric for everything else

>>26975384
I'm actually quite happy you are learning. We also learn metric in school and use it in all scientific fields.

>>26975504
I like it for cooking, not baking, but cooking on a stove. Baking is a science though. When you're doing something on a stove top it's a lot easier to go with volume measurements than weight. No need to weigh shit out to make dinner.

>>26975355
You know, in construction and surveying, we just use decimal feet. All the convenience of Metrics, without having to change everything in the country.

Also, most people should know both, at least basically

>>26975355
Eh, you do your measurements, convert to metric, do the math, convert back. Problem solved.

>>26975504
Most people I know would say Metric is better than imperial. However, on the subject of height, metric is almost too precise. We change height from the morning to the evening by up to half an inch. That would be a pretty decent swing in metric, but in imperial you can still ballpark yourself around the same height.

>>26975504
Imperial is better if you dont have to convert things.

Take speed for example.

100 MPH is fast. Its a good marker for fastness. If its below, its not 'too fast'. If its above it is too fast.

Whats 100 KPH? Its like, bland not main highway but back road highway speed. Completly meaningless.

Now lets look at temperature. 100 F is hot. Anything below that is not too hot, anything above that is too fucking hot.

0 F is what you set your freezer to to preserve meat long term.

This is much more useful for day to day human life than basing everything on the temperatures that regular water has a state change at sea level.

1. Its salt water, not pure water, that is most prominent on this planet anyway (and Fahrenheit coincidentally uses brine for one of his measurements)
2. Who the fuck cares about the average fucking atmospheric pressure at sea level? Its never going even be that for more than a millisecond, and as time passes the temperature will literally change as earth loses atmosphere.

One acre can produce food for 4 people (a family) using traditional agricultural and livestock practices. It is a sensible way to measure land.

What does 1 square km do, exactly?
>b..but it kind of is enough for 1000!
No, large scale food production uses entirely different processes and has entirely different efficiency

>>26975428
fractions. The ever ingenious romans did not use decimals, instead for things before 1 they used 12ths. 12ths are good because they can be divided into halfs, thirds, quarters, sixths, and of course twelves.

It is much more useful in common use to say that you have to fold something into thirds than 'into 0.33 repeating's'

Paper sizes.

two sheets of letter arranged side to side with a small amount of space for binding creates a total visual area which is the golden ratio exactly.

A4 paper is an atrocity.

Get off the europe 'muh sophistication' bandwagon and realize the country that put a man on the moon may actually be doing it right.

>>26975736
This

I would say HUMAN HEIGHT is the ONLY place Imperial is better.

When you get into buildings and height of inanimate objects metric becomes better

>>26975757
mph is better for driving. because that same 100kmph, which is fast, and is a good blend of speed and safety, equates to 60mph, which is one mile per minute. so if you are going at 100kmph but using mph, you know exactly how long its gonna take to get where youre going.

>>26975807
Your post gave me autism.

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>>26975757
>100 MPH is fast. Its a good marker for fastness. If its below, its not 'too fast'. If its above it is too fast.
>
>Whats 100 KPH? Its like, bland not main highway but back road highway speed. Completly meaningless.
>
>Now lets look at temperature. 100 F is hot. Anything below that is not too hot, anything above that is too fucking hot.
>
>0 F is what you set your freezer to to preserve meat long term.

>>26975480
Australia successfully changed it a few decades ago right ? Why not asking them some advices ?

>>26975757
i can say all the exact same shit about metric. you're simply proving my point, people will use what they are used to

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>>26975398

Yes master will that be all.

I would say over half of everything has both imperial and metric measures listed. Up to you which you want to use.

>>26975504
I honestly think it's good to have 2 systems

Sometimes the right amount of something is easier to display on one system than on another.

You get what I'm saying right?

>>26975757

Stubbornness it is (thanks to the Brazilian guy, teaching us his discoveries of English language).

>>26975736
>metric is almost too precise
>That would be a pretty decent swing in metric, but in imperial you can still ballpark yourself around the same height.

The most fundemental point of a measurment system is that it's supposed to be precise

>>26976217
yeah. here we usually display both anyway so it's really not an issue. like i said many here use both systems depending what they are doing and know how to do very rough conversions pretty quick

>>26975355
But we do use metric for everything important. The only thing we don't use it for is everyday use. I can't estimate a distance in meters intuitively like I can with feet. But for those sorts of things it comes down to preference and familiarity, like the Canadian guy is saying. There's no real right or wrong in those situations. So really the system we've got going on is perfectly fine.

>>26975355
counting in tens is hard when you are missing fingers from all the shitty mutant anglo genes.

I once tried to measure a distance using feet. Sadly my feets aren't one feet long. How the fuck is this supposed to be helpful ?

Same with thumb...

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>>26975757

>>26976160
Except you cant. 0 and 100 celsius have no applicable usefulness for daily human life, 100mph is a more significant speed than 100kph, an acre is a sensible unit of land, its more useful to measure things in feet than mm for human-sized projects.

metric is arbitrary as fuck and its only strong point is conversion, none of its measurements are proportioned for the reality humans experience.

>>26976111
Australia also has 300 million less people than the US does.

>>26976413
>0 and 100 celsius have no applicable usefulness for daily human life
0 is the point water freezes and 100 is the point it boils, what's so hard about that?

>100mph is a more significant speed than 100kph
so?

>more useful to measure things in feet than mm
who says you have to use mm?

>>26976474
It's not a reason to avoid advice from them. The process is basically the same...

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Lessee, I count 2 tunas, a swordie and 3 marlins.. nice work OP

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>>26976413
>Except you cant. 0 and 100 celsius have no applicable usefulness for daily human life

Europoors do understand we're taught both right?

>>26976632
Nobody thinks in metrics though, in spite of what people on 4chan might say.

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>>26976413
>0 and 100 celsius have no applicable usefulness for daily human life,

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>>26976413
>Except you cant. 0 and 100 celsius have no applicable usefulness for daily human life,
>100mph is a more significant speed than 100kph

>>26976646
i know that, im saying we're taught both. Its not like it alien to us and we have 0 idea what it is. WE can do rough conversion and get a general grip of what 100meters are in feet and vice versa. Why do other people make such a big deal out of this?

>>26976646
those who are used to it do, just like those who are used to imperial think in imperial

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>>26976413
>and 100 celsius have no applicable usefulness for daily human life

>>26976236
Scientific community uses metric even in the USA.

Dumb rendecks refuse to use it because it is too nerdy.

Its not that we dont know it, because were taught howto use both, it just that i'd take way too much money to replace the systems
TL:DR-get over it, why are you guys so obsessed

>>26976413
This is the one, it's finally time to kill myself.

>>26976413
What the fuck are you smoking?

>>26976708
>Dumb rendecks refuse to use it because it is too nerdy.

I don't believe that. They are just used to sticks and stones system.

>>26976502
>>26976649
>>26976666
He's right though. 0C isn't particularly cold and it never even gets close to 100C as far as weather is concerned. So 100C is utterly useless and 0C is simply arbitrary.

By contrast 0F and 100F represent the approximate lower and upper limit of human tolerance. Below zero and it's starting to get dangerously cold, above a hundred and it's starting to get dangerously hot.

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>>26976510
It would be the same process, yes, but it would require a much larger campaign to convert to metric since there's a much larger population, plus Americans are notoriously stubborn. There was a big movement to switch to metric in the 80's, in fact a highway in the south part of my state is the only one in the country to use metric for distance because it was made when the conversion seemed inevitable. But it was just too hard to change all the signs and everything, plus as I said Americans are stubborn.

>>26976413
Jesus fucking christ, were you homeschooled?

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>>26975397
Physics bro here ...

1. Name a single thing its useful for.
2. Its popular in America because Americans are too stupid to understand negative numbers and numbers larger than 100, that's it.

>>26976759
> Its popular in America because Americans are too stupid to understand negative numbers and numbers larger than 100, that's it.
its time to stop posting now chang

>>26976502
>0 is the point water freezes and 100 is the point it boils, what's so hard about that?

Under a certain amount of pressure. What good is that? Its not a practical measurement system. I can guarantee you that wherever you live, water boils at a temperature other than exactly 100 C, and freezes at a temperature other than exactly 0 C

Fahrenheit is more practical for expressing human comfort.

100 Is hot
70 is room temperature
50 is brisk
30 is around where water freezes
0 is where you preserve food

Look at that nice sensible symmetry.

>>26976727
Because as the worlds economic superpower we'd appreciate you didn't shame the species.

There.

That's why we care.

>>26976744
-40 celcius and -40 ferenheit are the same temperature, how is this possible?

>>26976744
This may come as a surprise but levels of human tolerance isn't particularly central to physics, being able to say "wow it's 100 degrees out here today!" Isn't exactly a huge pro

>>26976744
0C is when water freezes and 100C, water boils you fucking mongoloid. They are not arbitrary, unlike your 'hurr humans can't handle outside 0-100" bullshit. I'll tell you what's arbitrary - 32F and 212F.

>inb4 muh circular thermometers

>>26976780
well get over i guess and stop the QQ

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>>26976744
>So 100C is utterly useless and 0C is simply arbitrary.
Yearh because when water freeze is useless and wen water boil is arbitrary

>>26976775
100 Is hot
70 is room temperature
50 is brisk
30 is around where water freezes
0 is where you preserve food


This makes no sense AT ALL.

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>>26976413
>0 and 100 celsius have no applicable usefulness for daily human life

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>>26976413
>0 and 100 celsius have no applicable usefulness for daily human life
We're not all like this you guys, I swear.

>>26976793
But that's why he specified that this is only in regard to daily human life. For science the US uses celcius, or kelvin I guess. But for atmospheric temperature we use fahrenheit because, well, it's just the better system in that regard.

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>>26976775
0 is where water freezes.
100 is where water boils.

Now lets use this system to construct an 'average' temperature scale.

0 is cold as fuck.
10 is cold as fuck.
20 is very chilly.
30 is warm.
40 is hottish.
50 is dead.

Oh, look at that, i used less numbers and the scale is more accurate.

And its understandable by children/Americans AND scientists.

>>26976802
This is not a sensible argument because apparently it makes sense to them. Just not to us because we're used to a differnt system.

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>>26976744
Please, shut the fuck up already.

>>26976825
I know amerikoon, its just the niggers right. Shusshhh there there, it will all be over soon once obama has finished flooding you with "unillegal migrants"

>>26976836
>0 is cold as fuck
Maybe for an Australian.

>>26976828
It's an incredibly minor advantage if there's even one at all, why make it more difficult for the average person to be able to relate to celsius when it's the conventional measurement?

>>26976845
0 freezing point
100 boiling point

>>26976744
>and it never even gets close to 100C as far as weather is concerned
Because that's all you need it for right? Just to measure the weather.

>>26976860
Why would we need to 'relate' to celcius? The only time you need to intuit a temperature is when you're dealing with atmospheric temperature. And like I already said, fahrenheit is the more logical system for that.

Nobody here has trouble with celcius when we need to use it. It's a very simple measurement system and very good for most things. Just not weather.

>>26976865
>0 freezing point
>100 boiling point

Bread goes in, toast comes out. Can't explain that.

>>26976828
Kelvin, basically is the same as Celsius but 0K is the absolute zero. It avoid negative numbers.

Also according to my wiki readings technically it's the Centigrad degree who is based on when water freeze and boil. Celsius is very close to it but more scientifically defined.

>>26975757
>>Get off the europe 'muh sophistication' bandwagon and realize the country that put a man on the moon may actually be doing it right.
NASA uses metric.

>>26976836
And look at how obtuse that would be for discussing the temperature of daily life. You have this tiny meaningless range of strange numbers. Whereas celsiusfags have to use odd numbers like '19' and '37' to describe their temperature, glorious imperial masterace can use sensible round numbers or, if we so desire, a perfect subset of 10ths for getting the temperature just right.

Metric is a a european invention to brainwash the world and turn everyone into inhuman unfeeling monsters who are removed from their natural perspective provided by the superior and more naturally inclined imperial system.

>>26976808
>>26976825
You discuss the weather in daily life anonymous, not whats going on in your coffee maker.

>>26976798
Those are not the temperatures water freezes and boils at though, those are the temperatures that water freezes and boils under a certain amount of pressure. That is the arbitrary part.

The arbitrary things in fahrenheit are based on things like measurements of human body temperature and SALT WATER (which is more important than regular water you filthy anti-salt codex alimentarius eurocommie). Clearly these are the things for glorious human race to base their measurements on, not arbitrary pressures.

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>>26976906
>The only time you need to intuit a temperature is when you're dealing with atmospheric temperature.

wat

>>26976951
wow

>>26976932
For things that its suited for. I guarantee if you aska nasa scientist what temperature they prefer to keep their house they will answer in fahrenheit, unless they are imported scientists from other parts of the empire.

>>26975757

Water freezes at 0 C and boils at a 100 C, way more useful in everyday life.

>>26976865
It does make more sense to us, but if you're always taught water freezes at 30°F, those numbers get different meanings, I guess.

'It makes no sense' is a subjective statement.

I don't disagree with you though, our metric system is the better system, scientifically speaking.

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>>26976958
>More concise, accurate and easily understood.
>Obtuse.

Yes, yes i see ...

>>26976951
I can't breath, please stop america

>>26976958
>And look at how obtuse that would be for discussing the temperature of daily life.
what
0 is when water freezes
100 is when water boils
>obtuse

>>26976958
Imperial is also an european invvention you mongoloid
>muh I want to use number bigger than 37 and smaller than 19
WHat a good argument. Do you know that if you need precise temperatures you can add a coma then another number ?

>>26975757
>USA: 0-60 mph
>Rest of the world: 0-100 km/h

lel

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>>26976413
>Except you cant. 0 and 100 celsius have no applicable usefulness for daily human life

>>26976413
saved. jesus christ.

>>26976836
only problem is that shit isn't accurate at all but don't worry i'll fix it for you

-40 is cold as fuck
-20 is chilly
0 is meh
10 is comfy
20 is warm
30 is hot as fuck
40 is dead

>>26977008
we use dots :)

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>>26976932
http://articles.philly.com/1999-10-01/news/25506443_1_metric-system-orbiter-loss-jpl

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>>26976958
>Metric is a a european invention to brainwash the world
As opposed to the BRITISH IMPERIAL SYSTEM invented in the glorious free republic of mcdonalds

>>26977019
I did say 'average'.

Not everyone lives in the seventh circle of hell.

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1/2

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>>26977045
2/2

>>26977000

Here is the problem. Who gives a fuck what temperature water boils at. Do you measure the temperature to make sure you just get to boiling when you boil water? No, you just throw the fucking pot on there and turn the dial up until it starts boiling. Knowing when water boils it literally one of the most useless things to possibly know.

100f and 0f make up the rough range of human comfort so we can more precisely discuss the temperature.

>>26976983
ONLY AT SEA LEVEL AND NOT EVEN AT SEA LEVEL ANYMORE BECAUSE WE HAVE LOST SOME ATMOSPHERE SINCE IT WAS STANDARDIZED

>europeans don't even understand their own units of measure

>>26976986
>water freezes at 30°F
It doesn't, it freezes around 30ish, depending on what part of the world you live in. at sea level its about 32. This is a much more commonsensical way to look at things that drilling into peoples minds 'water freezes at exactly 0C'. I wouldn't be surprised if most of people people implying implications at my claims that fahrenheit is superior dont even know that it depends on pressure at all.

This is the danger of teaching absolutes. Imperial is nice and approximation based, teaching real world knowhow

>>26977019
>-20 is chilly
>40 is dead

>>26975355

the crazy american itt is a gold mine:

>>26975757
>>26976413
>>26976744
>>26976958

>>26977066
>Americans are too dumb to be able to use negative numbers in every-day conversation
>Americans need an easy system of tens to be able to communicate how hot it is outside

>>26977008
No it isnt. American imperial is actually different from the old british imperial in a few subtle ways. Nothing very significant, but enough that i can claim it to be superior and american, because america.

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>>26977090
Never forget that Americans are mentally ill.

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Nobody posted this yet?

>>26977066
>human comfort
Do you know that human feeling and comfort zone aren't the same between two people ? While water boil and freeze at the same temperature evverywhere in the world (with, it's true, little variations regarding to pressure that can still be calculated. How do you calculate a human feel ?)

There's some 10/10 trolling going on in this thread.

Why the hell are people so defensive about their measurement systems?

>>26977095

That's not the point retard. How are you able to communicate the fine adjustments of room temperature without using pointless decimals?

>inb4 hur americans don't understand decimals

not the point dipshit

>>26977072

And how big is the difference? 1 C? 2 C? How big % of the global population lives even 100 m above sea level?

We use it for science. Do you really think changing to the metric system would be successful when there is no significant advantage in everyday life outside of dickwaving contests. Consider how you have to convert to Imperial sometimes, now imagine having to convert to metric every time you attempt to measure something so that you can get a reasonable sense of scale.

>>26977019
In reality though it's

-20 is too cold
0 is cold
10 is chilly
20 is perfect
30 is hot
40 is too hot


As opposed to a nice, logical

0 is too cold
30 is cold
50 is chilly
70 is perfect
90 is hot
100 is too hot

>>26977072
Do you know that for every scientist "sea level" is the surname of "1013 hectopascal" ?

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>>26977117
>How do you calculate a human feel ?

>>26977125
You guys measure stuff in "stones" and sticks.

Shut up.

So why haven't yuropoors changed to metric time and kelvins?

>>26977117

I'm working on how many fpm (feels per minute) I feel when no gf. The unit is coming soon.

>>26976958
>You discuss the weather in daily life anonymous, not whats going on in your coffee maker.
>talking about the weather instead of what's going on in your coffee maker
pleb

>>26977142
I was waiting for a feel.jpg.

>>26977128
what the fuck are you talking about, we just say its fucking hot outside or we state the tempature to the nearest whole number. Why the fuck would we use decimals in every day conversation?

Please stop I don't want to believe you are this gay and retarded america.

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>>26977066
>Here is the problem. Who gives a fuck what temperature water boils at.

Probably anybody who boils water.

>>26977176
>american
>boiling water

>>26977129
It doesnt matter, the point is metricfags claim their system is better, when its just another example of europeans trying to fix things that arent broken, then acting all superior over everyone who just sticks with what works perfectly fine.

It is literally the worst kind of intellectualism to simply desire to sit around all day re-classifying things so you can feel smug about it.

Call me when you get a system based on actual universal constants (and no, kelvin is not based on universal constants, its starting point is, but the width of its units are just copied from celsius, which is arbitrary), then you can claim superiority. Except its still probably going to be less convenient than fahrenheit for every day use because the people who make it will undoubtedly already be corrupted by metric and not understand the value of having sensible ranges in your units that actually have applicable parallels to actual living reality and nature and don't just try to be exact sub-divisions of one another

>>26977176

How do you not just heat the water until it boils holy shit.

>>26977168
This is why Americans can't into coffee

>>26977144

I find stones, pounds and ounces easier to visualise m8. And up until the 1970s, we had 240 pennies to each pound.

>>26977136
But they're both linear scales in an ascending order, Americans are just too dumb to be able to go below 0

>>26977128
Im gonna start using imperial system when i start to discuss slight adjustments of room temperature

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>>26977200

Because I'm a gentleman scientist who cares about the scientific process of what goes on behind his actions.

>>26977206
>I find stones, pounds and ounces easier to visualise m8
I don't understand how people don't realize this. Having to convert everything for the rest of your life from metric just so you can visualize it is stupid

>>26977176
You use a thermometer to monitor how close your water is to boiling instead of just waiting for it to...boil?

>>26975406
The reason that it bothers people is probably because American media and entertainment use them. American media and entertainment is used by everyone and it is sort of annoying to have to learn it to understand what people mean on the TV.

In the end you have no obligation to make things easier for the rest of us but many people would appreciate it if you would.

>>26977223
Ebin scientific arguments, I tip my fedora to you good sir

>>26977236
>who cares about when water freezes also
amirite? you just go outside with your dick hanging out and wait until it falls off

I hope someone is archiving this shit. I'm taking screenshots

>>26977262
yes, I actually have a retarded american folder that I flip through when I need to feel better about myself.

>>26977262
>dicks falling off at 0C
As a Canadian I hope you're ashamed of yourself. 0C isn't even cold.

>>26977141
>not 1000
gg metric you dun goofed at your own game.

Also
i find it hilarious that you godless european heathens are using a pressure measure invented by a guy who says your all being illogical as fuck for not believing in god.

>>26977256
What's with americans and fedora mees mees?

>>26977199

But the main reason why the entire world has switched to the metric system is because it uses 10 as base.

>>26976976
>other parts of the empire.

>>26977262
I can usually tell when water freezes because it turns into ice or snow. I don't need to stick a thermometer in it and say "Yep there we go 0C on the dot this is a pile of snow right here".

If i'm driving and i see -1 on the thermometer i know that it's freezing and i have to be careful.
The 0 point in Celsius is based as fuck

>>26977284
Atleast we know what the freezing point of water is.

There is no way you can defend your gay measurement, it's retarded and gay, it belongs in a garbage can.

>>26977262

>check news
>below 32
>might be ice on the roads

Oh god how will america survive the shitty imperial system.

If the imperial system is so shit why is america the greatest country on the planet?

>>26976958
>Whereas celsiusfags have to use odd numbers like '19' and '37' to describe their temperature

So the entire reason why your system is fucked up is you can't count for shit

Keep posting, I'm having a time of my life here

>>26977199
>worst kind of intellectualism
holy lol m8

>>26977293
That's why you are mongoloid. We have set a logical unit, the pascal, then MEASURED the pressure at sea level. Whatever if it's 1013, 1000, or 850. It's a MEASURE.
FarenHeit is an unlogical unit based on human feeling (which are, as I said before, unprecise)

>>26977315
We know what the freezing point of water is too though. 0C or 32F. Not that hard. And you don't need the exact numerical value of the freezing point of water for everyday life. And when we do need the exact numerical value of the freezing point of water, we use celcius. Our system is literally the most optimal system on the planet.

>>26977323
It isn't the greatest country on the planet. It's a huge corporate conglomeration of brown people who convince themselves they a free. Meanwhile exploiting the rest of the world at gun point.

>>26977323
>Oh god how will america survive the shitty imperial system

a lot of you don't, remember Atlanta? maybe if you used metric that shit wouldn't have happened

>>26976413
>americans

>>26977295
What's with non-americans and pointless arguments about measurement systems?

>>26977323
>>26977311
>oh look, it's americans posting
>prtsc

>>26977355

At least we are relevant unlike the country above us.

>>26977354
I'm not even reading your shit anymore, you are drunk.

>>26977296
So you are saying, with all the people in this thread insulting imperial for being too stupid to comprehend negative numbers.. you are saying the reason everyone uses metric is that its easier to use if you count on your fingers?

>>26976958
>Whereas celsiusfags have to use odd numbers like '19' and '37' to describe their temperature, glorious imperial masterace can use sensible round numbers or, if we so desire, a perfect subset of 10ths for getting the temperature just right.

Except you need to use 32F to describe the temperature at which water freezes, whereas us metric-using master race can say 0C.

Checkmate.

>>26977390

>autistic enough to screencap threads that happen on /int/ literally every day.

Whats the point of saving a 4chan argument featuring americans, such a rare sight.

>>26977385
>pointless arguments
We're not arguing, we're laughing at that crazy american's posts.

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>>26977115

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>>26977412
am i also a neckbeard?

>>26977451
YES.

>>26977411
but i dont, because water doesnt even freeze at 32F, only around 32F. Water freezes at the temperature it freezes at.

This is largly irrelevant to humans because not only are humans warm blooded and don't give a fuck if its freezing, but water in the real world is not pure h2o and thus will have different freezing points than pure water anyway.

To us the temperature that water freezes at it just one more thing in nature, nothing particularly important, maybe something worth knowing about some time.

>>26977451

No

>>26977414
Fair enough, he's retarded. Fact of the matter is that the benefits of switching would be miniscule in day to day life, but it would be a massive pain to switch considering that most Americans think in Imperial and convert to Metric

>>26977451
sometimes it's like watching monkeys at the zoo, then I realize they might actually be in charge and I get scared and frightened.

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>>26977433

>>26977433
Did someone who made this know that jewish lantern thing have 7 candles?

I just realized something : if we can easily learn any measurement system when we are young (Americans don't have more or less problem withs estimating distance, understanding how cold it is outside than any other people on this planet), it means that the only difference between metric and imperial system is how we convert units and scale with them. Therefore wouldn't be more intelligent to pick the easiest one ?

>>26977019
This

>>26977401
You're just butthurt because you've never made any effort to understand fahrenheit, writing it off as "retarded american shit". And now that you're realizing how useful it really is you're getting all mad for whatever reason. I don't know why you can't just accept that both systems have their own strengths. Americans do, that's why we use both. But if you want to be ignorant and dismissive that's fine.

Countries that use Metric: Everywhere except America
Countries that have put a man on the moon: America
>b-b-but le murrilards are stupid!
>b-b-b-but muh measuring system!
>i-i-t's not like i'm an autist or anything!

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>>26977354
>And when we do need the exact numerical value of the freezing point of water, we use celcius.
>we use celcius
>Our system is literally the most optimal system on the planet.

>Imperial
>g = 32ft/s^2
>Metric
>g = 10m/s^2

Metric 1 : 0 Imperial

>>26977403

I can convert 123157234 metres to kilometres easily in my head (actually, I don't have to calculate at all), you can't convert 123157234 yards to miles without using a calculator. That's the main reason. Celsius is a bit special since it's actually based on science.

>>26977517
>And now that you're realizing how useful it really is you're getting all mad for whatever reason.

I swear to god the only time I use imperial is when I'm talking to an american or crafting something out of wood. Even when I make stuff I will usually use metric because imperial is chinese to me. Sorry.

>>26975757
Do you really not understand that we can say 1/3 of a meter?

Celsius is more effective in arctic climate because it is much more important to know if temperature is around 0°C than 0°F. Do you know why? Because roads are the most slippery around 0°C when the ice melts and reforms regularly. 0°F fills no purpose other than saying that it is cold which everyone allrwady knows at that point.

100MPH is faster than allmost all countries allow you to drive. What you should consider is that 70MPH is as strange to have as a maximum speed limit as 110KPH.

I guess you should start using metric for agriculture as square kilometer is probably a more accurate messurement for how much land is needed to sustain four people than an acre is. This is more true for the US than for most countries.

Everyone changed from imperial because it is stupid, more so when you realise that a foot was not equally long in either Sweden, France or the US. When people say that Napoleon was short for example they assume that his measurements were made in American feet and not French feet which is an honest misstake but still retarded.

>>26977506
>Therefore wouldn't be more intelligent to pick the easiest one
For day to day life, yes. And neither measurement system is more difficult than the other, so it's mainly cultural factors (what you grew up using)

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>>26977519

>yfw even NASA uses metric

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>>26977458
>humans don't give a fuck if it's freezing

>>26977550
g=9,80665 m·s-2 but yearh, you can approximate to 10.

>>26977567
>yfw metric literally doesn't matter outside of science

>>26977506
The width of a degree of F is about twice as fine as the width of a degree of C. Therefore F is superior. If we were really smart would would invent a system hundreds of times more fine so people could become hyper-sensitive temperature detectors

>metricfags will always be twice as shitty at temperature estimation than masterace

And yes it does work like that, you learn to think in F you can feel the difference of 1 degree of F air temperature, you learn to think in C however and.. well.. who knows

>>26977519
How is this related to anything, you fuckface?

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>>26977433

>>26977592
It's as reasonable an argument as "Murrifats are too stupid to learn Metric even though Metric is part of required curriculum"

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i love 4chan

This never gets old.

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>>26977572
White people don't give a fuck

It was implied

>>26977556
I was just talking about fahrenheit, not inches or whatever. Imperial units of length don't have any real advantages over metric units. Human height maybe, but even then not really.

This thread made me sick of american. Why don't we build a giant wall around their shitty country and never heard of them again ? They will be happy, no more terrorism in their shitlands...

>>26977554
There would be no reason to ever convert yards to miles. nobody does that, if we need less than a mile we use tenths of a mile, though we rarely do because anything closer than half a mile is within pointing distance

Feet and yards and inches and such are for building things like houses or boats. Distance is measured in miles and only miles.

>>26977600
"I have never been to America"

>>26977624
I thought fahrenheit was imperial, your shits fucking retarded. Stop filling my head with nigger dicks.

>>26977519
>>26977567
>>26977586
>Countries that use Metric: Everywhere except America
>Countries that have put a man on the moon: America
>The NASA uses metric
>n-nobody cares about science!

>>26977519
A lot more countries were using imperial back then what's your point?

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>>26977567
>yfw nasa exploded probe because muriclap engineers forgot this

>>26977629
When will France just conquer your shitty city state and put you out of your misery?

>>26977647
the ride never ends

>>26977519
Country that used metric and sent the first man to space, world's first satellite: USSR
Step it up, America-san.

>>26977656
but it was a contractor, not a NASA employee

>>26977658
As soon as possible. But that's not the point.

>>26977654
see >>26977613

>>26977458
>water freezing is irrelevant for humans

You spent too much time in the sun, haven't you ?

>>26976413
Please tell me someone got a screenshot of this.

>>26977647
I don't really care if fahrenheit is considered imperial or not, I'm only arguing in favor of fahrenheit anyways. And I'm only arguing in favor of fahrenheit in certain contexts. I don't give a shit about inches and miles or whatever the fuck, they have no significant advantages over metric units.

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>>26975542

>Implying people that use metric don't use things like 'one cup' or 'two spoons of the X variety' when they're cooking as well

Comrade, pls.

METRIC SYSTEM IS THE TRIUMPH OF REASON. METRIC SYSTEM IS WHY MENS ARE FREE.

>>26977679
see >>26976951

>>26977702
fuck off baguette

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>>26977656
they were measuring their trip to Jesus who lives on Mars with elbows and thumbs

>>26977591
We most often use one decimal in Sweden.
>5 times better

>>26977714
I'm gonna fuckin die from laughing so hard

>>26977668
>first man in space
That really depends on how loose your definition of space is. He did not escape all of the atmosphere.

So if you want to talk about first country to make people fly in the atmosphere.... IT would be france, for constructing the first hot air balloon.

However the first people to powered flight and not just drift around aimlessly was us.

>>26977630

12,73 inches to feet then, doesn't matter, metric will always be easier to use when converting.

Why do Yuropoors have to hate the winning player? There's enough pounds of food food for everyone

>>26977629
Why does the rest of the world get so butthurt when we redpill them on fahrenheit? Is your sense of superiority over the US in terms of measurement system really that important to you? It's actually incredible that you all are so uninformed in regards to fahrenheit anyways. 'Ignorant amerilards' are familiar with both systems and recognize that both have their own strengths, but the 'cultured, intelligent rest of civilized world' just shuts their eyes, covers their ears and screams "LALALALALAL YOU STINK WE'RE BETTER THAN YOUUUU".

>>26977729
Very good, but you are of the north and have moved out of history and into legend.

>>26977733
>W-We win the race guys right ?
>We were the first on moon, re-remember ?

Guys guys guys screw the metric system it's time to use NATURAL units!
Fundamental unit of velocity: c (speed of light)
Length: sqrt((h-bar the reduced planck constant)*G/c^3)
Mass: sqrt((h-bar)*c/G)
Time: sqrt((h-bar)*G/c^5)
Temperature: sqrt((h-bar)*c^5/(G*boltzmann constant))
Electric charge: elementary charge/sqrt(fine structure constant)

Best units.

This shit hurts my brain because I just woke up, fuck you

>>26977769
>using american technology

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>>26977768
>winning player

>>26977795
Says the country literally named "bottomlands"

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>>26976413

Are you re-writing pasta, or are you just literally in every thread where this comes up to troll everyone with your retarded analogies and 'reasons' why Imperial is supposedly better than metric?

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>>26977768
>pounds
how many pounds to a stone?

>>26977683
>Teaspoon is 5ml
>Tablespoon is 15ml
That is all we use

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>>26977733
I love how you completely ignore the fact of the very first satellite was made by the USSR, and the first unmanned programs of observing mars was also done by the USSR. Which resulted in your own country to start researching mars too.

>>26977787
>All the stupid people die because they have no idea what they're doing
Yes

>>26977826
two sticks

Yuropoors have 15 seconds to explain how the area between 0 and 100 C is scientific. Your high and low range for temperatures are rooted in science, but the incremental changes are just as arbitrary as Fahrenheit

>>26977840
>All the non-Jew non-Asian Americans die.
Yes.

>>26977826
around 14 i think

>>26977861
>all of britains vassal states die
Fine with me

>>26977748
Base 12 is superior to base

12 inches is a food, 6 feet is a fathom (bet you didn't know that)

Its almost like we are using a system that is reminesent to the UNITS OF TIME WE USE TO MEASURE TIME WHICH YOU METRIFAGTS STILL USE BECAUSE TIME IS SOMETHING COMPLEX AND SUBLIME AND EPHEMERAL. I bet you want to use milidays or something but cant because time is so important to daily human activity that you are forced to use something sensible based on human experience rather than soulless divisions of 100

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>>26977861
>America is kill
Best day of my life

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>>26977868
>>26977846
>this thread

>>26977906
enjoy being overridden by china ASEAN faggot

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>>26977890
>mfw American still use AM/PM

>>26977965
>1000 kiloseconds until food stamp time my white brother

>>26977849
>our high and low range for temperatures are rooted in science, but the incremental changes are just as arbitrary as Fahrenheit
It is based on Kelvin, the incremental change is not arbitrary.
1K=1°C
0°C=273,15K
100°C=373,15K
Kelvin is an absolute mesure based on the three law of thermodynamics.
It's because of Kelvin if water don't boil at 100°C (99,983) at normal atmosphere anymore.

>>26978008
Kelvin's incremental changes are just as arbitrary, the only difference is the concept of absolute zero

>>26977837

Yeah, those are the official standing measurements, but when people say 'one cup of flour and 1 teaspoon of salt' in the Netherlands, they usually literally mean 1 cup like in pic related full of flour, and one of those spoons with salt (flat, not a big pile on it)

>>26975355
http://4archive.org/int/thread/26975355

>>26977733

>Americans still raised to believe they 'won' the spacerace

Jesus Christ.. I bet you think you won it because you used Imperial units, right?

>>26977890
If it is so good then why don't you count in base twelve. Why don't you understand decimals just as easily as brackets and why DID the Kardashians get their own TV show?

>>26977235
>>26977206
>>26977144
Anyone born after 1992 uses metric.
I literally have no idea what a pound is.

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>>26977965
>mfw my own country still uses am/pm

>>26978001
Are there even any non-whites in Czechia?

>>26978077
We did win. Has European brainwashing taught you that America didn't land on the moon?

>>26978078
Because our education system sucks

>>26978108
>slav
>white
lol

>>26978117
You lost the race and then moved the goal, win it and claim to win the whole race. Typical anglo argumentation.

>>26977861
Oh, they die too. Though they cheated on their tests, they were never smart. Only autistic whites remain.

Ten years down the road the US changes its name to brittania in honor of the new ruling chancelor's waifu's homeland. Within a century, it has annexed much of north america, made starcraft 2 its national sport, anthrocon a holiday, deprecated most "pleb" jobs with robots, made free hot pockets and cheetos part of every welfare check, executed every microsoft and apple employee with replica katanas, legalized loli, and dumped the entire defense budget on scientists researching real life catgirls and furries. Within 200 those scientists have met with success and the brittanians become their own species, with furry men and anime catgirl women, all with amazing strength and intelligence. Despite all this, they still prefer their anime waifus and husbandos.

Their military, armed with laser katanas and phasers set to kill, dominates the world, destroying every "normalshit" that stands in their way with utmost prejudice. The human era comes to close, and the autists expand their ruthless, psychopathic and degenerate empire into space. What few intelligent races they encounter, they either enslave for carnal purposes or exterminate, for each and every one is still chained by social skills and empathy, until they finally meet themselves from the future. The two clash in a violent orgy of war and mutual masturbation, and all life is annihilated from the universe.

The last human alive, kept in a dreaming stasis for posterity, wakes up and sees the dying hours of sentience. His last words before having his face blown off and his anus ravaged by unrealistically large dog penis?

>Imperial master race

>>26978117

>Land on the Moon
>The qualification for winning the Space Race

Yeah, no. The US just made up that catagory after they'd been beating at the main event for men, women AND animals...

>>26978154
>>26978168
>surpassed the goal
>y-y-you still didn't win! f-fuck america

>>26978183
>Implying the USSR didn't colonize Mars in the 2nd millennium BC
Do you even know why it's called the "Red" planet?

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>>26978183

>>26978039
Fahrenheit's change is arbitrary too.
Any scaling system will be arbitrary.

>>26978183
>C-Competing with nobody
>Y-Yes ! I'm a winner !

>>26978168
The space race never ended. America was simply behind at one point and ahead at another.

Now that society is slightly less primitive, the space race is the multinational space effort.

>>26978183
Equipment on the Eagle module used measures of 10ths of a feet per second
>ABSOLUTELY NEUROTYPICAL

>>26975504
Here you use imperial for basically two things. Height, and dick length.

>>26978219
remember these are american history classes

>>26978139
>Mexican-Irish-Polish-Italian mutt
>white

>>26978230
Exactly. There is no truly ideal measurement system

>>26978275
>irish/scottish/english/asian mutt
>white

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>>26978275
The statistical likelihood of an american being white depends on where they live.

>mfw American near me claims imperial system is better because he uses his 2.54 cm dick as a measurement pole

>>26978251
it's really mixed here and varies from person to person. i was raised with both and work on a farm where you need to use both daily

>>26978001
>If only we had a million more to give us the superior bone size of the American masterrace.

>>26978322
>mfw finn near me claims metric system is better because he uses his frozen testicles as a measurement milestone

>>26978335
You take superior African bones everyday Sweden

>>26978351

Cold makes balls produce more testosterone. You'd know if the rabbi didn't accidently cut out the whole thing.

>>26975397
I don't get this bullshit.

How is saying "it's 70 degrees" outside better than "it's 23 degrees"? Or "five feet eleven inches" better than "one meter eighty"?

It's just a matter of habit, imperial isn't better in any way than metric for every day stuff, it's just because you're used to it.

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>>26978319
>almost no Dutch

nice

>>26977849
You take the difference in temperature and divide by 100. Not that hard.

>>26978385
I guess that's what gives Tyrone and Ahmed their vigor

>>26978413

And you seem to have peculiarly good first-ass experience about their vigor.

>>26978473
It isn't cold where I live :)

>>26978039
No because with endless constants it becomes usefull.
>Kelvin is not masterrace.

>>26978120
Swedish education is amog the worst in the world.
>American in charge of not gettin' beaten thd fuck out.

>>26978504

It's nice you live in a place fit for your heritage, Jose.

I can get over Americans using the imperial system. It's fine, it's just like a language, some seem more logical but in the end what's logical is what you're used to.

But fuck you guys for making a billion 1,000,000,000. Did you guys just skip the milliard altogether because you wanted to be able to say you have billionaires? Did someone get it wrong and was in denial so much that it became the standard?

>>26978230
>take a scale
>0 is absolute 0
>1 is the hottest it can ever get
>all measurements are done in fractions

There, i innovated for you.

>>26977890
>he doesn't measure time in seconds since 00:00:00 UTC Thursday, 1 January 1970

>>26978587
>It's nice you live in a place fit for your heritage, Jose.
You mean a climate similar to Western Europe?

>>26978381
Touché

>>26978615
This

>>26978644

Spain is Southern Europe and Western Europe has cold periods in a year, Pablo.

>>26978615
the milli-what now?

>>26978686
>Western Europe has cold periods in a year
In the Northern Hemisphere it's supposed to be warm brother

>>26978627
There is no limit for that amerilard (discounting possible universal limits for energy storage per unit volume which you needn't worry about because it's probably VERY higb, in excess of trillions of kelvins)

>>26978724
Milliard. Correct word for 1.000.000.000

1 million = 1.000.000
1 milliard = 1.000.000.000
1 billion = 1.000.000.000.000 (= 1 million ^ 2 ; a "bi-million")
1 billiard = 1.000.000.000.000.000
etc

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>>26978049
>they usually literally mean 1 cup like in pic related full of flour

Don't you use pic related?


One teaspoon is hardly the capacity of one of my real spoons

>>26977072
and you don't think fahrenheit differs either at different altitudes?

>>26978886
fahrenheit isnt defined by water boiling tough, that's his point.

>>26978812
>excuses
That is the only objectively superior temperature scale.

>>26979048
Yeah, based on physical limits that we don't know and which would involve things like 10^(-24) temperature units. What you're looking for is planck temperatures which is defined as

sqrt((h-bar)*c^5/(G*boltzmann constant))

Which you are probably too stupid to understand or use anyway.