I would like for you to point out how in anyway is the metric system better? It's no more accurate........not that it is worse or anything but what would we have to gain by using the metric system?

 

it's a lot easier to remember[8D] and easier to calculate in paper calculations because it's based on factors of 10. Also, when i'm in the lab, the're is a little ruler in our microscope lense that we used to calculate things like bacteria sizes, anyways it would be a PITA to calculate it in the U.S system[&:].... for exampel, I would hate to have to write 0.000157480314.......inches, just to describe something that it is 4 microns.Although, I find it easier to picture things in the U.S system only because it is the system I learned first.

 

100000 centimeters is1000 meters which is 1 kilometer vsa12 inchesis 1 foot 3 feet is 1 yard 1760 yards is one mile. which one is easier to you moving a decimal or multiplying all those numbers?

 

Well there are things called calculators and we have had this system far longer than they have had theirs. Dont matter in the end though because a measurement is just a number and if your in a feild/situation that requires you to calculate on this scale then you should allready know it. Numbers are easy to deal with.

 

Wasn't the metric scale established way before the U.S was even a country? Anyways, yeah your are right number are numbers but it's a lot nicer to be able to calculate things more quickly and make more accurated estimation mentally withought havingto enter everything into a calculator but I guess it really only implies to us science geeks[&:]lol.

 

it's called the imperial system of measurement, and it's been around since 1824. The International System of Units has been around since the 1960's (note: the metric system was used before that, but there was no internationally recognized system (ie, SI units) until the 60's). And yes, I just researched those dates on good old wikipedia

 

I would prefer mph but frankly it's a waste of money. I'm in college now an for every science class you spend 2-3 weeks converting from one system to another. It's a lot of money if you consider millions of students and high tuition.
Oh and also from wiki:
"In 1983 a Boeing 767 jet ran out of fuel in midflight because of two mistakes in figuring the fuel supply of the airline's first aircraft to use metric measurements."
"In 1999 NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because one engineering team used metric units while another used Imperial units for a calculation."
"The metric system, and metre was first fully described by Englishman John Wilkins in 1668 in a treatise presented to the Royal Society some 120 years before the French adopted the system. It is believed that the system was transmitted to France from England via the likes of Benjamin Franklin (who spent a great deal of time in London), and produced the by-product of the decimalised paper currency system, before finding favour with American revolutionary ally Louis XV"

 

that is effin hot in that civic, color should have been diff. though