Nations Who Have Not Adopted the Metric System (Pic)

[The Lorax]

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[Gerioke]

Give them a centimeter and they'll take a mile.

[Matthitjah]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...tric_system.png

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[The Lorax]

I dunno; just think it's funny. The metric system is way more practical yet we stick to standard through and through. Why?

[Matthitjah]

OH' It's George Bushes fault. Probably a Neo-Con thing.

[The Lorax]

Who are you impersonating? I don't get it.

[JustinM]

Americans have always been nonconformists. Look at the American Revolution. We did not want to conform to British rule and regulation, so we decided to do it our own way and became the most powerful, wealthiest and most influential nation the world has ever seen. Why should we start conforming to the world now? IMHO, the world should be more like America, not the other way around.

[nebula]

I dunno; just think it's funny. The metric system is way more practical yet we stick to standard through and through. Why?

For one, it would cost mega $$$ to change signs, measuring instruments, tools, etc. Can you imagine all the new highway signs alone that would need to be made and installed on top of removing the old ones?

For another, too many people don't like change. The majority of Americans are not scientists and engineers and thus have no need for a change.

[JustinM]

Plus, we are flat out rebellious and very resistant to change. Americans are world known for the independence and uniqueness, why would we try to become like everyone else, when we are much better off than everyone else.

B-T-W, most American made vehicles use Metric standard measurements for their nuts and bolts. So, it's a slow process of integration and assimilation,, but it's well under way.

[The Lorax]

The English system of measurement works just fine. We have become the most powerful nation on Earth using the English system. If it AINT broke, DONT fix it.

It AIN'T broke, it just ain't EFFICIENT.

12 inches = foot? 5280 feet = mile? It's all so arbitrary and stupid compared to a decimel system.

For one, it would cost mega $$$ to change signs, measuring instruments, tools, etc. Can you imagine all the new highway signs alone that would need to be made and installed on top of removing the old ones?

Do you remember when the multi-billion dollar Mars mission failed because of the dual use of standard and metric units? Wouldn't have happened if the US had gone metric. And you don't have to be an engineer to be inconvenienced by the stupidity of standard. In high school we ran on a 1/4 mile track yet the events were metric, with most distance events being multiples of 400m, which is just slightly longer than a lap. The difference would pile up over long races and make hard to take splits and stagger the legs in relays. It was really annoying.

Surely you don't have to be a scientist to see the importance of an international standard measurement.