Why don't Americans use the metric system
>>59257607
>colonize country
>standardize your retarded measurements
>fuck off
>come back two centuries later
>laugh at country for retarded measurements
thanks nigel
>>59257794
you know you could change it at any time
>>59257607
because they're literally retarded
this quite simple fact is indeed rather helpful if taken to heart and remembered on a daily basis
>>59258242
their*
>>59257993
and you could change your cuckstamp at any time
>>59258267
>>59257607
>using commie units
Commie Euroscum can get fucked
>>59258271
but wait we're talking about measurement systems which are important to daily function
>>59258422
are you suggesting that americans cant measure things because 12 is too hard
>>59258242
*there
>>59257607
Because they use the Freedom system.
>>59258838
>freedom system
>is LITERALLY CALLED IMPERIAL
>also was a bongolian measurement system
doesn't look so free to me
>>59258267
>>59258830
because we're autistic. For example our unit on food labels is the kilocalorie but we cannot put kcal on food because it confuses us so we just call them Calories or big Calories instead of calories.
hmm... really makes you think
>>59258723
>>59258267
The metric system is how we buy our soda and drugs, the two most important things to us. We know the metric system we just prefer miles and pounds and feet
>>59259080
Aah, yes, the ultimate argument jolly jocker,
>>59259085
Man, i'm so fucking glad i wasn't born in that land of savages
>>59259080
What a horrible shop of school shootings per capita map.
>>59259080
>Muh moon
>>59259085
Why do you need to directly relate any of those quantities? How often in your daily life do you think
>Gee willikers, I'd be completely lost if one milliliter of water didn't fill one cubic centimeter.
>>59259349
>no Poortugal edit as well
It's a shit edit then
>>59259085
you do realize we use metric in math, right?
>>59259080
This, seriously. If we're retarded, why are we the only ones capable of traversing the surface of another celestial body?
I seriously think it's just that cost too much dollars, and Amurricans don't want to spend money. Even if it's more accurate or scientific.
>>59259327
AAHAHAHAHA
>>59259539
Because after WW2 there was a grab-all-you-can of german scientists that the Russkies and the Americans played.
>>59259539
>http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
>(CNN) -- NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the agency's team used the more conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operation, according to a review finding released Thursday.
We use metric for mathematics and science
>>59259539
>we're
as in multinational collective of scientists?
>>59259085
Calorie is non metric.
>>59257607
Alabama tried and they were literally too stupid. If fucking Africans can manage this shit Americans should be able
>>59259737
>>59259539
Forgot to add: It causes too much confusion for it to be worth it
I use metric for everything except speed and distance.
Blame the road signs for preventing me from fully switching.
>>59259400
You forgot about
>first shuttle program
>first man-made object to leave the solar system
>first Rover on Mars
>first reusable rocket
Plus many others. The moon landing wasn't the end goal of the space race. It was merely the point it stopped being a race at all. Every single achievement in space since then has been achieved by Americans, or at least an international body led by Americans.
>>59259873
cuck
>>59259665
this
we'd be wasting money on muh 10 when we've been doing fine with our current system for almost 250 years
>>59259665
>Even if it's more accurate
>one arbitrary system of measurement being more accurate than the other
AHAHAHAAHAHAAHAH
>>59259817
>Calorie is non metric.
>The small calorie or gram calorie (symbol: cal) is the approximate amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius at a pressure of one atmosphere.[1]
>The large calorie or kilogram calorie (symbol: Cal), also known as the food calorie and similar names,[2] is defined in terms of the kilogram rather than the gram. It is equal to 1000 small calories, 1 kilocalorie (symbol: kcal).[1]
>>59259539
why do you still use old russian rockets then?
>>59259251
>The metric system is how we buy our soda
liar. I'm in America now and it's all fluid ounces and other such gay measurements
>>59259917
dude we literally all do this
english is for three things: guesses, baking, and artisanry
literally everything else is metric
>>59257607
Ronald Reagan thought it was communism.
>>59259769
Yes, living in America, working for our government while you sit in front of your TV and watch as we kick ass. You're welcome.
>>59259738
My physics book had "SI-edition" in giant letters written on it
Does that imply that there are non SI-editions too?
pic somewhat related
>>59259984
If they're both arbitrary, why use the illogical one?
>>59257607
because theyre dumb
>>59260061
Look at the label more closely it lists both.
>>59260061
Ever heard of a 2 liter?
>>59259917
I fell in love with metric during my stay at maple land.
>>59260240
american textbooks say the same thing
so not only is there a non-si version but it isn't used in the least-si country in the world
>>59258267
kek
>>59259993
He's right though. The correct term is J/(kg.K)
>>59259878
>first reusable rocket
Elon Musk is now american? He was not even born in USA...
>>59259817
>>59259993
It's metric, but not part of SI. Joule is.
>>59260520
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>>59259984
>one arbitrary system of measurement being more accurate than the other
>Using an arbitrary system where you only need to multiply by 10 to get conversions because everything is neatly correlated
vs
>Using an arbitrary system with 0 fucking consistency where to convert from inches to feet you have to multiply by potato and divide by french fries by the factor of a third of a half eaten burger.
>>59260153
NASA is kind of dead, I follow CERN more closely. Though that also probably counts as an achievement by USA because there's a few US scientists there :^)
>>59260035
They're cost effective. We spend too much money providing for Europe's defense at the moment to worry about building new rockets when the Russians collapsed before they could use theirs.
Besides, SpaceX just successfully tested a new rocket that can be reused.
http://www.space.com/32527-spacex-rocket-landing-sea-amazing-videos.html
Brits don't use it as well, in real life
>>59260271
>>59260568
plebs don't deserve to have it easy
metric is a wheelchair ramp
>>59260533
Yes that's what I meant. My bad.
>>59260554
>fleet of dangerous, unstable vessels
>two exploded
>M-MUH REUSABILITY
>>59260568
Ease of conversion doesn't make one system more ACCURATE than the other. It simply means metric is easier to deal with (aka for retards who can't do math)
>>59260568
Imperial is great for manlet threads because people under 6' are super insecure about it.
>>59260554
Shuttle's rockets are not reusable.
Get your shit together, you're not really dispelling dumb American stereotypes.
>>59260554
Space shuttle isn't a rocket though
>>59260520
>SpaceX team consists almost entirely of American engineers
>It's not an American accomplishment
Elon Musk naturalized, he's as American as it gets
>>59260624
>Brits don't use it as well, in real life
Yes we do, bottom right corner of the pic for proof.
>>59257607
>someone actually saved my shitty super saiyan frog edit
Thanks, anonymous
>>59257607
Says the one whose country measures weight in stones
>>59260774
>implying metric isn't more accurate
>>59260655
>>59260774
>Let's make everything needlessly complicated because that's the way of muh freedumb!
>What is occam's razor
Man, give me a break
>>59260850
>>59260792
>Shuttle's rockets are not reusable.
What the fuck are you talking about? Both the SRBs and the Shuttle itself were reusable. Do you think the fuel tank was a rocket.
You guys do realize we use both measurementa? Like literally on a day to day basis? I was taught both since elementary.
>>59260774
> metric is easier to deal with (aka for retards who can't do math)
Makes one wonder even more why you haven't adopted it yet.
>>59260774
Clearly, you don't understand metric system. The only reason why the US aren't counting in metters know is,
1. It cost to much money
2. It's difficult for the population to adapt.
>>59260520
Neither was Wernher von Braun
>>59260915
i think you need to look up the definition of accurate
>>59260970
>What is occam's razor
This is not a situation in which Occam's Razor applies
>>59260575
You're right, NASA has been pretty dead, except for the fact that we have proven the existence of running water on Mars about a year ago. That rover is still up there, operational, 12 years after its deployment. But yeah, NASA's dead.
>>59260819
>almost entirely of American engineers
Did you see the pictures of their engineers? Most of them are Asians.
>Elon Musk naturalized, he's as American as it gets
So do the Mexicans jumping the fence.
>>59260792
What the fuck is this then?
>>59260970
>Man, give me a break
>he's on a shitpost siesta fest
>>59261105
>not understanding what naturalization is
Fuck you're stupid
>>59261105
>asians arent american because race is the same as nationality
>naturalization is the same as illegal immigration, not the literal opposite
>>59261033
He was a prisoner. You can take credits for slave work...
>>59261000
hey man what the fuck
delete this
Well, then why Americans scientists actually count and work with metric system? Why your scientists don't use the American system?
>>59261076
>not a situation in which Occam's Razor applies
> entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity)
>Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora (It is futile to do with more things that which can be done with fewer")
So how long was the foreskin the rabbi removed from your dick at birth, lil' John?
>40 mm, 4cm, 0,04 m
vs
>1,5748 in, 0,131234 ft, 0,04374466666667 yards
>>59261105
Naturalized citizen in 1955.
>>59261087
Curiosity, another multinational achievement. Fun fact: Finland provided a weather sensor for it.
>>59261263
So they can collaborate with international fucktards who lack the mental capacity to divide by 12 instead of 10
>>59258242
thy'rt
>>59261263
it's the global standard. how are you supposed to work with foreigners if you dont use their system?
>>59261263
Because it is easier to get accurate measures in base 10 vs the other. And by the way, it is the imperial system, which is ironically a British system. Maybe we should bring back the Rankin.
>>59261378
ooh boy a weather sensor on a desert planet surrounded by photo satellites wow gee finland thanks for the help
>>59261378
So your last contribution was over a decade ago? Stop attaching yourself to our genius and kindly fuck off.
>>59261375
Sorry m8, i don't believe in this thing about "naturalization". You are American, if you where born in America...
>>59261336
>Occam's razor (also written as Ockham's razor, and lex parsimoniae in Latin, which means law of parsimony) is a problem-solving principle attributed to William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347), who was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher and theologian. The principle can be interpreted as stating "Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected."
You are not presenting a hypotheses and you are not making any assumptions. You're asserting that one system of measurement is better than another. Occam's Razor doesn't apply here
>>59261263
It's hard to teach people to think using another metric so we use Imperial in everyday life because we can visualize it. We use metric for actual work though
>>59261580
>>59261603
cool your jets losers
>>59261608
this is our language
stop telling us how to speak it
>>59261519
>claim independence
>still using British systems of measurement
kek
>>59261418
Yeah, these fucktards. Serously, 'Muricans are great in sciences... Just adapt your system to the world (for one time... You must adapt. One time.) Because it's smarter? Yeah but just, continue to be high in science.
Why isn't Europe making man rated rockets? France is full of it enough to want to do everything else themselves, why not put a man in space? It would be nice to have another way to get up there.
>>59261634
You merely adopted ENGLISH. By force, BTW.
>>59261657
>claim independence
>ask god to save someone else's queen
wew
>tfw seeing the limitless supply of American butthurt when imperial vs. metric is mentioned
kek, just what i needed on a bad day
>>59261580
>>59261603
>being this buttblasted
>>59261634
It's English language though, not yours.
>>59261634
DELETE THIS
>>59261634
>our language
last I checked English originated in British Isles and Spanish in Iberian Peninsula
>>59257607
Why don't Anglos use left-hand drive (they are retarded).
>>59261675
NO! Unlike the French, we find submission undesirable.
>>59261734
>someone else's queen
>American education
wew
>>59257607
We still use imperial for lots of things m8. Pretty much nobody over the age of 40 uses metric day to day
>>59261617
You could have scrolled a bit more down in wikipedia, you know.
>>59261717
Você simplesmente adotada PORTUGUÊS . Pela força, pela maneira.
>>59261817
>Spanish
This is the legendary Finnish bant machine I heard legends of. I just wish Finland was relevant so I could make fun of you in a way everyone will actually understand.
>>59262043
>hurt of the butt
>>59261817
dude your language is from mongolia
>>59262043
>>59262156
>american """"banter""""
>>59261978
>literally doesn't say anything about this applying to anything other than situations in which multiple hypotheses can be presented
Good job, you sure showed me
>>59260240
American Engineer here who can answer your question. There's a few imperial units used in some branches of engineering (particularly mechanical engineering) that engineers in the US have to be aware of even if they're not used so much anymore. Stuff like slugs, rankins, BTUs etc.
Old stuff uses them sometimes, but most students are taught to regard them as domain knowledge that you don't really need to know. There's probably not a 'non-SI' version of the textbook, it's probably just the original textbook without the sections on meme units because Europeans don't need to know them.
>>59262043
>aka: I only know based things about finland but fug u
wew
how are americans supposed to use metric when the american flag isnt metric
>>59262027
Lmao, What are you doing, mate?
>>59257607
We do, just not in every day use.
>>59262190
I wish I knew how to say "shut up and pay your taxes" in your language, but you dont even have one.
>American scientists, engineers, and specialists use the nerd-ass mathy system
>the common man uses the system that takes less syllables to say
There's nothing wrong this.
>>59262460
Google translate, no doubt.
What's the point
People in science and math use metric where it's needed
The cost of changing all the signs and everything based on Imperial not to mention re educating people would be immense
>>59261843
Whe 95% of the world use a system, and you are not, it's not "submission" it's intelligence. But thanks for the cliché.
>>59262370
I just want to banter about Finland but it's just too obscure. I guess I could say something about autism but that's too easy.
>>59262209
If you won't bother reading it properly don't expect me to waste more time trying to argue with you
>>59262532
>that takes less syllables to say
just when my opinion couldn't get any lower
>>59262694
We care a lot about what you think!
>>59262665
"""banter"""
Just stop trying, you're embarrassing your country
>>59262681
Sure thing m8, thanks for playing
Try harder next time
>>59262027
adotou*
And it's true. Hurts a little...
>>59262665
Abd I could say something about your mass but you wouldn't get the joke because it'd be in kg's.
>>59262635
When 100% of Western Europe "submitted" to Nazi rule, do you think THAT was "intelligent"? Maybe if you got the potpourri out of your ass you could see that just because everybody does something doesnt make it right.
>>59262792
Don't you think that we improved the Portuguese/pt?
>>59262830
>100% of Western Europe "submitted" to Nazi rule
We were actually defeated by German army. Military defeat. So we had no choice. But anyway, it has nothing to do with metric system.
>>59262822
My mass is 346kg, not that difficult.
>>59263036
>346kg
Jesus Christ
>>59263036
its not fun when you set us up so well m8
>>59262830
So why don't adopt the metric system ?
It's used by all scientists around the world. Because it's a scientific system.
>>59263084
What do you think the point of his post was
>>59262984
You weren't defeated militaristically. You were completely dominated. The fighting lasted what, 7 days? 8 tops? More pathetic than Poland. My grandfather died so that you could grow up learning French and using the metric system, and this is the thanks he gets.
>>59263036
(you)
>>59263119
its too complex for the average american
>>59260850
Body weight?
>>59263036
>346kg
Are you a walking dead?
>>59263119
Why do you put a space before question marks ?
>>59263119
And it's used by scientists in the US, why don't you get that? What is the fucking point of caring about what everyone uses? I don't understand this mentality, why the fuck do you care what the average person somewhere else does?
>>59262792
hey man dont correct my portuguese it isnt even your language
>>59263159
Metric is far simpler than Imperial though, that's sort of the point of using it
>>59263119
>So why don't adopt the metric system
Because our scientists already have, we just use imperial in everyday life because that's how we learn to measure things as children. All we need to do to convert is start teaching children how to use metric in school, but we haven't yet because it's expensive to convert everything to metric
>>59263159
If anything it's less complex. Everything is base 10.
>>59263130
>My grandfather died so that y
YEAh, my grand father died too, in their camps. My grandma tell me all the time. And if you think that we, french people, are ungrateful about American soldiers who died on our beach , or territories, you're Wrong. We are very grateful. Stop listening shit. lads.
>>59263163
They still use fucking STONE to measure weight.
>>59263233
>the average person
The average person is the average citizen. It should be educated.
>>59263119
tradition and laziness
>>59263332
You say that you're grateful but you do a shitty job of showing it. 100% of French posters are anti-american, prove me wrong.
>>59263416
You're not answering my question - why does it matter to you? How does some American not using the metric system honestly affect you?
>>59263416
good england
>>59257607
Hey guys. Why are you hate ukranian and call them pigs?
>>59263416
>hurt durr let me tell you about your country
You act as though we don't even know what a metre is. We are taught about the metric system in school. In fact, when I was taught physics we used the metric system exclusively.
>>59263581
We love and support you. We helped apply economic sanctions to Russia so they will collapse economically if they try to take more of your clay.
>>59263581
It's only banter
>>59263453
100% french posters on an internet anonymous website, and actualy, they nit even are. Sorry for my shity English, I'm just a bit upset, 90% of French people, even here, were *i live, in Normandy, very bombed. Are grateful, we have cemetery militaries, and celebrations about Americans liberating our cunt.
>>59263666
>>59263682
Oh, i understand. Sorry for interruption.
>>59263687
the british liberated you though
i mean, we helped, but it was mostly the british
we were kinda busy playing a little game with japan called "blow up each-other's islands"
>>59263582
I guess a meter equal a yard.
>>59258242
*theyre're
I don't know why you're all hating on Ameritards when the British literally use stones to measure weight.
>>59263802
>the british liberated you though
W-what. Shut up guy, shut up.
>>59263869
rocks are understandable
our system is based on wheat grains
>>59263802
>the british liberated you though
>i mean, we helped, but it was mostly the british
America's contribution in the European theater was by no means small
>>59263687
>Are grateful, we have cemetery militaries, and celebrations about Americans liberating our cunt.
This makes me feel bad that we don't have a France Appreciation Day for your contribution during our war for independence
>>59258242
Thei're
>>59264032
>we don't have a France Appreciation Day
what is july fourth
>>59263939
FINALLY!!! After what seemed like years of lurking, I found out the secret to triggering the French! Tell them the English helped them with something.
>>59264032
>we don't have a France Appreciation Day
Well, celebrate the 14 july by doing barbecue and fireworks?
>>59264153
Independence day is a masturbatory holiday if I ever saw one. Most Americans think we fought off King George ourselves.
>>59264185
it's a precious secret, don't tell them. By them I mean the English.
>>59264153
>what is july fourth
Are you telling me that you fly France's flag beside America's flag on July 4th? If so, I salute you
>>59264275
Most people just think about the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. That may be different in different parts of the US, but I doubt it
>>59264388
i always fly a french flag on independence day
>>59264303
>Most Americans think we fought off King George ourselves
>implying based George Wash didn't personally bitchslap King George after we single handedly fought off the Brits
>>59264433
You're a good man
>>59259878
>first shuttle program
You don't want to brag about the shuttle program family
You're using russian rockets now because of that shit show
>>59259539
Nazis put americans on the moon.
>>59264383
I'll keep your secret... in exchange for the secret to triggering Finns.
>>59264509
i would also like to know how to trigger finns
>>59264505
Nazi scientists put Yuri Gagarin into space. Neither the USSR nor the US did everything on their own
>>59259080
>>59259085
these two posts started amerigeddon
>not using Imperial for computation
Bitches don't know about my 3756 milebytes of RAM.
>>59264682
Our Germans were better than their Germans.
>>59264705
dont you mean 1252 leaguebytes?
>>59264853
>leagues
Disgusting
>>59264505
Germans yes, but none of them were members of the party itself.
As for my other post, I was talking about SpaceX
http://www.space.com/32527-spacex-rocket-landing-sea-amazing-videos.html
>>59264915
>my other post
yeah man everyone follows @anon
>Why don't Americans use the metric system
Is it because they're gay/LGBT dominated?
>>59264915
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
>Truman's order expressly excluded anyone found "to have been a member of the Nazi Party, and more than a nominal participant in its activities, or an active supporter of Nazi militarism." However, those restrictions would have rendered ineligible most of the leading scientists whom the JIOA had identified for recruitment, among them rocket scientists Wernher von Braun, Kurt H. Debus, and Arthur Rudolph, as well as physician Hubertus Strughold, each earlier classified as a "menace to the security of the Allied Forces."[4]
>(from the Wernher von Braun page)He was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany, where he was a member of the Nazi Party and the SS
A fair number of them were members of the Nazi party
>>59259080
And killed a super-extensive satellite because of using imperial.
>>59265185
Your point?
>>59263582
>we used the metric system exclusively.
Pleb, we used both and had to convert back and forth.
>>59264980
He was replying to 2 posts, both of them were mine. Not hard to understand I hope.
