Maps of America with a Different View Point
Dec 31, 2021 07:25:41 #
GREAT post of a very interesting topic. I really like the metric system map. I was once in Canada buying a set of metric sockets for a friend. The sales person asked if I wanted 1/4 or 3/8ths drives? Huh?
Dec 31, 2021 08:27:05 #
Dec 31, 2021 09:36:55 #
Dalek wrote:
GREAT post of a very interesting topic. I really like the metric system map. I was once in Canada buying a set of metric sockets for a friend. The sales person asked if I wanted 1/4 or 3/8ths drives? Huh?
Sounds like a lot of camera stuff, every screw can be metric but the camera mounting one!
Dec 31, 2021 09:54:30 #
jbk224
Loc: Long Island, NY
I'm still waiting for the Metric system since I was told almost 60 years ago in school that we were switching.
Dec 31, 2021 10:38:25 #
jbk224 wrote:
I'm still waiting for the Metric system since I was told almost 60 years ago in school that we were switching.
The gas stations in my area had just about completed the conversion when we reversed.
As a scientist, I used metric and have no problems except with temps. I can convert easily enough, but have no instant feel for it except for a few fixed pts, boiling, freezing, 37C is around 98F, -40 is -40 in both and as stated somewhere else today 55C is about as hot an object to be held can be, at least for pyrex glassware.
Jan 1, 2022 06:50:18 #
I was watching a weight lifting effort and the announcer said something about 12 stones while a horse was measured at 10 hands. Are those pre-metric?
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