Why Not Switch to Metric?
Apr 21, 2016 19:54:18 #
Steve_m wrote:
The public is either lazy, ignorant or stupid. The... (show quote)
231.001 :lol: :lol: cubic inches
Apr 21, 2016 20:03:42 #
Driving in Britain...
The left side is the right side and the right side is suicide.
The left side is the right side and the right side is suicide.
Apr 21, 2016 20:08:31 #
FRENCHY wrote:
231.001 :lol: :lol: cubic inches
You are either chemist or you look for it in Google. Other than that, people just don't know.
Apr 21, 2016 20:31:19 #
Apr 21, 2016 20:38:29 #
FrankR
Loc: NYC
Bloke wrote:
I agree about Lucas, but that was a problem solved many years ago. I don't thing anything later than the 60s was afflicted with that particular aberration...
As far as beer goes, have you never tried Newcastle Brown Ale???? The very nectar of the Gods! And you obviously never had fish & chips from a good chippie...
The weather? Well, how else do you think we were able to conquer the world?? We needed colonies with better weather for us to vacation in!
As far as beer goes, have you never tried Newcastle Brown Ale???? The very nectar of the Gods! And you obviously never had fish & chips from a good chippie...
The weather? Well, how else do you think we were able to conquer the world?? We needed colonies with better weather for us to vacation in!
You're correct in that I've never had decent fish & chips, at least not that I remember, which may have something to do wit my taste for Directors. Lucas did straighten out. Unfortunately, not while I had my Austin Healey 3000.
Apr 21, 2016 22:40:03 #
eharlan1969
Loc: Nampa, ID
The US is in good company. Myanmar and Liberia are the only other two countries in the world that don't us the metric system. Actually according to wikipedia the congress authorized the metric system in 1866. I guess we are just a little slow about changing. :lol: :lol:
Apr 22, 2016 00:04:59 #
Steve_m wrote:
You are either chemist or you look for it in Google. Other than that, people just don't know.
I am not a chemist, just one who like to look for answers , and yes I look it up !!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Apr 22, 2016 00:09:08 #
I retired back in 93. I was quality control manager of the tool and die div. in the aerospace industry. The metric system is much better. Too change our electric devices it just took the press of a button.
Apr 22, 2016 01:26:03 #
Canonuser
Loc: UK and South Africa
jerryc41 wrote:
The question of why the U. S. doesn't switch to the metric system has come up here several times. To quote one line from this article, "The benefits of switching are negligible, but the costs are huge." We've all heard the expression, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
http://www.popsci.com/why-hasnt-us-adopted-metric-system
http://www.popsci.com/why-hasnt-us-adopted-metric-system
In the UK we switched years ago, but many of our rulers and tape measures have both measurements on them. Having been brought up with yards, feet and inches and now happy with metres, centimetres and millimetres, I find myself using whichever seems more convenient. It does get complicated though when I find I have a measurement where the length I've measured in metric and the width in feet and inches.
Apr 22, 2016 10:32:32 #
Canonuser wrote:
In the UK we switched years ago, but many of our rulers and tape measures have both measurements on them. Having been brought up with yards, feet and inches and now happy with metres, centimetres and millimetres, I find myself using whichever seems more convenient. It does get complicated though when I find I have a measurement where the length I've measured in metric and the width in feet and inches.
In Canada you can buy 1/2" plywood as 4' x 8' x 13 mm!!! And since 13 mm is more than 1/2" I guess we should consider it a bargain of more for your money (assuming the price did not go up from when it was sold as 1/2"thickness).
Apr 22, 2016 17:28:29 #
An interesting conversion that is easy to remember is converting "mileage" to "consumption", or back the other way from "consumption" to "mileage". Simply divide "FACTOR" by the one unit to get the other.
FACTOR for US gallons is 235.2, and for Imperial gallons it is 282.5 (you can drop the decimals and use 235 or 282 for approximate values).
This works because of the reciprocal (inverted; upside-down) way distance and volume are used in the US/Imperial vs metric approaches to expressing fuel economy.
FACTOR for US gallons is 235.2, and for Imperial gallons it is 282.5 (you can drop the decimals and use 235 or 282 for approximate values).
This works because of the reciprocal (inverted; upside-down) way distance and volume are used in the US/Imperial vs metric approaches to expressing fuel economy.
Apr 22, 2016 19:23:40 #
JohnFrim wrote:
An interesting conversion that is easy to remember... (show quote)
It is confusing whatever you are trying to calculate.
Apr 22, 2016 20:25:36 #
Steve_m wrote:
It is confusing whatever you are trying to calculate.
Sorry if it wasn't clear. I am referring to mpg and L/100 km.
mpg = 235/ (L/100 km); and L/100 km = 235/mpg
Apr 22, 2016 22:20:10 #
Apr 22, 2016 22:50:00 #
Earworms wrote:
The United States, going Metric one inch at a time!
Well, that's about two and a half times faster than doing it by the centimeter. And how far to go? East to west? North to south? Both? All around the perimeter? Around the border of each state?
C'mon folks, just do it. You know it's the right thing to do. But do it smarter than we did. We advertise grocery item prices in both units, but the large type face is the price per pound because it's a smaller number. Who are we fooling but ourselves?
Some of these changes are best done in a single fell swoop rather than gradually. Sweden made the switch to drive on the right side of the road on a given day even though folks did not all buy new cars that day. Can you imagine trying to make that sort of change gradually? Yikes!!!
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