Quote from: error on July 11, 2011, 05:22:07 AM

Quote from: mellowhead on July 11, 2011, 05:12:59 AM

Quote from: Jafm on July 11, 2011, 04:36:22 AM

Quote from: Jaime Frontero on July 11, 2011, 04:23:27 AM

i'm an american.

Sorry, I guess I should have said universal except for the United States. Cool

Why are so many americans opposed to the metric system? The only primary numbering system taught in schools is base-10, so it's not like it's some weird foreign concept....

I mean no offense, I've just never discussed it before. And USA is one of only a handful of countries not using the metric system.

I'm certainly not opposed to the metric system. But I also know that there is a stack of patchwork government regulations which mandate Imperial measurements (sometimes, along with metric).

in the US, the metric system has been mandated since 1866 in the legal and commercial spheres:

http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/Metric/upload/HR-596-Metric-Law-1866.pdf

[PDF ALERT]

i note that since NASA booted a mars landing, they've used metric exclusively. since 2007. not counting the odd, existing spacecraft put together with imperial wrenches.

i hate imperial measurement. i stopped thinking in it when i got my degree in physics, and i simply can't understand why it still exists.

feet, fer chrissakes: real goddamn FEET! and some bizarre number of grains of wheat to the inch. shit. my head hurts...