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Everything in IT is metric. The same is true for all the sciences. Metric is superior to the Imperial System in every way.
The rest of the world uses it. Medical professions use it. The sciences use it. NASA couldn't figure it out however and lost a Mars lander a decade ago though...
Are you being facetious?
They already have in a way. Almost every nut and bolt on American made cars are smetirc. Some mechanics own two sets of sockets for those emergencies of working on cars and trucks with both SAE & metrick. My odometer has MPH and KPH, we can't escape it. Which would you rather pay $3.89 for, a litre, or a gallon?
Nope. A gallon of gas is more than a liter. You get less gas when you use metric.
That's not a good comparison. We'd pay the same for gas as we do now, it would just be in liter's instead of gallons. In your scenario we'd pay like $1.2 per liter, which would equal out to the same.
The rest of the world uses it. Medical professions use it. The sciences use it. NASA couldn't figure it out however and lost a Mars lander a decade ago though...
The rest of the world uses it. Medical professions use it. The sciences use it. NASA couldn't figure it out however and lost a Mars lander a decade ago though...
Actually we could do it with fairly little cost. It'll take a while to transition, but we should just continue teaching kids SI and phasing out old equipment over time. For a long while we would have to use both.Going metric sounds easy until you consider all the machinery that would need to be retooled in such a way as to calibrate in metric. The costs would be absolutely staggering. The housing collapse of a few years ago would look like a drop in the bucket in comparison.
Everything in IT is metric. The same is true for all the sciences. Metric is superior to the Imperial System in every way.
Yes, but not because the rest of the world uses it, but why the rest of the world uses it: Metric 4 US - Why Metric is the Better System
We should be using a 28-day month, 13-month calendar too; and October should be 8th month, not the 10th.
And get rid of daylight savings.
Everything in IT is binary, you either understand that, or you don't
The rest of the world uses it. Medical professions use it. The sciences use it. NASA couldn't figure it out however and lost a Mars lander a decade ago though...
As a Chem/Physics teacher, the most important feature by far of the SI/Metric is the base/derived unit concept.Everything is metric as well.
I'd suggest a walk through your local Home Depot or Lowes to get an idea of all that would have to be changed.
We lost one drone to technical error after several other rovers of ours have successfully landed and explored the surface of Mars. It's not because of the metric system, it was because **** happens.
The rest of the world uses it. Medical professions use it. The sciences use it. NASA couldn't figure it out however and lost a Mars lander a decade ago though...