metric rule

Wait until you discover what system they used for the Apollo missions

I’m waiting
- Internal calculations were are all done in metric, but converted to traditional US units because many of the astronauts were pilots and more used to them
- math 😔
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolloprogram

Someone once told me it was 20 degrees Celsius out. I didn’t know if it was snowing, blazing, or if he was moving at 50 furlongs a minute.

This is exactly how I feel when my American colleagues discuss the weather in Fahrenheit.
- 0: Fuck, it's cold out there!
  100: Fuck, it's hot out there!
  If you go somewhere outside this range - leave.
- Fahrenheit is, surprisingly, somewhat intuitive in the very specific case of weather.
  Not that it never goes beyond the extremes of the scale, but very broadly speaking, 0-100 F is your weather range, with 0F being cold as balls and 100F being hot as balls.
  The balls scale of weather temperature is significantly less intuitive.
Celsius
0° : freezing water
100° : boiling water
Farenheit
100° : I love you darling
0° : We're all gonna die
Both
50°C and 50°F : Not a good temperature for a bath
- A propos the last one: the only temperature where fahrenheit and celsius are the same temperature at the same number of degrees is at -40°
Not being used to F at all, it seems to me that C has at least least some very notable landmarks - 0 frozen, 100 boiling. I have zero landmarks for F
- There are people in the US who will fight tooth and nail to defend the imperial system, as if it's superior in some way. It just doesn't make sense to me. It's harder to learn, completely inconsistent, and unlike standard metric, there is no scientific basis for the measurements. They're just random distances that someone made up.
  Tell me, what's easier to remember? 0°C or 32°F? 100°C or 212°F? 1000m = 1km or 5280ft = 1mi
- Easy. 80f is 80% hot. 90f is 90% hot. 110f is 110% hot and so on.

It was the uncomfortably long soul patch. That's what he did and we deserved it.

quick! the Imperial system is under attack. Only you can save it. Tell me, how many barleycorns in a chain?

Easy. 1 chain = 2376 barleycorn
- thank God you were here. we couldn't have managed another decasecond without you

You can suck on my metric system lmao

Whatever helps make that number bigger so you feel better when measuring!
- Except when brittish money

We already are on the metric system.

What have we done to deserve this?
- Nothing, you don't need to do anything particularly good to deserve the metric system. It is given free of charge to all people!
- Kept breaking things by using us customary for the most part
- I'm just wondering what we did to deserve the inch becoming 25.4mm instead of just 25 XD
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US Metric Association - Origin of the Metric System (https://usma.org/origin-of-the-metric-system)

National Institute of Standards and Technology - Metric Policy - https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/metric-si/metric-policy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetricationintheUnitedStates

Im stuck with in Canada.

So frustating that american carmake gone to metric

Sir, it’s called a speedometer not a speedoyard.
- Thx you
You mean you're blessed with non idiotic units that are easy to convert and you don't have to get out a calculator every time you need to convert between random body parts, right?