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why is the US not Metric

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ebastler:

--- Quote from: stefan_trekkie on January 05, 2020, 09:13:36 am --- Just digits and they are always milometers ..

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Aha -- I see a path towards "grand unification" there!!
Now add poundograms and Fahrengrade, and we can all be friends again.  ;D

TimFox:

--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on January 05, 2020, 02:20:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on January 05, 2020, 01:42:11 pm ---

 Where 1000 litres of water is a metric Ton. And is also equal to a cubic Metre?? And 1 Ltr is 1 Kg???...



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This relationship, which may have been repeated 100 times in this thread, is really useful.  When you are shipping fresh water or building fresh water tanks.  Which is hardly the key activity for this forum or in much of the rest of life.  And again gets to the point.  Other than standardization, which is a really big deal, and the elimination of the confusion between force and mass, the benefits of metric are minor. 

Dwellers in smaller markets feel the standardization pull more strongly than those in large markets.  The US remains (for the moment) the largest single market and so it is fairly obvious why the pull of standardization has been felt less strongly.

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Please note that the definition 1 kg of water = 1 litre is for the benefit of chemists, who retained the old definition based on the maximum volume density of water.  The m3 is the SI unit for volume, and the litre is only approximately 1000 cm3, although the difference is very small.

SkyMaster:

--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on January 05, 2020, 02:20:56 pm ---
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Dwellers in smaller markets feel the standardization pull more strongly than those in large markets.  The US remains (for the moment) the largest single market and so it is fairly obvious why the pull of standardization has been felt less strongly.

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The trade relationship of the United States with Canada is the second largest in the world, totaling $627.8 billion in 2016 (according to Wikipedia). The fact that United States is using United States customary units instead of the metric system, is the least of our worries.

Yet, there are people who never set foot in United States, and do not even deal with United States, but they want United States to adopt the metric system.

Could it be a form of envy toward United States?

 :)

bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: SkyMaster on January 05, 2020, 04:28:49 pm ---Yet, there are people who never set foot in United States, and do not even deal with United States, but they want United States to adopt the metric system.

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Who are those?

ebastler:

--- Quote from: TimFox on January 05, 2020, 03:46:33 pm ---the litre is only approximately 1000 cm3

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Say what?!  :o

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