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KL27x:

--- Quote ---but the fact the whole system was designed from the ground up, with all units being defined from one another.
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For the next couple weeks, take a notice of how many times this makes any difference in your daily life. You will find it matters none, other than when you're doing some kind of chemistry or physics or having to convert feet of wire to meters. So the advantage to the world is very slim to none. The advantage to American industries and people who already know and use and switch between both as desired, is slim to none. Americans separate the physics and the knowledge from the units. It's the former that is important to understand. The rest is details.

If an American uses imperial (like Captain Sully describing visibility as "3 football fields" on the day of his water landing), I think this is what bothers non-American english speakers. But why do they care?* Were they planning to convert that into Newton-meters? To convert to liters per mm?

Ironically, the non-metric/SI calorie works better with metric idea of "let's make everything related based on distilled water" than the joule.

*The only thing that bothers me with the football field unit is does this include the endzones?  :-// I assume no, but depending on the speaker, you might wonder.

Personally, I think many male Americans know exactly how far they can throw a football in yards (reality plus the extra 20 yards of their imagination). So this makes a good unit for estimation when in the 40-100 yard range. Probably even better are golfers, at estimating visual-range distances. To know what club they would use. In America, we play golf by the yards (and then switch to feet on the green; lol, this surely upsets some of you non-Americans).

Watching football yesterday, I imagined how awful it would be in metric, and it is pretty bad. 4th and decimeters? It looks like he's gonna be a third of a meter shy of the first down?  Nope.
bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on January 13, 2020, 04:06:45 am ---Your trials are beyond understanding.

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Bear with me. I want to show you something. The easycalc nichrome calculator was even worse than the Jacobs calculator. It didn't let me know the temperature below 200 °C. So I landed on this nichrome wire calculator. Despite the name, "Steam Engine", it was created for those who want to build diy e-cigs, a.k.a. vape pens by a Norwegian guy.



It didn't help me either, but I noticed a few things. First, he managed to create two versions of the calculator, one for metric, the default, and another for imperial. Both are equally clean and uncluttered. But in the instructions he writes this.



It sounds almost like "if you are the only nation that that couldn't cope with the transition from the old customary to the modern metric, please click on the appropriate option". It shows that imperial is a whimsical idiosyncrasy of the American people linked with obsolescence.

So it's time to move on. It's time to modernize the units in the US. It's time to be metric and proud of being American.
KL27x:
Bsfeechannel, you are not being a total idiot in your previous few posts. So I have had no fun from them. But just an FYI regarding your last post. You have no clue about Americans' psychology. Shame don't work. Your example reinforces the fact that other people already know USC and are willing to use it when it benefits them (by say increasing the utility/pophlarity of their app). The complainers? We probably enjoy that, too.
Cubdriver:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on January 13, 2020, 09:56:46 pm ---
--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on January 13, 2020, 04:06:45 am ---Your trials are beyond understanding.

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Bear with me. I want to show you something. The easycalc nichrome calculator was even worse than the Jacobs calculator. It didn't let me know the temperature below 200 °C. So I landed on this nichrome wire calculator. Despite the name, "Steam Engine", it was created for those who want to build diy e-cigs, a.k.a. vape pens by a Norwegian guy.

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It didn't help me either, but I noticed a few things. First, he managed to create two versions of the calculator, one for metric, the default, and another for imperial. Both are equally clean and uncluttered. But in the instructions he writes this.

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It sounds almost like "if you are the only nation that that couldn't cope with the transition from the old customary to the modern metric, please click on the appropriate option". It shows that imperial is a whimsical idiosyncrasy of the American people linked with obsolescence.

So it's time to move on. It's time to modernize the units in the US. It's time to be metric and proud of being American.

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Or, maybe it's helpful clarification for people who are used to inches but don't necessarily refer to them as "imperial" units.  (Yeah, I know - we Americans are stupid, aren't we?)  It shows imperial as an alternate way to refer to measurements in inches.

And I'm quite capable of being a proud American while using either metric or imperial measurements as I deem best for any particular situation.  If you lack the versatility to switch between as needed, well, I'm sorry for you.  For instance, my house is built using material measured in that archaic imperial system - when working on it, I can see no good reason to try to measure things in metric units (when what I'm working with and what I'm working on is measured in inches and feet) because folks in Europe do, or to suit someone on an internet forum.  You still don't seem to grasp that things built in inches and feet will not magically transmogrify into metric.  If I'm working with a sheet of plywood, I prefer to deal with numbers like 48 x 96", or 4 x 8' (what it is sold in here, and the standard sizes used in construction) than 1219.2 x 2438.4mm.  If you prefer the latter, have at it, but measuring in the native units seem much more sensible to me.

-Pat
CatalinaWOW:
Bfees, if you had spent as much time working on your problem as you did trying to find pure metric sources you would have found that the reason most calculators don't work below 200 C is the paucity of data below that temperature range.  You might have discovered that differences between material specs really do matter.  And discovered that the reason for the paucity of data is that other materials are better suited to use at lower temperatures.  But your situation might be special - nichrome might really be the right answer for your application.  So I strongly encourage you to spend your time searching for source level data on the nichrome you propose using rather than finding a friendly calculator or trying to convince me and other Americans how much better our lives would be if we got busy and shamed our compatriots into switching completely and irrevocably to metric. 

Your continued rants on this subject are as endearing as continued American rants on how wonderful our political system is, and how everyone on earth should adopt it.  You can see how well that is working for us.
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