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KL27x:
Also, the problem with "pure metric," is for when you are done doing the calculations. When you are building your thingamabob, you might have more than one gauge of wires at your work. It's easier to "Hey Bob, we're running low on the 14 gauge. Can you order some more?" Vs saying "hand me the 0.01787mm^2 wire." So why not use both?

As a design engineer, you might often do things just once. Then wash your hands of it. But unless you stink at your job, someone else will often repeat your design many times. So should you just deal with it once? Or to make your life one gram easier, you want the rest of the world to use only metric units wherever possible, when they do this repeatedly, over and over.

99% of engineers don't do anything new. Just slight variations for w/e app. Bridging the gaps when combining things in new ways. For the most of us, we don't invent shit. We just handle the details by understanding what is already known, and having some idea of the issues in the actual execution. This almost always involves writing things down and looking this up.

bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: KL27x on January 13, 2020, 10:13:39 pm ---You have no clue about Americans' psychology. Shame don't work.
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Well, at least they used to feel shame in the past.

Obituary of Fred M. Thrower, former president of WPIX TV.
Innovations for which he will be remembered include the Christmas Eve ''Yule Log'' telecast, WPIX multi award-winning editorials and the impact of his single slide that said ''Shame'' that appeared on the screen for several hours after the death of Robert Kennedy.

Since it seems that shame is officially dead and we live in an era of shamelessness, I'll have to think about something else to encourage people to go metric.

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on January 14, 2020, 02:09:34 am ---
[...]  I'll have to think about something else to encourage people to go metric.


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Sex? 

"It is scientifically proven that people that understand Metric are more attractive to the opposite sex!"

"15cm or only 6 inches? - No contest!"

etc.   :-DD

paulca:
Has anyone mentioned that the US units ARE defined in metric and calibrated against metric these days?

Cubdriver:

--- Quote from: paulca on January 14, 2020, 04:43:42 pm ---Has anyone mentioned that the US units ARE defined in metric and calibrated against metric these days?

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Probably not more than a dozen or so times...

-Pat

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