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why is the US not Metric
KL27x:
--- Quote ---I got rhythm, I got music
I got metric
Who could ask for anything more?
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This gives it that... timeless quality.
It's not bad, but try this one.
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Who needs rhythm? Who needs rhyme? When we have metric and Syrian time.
Bounce. Bounce. Bounce kilometerage. Bounce. Bounce. Bounce kilometerage. Bounce. Bounce. Bounce. Hammer time.
Metric is the future. Miles are the past. Meters are the speed of light, and that's pretty fast.
Now dance.
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TimFox:
I may have posted this already, but the best musical setting of the metric system is in “L’enfant et les sortileges” by Ravel. Of course, it was easy to write, since metric units rhyme in French. (Libretto by Colette.)
bsfeechannel:
--- Quote from: forrestc on March 01, 2020, 02:21:11 pm ---For instance, he believes that SAE bearings cost more than metric ones, yet when provided a link showing that they're roughly the same cost, he ignores the facts. This happens over and over.
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Nope. I said, but you didn't pay attention, that imperial bearings in the US are more expensive than metric elsewhere, not in the US.
So the McMaster-Carr link is irrelevant because it compares both imperial and metric in the US. But if you want an explanation why metric is more expensive than imperial, it is simple. McMaster-Carr has to maintain a redundant stock, both in metric and the equivalent imperial. Stock costs money. So you pay more for both metric and imperial. But metric is more expensive because it is in more demand than imperial, since imperial is being phased out and metric is now the standard in the industry.
Metricated countries are not subject to this burden. They don't need to maintain redundant stocks of anything. So they can have metric even cheaper than in the US.
You see? When you move from subjective to objective explanations, everything starts to make sense.
--- Quote --- The US is not as non-metric as everyone thinks, metric countries are further along, but also not all as metric as everyone thinks. There are interesting contradictions throughout. Flight levels are in feet. Houses in Canada are built in inches, and the standards that they have to comply with are apparently all based on inches, but the actual texts contain the metric equivalents. I understand road signs in the UK are in miles. And so on and on. Yet somehow the US continues to be the only country that isn't metric because we haven't changed everything to metric.
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Tu quoque fallacy. Argument rejected.
--- Quote ---But bfees seems to not be able to carry on a reasonable discussion in this manner, but instead resorts to dogmatisim.
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I follow the inflexible rules of logic. Call it dogmatism if you like.
boffin:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on March 01, 2020, 11:35:22 pm ---& on the starter battery connection some models used the delightful "Lucas thread"!
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That was the brilliantly engineered thread that always stopped working when it rained, right ?
DBecker:
--- Quote from: boffin on March 02, 2020, 11:39:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on March 01, 2020, 11:35:22 pm ---& on the starter battery connection some models used the delightful "Lucas thread"!
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That was the brilliantly engineered thread that always stopped working when it rained, right ?
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Lucas had challenges with metallurgy. They didn't put any effort into selecting connector alloys or contact configurations.
By comparison Bell Labs had an extensive academic research program. There were hundreds of variations of just relay contacts, and extensive rules about selecting contact materials and geometries. The result was wiring and electrical systems that lasted decades when exposed to weather extremes.
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