Metric vs Imperial

American burgers still use the outdated Imperial measurement system.

Do you defend this?

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M8 we're even worse than the Burgers, we use a mix of both in any combination we feel like.

Kids these days don't know what the fuck you're on about half the time.

Fuckoff mate like anyone civilised uses km

Also sage

OP weighs 25 stone

The US uses customary, not imperial. Its like imperial, but more free.

You do not convert with customary. you use fractions. Its a set of multiple measures which have been made to be evenly divisible into each other so different things can line up, but conversion is never done. The most sensible measure is used for the scale of the thing being measured.

The conversion argument metric users always use is just a sign that their system of measure is forcing them to convert all the time, likley because its not based on anything meaningful like real world experiences measuring things, but just an arbitrary line through paris, as such its obtuse and unwieldy.

Who made it to the moon again?

Id like to add, why do celsiusfags think how pure water behaves at exactly 1 atmosphere (pure water and exactly one atmosphere being almost impossible to find in nature, mind you) is just the obvious choice for basing a system of temperature measurement on? It makes no sense. Yet their argument for it is always based on this, because there is literally no other argument for using celsius.

a4 paper is shit too, by the way. letter is vastly superior.

>reddit

He's 10 hands tall

Basically nazis.

nazi scientists

The Imperial system is crucial for our understanding of our history and our world. If we would lose it, we would lose a very valuable thing.
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Because outside extreme like at the top of the everest, water will still boil at 100, 0x ?

Fucking dumb shit

Implying your Migs and Soyuz werent created by ex nazis too

I never impied that. Try again.

>be America
>spend billions on space program
>fuck were losing.gif
>land on moon
>plant flag
>we won le space race xDDD

Metric system > burger system

>altitude
You realize things other than altitude affect atmospheric pressure, yeah?

Water doesnt boil at the same temperature day to day in your own house/

It still doesn't explain why pure water is so important that it should be the basis of a temperature scale either. Life is based on salt water, most of the planet is salt water, but pure water is what they picked.

Meanwhile the modern fahrenheit scale is literally based off of what worked best building accurate thermometers. Practical as ever.

>AMERICA MADE IT TO THE MOON
Scientists made it to the moon. And they used metric.

Also, we never went to the moon.

The same reason British weights and measurement didn't change. Metric system is designed to rip off the consumer. They jew them by rounding down the weight to the closet round unit. It's harder to do that with a mixed bag of weight and measurement types as you ended up with oddball differences that don't translate well when rounding down to the closet unit. It forces you to round up to make the the even number.

from a trade perspective it is pretty smart

We still use hands to describe the height of horses.

Made possible by a Nazi rocket scientist and NASA uses metrics.

kek

>Who made it to the moon again?
Nazi scientist, who were using metric

Nasa using imperial bombed their lander onto mars with full speed and were so ashamed of themselves they switched to metric in 1990

literally not an argument

IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER ALL OF THESE MEASURES

THE METER
THE SECOND
THE SPEED OF LIGHT IN METERS PER SECOND
AND THE ROYAL EGYPTIAN CUBIT

>europoors only know one system of measurement

/thread

The winner of a race is determined at the end, not the beginning or middle.

That's because the metric system is french, they should rename it the freedom system or something

we use both, actually. when you take science in school you learn the metric system.

While the system in place is more concise and makes converting easier, a 12 based numerical system is a superior system in that you can divide by more integers before needing to resort to Rational numbers.

implying it's not fun as hell having a measurement system that enrages and confuses foreignshits

the best part is it doesn't go both ways because every american learns and uses SI units in middle and high school science classes. so we're familiar with the gay system but foreigners are completely lost when we refer to things in fahrenheit or pounds lel

tpbp

Denmark doesn't even have a space program ,the EU made sure of that

who sent proves to venus? who was the first to send a rocket/satellite into space?

hint- its not you

But who defines where a non official race ends?

With a flag in a moon?

Useless achievement m8

the entire SI measurement is based on one fundamental natural constant to earth:

the freezing and boiling temperature of water.

that's your temperature scale, wherever water freezes, that's 0. wherever it boils, that's 100.

a comfortable day is 25-26 degrees. a hot day is 30 degrees. a hot as fuck day is 40 degrees, almost halfway to the boiling point of water - HOT!

a meter is how long a pendulum with a 1kg weight has to be in order to swing once per second.

a cm is 1/100th of a meter.

make a plastic cube that is 1cm on each side, and fill it with water. the volume of that water is 1 cubic cm, we call that a millileter. 1000 mL, is a Liter.


a kilogram is the weight of 1L of water, at 25 degrees C, again, a pretty regular temperature.

back to distance, a kilometer is 1000 meters.

contrast that with imperial/customary, which is really vague and has no connection to nature, or anything else

a pound is the weight of something some dead guy said it is, nobody really knows, and it's probably changed over the ages.

a ton is 2000 pounds.

a foot is the length of a dead king of england's foot, supposedly.

an inch is 1/12th of a foot.

a mile is 5280 feet.

an ounce is defined as something some dead guy said it is hundreds of years ago, nobody really knows.

a pound is 16 ounces.

I love that, it's fun to see those retard stumble around. Especially when you are giving them wrong directions that will take them miles off route

Isn't 100° F the temperature at which people get a fever?
I always thought that was the reasoning

Yet we still won. Russia sure fucked up :^)

> not knowing the triple point of water

Flags don't wrinkle in zero g.

Moon landing was a hoax

"""""The US"""""" won the moon race

Yes I do. I call it a giant fuck you to the rest of the world.

Reality doesnt fit tens m8

For day-to-day use Celsius is more than fine.

Kelvin is for your special snowflake use (scientifically), and it's very easy to switch between Kelvin and Celsius. Not so for Fahrenheit.

On other hand your president is Obama for 8 years.

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>a meter is how long a pendulum with a 1kg weight has to be in order to swing once per second.

Meters are based on the distance pole to pole through paris.

The entire unit exists only because the english bantered napoleon so hard about his height he invented a totaly new system of measurement to prevent english and french feet from getting confused in the future.

Thats it. SI is for cucks to feel less btfo. To this day its the system all the irrelevant countries use so they can desperately try to feel superior to the important people.

only relevant for chemistry and physical scientists.

the optimal, and superior day to day units should be based around water, the most abundant liquid on earth which readily changes states within a survivable temperature range.

but yes, you are able to read the wikipedia on kelvin, so here's your gold star

Reminder that von Braun himself admitted that Robert H Goddard was ahead of the Germans in terms of rocketry and they basically just piggybacked off of his work with the v2 rocket :^)

I like our temperature unit. Other than that, I like metric.

Even in your house water doesn't boil at exactly 100°C. At 2,000 meters it boils at 93°C.

What has Denmark ever achieved?

won what?

king nigger scuttled the space shuttle and now your people are having to use Russian spacecraft to get to the ISS

you lost

8 May 1790 – The French National Assembly decides that the length of the new metre would be equal to the length of a pendulum with a half-period of one second.


21 October 1983 – The 17th CGPM defines the metre as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458
of a second.

2002 – The International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) considers the metre to be a unit of proper length and thus recommends this definition be restricted to "lengths l which are sufficiently short for the effects predicted by general relativity to be negligible with respect to the uncertainties of realisation".

>Water doesnt boil at the same temperature day to day in your own house/
Yes, sometimes it boils a 100,01°C, that means you have an 0,01% error. Wow! 0,01%!

It's not like the error for weigth or length measurement would be way more extreme!

0.01K! Thats unaccaptable! It's totally possible to measure that with ordinary thermometer!
Stupid °C! I will stick to my °F, because thats way more logical and i don't have this problem there!

Fahrenheit is based off its unit length. One degree in fahrenheit equals one ten thousandth volume change in mercury. The actual temperatures in F are just based on thermometers. 0F was picked to be the starting point because it was cold enough that it would not be reached normally, leaving you with a thermometer that would be useful.

Wtf, the meter was 1 ten millionth of the equator > north pole distance. Then redefined based on krypton emmision lines. Then reredefined to be the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299792458s. A nice handy number, easy to remember....

NASA uses metric you dumb cunt
There was an accident where some idiot used imperial and stuff crashed and blew up

Russia is footing most of the bill, that's not losing .That's called getting your lackey to chauffeur you around and use up their gas

Citation needed

kelvin is even stupider since its unit length is based on celsius and it cant use the 'muh water' justification.

Unit length is far more important in a system of temperature measurement than where 0 happens to fall.

it was originally defined as the length a pendulum needs to be to be at the bottom of it's swing once per second. pretty intuitive for those with an IQ above 85

>American burgers still use the outdated Imperial measurement system.
>Do you defend this?
not in the military

I've never heard an American use stone.

If you’ve ever stopped to ponder why exactly the freezing point on the Fahrenheit scale is set at 32 degrees–a rather arbitrary number, all things considered–you’ll need to ponder all the way back to the 18th century.

It was then, in the 1720s, that Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was ironing out zero point for his temperature scale. The coldest temperature that Fahrenheit could produce in his laboratory was the result of mixing ice, water, and ammonia chloride to make a frigid slurry. This measurement became the zero-point for the scale. The second point of reference was the temperature of water when chilled to the point that ice began to form–pure water forming ice was assigned to 32 degrees. Fahrenheit later assigned 212 degrees as the value for boiling water because the 180 degree difference between the two is 180 degrees because 180 can be easily and evenly divided by a variety of numbers.

>"Don't you know about your own rocket pioneer? Dr. Goddard was ahead of us all."
>"Goddard's experiments in liquid fuel saved us years of work, and enabled us to perfect the V-2 years before it would have been possible."

both quotes from von Braun my little Deutschcuck

srry m8, but america has always and will always be the master race of rocketry and spaceflight. we literally invented the liquid fueled rocket.

Forgot. They define si length units in terms of light speed, then define light speed in terms of those same units. What could go wrong?

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1cm cubed of a pure water weights one gram

An inch was actually the width of a thumb, they adapted the foot from the old measurement to be 12 inches to have a more concise system and it was "close enough"

>Then reredefined to be the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299792458
>299792458
exact latitude of PYRAMID AT GIZA?
29.9793458 degrees north of the equator

American measurement:
>take a teaspoon of this
>few cups of that
>quart or two of this
>whisk it up in a doohickey

Superior UK system:
>so many grams of this
>so many grams of that
>don't need ten different measuring cups to make a meal
>everything is grams/kilos, everything relates

Fahrenheit relates to some arbitrary jar of brine from 300 years ago. Celsius relates to water which is the same today. Fahrenheit is supposed to be the "survivable" range of human temperatures which is a) demonstrably untrue and b) demonstrably variable. Celsius relates to the freezing and boiling point of water which literally everyone in the civilised world is at least familiar with

Good job burgers!

Changing its definition does not change what its based on.

F is better because it has better unit lenghts, unit lenghts which are reproducible accurately anywhere in the entire universe. Given that the only argument for celsius is 'water freezes at 0 and boils at 100 :^)' the fact that thats not even a constant is pretty damming.

Face it, celsius is the apple of temperatures, its meant to feel good to normies who pretend they are sophisticated for using it.

>BEING THIS BLUEPILLED
33 is much more significant than that retarded fairy tale

That's why UK food tastes like donkey ass
It all makes so much sense now

That'll be why you're thumbing lifts to the ISS in soyuz then...

>Changing its definition does not change what its based on.

that's exactly what it does, retard

> the optimal, and superior day to day units should be based around water,
> thinking that the triple point of water has nothing to do with water

It's just the definition, you retard. There is just only one triple point at only one possible temperatur and it's easy as fuck to measure it.
This is how they define Celsius. 0,01°C is the triple point.

For ordinary day to day use, the "0°C is freezing and 100°C is boiling" is accurate enough. Because even if you have some different pressure, the error of your thermometer would be way bigger than the 0.1K variance.

Nazis.

light speed CAN be defined by si units, its still c
as in a universal constant like pi (or 2pi, aka tau)

kek

France, did you remember to shower this week?

von Braun said a lot of things that were obvious lies or half-truths so that he would be able to keep building rockets

>he's joking but implying that people don't have an intuitive sense for how much a kilo of chicken is, or that they're somehow for some reason measuring out individual grams, and don't have a scoop of 200g, or 400g, pretty normal quantities.

>mfw someone tries to tell me the US would've never figured out rockets without the Hun lending a hand

>american """banter'"""

>weighing everything out instead of just using a set of measuring spoons

We can use grams too when needed.

its not based on brine, thats a myth. Its not based on 'survivable' temperatures, that is also a myth. It is based on how mercury, which was used for thermometers, changes as temperature changes.

The US is superior in it's measurements, because fuck you that's why, USA! USA! USA!

>better unit lenghts

The best unit length is the length of Kelvin… oh, wait!… thats the same as the Celsius unit length!

to stay white

Not anymore. Obongo is done.

>"Without the Wernher von Braun we would have lost to the Soviets and I'd licking the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union'S ball now, because we Americans alone are too stupid to get into engineering"
>JFK
Oh wow, seems like I can type shit without quotation too

That's because of conversions.
Anyways literally no one here is defending imperial, you're just being a salty sally trying to feel superior.

Well then we have no problem, as imperial measures are defined in SI units, so imperial was SI all along :^)

It's not the measures. We just usually miss out the bit that says "add 2lbs of lard and 4lbs of sugar per serving, for desert try insulin"