Why is the metric system so arbitrary?

why is the metric system so arbitrary?

>light travels ~0.99 feet in a nanosecond, almost exactly 1 foot
>light travels 29.97 cm in a nanosecond

>the millenium falcon made the kessel run in less than twelve parsecs

dumb ameridirectors

what the fuck is 1 foot? do i have to use my feet to get the correct length??

nanosecond is metric you dumdum

how do you measure how tall a building is in feet? do you have someone with magnetic shoes walking up the wall ?

12 inches

What the fuck are 12 inches

a foot

>using foot to measure

1 Liter of water weights 1 kg. 1L= 10 cm X 10 cm X 10 cm
Water freeze at 0C and boils at 100C.

*At some arbitrary altitude in France

Ignore me, I'm thinking of something else

UK uses a blend system desu lads, it's the best way to do it
>taught how to use both in school
>can use both with ease
>imperial units more suited to estimation and daily use, also used on road signs
>metric units used where necessary for exact measurements etc (cooking, construction etc)

apparently all americans have feet that are one foot long
now thats convenient

apparently the Kessel Run is actually a series of stops along a trade route
because ships can't go in a straight line in hyperspace, they have to turn and shit

Han is a skilled enough pilot and the Millennium Falcon is agile enough to make less turns, thus making it a smaller distance

>metric for exact measurements
thats good
do you ever have problems with tourists thinking the speed limit in road signs are in km/h ?

Well 50km is slower than 50mph, so they'll just be slow

Even then, as you drive off a ferry in ports and at car rental places at airports, there are signs in multiple languages reminding you that the speeds are in mph

>Well 50km is slower than 50mph
One is a distance, the other is a velocity.

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ACTUALLY light travels 0.983267716533333333... feet in a nanosecond, which is ~0.98 feet, not ~0.99 feet

0.98 is closer to 1 than 0 so we might as well round it up to 1
Light travels 1 foot in a nanosecond

>299 792 458 meters per second
>299 792 458/300 000 000 = 99.93082%
>1ft = 12 in
>11.80283 inch per second
>11.80283/12 = 98.35692%
Wew lad, seems the metric system has 1.5739 percentage points more accurate approximations. Who /coincidence/ now?

ask ur mom

wanna know who uses metric?

communist and muslim countries

Stalin akbar I guesd

>it's an "american tries to defend their retarded units" thread

There are 4 countries that still use the imperial system to some degree. They are:
* The US (60% white, nearly elected a commie)
* Myanmar (shithole)
* Liberia (african shithole)
* The UK (muslim)

There's a very strong correlation between using imperial units and losing wars against rice niggers

France lost against vietnam aswell you tard

i didn't make that image

No we lost the Indochina war.

Only you lost agains Vietnal rice farmers

>Be american
>Suck dicks

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2011: -30 feet

>it's a butthurt yuros thread