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Honestly going through engineering school I've had to learn both units and once you know the basic conversions for standard units, they aren't any more difficult to use than metric. Regardless, the vast majority of scientific and engineering calculations are done with the assistance of a computer anyway.
Besides, I NEVER want to see km/h speed limits posted on our roads. Ever.
Now I once worked at a hospital that used all metric, and I learned it pretty fast, and the metric numbers meant something. The big issue I have with the metric system is with temperature. The increments are too big. 37 degrees is 98.6; 38 is 100.4. That's a huge gap.
Oh nurse, nurse, I'll take 100ml of jim beam please.
I'd be perfectly fine going to metric for length and volume. I already know all the terms anyway, so it's not a big deal to change.
However, I will fight to the death to not use Celsius for weather temperature. "Oh my God, it's so hot today! It's like 38˚!" That doesn't sound hot. You know what sounds hot? 100˚! Or "Brr! It's kind of cold!! It's like 0˚!!" Zero sounds really cold, but 32˚ sounds kind of cold. I like 0 being really freaking cold and 100 being really freaking hot. Although I enjoyed being in Edmonton this winter when I would say "Holy crap, it's -40˚*outside!", and people would ask me if I was talking in Celsius or Fahrenheit.
Sign the online petition if you support the U.S. converting to the Metric system...
There is no good reason to do so. The US converted to metric where it made sense to convert.
More people want to come and live in the USA than stay in their metric nations, so it's best to keep our system.
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