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Actually the article is more about "metric", but I wanted to stay on the weather topic less the thread be moved ha ha.
Thoughts anyone from US and rest of the world on the article linked below. Interesting how people that favored going metric were called "communists". Sound familiar, hmmm?
Here is a little bit from the article, which btw is about a new book justifying the USA reluctance about going metric. The Author wants us to stay out of it.
"People say the metric system makes sense," Marciano says, "But in nature we don't think about dividing things by 10, do we? We think of halves and feet and thirds."
Acres, for instance, were based on the amount of land a man could plow in a day. "Throughout history we have measured things by ourselves," Marciano says. "We are really losing something with metric."
And another thing: People think the metric system has something to do with science. It doesn't, Marciano says, except that it is used in science and every scientist will probably put forth a convincing argument for why it's silly not to be metric.
"That's the biggest misconception," Marciano says. "The metric system has everything to do with capitalism. It's all about a selling system."
Seems Abraham Lincoln was a strong proponent of going metric, and one year after his assasination Congress authorized metric.
Another bit:
In 1866, the U.S. Congress authorized the use of the metric system and almost a decade later America became one of 17 original signatory nations to the Treaty of the Meter. A more modern system was approved in 1960 and is commonly known as SI or the International System of Units.
"People say the metric system makes sense," Marciano says, "But in nature we don't think about dividing things by 10, do we? We think of halves and feet and thirds."
What is he on about? Imperial measurements are illogical, as is your date system.
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Well I still use the Imperial system and so do most other people. I don't know anyone who uses the European measurements for height, weight or road distances/speeds. I couldn't tell you my weight or height in European. So i'm not sure what you are talking about, in this country we use both systems, we are not a Metric country.
I don't mind using Imperial measurements for most things, I would agree though that America needs to move to Celcius.
It's basically the only country in the world not using it.
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Metric system is far more handy because it's based on decimal system, which makes it's easier to convert units. And I think that measuring things by ourselves is not a good idea also because different people have different bodies, different length of feet, fingers etc.
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Metric system is far more handy because it's based on decimal system, which makes it's easier to convert units. And I think that measuring things by ourselves is not a good idea also because different people have different bodies, different length of feet, fingers etc.
What do you mean?
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