Tory party to change back to imperial measurements

[JohnD]

America still seems fine with it.

Is that a recommendation?

 

[Trazor]

Is that a recommendation?

No, just an observation that the most powerful nation on Earth, copes adequately.

All talk of returning to the imperial system, only annoys the dull of mind.

Both systems can easily function side by side.

 

[JohnD]

No, just an observation that the most powerful nation on Earth, copes adequately.

All talk of returning to the imperial system, only annoys the dull of mind.

Both systems can easily function side by side.

Calculations are ridiculously difficult

They have complex tables of drill, tap, screw and spanner sizes.

AFAIK they have not recently had a spacecraft crash due to confusion.

Metric vs Imperial Units: How NASA lost a 327 Million Dollar Mission to Mars

Imagine a simple conversion error caused a multi-million dollar mission to go puff! We explore how the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost in 1999.

everydayastronaut.com

 

[Tigercubrider]

US cars, Harley, Military, Scientific etc are metric.
it’s only domestic users or small builders that use Customary.

 

[Notch7]

Metric system is on USA statute books

SI has been the "preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce" since 1975 according to United States law (conversion was never mandatory)

The U.S. has a national policy to adopt the metric system.[9] All U.S. agencies are required to adopt the metric system

 

[Notch7]

All talk of returning to the imperial system, only annoys the dull of mind

Its just another right wing culture war

”we’ve tanked the economy over the last 13 years, let’s get the public talking about feet n inches”

next week it’ll be gender neutral toilets or working from home.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Its just another right wing culture war

”we’ve tanked the economy over the last 13 years, let’s get the public talking about feet n inches”

next week it’ll be gender neutral toilets or working from home.

Look, over there.

 

[Roy Bloom]

next week it’ll be gender neutral toilets

It's genders in passports.

 

[JP_]

America still seems fine with it.

Still, yes. That's the point.

Although, many Americans use metric, eg in science, and military

 

[JP_]

America still seems fine with it.

And, American's bottle their wine in 75cl, rather than pints, or cups.