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Kovacius · Post by **Kovacius** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:47 pm

You people are being unfairly harsh on the US; the last I heard there was still some little island in the S.Pacific that was also using the "English" system of measurement, so we aren't the only ones, just the only "industrialized" one doing so.

Temperature is no big deal. The Farenheit system uses a smaller unit of measure, so it is technically more "exact", unless you want to deal with fractional degrees. The most significant advantage of the Celsius system is its direct tie-in with the rest of the metric system; as a stand-alone entity it has no special strong points.

Give it time, the US will eventually convert. Most alcohol is now sold by the milliliter, not the ounce. The "drunks" are hopefully leading the "sober" in the right direction. They're just not heading there in a straight line....

IAMTHEEMPEROR · Post by **IAMTHEEMPEROR** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:51 pm

That is a good and semi-funny way to put it.

If you ask me, the system we really need to re-do is time. 6 is a really hard number to work with.

Zalzidrax · Post by **Zalzidrax** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:57 pm

But... but... 6 is a perfect number.

NexUmMonastica · Post by **NexUmMonastica** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:01 pm

especialy when multiplied by 111

Nomadic1 · Post by **Nomadic1** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:50 pm

Kovacius wrote:You people are being unfairly harsh on the US; the last I heard there was still some little island in the S.Pacific that was also using the "English" system of measurement, so we aren't the only ones, just the only "industrialized" one doing so.

Do you mean the US's Guam or American Samoa? The only countries in the world which have not adopted metric are the US, Liberia (former US colony) and Myanmar (isolated backwards regime).

IAMTHEEMPEROR · Post by **IAMTHEEMPEROR** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:02 am

That little island wouldn't be Hawaii, would it?

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:54 am

chilin' in Moscow now. ill be home on the 9th

cant wait to get back and really check out everything that has happened in my absence. wonderful progress

Macar · Post by **Macar** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 5:29 am

I have an old professor who told me that when he was in the third grade the teacher told him the that govorment had voted to switch officialy the next year to the metric system. So they all had to learn it.

He's still waiting for that change to kick in 40 year later...

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