I wonder if the when the US stops burning dinosaurs in it's cars, and is fully electric, if the electric car chargers are going to work in the metric kilowatt hours, or if they are going to have them calibrated in Horsepower per fortnights or something...
@quixoticgeek thankfully motors are rated in kW and hP both and power is charged in kWh.
@tadbithuman @quixoticgeek B-but freedumb joonits!!1! 🥺
@wonka @quixoticgeek younger people do prefer the simplicity of the decimal system and the SI system, I have never seen young people complain about cm, mm or m.
@tadbithuman @wonka and kg or tonnes. Makes so much sense. Seeing NASA launch streams talking about pounds just makes me shudder. The fact you get long and short tons as well... argh
@tadbithuman @wonka And when the units get so large... I remember the time a country the size of Wales played against a country the size of Belgium. (yes real headline).
I think Acre foot, and board foot are the units that make the least sense to me...
@quixoticgeek @wonka acre foot and hectare metres as irrigation units are better than so many others, especially because you have trans national transactions in other items.
@tadbithuman @wonka hectare meter has some logic to it. That's 1m x 100m x 100m, or 1000m³. Acre foot is what? 1ft x 22 yards x 1 furlong... Which makes a convenient what in cubic something?
In the old country, India, I learnt all metric, but farmers have been measuring their fields in acres and irrigation water in inches, so acre-feet for charging for water consumption etc. is still understandable. No reason that cannot be changed and people go straight to cubic metres.
@quixoticgeek @tadbithuman Remember "Large boulder the size of a small boulder?"
@tadbithuman @quixoticgeek @wonka You only have to look at the cock-up with the Hubble Mirror, because of the merican not understanding the metric system.
@Porcia @tadbithuman @wonka Mars polar orbiter is the better option for displaying the importance of using metric...
Not to distract from the stupid unit bashing, monarchies are probably more irrational a concept than stupid units. Keep bashing both.
Every maritime exchange is in (metric) tonnes, we buy most of our structural steel internationally, in tonnes, but my drawings have to show weights in pounds and (short) tons. It is supremely stupid.
@tadbithuman @wonka My deepest sympathies. That does sound distinctly unpleasant.
@quixoticgeek @wonka football fields and Olympic swimming pools, those are the best.
It's usually the ignorance in editorial or copywriting level which is responsible for journalistic content.
There was a fatal plane crash due to weight measures being different. There is absolutely no logic in leaving units in US Imperial system.