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#11
09-22-2005, 01:30 PM
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Re: Metric Silliness
The standard (U.S.) system really starts to break down when you get down to smaller measurements. Woodworking, for example, is sooo much easier when dealing with millimeters instead of 16ths of an inch. Also, like I said, the standards system is pathetically arbitrary when it comes to comparing volume with weight, or weight with distance. Then again, perhaps I'm a bit biased.
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#12
09-22-2005, 01:36 PM
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I agree that in the chem lab and other sciences and for tooling, etc the metric system is superior. But for the applications I'm talking about where certain standards have existed for decades, it becomes impractical. When I retire in a few years they are welcome to change.
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#13
09-22-2005, 01:53 PM
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Sheesh. Give you a centimeter and you take 2.2 kilometers. [/ QUOTE ] Let me take another shot at Dan. A "kilo" as in a kilo of grass is a kilogram which is 2.2 pounds. Is that maybe why the 2.2 got in there? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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#15
09-22-2005, 02:19 PM
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I'm surprised no one has quoted this yet, so here it goes...
"Uhfg, the metric system is the tool of the devil." - Abe Simpson Actually I like it. Good for science and engineering (myself being an engineer) as everyone has stated, and huge costs for going strictly to metric as Patrick said. I think we've settled in a nice little rut. I'm serious, it's like being able to speak more than one language...nothing wrong with that.
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#16
09-22-2005, 02:38 PM
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So much for me trying to be clever. 10/1 at my place, Toro. Tourney style. [/ QUOTE ] Actually, it was very clever. Look forward to the tourney except that are we going to have to here about grandgnu's big win?
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#17
09-22-2005, 02:58 PM
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grandgnu's big win [/ QUOTE ] Nah. He's gettin' hitched that day. Not much to hear, anyway. He was 4.55% to win. Enough talk of that game we play. This is OOT fer cryin out loud. email to follow tomorrow.
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#18
09-22-2005, 04:49 PM
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It's a shame those damn Stone Cutters keep the metric system down.
WE DO! WE DO!
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#19
09-22-2005, 05:01 PM
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I find the system used in the US unscientific and impractical. [/ QUOTE ] I wish the entire planet used the same system. It would make things easier all around. But the measurement system doesn't have anything to do with science. As long as accurate and precise measurement can be made it'll do fine in any scientific application. As for practicality, well that would depend on your point of view. The system used by America seems to have been effective in helping the country become the only remaining superpower. But I see others might see it as odd much like I think the German language is odd to me. Matter of perspective I think.
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#20
09-22-2005, 05:05 PM
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The system used by America seems to have been effective in helping the country become the only remaining superpower. [/ QUOTE ] Can you elaborate on this?
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