Metric System

[CromoMann]

I suppose it could've been all the Singhas,  but I had a sort of religeous moment when I first dived with metric gauges.
1 Atmosphere = 10 M of depth - none of this 32.8nnnn bull shit to convert

I'm really not sure how exact the equality is, but with water as a foundational element of life and metric measurements - the realization that 10M below the surface equated somehow to the Atmospheric weight at sea-level...  blew my mind.

Okay - off for another glass of 'cooking' wine... another story - maybe that'll make it in the WTF thread..

-m

[Popeye the Sailor]

I suppose it could've been all the Singhas,  but I had a sort of religeous moment when I first dived with metric gauges.
1 Atmosphere = 10 M of depth - none of this 32.8nnnn bull shit to convert

I'm really not sure how exact the equality is, but with water as a foundational element of life and metric measurements - the realization that 10M below the surface equated somehow to the Atmospheric weight at sea-level...  blew my mind.

Okay - off for another glass of 'cooking' wine... another story - maybe that'll make it in the WTF thread..

-m

You sound like you have nitrogen bubbles in yer blood 

[somegirl]

Definitely prefer metric here.

A couple of the instruments I work with require both imperial and metric tools...such a pain having to haul both sets around the world with me.

[x136]

"Check out the big brain on Brett! You're a smart motherf***er. That's right! The metric system."

Another vote for moving to metric-only tools. I'll be honest: I'm lazy, and fractions are boring.

[Kopfjäger]

we tried it in 74- 75

I want those two years back

It went over like a screen door in a submarine.

[NuTTs]

Hail Squire!! I wouldst like to summon thee to a barter of 10 shillings 2 3/4 pennies for half a furlong of thine liquorice and a pint of pale ale

[somegirl]

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/news/mco991110.html

"The 'root cause' of the loss of the spacecraft was the failed translation of English units into metric units in a segment of ground-based, navigation-related mission software, as NASA has previously announced," said Arthur Stephenson, chairman of the Mars Climate Orbiter Mission Failure Investigation Board. "The failure review board has identified other significant factors that allowed this error to be born, and then let it linger and propagate to the point where it resulted in a major error in our understanding of the spacecraft's path as it approached Mars.

[Vindingo]

1 reason i am happy we use SAE is becasue im going to go grab a quater pounder with cheese. Id be pissed if i had to say Quater kilo, that owuld be one nice burger though!

Dude, it's called a Royal with cheese

[Vindingo]

Im with sac on this one.  Way too much of the construction industry would have to change here.  Almost all building materials are based off of the Standard system and it would mess a lot of the simple arithmatic used in build stuff.  studs 16"oc 4x8 sheets of plywood, etc... 

Also when I was a kid and my mother "counted to 3" and she didnt really want to hit us we got  "...1 ...2 ...2 1/2 ... 2 3/4"

[herm]

1 acre in a football field

[Sinister]

+1...although I could do without inches.  I wish we just used tenths of feet instead. I used to have a tape that gave tenths/hundredths of feet instead of inches...it was great.

Civil/Dirtwork guys do.  I'm surprised that you don't strictly deal in tenths of feet.  All our civil work, grades, and utilities are all set to tenths of feet.

[Triple J]

Civil/Dirtwork guys do.  I'm surprised that you don't strictly deal in tenths of feet.  All our civil work, grades, and utilities are all set to tenths of feet.

We do for civil/earthwork stuff. But being a tunneller, I also have a lot of structural stuff to deal with, which is all done in architectural scale and fractions of an inch. 

[SacDuc]

1 acre in a football field

Aren't forest fires here in CA measured in gigaacres? 

sac

[Grampa]

just keeping the framers and roofers off meth, is hard enough.....add in a lil "learn'n the metric system" into the mix..... nothing will ever get built again.

[Sinister]

We do for civil/earthwork stuff. But being a tunneller, I also have a lot of structural stuff to deal with, which is all done in architectural scale and fractions of an inch. 

Gotcha.