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Communist system is metric. So is the US Army system. Ever hear of "klicks' (kilometers)?
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Some of the craziest arguments on the campfire show up in these metrics vs English threads.
The thought that our success as a nation is somehow due in whole or part to our system of measurement is beyond absurd. If anything, it’s retarded our growth.
Some claim to hate the metric system. What is there to hate? That makes just a little less sense than hating a particular caliber rifle. What they’re saying is they don’t understand it and are afraid to try.
When I was doing my tool and die apprenticeship in the early’70’s we took a shot at it...like now, fear reared its ugly head and you heard all sorts of completely irrational, fear-driven arguments against it. Part of the problem was the fact that.gov and industry focused on conversion and tried going soft metric. That resulted in a Charlie Foxtrot and killed it.
Today, all my personal tools are in English units but I have metric stuff available when necessary. The coordinate measuring machine I use can go either way, but I don’t think it’s been used in English since we’ve had it. The CNC stuff and all the electronic metrology stuff converts as necessary.
The real objections to metric are fear and intellectual laziness.
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This is kind of a fun thread. The only real difficulty of either system is based on one's familiarity. People always try to convert or compare the system with which they are not familiar to the one with which they are familiar instead of learning them separately without cross-reference. I'm not saying anybody is wrong to do that because we always try to put things into a context we understand. I'm just saying that this comparison is what creates the biggest barrier to implementation of the system with which we are least familiar. The real objections to metric are fear and intellectual laziness. Exactly
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As someone who spent their working life in manufacturing, specifically aluminum extrusion, I am convinced it makes a huge amount of sense for us to go with the simpler and universally accepted metric system. As an exporter of finished extrusion, we were required to duplicate many product groups in order to compete. This carried huge costs which seriously degraded our profitability and marketability. In sticking with the English system we unnecessarily hobble our ability to compete internationally.
On the other hand, we are in a position to fill the needs of Liberia, the only other nation on the planet who is stuck in the old English system.
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