Should the USA switch to metric?

[Rammjet]

There is one ranking back in '09 that put the USA 17th in Science and 25th in Math or Maths out of 34 countries. Some of the teachers are not truly qualified for their jobs at that specific class, say biology or chemistry or physics. Add to that what I find increasingly immature students (Yes I'm 14, ssssshhh) and the United States gets very little done. It's a shame considering how everyone used to look up to the USA.

*stifles giggling*

I was referring to your science industry, which is huge especially considering some states [I'm looking at you south carolina and louisiana] have tried to make it illegal for future coast management to account for changes in sea level (the sea can't rise of course, that's unpossible) and provide platforms for teaching religious mythology in biology classes.

[AC25]

*stifles giggling*

I was referring to your science industry, which is huge especially considering some states [I'm looking at you south carolina and louisiana] have tried to make it illegal for future coast management to account for changes in sea level (the sea can't rise of course, that's unpossible) and provide platforms for teaching religious mythology in biology classes.

The good ol' South, where fun stuff happens. trolololol... But my sister works in the pharmaceutical business, which is a huge industry. Too bad that NASA isn't working on space exploration, it really would advance us for the better. Speaking of NASA, I believe that it's a good time to change the measuring system to metric since there's nothing else to do if they are not already using metric.

[Vert]

Metric system is easier than imperial

Imperial is a bunch of conjured up measurements with no logical relativity, meanwhile metric is base 10 system. Everything in metric is divisible by 10. I mean, look, let's compare two different normal lengths with two different systems

1 feet = 12 inches
1 m = 1000 millimeters/100 centimeters/10 decimeters

see the difference?

besides, like what ridley said, it's only confusing if you don't know about it

although, centigrade (the more better way of saying celsius, you goddamn hipsters) confuzzles me

[AC25]

Metric system is easier than imperial

Imperial is a bunch of conjured up measurements with no logical relativity, meanwhile metric is base 10 system. Everything in metric is divisible by 10. I mean, look, let's compare two different normal lengths with two different systems

1 feet = 12 inches
1 m = 1000 millimeters/100 centimeters/10 decimeters

see the difference?

besides, like what ridley said, it's only confusing if you don't know about it

although, centigrade (the more better way of saying celsius, you goddamn hipsters) confuzzles me

Fahrenheit to Celsius: (F-32) * 5/9
Celsius to Fahrenheit: C*9/5 +32
Celcius to Kelvin: C+273
Kelvin to Celcius: K-273

[ASilva93]

Just a guess...you've probably used kelvin, kilos, dm^3, volts, amps, ohms, J, siemens, weber, tesla, becquerel, gy, sv, farad, coulomb and hertz too. Metres and degrees C aren't the end of metric; scientific subjects are stuffed full of SI units because science is global and many of these more exotic units are composits of the base units like metres.

I'm surprised that science isn't a bigger manditory part of the USA curriculem, from what you describe, because the USA is a huge science nation. I doubt the scientific education compares favourable in the UK, since a maths and single gcse sciences are the only manditory science qualifications here, and you get those aged 16. :\

Never have I used kelvin, dm^3, siemens, weber, tesla, becquerel, gy,sv or farad.

[Rammjet]

Never have I used kelvin, dm^3, siemens, weber, tesla, becquerel, gy,sv or farad.

Those all appeared in my physics and chemistry, maybe you used equivalents, shorthand or something. Grays and sieverts are about radiation doses, so you might have called them 'joules per kilo' or 'joules per kilo times Quality factor' respectively for instance.

[Firefight]

Ideally, yes. Practically, no.

We start learning / using SI units in high school science, so it's not that big of a deal.

[Rarity]

I will disregard the speed limit regardless if its 55MPH or 88 k/mh

Anyways, no. :3

[aaaaaa123456789]

I love how some people get confused by SI units... just how confusing do you guys think your units are? And this comes from somebody who many, many times has to convert units here... you guys won't ever post "200km", you'll talk about 125 miles.
(Yup, that's also why I usually write measurements rounded to the nearest 5 when I have to use Imperial for some reason... saves me some calculating time.)

Anyway, although it would be much simpler if you guys did change... but I somewhat don't see that happening anytime soon.

[chris0]

Should it? Yes.

Will it? No. At least, not until the older generation dies off.

~chris0

[Wolframium]

Never have I used kelvin, dm^3, siemens, weber, tesla, becquerel, gy,sv or farad.

Just for fun, here's a list of all the SI units I've had to use at various times in classes:

Meter
Kilogram
Second
Ampere
Kelvin
Mole
Lux
Lumen
Siemens
Weber
Volt
Henry
Tesla
Farad
Pascal
Joule
Newton
Watt
Ohm
Hertz
Sievert


Honestly, the only ones I have never used are katal, gray, and becquerel.

[sirham]

No. We do just fine the way we are.

[XDaReThUnDeRX]

No to complicated for my American brain.

[ASilva93]

Those all appeared in my physics and chemistry, maybe you used equivalents, shorthand or something. Grays and sieverts are about radiation doses, so you might have called them 'joules per kilo' or 'joules per kilo times Quality factor' respectively for instance.

When we talked about radiation we used Rads, which right now after looking it up I see is .01 Gy. Honestly, we barely talked about radiation, it is not even part of the syllabus for physics.

[ProClifo]

No to complicated for my American brain.

Metric is too complicated but you can figure out imperial?

[34attack]

No, it will take extremely long time. Road signs and such, U.S is one of the biggest countries after all.

[PooZy]

When we talked about radiation we used Rads, which right now after looking it up I see is .01 Gy. Honestly, we barely talked about radiation, it is not even part of the syllabus for physics.

waaaartt?

What do you actually do in physics?

Also it wouldn't take so long to convert America, just let each state do its own converting and it will take as much time as a normal country for each state. Also the end prize is worth the conversion, if you don't convert then things will only get more and more difficult in the future.

[GamersDreamz]

I find it hard to believe that it was the system's fault, rather some programmer who got confused and did something wrong.

I dont think programmers make rulers

[PooZy]

I dont think programmers make rulers

The programmers and the people who programmed challenger
If challenger went down because of problems with metric, then my guess is the programmer got confused and made a mistake when he programmed challenger and that is why it went down. Metric cannot be to blame without some kind of human error.

[GamersDreamz]

could be a glitch in the system :/