How about the Newton thermal measurement system? 0 frozen 33 boiling (33 because that's the age Jesus died... and because Newton was a dirty stinking Mason/Templar)
Can the US just ban Celsius from the world please?
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Eomer
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That's cause most construction materials are made in the US, or will be exported to the US. So we're stuck using imperial or bastardized metric until the US gets it's shit together. It's annoying as fuck. Pipe sizes and stuff are permanently fucked though, no matter what system of measurement you use, because some are OD, some are ID, and some are nominal depending on what material or system you're talking about. It's a total shit show.
Jive Turkey
Karen
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Metric is best for the really small and really large.
I like Imperial for anything on the scale of a person. It's just easier to visualize and the measurements match up better.
I like Imperial for anything on the scale of a person. It's just easier to visualize and the measurements match up better.
Furious
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What kind of ass backwards shitty company do you work for in Canada that uses imperial on your engineered drawings? Even on the field you don't ever see imperial on lims, isos p and ids ect. It's even becoming rare to catch a trades man using a duel measuring tape.
Furious
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OD of pipe is always standard till 12" and above. Metric pipe follows the same OD sizes
Gamma Rays
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I've been working in the steel industry here in Australia for 15ish years.
We had tube supplied that was made in Japan ( some was Singapore ) Made for sale in the Australian market and yet everything was a metric equiv of the imperial version.
ie: 25.4mm : 38.1mm : 50.8mm - just stuck in the old ways I guess.
Nuts and bolts = always imperial. The only time a metric bolt might be needed would be to mount some electrical component with it's existing mounting points.
Conversations about a build can include dimensions in 'true' millimeters, then mil equiv of imperial and then just true imperial. You get used to it though, mentally switch back and forth.
We had tube supplied that was made in Japan ( some was Singapore ) Made for sale in the Australian market and yet everything was a metric equiv of the imperial version.
ie: 25.4mm : 38.1mm : 50.8mm - just stuck in the old ways I guess.
Nuts and bolts = always imperial. The only time a metric bolt might be needed would be to mount some electrical component with it's existing mounting points.
Conversations about a build can include dimensions in 'true' millimeters, then mil equiv of imperial and then just true imperial. You get used to it though, mentally switch back and forth.
Araxen
Golden Baronet of the Realm
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I know right? 12/06/13 is the proper way to display the date. You NEED to know what month it is first and then the date in that month. Knowing the date and then the month is pointless.
Lejina
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Adebisi
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It's true. After watching a live NRL game I realize Merican Football is for megapussies. A game of well padded millionaires.
Fields measured in metre's and they don't wear all that padding. Checkmate Imperialist
Australian football is for real men.
I have the weirdest boner right now
Noodleface
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The best part about engineering (and any science) school in America is everything we learn and work on is in metric. Literally never use imperial unless we have to explain it to some moron who doesn't understand what a meter is or whatever. Even voltage and current uses milli-, kilo-, Mega-, etc. It's like we know using imperial is retarded, but probably because the blacks and rednecks can't handle the change so we have to stay with it.
Caliane
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Caliane
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Engineering is precise and mechanical based on math. No shit you use metric.
Real world day to day applications however are not based on laboratory measurements. They are based on human elements of perception.
The day the imperial system dies and every single printer defaults to A4 instead of letter will be the best day, ever.
Tuco
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"I grew up using imperial, so I feel that imperial is objectively more intuitive"
