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Literally no reason not to use metric, idc who or where you are
There is a reason. When you grow up with people around you using imperial units to describe things, you think in terms of it. If you tell me 10 ft., I can picture that in my head, I have an idea of how much that is in real terms. If you tell me 10m, I have no mental idea of how much that is, even if I can convert it. It’s like a language you grow up speaking, versus one you learn later in life.
I do think metric the sole system used in schools, to be honest.
Plenty of people in Canada had no trouble switching back when we did.
The good thing with metric though is it's easier to visualise other measurements once you know one of them, cause you just know that each other measurement is just a multiple or division of the one you know. Like if you know roughly how long a centimetre is then you can take a good estimate of how long a meter is knowing that it's 100cm
I mean, yeah, I’m not arguing that imperial is a better system. Metric is superior, absolutely. I’m just arguing against the statement that there’s no reason to use it.
Did you grow up using metric?
It was much more mixed when i was in primary school but by the time I left secondary school it was fully metric. It might've fully changed before I noticed though just cause I was little and parents and grandparents would still be using imperial. I do remember having to learn imperial in school though.
Literally no reason not to drive on the right side of the street as well but maybe it does matter where you are.
While I don't disagree with that, that's just a convention. Metric is inherently superior, solves issues that other systems have and is used by, well basically the whole world.
Counterpoint: most imperial units use only one syllable. It's a mistake that we let scientists name things.
Please explain to me why I should use metric when:
??????
The funny part is we switch to metric when it's science
But only sometimes. Other times, interplanetary probes disappear.
They made fun of that on For All Mankind. An incident on Mars because Russia and America were doing calculations using different systems and someone forgot to convert.
That's based on real incident though
https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/6Page53.pdf
And computer temperatures lol
The question isn't why you should use it, but rather why all these things you've listed are still using it.
We all know that transition isn't easy, but being proud of using the inferior system is weird.
My point is that if I give someone directions in meters they're going to look at me like I have two heads, it's literally like speaking two different languages.