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Why do Americans measure everything in cups?
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this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2024
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And yet if we were to take something and make it the same length, We would have a rule about how long it was.
We could even call it something like a ruler, or whatever the metric equivalent of a yardstick is, a meter stick maybe.
And than what happens when it’s destroyed? You don’t have anything to verify it with, and using a rulered rule to rule will lead to progressively larger deviations from the true original.
This isn't any different from metric systems. If all meter sticks are destroyed, then what do you do? Build everything up again to be able to measure the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 seconds. The procedure would be exactly the same for feet, except you measure the distance travelled in 0.3048/299,792,458 seconds.
I don’t disagree with you really, I just think you’re overthinking it.
It just doesn’t matter in 99.99% of cases and for the ones that it does we have metric.
Do I wish more things in life were metric?
Fuck yes I do, I hate fractions so much, like not normally but when it comes time to have to do a conversion…