Converting to metric
This last weekend I was reminded at the pace we are converting to metric. I was on I-75 in Ohio when I saw a sign that said:
All signs metric
Next 20 miles
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All signs metric
Next 20 miles
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[:D][:D]...man, glad we did not change to that back when they first announced it YEARS ago...[;)] 
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Nothing can hold a candle to progress.
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Well I guess the sign meant to speed up. I can't read kilometers on the speedo.. 0 -
Our measuring system should have been changed to Metric decades ago. Wait a minute, I forgot that this is Gun Broker where any change or new technology causes instant fear among our members. It should come as a relief to all here that we remain aligned with Liberia and Burma by staying with the old system of weights and measures. 0 -
the rest of the world should convert to our system....and speak english too !!! 0 -
English is already the international language of science, technology and commerce and the Metric system should hold the same status for weights and measures because it is a superior system. 0 -
Is converting to metric like converting to Islam? Is metric the measurement of peace? 0 -
GO LIBERIA !!!
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I guess they will want me to change from 45 acp to a 9mm. NO NO 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Pearyw
I guess they will want me to change from 45 acp to a 9mm. NO NO
No, you just have to go from the .45 ACP to the 11.43mm ACP.[:D][:D]0 -
Does anyone remember when they converted the gas pumps to read liters instead of gallons during one of the gas crises in the '70s??
3.785 liters per gallon. I always thought it was a scam to convince us we were getting more for less money. Hope that never happens again. I'm too oriented to English/American measurements. Can't figure cups to grams. Too old to change now.
Doug
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Metric system designed by a french guy and is impractical since it gets it's base unit, the meter from an ever changing variable, 1/40,000,000 of the Earth's polar circumference or somthing like that. 0 -
Base ten is sort of easier to convert then base 12 (At least with my boots on)..... it's those pesky millimicrons that always mess me up....... 0 -
You can sense the fear in the hearts of the Gun Broker gang as the very name metric system is mentioned. This would be just another nail in the coffin for the few remaining American widget factories and the widgeters who have assembled those widgets using feet and inches since the first water wheel drove a buffalo hide belt in the factory where grandpa and pop once worked. 0 -
well.... the dinosaur that is the US auto industry has been metric since 1968 or so.... with a few notable exceptions such as the Dodge "B" van and the old Jeeps (not just WW2 Jeeps, we are talking about "that beast of an in-line 6" jeeps)
As far as travel goes, people from Michigan measure distance in Hours, not Miles or Klicks.0 -
The last time I drove anywhere in Michigan distance on the Interstate was more easily measured by the number of pot holes struck per second of driving. Are the roads any better today? 0 -
Heck I did convert to Metric a very very long time ago. I shoot a 9MM and a 6MM. I also have a 5.7 Litre in the Vette 0 -
K - Michigan still has 4 seasons: Almost Construction, Construction, Still Construction and Winter
Pot holes per second - now that's a velocity!!!!
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Many of my newer pieces of equipment have already switched to metric nuts and bolts, especially the combine heads. I now have several sets of wrenches in both formats, and I'm finally getting to where I can guess metric sizes close enough to only have to grab a small handful of tools in order to find the correct one that I need.[:D] 0 -
Will no one jump onto the Whitworth bandwagon with me ??
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Screw em, I'm not converting! 0 -
The standard for the aviation industry is still standard. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by mrseatle
Metric system designed by a french guy and is impractical since it gets it's base unit, the meter from an ever changing variable, 1/40,000,000 of the Earth's polar circumference or somthing like that.
Not any more: The meter is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second. And a second is defined on the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.
The kilogram, however, is defined on a ball of silicone that sits in a vault somewhere in Europe....and it's losing mass. They can't figure out why. They're fighting about if and how the KG should be redefined. One camp says it should be defined as a mass that can be supported by a machine supplied with certain amount of power. Others argue that would be too derivative, and that it should be defined as a certain number of molecules of a certain substance.
I'm all for the metric system. Our system has body parts as the basis of many of it's base units.0 -
...screw the metric system...and it is obvious I am not alone with this thought...we didn't change, now did we?
...Superior my butt. Maybe for the Euros, this aint Europe, thank God.
...no sense in going backwards to join the Euros with their second rate industry and methology. OH! I forgot!...Outside large metro areas most of the Euros still have those quaint villages where their main mode of transportation is a horse and wagon, plow with mules,no electricity, dirt/mud roads, haul water from a well...yeah buddy we should hurry and change over to metric so we can be as "advanced" as these backwards peasants...[;)]0 -
quote:Originally posted by mrseatle
Metric system designed by a french guy and is impractical since it gets it's base unit, the meter from an ever changing variable, 1/40,000,000 of the Earth's polar circumference or somthing like that.
Not any longer - the meter has been redefined to be based on the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
And before that, there were those meter-long platinum-iridium bars that were kept in France. True, the original definition was a variable, not a constant, but ever since those bars were made the meter has had a fixed length.0 -
transportation is a horse and wagon, plow with mules,no electricity, dirt/mud roads, haul water from a well...
Sounds exactly like the dream of the Gun Broker gang, real America where a man can be a man without the need of big cities with their crime and corruption or big government programs.0 -
quote:Originally posted by COLT
...screw the metric system...and it is obvious I am not alone with this thought...we didn't change, now did we?
...Superior my butt. Maybe for the Euros, this aint Europe, thank God.
...no sense in going backwards to join the Euros with their second rate industry and methology. OH! I forgot!...Outside large metro areas most of the Euros still have those quaint villages where their main mode of transportation is a horse and wagon, plow with mules,no electricity, dirt/mud roads, haul water from a well...yeah buddy we should hurry and change over to metric so we can be as "advanced" as these backwards peasants...[;)]
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COLT, I have no doubt that even if the rest of the USA went metric the Lone Star State would hold out, just for the hell of it [:D]. 0 -
I took a chemistry class fourty years ago. Didn't take me very long to come to the conclusion that conversion to the metric system was way overdue. Blasted shame that we are dragging this out so long. 0
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