I think American use quite a lot of metric measurements already. Very popular ones include 9mm, 5.56mm x 45mm, 7.62mm x 39mm...

@basicguy5785

Жыл бұрын

The dollar is also based on metric

@NephritduGrey

Жыл бұрын

Also in medicine, science, volts, pixels, megatons, liquids, gemstones... just to name a few things Americans already use the metric system, just not officially. xD

@humate9980

Жыл бұрын

I think the 7.62 one is actually Russian 😂

@kdog3908

Жыл бұрын

Don't they call them .223 and .308 caliber or something though?

@davidjacobs7465

Жыл бұрын

25,4mm = 1 inch. 25,4 × 0,223 = 5,66mm. So a close one but not exact by a difference of 0,1mm. 25,4 × 0,308 = 7,82mm. Again close but with a bigger difference of 0,2mm... oh and 7.62 may be Russian (famous use for ak47), but it's still metric.

American Guy: "This thing is 1 foot long". My metric brain: "But all feet comes in difference sizes".

@shadowfox009x

Жыл бұрын

American recipe: Use one cup of X. My metric brain: What kind of cup? Espresso cup? Tea cup? Café au lait cup?

@LarsV62

Жыл бұрын

​@@shadowfox009x Or maybe as a British: "What size of cup?" As many other differences between American and UK measures with the same name (ounces, for one), a cup as measure is ambiguous.

@ZE.brigitte

Жыл бұрын

I'm french, AND I SWEAR TO GOD, despise being 14, I took a fucking ruler, and mesured my goddamn foot

@LAGoodz

Жыл бұрын

@@shadowfox009x this one always confuses me. A cup could mean liquid or solid, but which is which. At least 250ml of water = 250g. 1000ml = 1 kg. Doesn’t that make more sense, everything revolving around water?

@esajpsasipes2822

Жыл бұрын

@@LAGoodz it's only really true at a certain tempreature and pressure, at all others it's not exactly equal but still a good enough approximation.

Fun fact : the greek mesured the size of the Earth with a camel and the shadows of two sticks.

@mariadamedecoeur

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha damit i was fulfilling his comment section with nothing burgers and just saw your comment 😂😂😂😂😂

@Spido68_the_spectator

Жыл бұрын

Yeah and it wasn't far off from truth, comming impressively close !

@agromx224

Жыл бұрын

i know that it was measured in egypt, but was that done by greeks? i thought it was the egyptians. they did build the great pyramids in alignment with stars, so they were at least capable of doing it. from what i remember, they measured the shadows of 2 sticks at the same time of day, and due to their no-equal length proved the curvature of earth.

@tapiredanslombre9588

Жыл бұрын

@@agromx224 in fact Eratosthenes was a Greek mathematician and astronomer of the 3rd century BC Jesus Christ (born in -276, died in -194). He lived in Alexandria where, as director for several years from the great library of Alexandria, he had access to practically all the mathematical and scientific literature of his time. He has left some original works, whose measurement, remarkably precise for the time, of the earth's circumference. The measurement of the angle between the stick and the sun's rays should be taken at Alexandria at noon on the day of the summer solstice. This allows the comparison with Syènewhere, the city being on the Tropic of Cancer, the rays of the sun are perfectly vertical at this time. On the geometric model we see the extension of the ray of the sun which, from Syene, goes straight towards the center of the earth. In fact, this was known by Eratosthenes. At noon on the day of the summer solstice, there was no shade at the bottom of a well in Syène, the sun being exactly vertical to the well. Essentially, to measure the earth's circumference, Eratosthenes has used two commonplace things in his time: - a stick planted vertically in Alexandria and whose angle with the rays solar is equal to the angle at the center of the earth between Alexandria and Syene, as the geometric model shows it. - a camel to measure the distance between the two cities. Camels were reputed to have a very even pitch. Several hypotheses exist: perhaps that Eratosthenes simply measured the average distance traveled by a camel in a day and multiplied by the number of days the journey takes, maybe he used a step counter (a bematist, a real profession to the time to measure the distances) in which case the steps measured could have been those of a camel, probably, but perhaps those of a man. 😉

@agromx224

Жыл бұрын

@@tapiredanslombre9588 so i just heard the short form of that story before. thanks for taking the time to write all that out :)

It is kinda ironic that the US fought a war to be independent from the influence and the shackles of a king and yet cling to the imperial measuring system like to an old love you can´t get over.

@84com83

Жыл бұрын

But the "Independence" was declared before the French revolution. wasn´t it?

@IDKLOL-vw9yy

Жыл бұрын

@@84com83 no the french revolution was before us was somewhat under controll of the british empire and freed themself before uk changed to metric

@ArcticWolfGod

Жыл бұрын

Well yeah, the whole "muh freedom" is a well known caricature for a reason. They don't exactly keep raving about that "freedom" of theirs for well thought out reasons.

@GH-oi2jf

Жыл бұрын

There is no irony. The American Revolution was not about units of measurement.

@Thurgosh_OG

Жыл бұрын

Add to that Irony, the fact that US pints are smaller than UK pints (UK pint = 20oz/568ml - US pint = 16oz/473ml). So they changed some of the Imperial measures, at some point for alternative 'Imperial' measures.

Between Imperial Units, Fahrenheit degrees for temperature, 12 hour time system, writing dates in an order of MM/DD/YY and starting their week on Sunday in calendars, I am by now convinced we are living in different realities 🤣

@TheProkonover

Жыл бұрын

Add the political issues that only US has and you will be convinced that there are two realities happening at once: US's reality and Rest of the World

@RavensBlue

Жыл бұрын

I thought in the US they start their week on Monday in calendars. In Portugal we start the week on Sunday because Monday is "segunda-feira", literally "second fair" (and tuesday is thrid, wednesday fourth, etc.)

@plumebrise4801

Жыл бұрын

@@RavensBlue Well yeah countries that are still atleast little bit Christian (Or Muslim) use the correct day to start the week (Aka Sunday) Otherwise it's Monday that became the 1st day of the week due to American softpower/Irregelion becoming the majority everywhere (In France ,we were using Sunday as the 1st day before we switched to Monday during the Cold War)

@maraboo72

Жыл бұрын

@@plumebrise4801 If I remember correctly according to the bible it was the 7th day god had a break not the first one.

@BestAnimeFreak

Жыл бұрын

The order of dates is just horrible >. You order it depending on length ... either the longest first, going down to the shortest (YY/MM/DD) or the shortest first, going up to the longest (DD/MM/YY) ... The month is ALWAYS in the middle ... not doing that makes no sense at all >.

The main problem with Imperial units is, that you have different units for the same task: measuring length for instance. You have inches, feet, yards and miles, each of them arbitrarily defined, and thus you have 12 inches in a foot, but 3 feet in a yard and 1760 yards in a mile. In SI units, there is exactly one unit of length, the meter. Kilometer or Millimeter are no new units, just meters times a power of 10. In imperial units, you have units of area and units of volume, which are not compatible with the units of length. A gallon is not a cubic foot or something easy, but 128 fluid ounces, and 231 cubic inches. While 128 might be somehow understandable (2 to the power of 7), but why 231 cubic inches? 3 times 77 cubic inches? Where does the 77 come from? In SI units, the unit of volume is the cubic meter: 1 meter of length times 1 meter of height times 1 meter of depth. Quick and easy to remember. Imperial units were designed before Isaac Newton discovered the fundamental Laws of Mechanics and the Law of Gravity. Before Isaac Newton, scientists didn't notice that mass is a property of a body, but weight is the force on a body in a gravitational field. Thus, pound was used for both the mass and the weight. Now, we have pound-force, but again, arbitrarily defined as the force a body of a mass of 1 pound experiences in the average gravitational field of the Earth at the Earth's surface. In SI units, the unit of Mass is kilogram, and according to Newtons first law, Force is the acceleration of a mass, thus Force is measured in kilogram times meters per square second, as meters per square second is the unit of acceleration.

@JustMe-sh8nd

Жыл бұрын

you just blow my mind out of my skull, what a mess they created for themself

@tibouzankor1997

Жыл бұрын

Uhhh….what? I did not understand a single thing there😂😂

@mariadamedecoeur

Жыл бұрын

So isn't feet ect a bit of wacist or something like that??? Cos my feet are really little so 😂😂😂😂😂

@Patrik6920

Жыл бұрын

..first, imperial system of units is a mess and should never be used.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDIT this comment has been altered due to sevral mathematical error in conversion between imperial units and metric, at the time of writing i used ml as an one dimentional value..but it represent an 3 dimensional volume, this has now been corrected ------------DID-I-MENTION-IMPERIAL-UNITS-IS-A-MESS-------------------- Since 1985: The Weights and Measures Act 1985 defined a gallon to be exactly 4.54609 L ...also ALL Imperial units is now defined by the SI(Metric system) to avoid errors as faar as possible till countries still depending on it has switched over.. a few corrections 1 Imperial fluid ounce = 28,4130625 ml (milli-liter) = (1,7338714549476343047174283324945 cubic inches) 1 Imperial fluid ounce = 0.96076 US Customary Fluid ounces 1 Fluid Ounce (28,4130625 ml) 1 Pint = 20 fl oz. (568.26125 ml) 1 Gallon = 160 fl oz.(4546.09 ml) = 277,41943279162148875478853319911 square inch also dry/wet weight and volume was different units, but since 1824 act joined. still grain, fluid, minerals, valuble metalls and gemstones(diomonds, rubines etc..) are all different units of measurment 1 gem ounce is not equal to 1 fluid ounce is not equal to 1 grain ounce .... comfusing as f'... and if u dont know the chance for errors is enrmous even baking using imperial units is a pain 1 oz salt is not equal to 1 oz grain/flour is not equal to 1 oz water.... try doing scientiffic calculations and ur in for a treat... ...even scientists that grew up with this obsolete system constantly makes misstakes in calculations... (not surpricing) in metric there is one unit the meter, deci(1/10), centi(1/100), milli(1/1000), micro(1/1000000) is just describing fractions of the unit, converting and doing calculations as far easier. 1 Liter = Cubic deci-meter = 1Kg, and 1Kg accelerates towoard center of earth with the force of 1G= 9.82Nm/S2...its a connected system based on science...

@corrbhan5138

Жыл бұрын

And t make matters worse, a US gallon is not the same as a UK gallon.

Btw.: Even the imperial system is now based on metric. An inch is 2.54 centimeters. Not just about that, but exactly, that's how the inch is defined now. So every change to metric (for example more exact measurements leading to a change in the 10th digit) carry over to imperial automatically. Imperial just rides on top of metric now, for those people who like it a bit more complicated.

@gerardflynn7382

Жыл бұрын

The only people that want more complication are Nerds.

@bonbonpony

Жыл бұрын

@@gerardflynn7382 If by "complication" you mean "development", then yes.

@lulu111_the_cool

Жыл бұрын

​@@gerardflynn7382 nerds would use metrics

@Taskmasterxyz

Жыл бұрын

@@lulu111_the_cool It's better in every way.

@roteira

Жыл бұрын

Bruh, not even 2.55cm... I understand it's a base 2 scale but seems they want it to be complicated on purpose

Smart people don´t run for office, Ryan. People who run for office are usually not the brightest canlde on the cake, but the fattest, power-greedy ones.

@CarFreeSegnitz

Жыл бұрын

Those who hold public office have proven only one thing about themselves: they can win elections. Repeat these steps: spot popular movements, insinuate yourself into that group, pretend to be the one leading the movement.

@bonbonpony

Жыл бұрын

Well, they are smart enough (or should I say _clever_ enough) to fool millions of people into submission, including the brightest scientist, so… :q

@ngocminhpham5665

Жыл бұрын

Then the people who vote them in are even dumber. So where are all your smart people?

@Wojtek1250XD

Жыл бұрын

People running for power are often exactly the individuals you don't want in the position of power

@dominiklange8382

11 ай бұрын

Honestly I would have thought because we had guillotine back then for people in power

"They have to be in cahoots with the politicians to pass this kind of stuff?" Actually, in the case of the French Revolution, they mostly killed all the old guard (conservative) politicians, which is how they actually managed to do some progressive and useful things for society despite their initial cost.

@Derzull2468

Жыл бұрын

"some progressive and useful things" that period is called "the terror". "despite their initial cost." You mean the same cost as always, a pile of dead bodies. Cutting the heads of all the competent people served them well at Trafalgar. And an emperor is much better than a king. Progress.

@headhunter1945

Жыл бұрын

@@Derzull2468 Lay off the drugs and make some sense. I bet you think the imperial measurement system is a good idea.

@Derzull2468

Жыл бұрын

@@headhunter1945 The metric system and the enlightenment overall are a blessing. But I don't think praising the murder of a whole bunch of people is that great.

@headhunter1945

Жыл бұрын

@@Derzull2468 It is preferable to the murder of an even greater amount of people. The difference between us is that I don't think the lives of the rich are worth more than the lives of the poor.

@Hube02

Жыл бұрын

damn dude you dont know your history very well when you say what you say. Metric system is hella better, thats obvious. But revolution in that shape wasn't good thing at all. Revolution devours its children. Always.

I'm from Belgium and as an engineer I'm very familiar with the metric system of course and a bit with the medievel (sorry for the word) system. I cannot understand why it is still used. But in fact, compare it with the European currency: before 2002 every country in Europe had its own currency. Every time you travelled you needed to switch currency and you didn't know exactly how much money you spent. In 2002 we started to use the Euro. In the beginning we had to adapt to this new currency, but after a few years everybody got used to it and now we all know exactly the value of the Euro. If we Europeans can change our money, I'm sure the Americans can also change from imperial to metric. What are you guys waiting for !

@JustMe-sh8nd

Жыл бұрын

Becouse America is the greates country of the world with the best systems, helathcare and what not hahahah those fools are sooo brainwashed

@xx-qv9tp

Жыл бұрын

What we're waiting for is NOT your approval. Who the hell cares if you adopted the Euro, or a metric system. You're clearly being controlled or influenced by your government, so your take/views mean absolutely nothing to us Americans. The mere fact that you're here shilling for it shows how much of an NPC you truly are.

@ArcticWolfGod

Жыл бұрын

The euro has nothing to do with this subject, measurements and currency just aren't the same at all. 1 reason to resist the change is that it would be expensive. Every single road sign with miles would become outdated, and they might need road signs with both measurements in the transition period. Every car with a mile meter would also become outdated after the full transition. I'm sure there are tons of other examples of where it will cost for both the government, and the people. It just isn't that simple of a deal, and rarely things are THAT simple when you really look into it.

@martinburke362

Жыл бұрын

The euro is a centralised control mechanism

@NiekNooijens

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcticWolfGod it's an example of change. You say metrication is expensive because all the road signs need the new units. Guess what? When the euro was introduced, all prices in all supermarkets had yo be changed as well as ATM's and cash registers all over the continent. It's the same.

4:30 actually there was originally an effort to make time metric, too. A day would have been divided into 10 hours, each hour into 100 minutes and each minute into 100 seconds. The reason this change was rolled back after a very short time was that it would have required to replace all public clocks, which would have been prohibitively expensive. So at the end of the day, the second is a metric units, and the derived units (minute, hour, day, year) continue to be officially authorized derived units, despite not being based on the unit 10.

@comet.x

Жыл бұрын

yeah good luck making years and months metric

@PyrokineticFire1

Жыл бұрын

i disagree with categorizing a second as a metric unit (for now). because it's used by the metric system to define units, it's now a set amount of time and not the 1/86,400th of a day. days are getting ever so slightly longer, so they had to preserve it's value for the integrity of metric system. metric seconds will become a thing once earth's days are longer than 86400 metric seconds long, but for now it's too miniscule to worry about (we struggle to be accurate enough that this would even matter)

@arthur_p_dent

Жыл бұрын

@@PyrokineticFire1 the second totally is one of the SI basic units. However, it ceased being defined as the 86,400th part of the day a long time ago, and for the reasons you cited - the "Earth day" not being a universal, unchanging constant. Nowadays the second is defined by the physical properties of a Cesium isotope. The definition would still work even if Earth ceased to exist.

@GrotesqueSmurf

Жыл бұрын

@@comet.x It's very easy when you get to redifine a second..

@SunShine-xc6dh

Жыл бұрын

Oh so changing measurements was to hard for them huh. I mean I can measure 1 foot, 10 feet, 100 feet, 1000 feet, so it must be metric...

mistake! The video said there are only three countries that don't use the metric system, it didn't say that all three use the imperial system. Myanmar uses neither metric nor imperial, it has a traditional system of its own. Liberia would officially continue to use the imperial system since it is a US colony, but the people practically use the metric system. The United States is the only country in the world that still uses Babylonian units of measurement

@Lo1wirm

Жыл бұрын

As a funny sidenote. The US is technicly metric, because all the imerial messurments are defined by the metric system. They just use weird intervals.

@anubis9151

Жыл бұрын

@@Lo1wirm Not just that, medicine, engenering, so on and so forth might have the imperial system, but it also has if not garantied, bery likely at least, the metric system. I'm just waiting for the new system to be released, since even the metric is based on our planet, but the system should be based on the laws of the universe itself, like the rest of it's parts. I think it's only a matter of time before a new and better system is made, the real question is, before or after space travel becomes mainstream?

@TheRealNikos

Жыл бұрын

​@@anubis9151 But the metric is already based on time of the speed of light (which is like a law, it doesn't change). And generally they are based on some way on such laws. Before the idea was to define meters with the planet, but that change.

@Solidefex

Жыл бұрын

@@anubis9151 There won't ever be a new system that you will get to use on a day by day basis like the metric system. As you mentioned, it is a human scale. As a human it won't get bigger than that and there are already units in place for intergalactic travel it's just that you have absolutely no reason to ever use a bigger scale as long as you don't work in somewhere in the spacecraft industry. Sure the large units we use like lightyears are susceptible to change as they are derived units but I don't think you ever said that you have a 2,114e-13 lightyears work commute, nor will you ever. Put simply the system already exists and it has nothing to do with either the metric or the imperial system. Also the metric system is legitimately based on the laws of the universe. It is striving for our units to not be defined by human understanding but by hard facts. It's actually very interesting to read into the SI system and their achievemnts within it.

@astree214

Жыл бұрын

@@anubis9151 All actual metric values are now based on universal values that aren't related to earth, they're available on the other side of the Universe length : speed of light time : Cesium 133 transition frequency mass : Planck constant ...

You asked about time.... actually the french (under Nepoleon Bonaparte) wanted to change the clock system to metric as well. Meaning, a day has 10 hours, a hour has 100 minutes and a minutes has 100 seconds. But that was too much of a leap for the population, same as the 10 day week. And it also would have meant, that ALL existing clocks would be useless and need to be replaced by new ones. And clocks were expensive back then, so people didn't like the idea at all. And thats why we still have 24 hours, 60 minutes and seconds today.

@iseeyou3129

Жыл бұрын

one second would be 19% faster with metric time

@petebeatminister

Жыл бұрын

@@iseeyou3129 Yeah, thats why you would need new clocks. They actually do exist from around 1800, but are pretty rare collectors items. Basically, it doesn't matter how a day is divided, its still a day. It just much easier to calculate when using metric divisions.Its the same as withe weeks and month - a astronomical year stays always the same.

@lucasgillis

Жыл бұрын

​@@iseeyou3129It doesn't make any sense, how could a second be 19% faster? That's not how it works

@Findalfen

Жыл бұрын

And the sexagesimal system, inherited from Babylon is quite useful as you can evenly divide hours or minutes into 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 or 30 intervals.

@iseeyou3129

Жыл бұрын

@@lucasgillis there's 86,400 seconds in one day but in metric time there's 100,00 seconds

"it's intuitive because that's what we grew up using" as obvious as it sounds... those are wise words indeed.

@sebasblos1

Жыл бұрын

Yeah and the thing is... is wrong... imperial is far from being intuitive. 12 inches is a foot, 3 foot is a yard, i dont know how much is a mile but is around more than 1000 yards thats for sure... you need to fucking remember every single measurement while metric is far simpler 1000 milimeters is one meter or 100 centimeters, 1000 meters is one kilometer, etc 1000 grams is a kilogram, 1000 kilograms is one ton, etc

@mahuk.

Жыл бұрын

@@sebasblos1 I get you, I don't know imperial because I'm not from the US, but when I put myself on the shoes of someone who grew up using imperial ofc it makes sense. This is not a "metric is more intuitive" case. This is "what I grew up with and is everywhere around me is more intuitive" situation.

@SF64

11 ай бұрын

This is the excuse especially for temperatures, of course to them °F feels more human, they've not grown up with °C and made the association that 30° is really hot when to them it means it's cold. To me the connection of the freezing and boiling points of water feels more generally intuitive. The most insuler comment I've heard is that 0°f - 100°f is the bearable range, anything beyond that isn't bearable, which ignores that that is somewhat subjective to an individuals perception rather than a global constant (I'm aware water purity and atmospheric pressure does make a difference between freezing and boiling points of water, which is why Celsius is based on pure water at average sea-level pressures, water will boil at lower temperatures up on mountains, so you'd need a pressurised kettle to make a good cup of tea on mount Everest 😅)

When ever I watch US-american movies or shows, I do crappy math in my head to understand what you guys are talking about. Love you anyways, best wishes from Germany 🌻

@bidentity69

Жыл бұрын

Fahrenheit is a complete mystery to me . Even it's fixed points are bizarre . Every time the temperature is mentioned in an American show or book ,I am totally baffled !

@bochica3562

Жыл бұрын

@@bidentity69 same! 😂

@wolfwilkopter2231

Жыл бұрын

@@bochica3562 When i think, that, ironically, some Americans actually refer to the old colonial units as "Freedomheit"...^^ Also in science, medicine and military, the metric units are pretty much standard in the US already and where they are not, they get converted all over the place. Coz in the End, the metric system is much easier and much more accurate and consistent. I mean, look at temperatures, look at lengths, look at mass, look at volume, even time or date, so many different units, measurements and writings, all arbitrary and incoherent and bluntly confusing and annoying af. And yeah the in your head approximating conversions you have to do, is also taking a lot of fun out of stuff and adds an additional layer of brainwork to do, which slow the processing of the relevant information.

@sllevy

Жыл бұрын

It's the same here in Brazil. When I see a doctor stating that the patient's temperature is 78º F, my first reaction is to imagine someone burning.

@kayemm_86

8 ай бұрын

Fahrenheit: water freezes at 32°F and boils at 212°F. And the difference of 10°C is 18°F.

The same is true for paper sizes. Most of the world uses DIN, like DIN A4 instead of letter size.

@sacha8uk

Жыл бұрын

Which is interesting, because the ratio between the length and the width of the sheet is always the square root of 2, however many times you cut the sheet in two equal parts.

@maxbarko8717

Жыл бұрын

@@sacha8uk And it makes it easy to buy fitting envelopes. In the US it is a mess and there are so many different envelope sizes.

@altoclef6688

Жыл бұрын

Which stems from SI - an A0 is one square meter. A1 half of that et c

@maxbarko8717

Жыл бұрын

@@altoclef6688 It originates in Germany (DIN). But like other things, Americans prefer more complicated ways.

@altoclef6688

Жыл бұрын

@@maxbarko8717 Yes. But the choice of a square metre has a SI connection. DIN covers a vaste field of stuff, it has contributed a lot to engineering.

As a Ucrainian that lives in Italy, you're not a stupid american. Stop refering to yourself as one. The williness to learn is what matters and is admirable and you are capable of that.

@hb-kw4mr

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, i get annoyed when we europeans act like we are superiour to them or something. No need for that. We equals.

@PUARockstar

Жыл бұрын

As an italian living in Ukraine, I agree

@nagchampa1990

Жыл бұрын

@@hb-kw4mr Yes we are all equal... except for the USA, Liberia and Myanmar... they are equal differently

@synthfur05

Жыл бұрын

​@@hb-kw4mramerican education system based on "we threw money on smarts from another country". Result we can see on every american. For example this youtuber. Basic stuff from other educational system he finds it somewhat new which means you knkw what

@XD1999cable

Жыл бұрын

@@hb-kw4mr Sometimes you are even worst than americans by arrogance.

Hahaha "why did people used to be smarter back in those days??" you just made me spill/spilt my coffee 😂😂😂😂😂

@JUMALATION1

Жыл бұрын

Him saying that made me snort 😆 Idk how smart it was to execute a lot of people (even "innocent" noble people, not wanting to hurt a fly) during the French revolution prior to this 😅

@CdrmnkNathan

Жыл бұрын

Those in charge were the people smart enough to avoid getting their heads lopped off.

@OBL123

Жыл бұрын

​@@JUMALATION1 I mean, they still obtained their freedom in this way, so more power to them.

@bonbonpony

Жыл бұрын

In some cases this might actually be an improvement: if you get rid of all those destructive people who kept you under their shoes for decades, parasiting on the society and keeping it from growth. Now we don't have such a way of getting rid of the stinkers, and just look how it ended up: all the stinkers have all the power and parasite on the entire civilization of Earth like never before.

@Doki_LP

Жыл бұрын

Because natural selection was a thing and dumb people didn't survive

Before I see someone comment "But did it win the Space Race?". The answer is Yes, NASA used and still uses the Metric System. The measurements had to be converted to Imperial units for the manufacturing process. Edit: 04:25 - M-K-S... Meter, Kilogram, Second.

@edmondgautier8301

Жыл бұрын

The beginning of US Space industry employed german engineers like von braun. They all used metric system.

It actually took years to measure the first meter. Since they couldn't measure the whole length from northpole to the equator, they measured from dunkirk to barcelona which is roughly 1/10 of the length. They did it using methods of triangulation and modern Equipment

@foobar1500

Жыл бұрын

These were indeed large scientific projects of the day; another one was the triangulation survey of the Struve Geodetic Arc, stretching from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea over 2800 km to the south.

@seraphina985

Жыл бұрын

I mean to be fair we had a pretty good estimate of the circumference back in the 3rd century BC. Eratosthenes measurement was a little on the large size with the true value being just bellow the lower bound of his estimate but not by much. His estimate was in the region of 40,250 to 45,900 kilometres, the actual values are 40,008 km polar and 40,075 km equatorial. But still you know this was done with a couple of sticks and a camel to travel between observation points over 2,200 years ago. Over the years this was further refined with more data from more observations but it makes it really depressing that modern humans have trouble figuring out such simple things with advanced computers and the internet etc which ancient people were figuring out with sticks, camels, and an abacus thousands of years ago.

@Tuboshi0815

Жыл бұрын

meter used to be defined as the length of the equator. had nothing to do with the length from northpole to equator.

@foobar1500

Жыл бұрын

@@Tuboshi0815 Original proposal was to define it on basis of a pendulum. The one that stuck before the prototype metre was formed was specifically "one ten-millionth of the length of a great circle quadrant along the Earth's meridian through Paris", not length along the equator.

@Tuboshi0815

Жыл бұрын

@@foobar1500 you are right

The second is measured with cesium, it is based on a certain number of it's vibrations and is very very precise (around 10 decimals), and today's atomic clocks, uses cesium to be precise.

@Achillionable

9 ай бұрын

Thanksfully americans also use seconds

Favorite metric system quote is by Josh Bazell. “In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade-which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. ... Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go f**k yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”

During Napoleon's rule the Grand Duchy of Baden in south west Germany became an ally of France. Tulla was an officer and civil engineer in the army of the Grand Duke. The Ecole Polytechnique in Paris was founded as a military academy during the French Revolution and Tulla received permission to stay there for studies for some time. The Ecole Polytechnique enjoyed the reputation as the leading engineering school in the world (it's still very reputable). Returning from Paris Tulla initiated two things: firstly he recommended to the Grand Duke to establish an engineering academy along the principles of the Ecole Polytechnique, the Technical University of Karlsruhe. And secondly he recommended giving up old unit systems in favour of the French system with Meter, Kilogramm, and Second (MKS) which became the Systeme International des poinds et messures (SI). The next to adopt the MKS system was the German Kingdom of Württemberg, east of Baden. After the wars with Napoleon and after the Congress of Vienna, industrialisation was picking up speed in German countries and the advantage of the French metric system was recognized gradually all over Germany.

I like the fact that you are always so supportive for up and coming channels, man.

@mikeparkes7922

Жыл бұрын

Lol.

@barefoot2470

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeparkes7922 what‘s funny?

Something to not mentioned here is how interlinked all the metric measurements were. You had the Metre which was defined by the circumference of the earth. Then you have the Litre which is 1000cm³. And the Kg which was the weight of 1 litre of water. And the KiloCalorie which is the energy required to raise the temperature of 1 litre of water by 1°C

I am so happy to live in Europe xD

Portugal was one of the first to adopt metrics, and even to this day, villagers/old people still talk about the old measures that are actually not in use for almost 2 centuries. When they talk about them, they are aware of the equivalent metric unit.

@diogorodrigues747

Жыл бұрын

This is true. Some of my grandparents still talk about some of those measures when they talk, although they don't really use them at all. Those ancient measurements are also very present in traditional and old songs as well.

Not necessarily that people were significantly smarter before in government, but rather that the noteworthy ones from all time are remembered, referred to, and made an example of. Just as with songs, you remember the greats and their impact. An architech whose works remain standing vs. an architech whose work does not Also, the example you react to right here was just after the "age of enlightenment" your desire to appear as an intellectual was different and your recorded self was on paper, not constantly on internationally accessible social media showing your every side, regardless how relevant to your desire and ability to govern.

@herrbonk3635

Жыл бұрын

Your point makes sense. But still, government officials and architects were usually much more serious and responsible 100-150 years ago than in the postmodern deconstructivist fantasy world we live in. (Not sure about musicians though; music schools are fantastic today.)

@herrbonk3635

Жыл бұрын

​@Peter de Jong Please note that I was talking about the 1800s and early 1900s. No wars were started in my part of the world at that time. The brutality and insanity of the middle ages came back with socialism! Say in Sovjet, China, Germany (National Socialists), Italy (the fascism led by marxist Mussolini) and so on. Postmodern deconstructivists are still thinking in very marxist terms, so much of that totalitarian mentality remains. I'm optimistic when/if there are reasons for it, not because you say I should be... :D Also, most of the scientific groundwork for our technological achievements during the last 50 years was done before WWII. And the mathematical grounds for it was largely invented and sorted out around the 1700s.

@bonbonpony

Жыл бұрын

@Peter de Jong Also keep in mind that wars are often an impulse for developing new technologies and ideas. Nothing is a better proof that "Knowledge is Power" than an arm race, in which developing a technology faster than your enemy gives you advantage and can even help you win the war. Like the radar, for example, that allowed the British to detect German airplane bombers approaching before they got close enough to be visible. Or read about all the inventions Archimedes came up with to protect the city of Syracuse sieged by Romans. Wars end, but knowledge remains, and can then help us grow in the times of peace.

@bonbonpony

Жыл бұрын

@Peter de Jong _"Archimedes is an ancient myth"_ Oh, you are one of _those_ people? ;q What else? Rome didn't exist either? Dude, what are you even talking about. If you made just the basic research (i.e. on Wikipedia), you would find TONS of historical sources documenting Archimedes's life, as well as his involvement in the siege of Syracuse during the Second Punic War, and his inventions that helped protect the city. Not only from Greek sources, but from Roman sources as well. Also I never said that war is good. I just said that despite all its atrocities, it often causes development of science and engineering because "a need is the mother of inventions". During the time of peace, science might thrive too, but there isn't that much pressure on developing it and even less pressure on applying it. Ideas might develop, but they're not necessarily converted to new technologies until there's an actual need to do that. (Like with the radar.) Anyway, I don't think that you're a good partner for me to discuss such things, so let me end on that note.

3:45 it was the same when the euro was introduced. For years people were still converting euro to their old currency to get an understanding of how much something cost. Mostly then complained at how higher the prices were. 😂

@monkeybusiness673

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, in eastern Germany it became a bit of a meme to convert Euro to D-Mark and then to Ostmark, sometimes with ridiculous rates. "WHAT?! 5€? That's 10 DM; almost 50 Mark Ost! That's 500 Mark Ost on the Black Market!" x'D

Even in a country as small as the Netherlands, people choose to define their own standards - until the ridiculousness enforced change. Like how clocks were not synchronised, which made "I’ll be arriving at noon" a very flexible concept, from one town to another.

@michaeltempsch5282

Жыл бұрын

In Sweden it took the building of the railroads to get a unified time - putting two trains on the same line because the two ends had different opinions on what the time was, was bad ... For axwhile there were 4 different times one might've had to consider in Sweden; the _local time_ Ömsolar time (based on longitude, differing 45 minutes between Haparanda and Strömstad, 24 minutes between the 2 largest cities of Stockholm and Gothenburg. _Railroad time_, based on Gothenburg time, was chosen for the railroads, and many stations had clocks w/ dual minute hands (local and railroad). _Telegraph time_ I suspect its use in trades required everyone to be able to agree to what time something was sent.@ _Navigation time_ - likely to avoid the need of local tables for things like celestial navigation and tide charts. In 1878 a single time was introduced (based on a compromise, as Stockholm, capital, wouldn't see railroad/Gothenburg time, over Stockholm time - so a compromise somewhere in-between was agreed.

@margreetanceaux3906

Жыл бұрын

@@michaeltempsch5282 Dutch railroads too ;-)

I would think that america want to get rid off measurment units of former opressor

I can't imagine doing science without the metric system or something similar.

Fun fact, In 1793 a French standard metric is going to be delivered to Thomas Jefferson, but It was intercept and stolen by a group of British privateers(Pirates sponsored by the British to steal from the countries they don't like).

2:30 It's not so much that people were smarter, or that politicians were. But it's that a Revolution was the perfect context to pass radical changes, without the weight of such an elite class caring more about their place than policies and people. Scientists were simply listened to, because there wasn't a political motivation to not do so. That's also why the most advanced and progressive societies are those who those kind of restructurations and new constitutions more frequently than just once every few centuries.

@rohan1864

Жыл бұрын

That's a big simplification. For scientists to be listened to by common people when they tell them to stop using units they'd been using their whole lives requires not just a lack of political opposition but an active support. The notion that "politicians used to be smarter" is actually quite correct. The social structure used to be different, back then there were profound divisions between social classes. People who would later go on to beccome politicians were ones born into the rich elite families, brought up with versatile education in an atmosphere of art and intellectualism. French revolution aimed at abolishing such social divisions, but it came from a society in which they were present. In some ironic aspects it was a product of them.

Details and fun facts: - When the month was divided into three ten-day weeks, only the last day was for rest. This meant only three days off a month (instead of four) after a 9-day working week.... Of course everyone rebelled against this new usage and it was VERY quickly abandoned!!!! - the other idea that didn't work was 10-hour days (still based on 10 mathematics, with 100 minutes)... But that would have meant changing all the clock systems in the whole country... difficult... Especially as a home clock was a luxury in those days, and in France it was church bells that told the time... an idea quickly abandoned too! Nowadays, you can sometimes come across so-called "revolutionary" clocks in antique shops, with two dials (10-hour and 24-hour). These are rare and expensive collectors' items, as few of them were ever produced! From 🇫🇷

In england we have feet and inches on one side of a tape measure, and metric on other side. We also use pounds and ounces alongside metric weights. You can pick and choose as you like

You might be interested by the video "History of the metric system - The metre". It is funny and informative

You are so right about the smartness of people back in those days. Common sense and practicality were considered which are not in use today.

@bencze465

Жыл бұрын

Today the stupid and loud masses have more power than they used to. It's the change democracy and internet brought us. Would have been better if people actually tried to improve themselves now that we have a chance to, but the majority don't, yet feel entitled that their opinion counts for something (it shouldn't by default just if you have knowledge/experience in the subject and a reasonably defendable position).

@StefanC123

Жыл бұрын

People weren't smarter, they were simplier and more obedient. For their lifes, it made no difference if distance is 1km or 0,62...miles or whatever. They adapted because why not. While Americans don't because they want to be special, they still want a reminder for their connection to the monarchy (Americans deeply want to be ruled by a king) and the world has to adapt to them and not the other way around, like a defient child.

@obinator9065

Жыл бұрын

mate, most people didnt have high school education

@ngaourapahoe

Жыл бұрын

@@obinator9065 Sure, but common sense was present which cannot be acquired at any school.

@StefanC123

Жыл бұрын

@@obinator9065 What exactly does that mean? Now much more people have highschool education, so why do Americans still not adapt? Or did they adapt in Europe because they were not in highschool back in the day? The usage was way simplier, for everyday stuff such as weight or distances. Today's usage of units is way more complicated, so why still convert feet into miles/metres or °F into °C into K, therefore keep another possibilty for errors instead of growing up with basic SI units? Do you know how much easier you grow up if you convert cm into m instead of inch into feet? Makes no sense.

- What's your shoe size? - A... foot? Duh.

I think the number system thing was due to the fact that Algebra was all the rage with the middle eastern nations during their enlightenment and they were using ideas from India. But doing algebra with roman numerals is nigh impossible. So it was eventually adopted. At least thats what I 'think' it was. I think I remember reading that somewhere, but I can't be sure.

In Canada, we're somehow caught between the two systems. The majority of people continue to measure their weight in pounds and their height in feet and inches. But when you go to the butcher, you order 500 grams (roughly 1 pound) of ground beef, or whatever. Outside of our personal weight, almost everything else is measured in grams and kilograms. Oddly, it's still a pound of butter.

UK hasn't totally adopted the metric system. UK was "forced" to change a lot of things as part of our membership of EU. However, we have a hybrid approach. If you buy things in shops they will generally be sold in metric units. But clothes sizes still are generally given in inches. In pubs beer is still sold in pints. Speed limits are in miles per hour, nearly all road signs give distances in miles. Most people will give their height in feet and inches and weight in stones and pounds.

@edmondgautier8301

Жыл бұрын

The same everywhere. In every country there are customary units used in some trades or activities, even in france.

@Peterigepan

Жыл бұрын

Point being that UK people have no idea how long 200km drive is and how much 1kg of chicken looks like on a plate? Cause you can know both

@Mobin92

Жыл бұрын

The numbers sizes of clothes actually have units??? I thought it was just random numbers... And the only one I can trust are for shoes and jeans...

@michaelschuckart2217

5 ай бұрын

@@Mobin92 Collar width of shirts are given in centimeters or inch.

Every time I have your notifications is like having my son visiting me, enormous joy, be blessed son 😊

Imperial system is very useful in case of shoe sizes. You always know it's one foot.

the funniest part is that all the none metric systems now days are calculated and defined by the metric system. Bucuse having a standard unit is just good.

Numbers aren't completely the same everywhere. We all understand the same numbers when they are written down like 100000 but while in English it's read as 100 1000 it's read as 10 10000 in e.g. Japanese. Also, 1 billion in German is 1000 times the English 1 billion. And in German we use a deicmal comma and the period serves to space out triplets of zeroes.

@iseeyou3129

Жыл бұрын

that "billion" being 1000 times bigger than english is normal in many european countries

@robertfoulkes1832

Жыл бұрын

The "short" billion of 1,000,000,000 originated in the USA not the UK, with their financial institutions. "Long" billions, trillions etc as previously used in Britain and still used Europe make more sense as: billion = million x million trillion = million x million x million etc In this system the relationship between these meganumbers is much easier to understand.

@Thurgosh_OG

Жыл бұрын

@@robertfoulkes1832 Thanks Robert, I was going to say that this was not a UK thing. Growing up in Scotland in the 80s, our Billion was a million, million. It only changed gradually, in the UK, when the Gov decided to adopt the short Billion from 1974.

@plumebrise4801

Жыл бұрын

Yeah in French Cent = Hundred Mille = Thousand Million = Million Milliard = Billion Billion = Trillion Billiard = Quadrillion Trillion = Quintillion Trilliard = Sextillion Quadrillion = Septillion Quadrilliard = Octillion And so on Un = One Deux = Two Trois = Three Quatre = Four Cinq = Five Six (Pronounced Sisse) = Six Sept = Seven Huit = Eight Neuf = Neuf Dix = Ten Onze = Eleven Douze = Twelve Treize = Thirteen Quatorze = Fourteen Quinze = Fifteen Seize = Sixteen Dix-Sept = Seventeen Dix-Huit = Eighteen Dix-Neuf = Nineteen Vingt = Twenty Vingt-et-Un = Twenty-One Trente = Thirty Quarante = Fourty Cinquante = Fifty Soixante = Sixty Soixante-Dix = Seventy Soixante-et-Onze = Seventy-One Quatre-Vingt = Eighty Quatre-Ving-Dix = Ninety Cent = Hundred Cent-Un = Hundred-and-One

@JvnkoEnoshima

Жыл бұрын

Billón in Spanish is also 1000 times the English 'billion'

Britain has many customary units, some obsolete, some still in use. Land area is no longer counted in 'hides', but 'the hundred' (of hides) is still to be found in many places, as small administrative units. Land is measured in both acres and the metric hectares (essentially the same name, but different sizes) A cricket pitch is still a 'chain' long, a nearby railway line has a bridge known as the '45 mile 6 chain' bridge on it's newly-made number plate. Measures of spirits are still in 'gills', recipes still say tablespoons, teaspoons, pinches etc. as quantities. Horses are still measured in 'hands', the money is in 'pounds' using the symbol £ which means livre, or 'weight' in French Latin, which dates back to the Roman's 'weight' of iron or bronze, which was the origin of the English 'one pound of iron to make 240 pennies'.

@neilf1059

3 ай бұрын

Don't forget- rods, poles, perches, furlongs ..... cubits. And what the hell is an acre-foot ? Also, Why the f* are US gallons smaller than Imperial gallons ? Aussie born '51 to Imperial system, decimal currency change during school, metric system later, still sometimes have to do conversions in head.

m k s are the three si units. they build up all other units. for example the speed is messured in m/s while the acceleration is messured in m/s² or pressure is N/m² while N = kg*m/s² (because mass*acceleration) therefor is N/m²=kg*m/m²*s²=kg/m*s² as you can see it all comes down to this 3 units. thanks for watching my Ted talk, i am a physics teacher :)

What is fascinating and counter intuitive too is that our brains function with the units. I can estimate a human's height in CM very easily but I can never understand height measured in feets. It turns out the brain has the ability to work with units like meters, kilograms, seconds,etc. Because it has to use them all the time even though they map to nothing in reality.

@nagchampa1990

Жыл бұрын

you can measure height in feet really easy. if you wanna measure the height of someone just tell that person to lay down and walk over him from head to toe.

@jthoresen

4 ай бұрын

As an American, I grew up on the imperial system. After learning and using the metric system, I can process the metric measurements faster and more natural. I think a lot of individuals are missing this point.

As Brit, I’m totally comfortable with both. If I measure some furniture it’s metric, as my generation were generally taught, my folks will still use inches. If someone asks me how far? It’s miles. Height is feet. Weight is stone, liquid can be pints or litres 🤷🏼‍♂️ I work in aviation. Aircraft altitude Height is feet, even in France, but metric in Russia and China. Mad. Distance is nautical miles, not statute miles! It’s all very chaotic!

@rasmuswi

Жыл бұрын

Stone is one of the weirdest units I know. Like, people talk about different hands and feet being different size, but that's nothing compared to how much stones can vary in size and weight...

@michaelschuckart2217

5 ай бұрын

Nautical miles is just a name for an angle. It is 1 (angle-)minute at the equator by definition. So 1 degree is 60 nm (nautical miles), length of the equator is 21,600 nm = 40,003.2 km (nm = nautical mile, km = kilometer).

In the US, the metric system is used in addition to the custom units. In order to be able to have a say in international trade, the metric system must be used. But domestically, the custom units are retained. It is much easier to calculate and convert units in the metric system. Almost everything is divisible by 10, which means you only need to move the point Oh yes, the metric system has not prevailed for the days. It remains at 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 24 hours, 7 days a week, 28 to 31 days a month and 365.24 days a year

US is actually using metric system, they also using imperial a lot unlike the UK we use both interchangeable swapping from one to the other like sometimes we may state a size in imperial then a few minutes later use metric like wood 4’x6’ or 1m x 2m were Americans just tend to stick with imperial Weight in metric and height in imperial measurements is a fascinating 🤨 combination that gets used in the UK, height in imperial system just gives easier numbers to remember and that’s basically why UK still uses both

@stormysyndrome7043

Жыл бұрын

Shhh… dumb folks haven’t seemed to have figured it out yet. They think by sitting there saying everyone else is dumb, it excuses their own ignorance.

@truxton1000

Жыл бұрын

Well it’s not practical to use both. I. One from Norway and has lived in the UK for 20 years, I can manage both but it creates problems as misunderstandings are common. For example most brits tend to hang on to just the millimetres, not using centimetre, decimetre or even metres. Not long ago I ordered a piece of slate from Wales, as I would do in Norway I gave measurements in millimetres for the thickness and centimetres for the length and width, as one would do in a proper “metric country”, but the stupid welsh guy just took all my measures in millimetres so it was totally wrong. I find brits even using millimetres for things that are several meters long which I find confusing, what is the point of that when it’s so much better to use the correct measurement. For example I only use millimetres if it’s quit small, less than 10 centimetres, and anything over one meter I always use meters. It’s the proper way of doing it as it creates less misunderstandings.

In my experience from talking to Americans. Many doesn't seem to know that they are using USC and not Impreial. They have many units and values that are the same. And now that they fixed the inch (Jan 1st 2023), I think it might just be the volume left. (Liquids) (United States Customary system used to have 2 different inches, that were almost the same length... but not quite. Their use varied based on what state you were in)

@0x2A_

Жыл бұрын

I imagine that just makes whole thing worse and even more confusing

@Kamonohashiii

Жыл бұрын

It's just a variation of the imperial. It doesn't change much

@Telruin

Жыл бұрын

@@Kamonohashiii When it comes to volume they use the same names, but the rest is different. It's different values tied to the names, and even the numbers that goes into each other are different between them. And every measuring system is a variation of each other. Technically there might be a stronger defense for it just being a variation of Metric.

@Kamonohashiii

Жыл бұрын

@@Telruin metric have nothing to do with imperial

@Telruin

Жыл бұрын

@@Kamonohashiii Imperial (and USC) no longer exist without Metric. It's defined as a conversion from Metric. The lengths themselves only exist in Metric..

In the UK things like timetables are in 24hr format so avoiding any ambiguity but we'll refer to "five o'clock this afternoon", "five PM", etc.. In the USA your TV uses the 24hr clock as part of the broadcast, it's just displayed in AM/PM - it's also broadcast using UTC and then the local timezone offset applied. Your coinage is defined using the metric system as are your customary units such as the inch, pound, etc.. In fact most countries that use the metric system maintain some "customary" units. In the 1980s I was holidaying in France and asked at a grocers for 500g of apples. The assistant responded with "Un poid de pommes", i.e. "A pound of apples". In the UK, we'll still go for a pint of beer rather than half a litre of beer. The metric system is also consistent: a litre of water weighs 1kg, "back of envelope" calculations are incredibly simple whereas with the imperial system you have to deal with inconsistent conversion factors that you "just have to know"

@gerardflynn7382

Жыл бұрын

UTC??

@bobwightman1054

Жыл бұрын

@@gerardflynn7382 It's a French acronym - "Co-ordinated Universal Time" is the English translation. It's what GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is called these days. There's a bit of politicking behind the name change but for all practical purposes they are the same.

@ArcticWolfGod

Жыл бұрын

I assume all the countries with 24 hour clock do that. For example, if someone asks when do you get off at work, saying at 5 or 4, etc. is completely normal. Of course in Finland we don't have the PM/AM, so we actually have to say in the evening/morning if it needs to be specified. In general people do stuff during the day, so there's no need to clarify what 3 o'clock means, unless you actually mean 03:00. I think the 24 hour format really shines in written form. It saves a lot of space, looks tidy, and you can't mistake 17:00 for 5:00 for example, as they're completely different numbers.

@xaverlustig3581

Жыл бұрын

@@bobwightman1054 I don't think it's politics really. GMT is the solar time in Greenwich, whereas UTC is a time defined by an atomic clock independent of the earth's rotation. The two can differ about 1 or 2 seconds. Of course in daily life the difference is irrelevant.

@jbird4478

Жыл бұрын

@@bobwightman1054 It is neither a French nor an English acronym. In French it would be TUC (Temps Universel Coordonné). Since the French and Brits grudge each other the light in their eyes, they made the compromise of UTC.

As an american, meters per second is much more intuitive than miles per hour. Anyone can easily picture how fast meters per second is because they are much easier units to imagine due to their smaller size. Miles per hour is substantially harder to picture because the units are way to large picture.

What I'm always wondering is how the hell do you measure/ calculate areas with lengths that are in 2 different units, like : 10 feet 2 inches on 5 feet 5 inches ? That seems so stupidly overcomplicated.

the secret of metrics system is "1" LooK: 1l of pur water = 1Kg so one cube of 1m x 1m x 1m = 1m3 cubic ,if you put water inside you have 1000L = 1T so easy no?

@thorstenjaspert9394

4 ай бұрын

You are right. The metric system is simpler. Everything is decimal based. If it raised with metric it is intuitive. Dors are 2 m tall. 2 m is the span from your fingertips to your breast, roundabout. As a metre raised guy i can't understand the complexity of the Imperial system.

The Imperial, customary etc. system is useful in that it can be divided in more ways using standard sets of weights on a balance, or by gills, fluid ounces, pints, etc. Usually a quantity can be divided between 1, 2, 3, 4, 6. 8, 12, etc. Scaling also works, but results in some odd numbers, such as 3/16th of an inch on a plan being equal to one yard in reality, for example. That's really all of it. Doing everything by multiples of ten is actually simpler, works better, and calculations can be done by shifting decimal points only.

Myanmar is actually in the process of switching to Metric.

I think a somewhat similar 'revolution' or change in recent history was the euro. It was very disruptive at the time, everyone had to get used to a new currency, do the math in their head with how much it would be in the old one,...But a few short years later everyone got used to it and its convenience when travelling in the Europe and now gen z has never known anything else.

A METER in the UK is an instrument that measures the flow of something. A METRE is a unit of measurement.

@njordholm

Жыл бұрын

It's both METER in Germany and we can handle it easily.

@friddevonfrankenstein

Жыл бұрын

@@njordholm Genau! :D Multiple meanings per word. Efficiency, baby. A Meter also describes an amount of beer, 10 to 15 x 0,2l (usually :D ) in a long wooden case. Besides, I say "meter" and not "metre" like the frenchies. Brits are almost as bad as them in not actually speaking what they write. Gloucestershire xD

@SantaMuerte1813

Жыл бұрын

@@friddevonfrankenstein I'd say English is even worse in its pronounciation. French is at least consistent most of the time: Sure, writing -ois and speaking -oa isn't the most practical, but at least every time I read -ois I know it's spoken -oa. For English just look at through, tough and though, spoken thru, tuff and thow.

@njordholm

Жыл бұрын

@@friddevonfrankenstein 1m Bier zusammen mit einer ½ m Bratwurst 👍

@njordholm

Жыл бұрын

@@SantaMuerte1813 and 'tuff' is spoken /tʌf/ (IPA)

I don’t think you can say the UK has fully embraced the metric system. Road sign distances are in miles, people use mph and mpg to describe a vehicle’s speed and economy, etc. But for anything in science or engineering it’ll be metric/SI units, which I think is also often the case in the USA these days.

@jamesphillips2285

Жыл бұрын

Canada also has a different, complicated relationship with imperial. We use kilometers for road signs, but construction is typically done using imperial measurements. For food we often use a "metric pound" of 500g (instead of 454g). When I was making burger patties in a meat grinding plant we used pounds/ounces to measure them. The completed box would then have the total weight listed in kg.

As an Greek we use metric measurement like 1 Liter bottle is 0.27 Gallon bottle in imperial measurement. And this unit of measurement confuses me a lot when I see it like other imperial units of measurement. But the metric is much better and easy in measurement, mathematics etc. Greetings from Greece!

M = meter, K =kilo, S =second

@h.m.5724

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*metre

@njordholm

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I have learned BE at school, but for vocabulary like meter/metre and center/centre I choose AE which is the same in German. I apologise, you have to live with it. Would be better to use lowercase letters though, but I know it's a historical and deprecated name for this system, which later was updated to MKSA (Ampere added) and then merged into SI. Kilo just stands for 1000. For K in 'MKS' kilogram (1 kg = 1000 grams) is meant for the dimension of mass (M) and not Kelvin (K) which would be θ (Theta) instead as some probably think. (common [written italic], dimension symbol) = (unit symbol) length (l, L) = meter (m) mass (m, M) = kilogram (kg) time (t, T) = second (s) electric current [intensity] (I,I) = Ampere (A) thermodynamic temperature (T, θ [Theta]) = Kelvin (K) amount of substance (n, N) = Mol (mol) luminous intensity (lᵥ, J) = Candela (cd) As you see, it's easy to mix up the symbols if you don't use upper/lowercase. There was also the CGS-system (cm, g, s) which is no longer in use.

When the meter was defined, a number of huge scientific expeditions to the north pole and to the equator were organized to measure the distance. One of them was led by Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius, known for inventing the centigrade temperature scale. Although he actually invented it the wrong way, with the boiling point of water at 0 degrees, and the freezing point at 100 degrees. Swedish scientist Carl von Linné realized the mistake and corrected it, but the temperature is still usually referred to as the Celsius temperature scale.

'Murica actually used the decimal system a bit from the beginning: When the US dollar was established, the smallest coin was the "centidollar", shortened to "cents". Also, navigation at sea and in the air still uses the Nautical Mile that is based on the distance from the North pole to the equator. Each degree of longitude is 60 Nautical Miles. The Statue mile seems a superfluous invention, seeing that the ships originally sailing from the Empire to the Colonies already used Nautical miles for distance and Knots for speed (Nautical miles pr. hour).

The power of SI (metric) units comes into play when doing calculations. You need to select an electric motor to drive a hydraulic pump, and you are given the flow rate, the rated output pressure, and the efficiency of the pump. The motor needs to supply the output power of the pump and the efficiency losses, but what is the output power of the pump? Dimensional analysis tells us that a volume per unit time multiplied by a force per unit area is a force times a distance per unit time, or energy per unit time, which is power-- exactly what we are looking for! In the metric system, the unit of pressure is the kilopascal or one thousand newtons of force per square meter. The flow rate is in liters per second, but we need the volume to be cubic meters, there are one thousand liters in a cubic meter, so we divide liters per second by a thousand to get cubic meters per second. There is a thousand at the top and a thousand at the bottom, which cancel out so one kilopascal times one liter per second is a newton*meter per second which is exactly one watt, by definition. In American units, the pressure is in pounds per square inch and the flow rate is in (guessing) gallons per minute. The first conversion is going from gallons per minute to cubic inches per minute (I think that there are 225 cubic inches per gallon, which will allow us to calculate the power in inch*pounds per minute, which is a power, just not one that we are used to, so we would have to find the conversion ration from inch*pounds per minute to horsepower. Fortunately, one horsepower is both 746 watts and 396,000 inch*pounds per minute (550 foot*pounds per second).

You can use you freedom units all you want, but please, stop using this stupid date format MM/DD/YYYY. Sometimes Im looking at the date and i cant understand its meaning

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0:04 simple stupid american warning

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4:30 it refers to the units use for distance(meters), weight(kilograms) and time(seconds)

Just today a student asked me while we were spontanously watching a documentary, how many liters a galleon is... (because the documentary used galleons). I'm glad I was not too far off with my immediate answer though I checked it to be sure.😅

It started with a failed Mars mission, but there was yet another space flight issue -- I believe it was about 20 yrs. ago -- where a big accessory part of the ISS to be jointly built by several partners could only be finished with a major delay because NASA took the meaurements of the joint construction plan as inches (1 in = 2.54 cm) instead of centimeters. NASA implemented major precautions to never let this happen again. I love your posts! BTW, what happened to your last name...? All best from Germany

What i dont get is why are we still using inches in tv screen size or wheels and probably many other i dont recall now

Britain adopted the metric system around the time we joined the European Economic Community,Europe used the metric system so it made trade with them them much easier when UK adopted metric system,most weights, measurements, standards for appliances,cars , building materials etc were the ones used in EEC ,saved a lot of time and trouble.Somethig the UK is starting realise again now we have left the EEC and import/export tariffs and regulations have been reintroduced .

@gerardflynn7382

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Today the EEC is called the EEA ( European Economic Area).

@trevorlsheppard7906

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@@gerardflynn7382 What it is called today is only relavant in that it proves what I said we joined the European Economic Community , that what it's name was in the 1970s .

@GazilionPT

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@@gerardflynn7382 No so. The EEC *evolved* to become the *EU* in 1993, with the Maastricht Treaty. The EEA is the economic area formed by the EU plus 3 of the 4 countries that remain in *EFTA* (European Free Trade Association). The 3 EFTA countries that are part of the EEA are Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. The 4th country, the one outside of the EEA, is Switzerland; they have their own, custom-made deal with the EU. EFTA used to be much larger, but most countries left it join the EEC/EU. They were the UK (left the EU since), Denmark, Portugal, Austria, Finland, and Sweden.

in USA is in use some pure metric units. Eg: volt and kWh

2:59: They defined it as such and then sent surveyors to determine the actual length. Eratosthenes calculated the Earth's circumference in antiquity already. With the instruments available in the late 18th century, that was possible with a lot higher precision.

Fun fact: NASA, like all other scientists and engineers, uses metric units in its calculations for space missions because it makes them easier and less error-prone. For example, converting inches to feet to yards to miles requires several different conversion numbers, but millimeters to meters to kilometers is just moving the decimal point. The errors come when people try to translate to/from the imperial units, or get mistaken about what units a particular number is expressing (e.g. 45 pints is less than 45 liters is less than 45 gallons (UK or US?) etc.).

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The fact that an imperial gallon is different from a US Gallon us all you need to know

2:55 "How did they measure that ?" Excellent question ! They didn't actually measure all the distance between the north pole and the equator, but only a fraction of it. After all, they could accurately measure their angle with the equator by using the stars, so they simply... measured the length of France using trigonometry and very accurate angle measurement device. To do that, 2 scientists started measuring the distance between some landmarks and very visible points; Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre was sent to measure the distance from the North to the center, and Pierre Méchain was sent to measure the distance from the South to the center. However, Méchain had a problem with his measurements; when he did them several times in a row, he couldn't find the same results every time ! That's because the device he used to measure angle was *too* accurate, and minor changes in the environment could create differences in the results. To make a long story short, he got depressed, invented mathematical and statistical tools to deal with these problems, and died of his depression + fever in Spain while his wife had to bring his results to Paris. And that's the story of how Méchain invented what we now know as metrology (the study of measurements and uncertainty) and died from depression because of it ! (I'm a metrologist btw)

Meter is a device for measuring things like Electricity.. the unit of length is spelt Metre

@MsPataca

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Only in British English

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I have once a contract in Canada, and all the technical drawings were in imperial units, we were supplied with inch/feet measurment tapes as well that was the most irritating thing in my whole fitter/welders life, to use these. and I have all the time that question in mind - "how US build up such an impressisve industry and stuff using measurment scale with its smallest unit commonly used is almost twice bigger than metrics smallest unit - a milimeter.. how one can do precise things with instruments having smallest details in 1/16 of inch.. and the whole idea of multiplying by 16 and not using equal values for base units.." I used to have sometimes precise projects, with indication to keep dimension in half-milimeter range..

Thailand hasn't fully adopt the metric system. You buy milk and gasoline in liter but paint in gallons. Distance is in meters but drills are in parts of an inch. The length of water pipes are in meters but the diameter is in inch. Area is measured in rai (1600 sq. meters) and ngan (400 sq. meters).

he asks about time and my thought process was to compare the symbol to the letter and it made sense to me. the ruler for meters, the scales for kilo's and the clock for seconds, very intuitive. or is asking about how we all didn't use seconds, minutes, etc to calculate time, instead we'd use arbitrary things like how long it takes for a candle to burn which definitely isn't consistent at all, what with stuff like the wax and wick to consider, as well as a bunch of other candle knowledge i don't know about.

@bonbonpony

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Ironically, the second, and time measurement in general, is still based on the earlier Sumerian base-60 system instead of the decimal one, as the rest of SI :q

The clock symbol (time unit) with the s below represents seconds, and you guys in America use those too. Or do you have some body part for time as well xD?

i'm English, I have a C&G in Motor Mechics and Carpentry & Joinery, both trades use a weird mix of the two systems, BA and Whitworth spanners and metric nuts and bolts. you measure construction in Metric but most construction materials are sold using Imperial units, ie plasterboard is sold in boards of 8ft X 4ft (1200 cm x600cm) 4inx 2in in wood, to buy the wood 100cm x 50cm is howits measured on site. grew up useing both system so i've had to find quick way to convert between Metric & Imperial, im 63 and its still a pain in the arse to convert. Distance and weight I find it easier to visualise in Imperial unit, but if it needs a precise and accurate calculation then i use metic, its just easier to caculate

MKS = Meter, Kilogram, Seconds. Originally the scales for kilogram looked like a Bell-flask style thermometer on my window, and I thought for a second it was Kelvin.

3:00 sailors and math and trigonometry. There was a base 10 time keeping but it didn't stick.

I can understand, that a "foot" seems more intuetive, cause its a body part and you have a reference... But for the other units its just a matter what you grew up whit and the metric system has the advantage, that its defined by universal constants.

The metric system is easy also because cubic 10 cm (1 liter) of water is exactly 1 kg of weight. Another interesting fact is how they measured (over 200 years ago) the distance between the North Pole and the Equator. And it is easy to remember the length of the Equator - it is around 40,000 km (4 × 10,000 km)

@bonbonpony

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And if you take a pendulum on a 1-metre string and let it swing, one such swing takes 1 second :J

@jamesphillips2285

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@@bonbonpony I calculated a period of 2.006 seconds. Probably more of a coincidence than by design.

About the time thing. There was also metric time. Its splits the day in 10 parts, wich are split in 100 parts, wich are split in 100 parts. instead of 24, 60, 60. It had the same advantages as other metric measurements, like 0,67 of this part being 67 of the smaller part. But you didnt convert time as often than other measurements, so metric time dosnt stick.

If you own a harley in Europe you have to use both systems to keep using and repairing your motorcycle 😂

The reason the US has not converted is because in every day life, the English units just make more sense. For instance, a gallon is a good size measurement for buying milk for the average family. The quart is a good size container for water to take on a hike. The pint is about what you would want with a meal. The pound, 100 lbs is a small woman or large child and 200 lbs is a good size man. Temperature: 100F is the upper range for hot that people can handle and 0F is about as cold as a human can handle. Feet are a good size for say a rod, a mile is a large enough distance to say it is far away and short enough to be trackable in ones mind. So if I say the mall is 3 miles away, you can imagine a mile and multiply that by 3 in your head to get a good idea of how far it is to the mall. An inch is small enough for all of the smaller things that you would measure. They are good measurements to use in day to day living, whereas the metric system is great for science. No one at NASA should ever use anything but the metric system. I think the video covered just how good the metric system is. Personally, I convert back and forth between the two everyday, but that is because I am a Metrologist (Metrology is the study of measure).

To be fair American children are already learning the metric system through the size of their wounds

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