What will it take for the US to finally make the switch?

@leonox7313

4 жыл бұрын

Verge Science yup

@yorukomitsui8654

4 жыл бұрын

Being taken over by a country with metric system -_-

@ViewOf

4 жыл бұрын

Just changing it by law. Everyone is free to use what they like, but you could make it official in schools, the rest will change slowly but automatically.

@EthanSteff25

4 жыл бұрын

It will take years, countries, and people.

@za7v9ier

4 жыл бұрын

Being unpatriotic.

Of course the USA is going metric. We're just doing it inch by inch.

@patrick6662

4 жыл бұрын

2 funny sir - you are a modern day Will Rogers/Groucho Marx rolled into one 😁

@SilverCanary1

4 жыл бұрын

currently 31 yards, six and fifteen sixteenths of an inch yet to go

@dixiegeorge9665

4 жыл бұрын

That is fabulous 🤣🤣

@DieFlabbergast

4 жыл бұрын

Ya gotta watch these people! Give 'em a centimeter and they'll take a kilometer!

@revenzeno2120

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh

Let's take a moment and be thankful that the USA doesn't use a different system for time.

@jacobisaacs600

4 жыл бұрын

Aydin Zahedi but china does

@jacobisaacs600

4 жыл бұрын

Aydin Zahedi and north korea

@AydinZahedi

4 жыл бұрын

@@jacobisaacs600 What?!?!?!?!

@emridatla3886

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, but we found a way to dates differently too, cuz we've been fiercely independent, trouble-making freedom fighters since 7/4/1776!

@nathalie_desrosiers

4 жыл бұрын

Hush! Don't give them the idea!

It's a science channel so the metric system makes most sense imo

@CommanderCodey

2 жыл бұрын

Literally they even said that this channel is science 😂

@santa_claus-north_pole

Жыл бұрын

I agree, random! (I don't say "dude". Ha ha.) Yes, Metric makes *far* more sense.

@apex_blue

Жыл бұрын

They are an American channel for mostly American viewers why wouldn’t they use imperial

@DieselsVideos

Жыл бұрын

@@apex_blue Because i'ts a science channel and even US americans do science in metric.

@apex_blue

Жыл бұрын

@@DieselsVideos I know me too, but we don’t comprehend it, we only know it, which is why most Americans including me still use the standard (imperial for you) system for everyday use.

As an engineer, when people use the argument that the imperial system "makes more sense" because "a foot is about the length of your foot" and "an inch is roughly the length of your thumb" this makes me scream... Words like "about" and "roughly" have absolutely no business being used when measuring anything.

@GH-oi2jf

2 жыл бұрын

Of course measument must be done to some level of precision, but in everyday life we estimate length more than we measure. The foot is a convenient unit for estimation, not because it is close to the size of your foot but because it is a convenient size. The meter is too coarse; the cm is too fine.

@basslin3r

2 жыл бұрын

@@GH-oi2jf you're clearly not an engineer. I understand it's probably how normal people think but my brain is just not wired like that.

@GH-oi2jf

Жыл бұрын

I have a graduate engineering degree. The fact that some people put forward lame reasons for feet and inches does not make me want to stop using them, only to ignore their arguments.

@zampanorama5423

10 күн бұрын

You don't have problems with the metric system! Money is metric: 1 cent = 1 centimeter 1 thousand = 1 kilometer (Kilo is 1000 in ancient greek)

The rest of the world: “How tall are you?” US: “I’m 5 feet 7” The rest of the world: “Whose feet? Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s or Peter Dinkley’s?”

@megan5495

4 жыл бұрын

In Aus we use feet and inches for height, but cm are also acceptable

@helloworld0911

4 жыл бұрын

Same in the UK, and we weigh ourselves in stones which even the yanks don't use.

@Vanilla_Icecream1231

4 жыл бұрын

Megan Pinch same in canada

@henner645

4 жыл бұрын

@@helloworld0911 What kind of stones? Lime stone? Granit? Holy cow, did not know that.

@satamakotka793

4 жыл бұрын

It don't matter ya fucking manlet

Me: So how big is your house? Americans: 6 football fields per gun in one farenheit

@ubtpixielox

4 жыл бұрын

Nightfury Matthew, Americans make jokes about other countries all the time 🙂 don’t make it a double standard.

@Tensho_C

4 жыл бұрын

@Nightfury Matthew you are too wrong I don't know what to say

@marz4834

4 жыл бұрын

@Nightfury Matthew r/wooosh

@jeffuntalan

4 жыл бұрын

I laughed too hard at this comment. Oh god.

@Arniox

4 жыл бұрын

@Nightfury Matthew yeah you can. Everything can be joked about. Absolutely everything. America is no different. In fact, at the current political moment, America is a fucking joke 😂 American makes jokes about everyone else so you have to take it as well.

When you grow up with the metric system they are as relatable as imperial. A centimetre is my pinky width, a meter is head to arm length. Once kids are raised on it it becomes inherent.

@mr.pavone9719

2 жыл бұрын

You could say the same for US customary.

@alanwake8298

2 жыл бұрын

1 degree Celsius is 1/100 of the temperature difference between freezing point and boiling point, that is awesomely intuitive, what does a degree in Fahrenheit mean? Do you even know?

@Milesco

Жыл бұрын

@@alanwake8298 Fahrenheit degrees are smaller and therefore more precise. It's a _long way_ from freezing to boiling, and a mere 100 degrees isn't enough to adequately cover it. The result is very large degrees that are too big for the purpose. Humans are very temperature-sensitive and a relatively small change in temperature can feel like a big difference. The large, clumsy Celsius degrees aren't able to properly reflect these differences with an adequate level of precision.

@Sims64340

Жыл бұрын

@@Milesco You can’t feel just 1ºC difference

@Milesco

Жыл бұрын

​@@Sims64340 Oh, yes I can. I can even feel 1º Fahrenheit under the right conditions. I try to use my central air conditioner as little as possible, but when it gets warm enough for me to "pull the trigger", I set the thermostat for one degree Fahrenheit lower than the current temperature. It takes about half an hour for the a/c to reach that new temp, so it's clearly not an insignificant amount of heat energy being removed. And I can feel the difference. If I were to use Celsius degrees, I would have to adjust my thermostat by half a degree (if that's even possible), which seems mildly ridiculous. And in a more general sense, the large size of Celsius degrees means that fairly large differences in temperature don't get adequately represented in Celsius. For example, going from 68º Fahrenheit to 85º is a pretty large difference. From cool to fairly hot. But that's only 20º to 29º in Celsius. That's not enough of a numerical range to adequately express the difference in how it feels.

12 inches = one foot, 3 feet = 1 yard, 1760 yards = 1 mile 1km = 1000m, 1m = 100cm, 1cm = 10mm Yeah, consistency is the key for keeping the US system. I'm not even starting with the units for mass.

@TassieLorenzo

2 жыл бұрын

You left out 3 barleycorns in an inch, 220 yards in a furlong, and 8 furlongs in a mile! :)

@RS2iscool

10 күн бұрын

That’s imperial, not US customary, furlongs are only used in horse racing

My bedroom is 57 sticks and 11 pebbles squared

@AJarOfYams

4 жыл бұрын

Which pebbles??

@thebigsad9463

4 жыл бұрын

@@AJarOfYams The standard ones... Dumball

@georgplaz

4 жыл бұрын

@@AJarOfYams the round ones

@nickelpence

4 жыл бұрын

@@AJarOfYams the ones in his backyard😂

@OverUnity7734

4 жыл бұрын

And a gallon of gas is 3.57 shmekels .

“But, around half of our audience is American. So if we say somethin in centimeters or kilograms, it could trip up a lot of our viewers.” Other half of your viewers: “Am I a joke to you?”

@davidjuneja

4 жыл бұрын

WhiTE SupErMacY. Jk.

@JasonDoege

4 жыл бұрын

No, they are just confident you are intelligent enough to apply conversion.

@mawloudshaghasy532

4 жыл бұрын

Haha so true

@mohamadalihelal

4 жыл бұрын

@@freshbbqftw "their nonsensical ways" FTFY

@xtk7

4 жыл бұрын

The American half is not totally comfortable with imperial system either.

When I was visiting US, the whole "gallons" thing drove insane....it is completely absurd

@tyrillcelestine7096

3 жыл бұрын

A gallon is something you not bout to drink in one sitting so tf you confused about

@CptDuck

3 жыл бұрын

@@tyrillcelestine7096 he said visiting, you think visiting US is just one sitting and leave to other country?

@Milesco

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing absurd about it. It's just a unit of measurement. Yes it's not the same as what you're accustomed to. So what? When you're in Rome, you do as the Romans do.

@illaneecorona

2 жыл бұрын

@@tyrillcelestine7096 Lmaooooo.

@leafbelly

2 жыл бұрын

It's not absurd if you use it every day.

1 km = 1000 meters 1 mile = 5280 How the hell is that more consistent?!?? 😭

@iulius2226

2 ай бұрын

5280 what? Potatoes. But i agree with you.

@IdeasExchange1

22 күн бұрын

​@@iulius22265280 feet or 1760 yards = 1 mile

@maravreloaded

14 күн бұрын

​@@iulius2226My teachers:

World: 1m=100cm. USA: 1 foot=4 baby's feet.

@mandystop1077

4 жыл бұрын

What the f?

@MrX-fd2mr

4 жыл бұрын

World: 1 cm=10 mm USA: 1 inch= 3 baby's thumb

@infinitesauce8206

4 жыл бұрын

Rest of the world: 1km = 1000m USA: WeLl iF yOU wAnT tO rEmEmBeR hOw mAnY feET tHeRe aRe iN a mILe jUsT rEmEmBeR "five tomatoes" bEcAuSe iDk

@luedog8385

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@Wojtackic

4 жыл бұрын

@@mw-cp4cl metric system has just "centi-", "kilo-" and a lot of others, but you just have to know that centi means 100 times smaller and kilo 1000 times larger. The only thing for you to remember is how many zeros to add, based on the begging of the word. In American the word Inch has nothing to do with Foot when it comes to the name, so it's hard to figure out that it's 12. At least that's my opinion.

Just use Km/h instead of burgers per freedom and you will almost be fine.

@Iucebowel

4 жыл бұрын

GUNS PER SCHOOL

@Abztract

4 жыл бұрын

@@Iucebowel yo chillll

@Iucebowel

4 жыл бұрын

@@Abztract FURRIES PER WALMART

@oalmannearn6949

4 жыл бұрын

"Burgers per freedom".. yo why am I still alive right now 💀💀💀

@slaughtergang518

4 жыл бұрын

Salty metric plebs per video

I like when he said that HALF of his viewers are US - so they use imperial. So US half is more important that other HALF. G R E A T

@OldFossil

2 жыл бұрын

Because the channel is American and they’re only looking out for themselves. Selfish but that’s America!

@adamqazsedc

2 жыл бұрын

Lol ikr

@JP-xh1cm

2 жыл бұрын

United States customary units, not British Imperial units.

@HyperVanilo

2 жыл бұрын

I guess the rest of the world should stop their videos then, only Liberia and Myanmar people are allowed

@srikrishna2561

2 жыл бұрын

US Half must be their new Unit. Lol.

Son : Dad. It's so cold. Imperial Dad : Let's go to the corner. I heard it’s 90 degrees Metric Mom : No. It's gonna get us killed Son : Am I adopted ?

World: What is your shoe's size? American: one foot

@gagerichardson2123

4 жыл бұрын

Epic

@nonaboccalupo7733

4 жыл бұрын

12 inches huh.......

@-.tanner

4 жыл бұрын

Fabio Teixeira well one foot is really small size

@kennethluedtkejr1903

4 жыл бұрын

This American would ask what country is it made on ?

@nonaboccalupo7733

4 жыл бұрын

Kenneth Luedtke Jr made in China

Half your audience is Metric, almost everyone on the planet uses metric, so you'll not use metric? Makes sense.

@r.daneel.90

3 жыл бұрын

Implicitly he said americans are cry babies, while the rest of the world will watch the video anyway

@starandfox601

3 жыл бұрын

If their country of origin uses imperial why not use it? It's no different then any other cultural influence that may apear in a video.

@MuhammadNaufalyw

3 жыл бұрын

@People said my Username was Offensive are u really sure? "this channel was meant to Americans"? if this was my channel. than i would prefer worldwide

@woomyzooms3781

3 жыл бұрын

@@MuhammadNaufalyw americans make up a very big chunk of social media compared to any other audiences

@ToxicJ12

3 жыл бұрын

Am not an american and we use the imperial system

Even Nasa use Metric System for their missions...metric dominate the universe man.

@srikrishna2561

2 жыл бұрын

SI dominates Science.

@hrn8935

2 жыл бұрын

@@srikrishna2561 Si is basically speciallised metric

@critickman

2 жыл бұрын

Is because “the accident “ that happen in nasa

@TheRick517

2 жыл бұрын

Too bad one of their suppliers didn't.

@joaquingonzalez834

Жыл бұрын

don't tell them, because they think there are two types of people: those who use metric, and those who went to the moon

Liberia in East Africa, Myanmar (former Burma) in Southeast Asia and the US in North America are the last three outposts of this planet still refusing to go metric.

@BOSExperience

2 жыл бұрын

Myanmar is changing too.

@JP-xh1cm

2 жыл бұрын

Liberia is in West Africa.

Drug dealers are on board too. You buy a gram, not an ounce.

@johntrek187

4 жыл бұрын

Na g we buy ounces ova hurr

@TheYakkis

4 жыл бұрын

Take a moment to really think about your comment.

@ClassicStang

4 жыл бұрын

The White Banksters know this as well when they launder the money and stash it overseas with no taxes.

@strategygaming5830

4 жыл бұрын

If you want to buy enough yes you do buy a ounce but most people with weed which is what you are referring to is by grams. Other drugs go by ounces if in large enough doses.

@mattcintosh2

4 жыл бұрын

In "Gin & Juice", how much were they going to "smoke today"?

Americans don't understand metric system, But ironically they understand what 9mm is.

@basshead.

4 жыл бұрын

No country that uses the metric system has put a man on the moon.

@DatGrunt

4 жыл бұрын

Americans learn both.

@B__SYAHRULMUBAROK

4 жыл бұрын

@@basshead. but are the machine that land on the moon use metric ? Yes.

@mark-ish

4 жыл бұрын

@@basshead. foolish specious statement.

@DatGrunt

4 жыл бұрын

@@gorkym8864 No, Americans in general learn both. In science class/science in general or engineering, we use metric. For every day life where exact measurements don't really matter we use imperial. Kids learn metric in school. Has been the case for a long time.

My mother asked what I weighed. I told her. She said "whats that in stones & pounds?" I looked in horror & asked "what on earth is a stone?" Bahahaha. A stone!

@MattWyndham

2 жыл бұрын

Isn’t it just a kilogram?

@McTofuwuerfel

Жыл бұрын

@@MattWyndham 1 stone = 6.35029318 kg But that depends on which stone you pick. Pebbles, bricks, gemstones, boulders, ... I guess all stones in the US have the same mass, that's the most reasonable explanation. XD

@alvallac2171

3 ай бұрын

@@McTofuwuerfel Stones as a unit of measure isn't commonly used in the US. It's more used in the UK.

I'm a woodworker, from Europe working in the US. For those who say the imperial system makes sense, I say 1' 11 5/8", 8' 2 23/32", 15/16"

@darkfire8615

2 жыл бұрын

...

@Davis...

2 жыл бұрын

What the fuc-

@cju4300

2 жыл бұрын

What's that? Metric please.

@mr.pavone9719

2 жыл бұрын

oooh, fractions are scary?👻👻👻

@jw1731

2 жыл бұрын

Working with fractions I found myself having to convert it to decimal anyway before calculating. So fractional inches are not so much precise as deferring the problem to a later time.

"Imperial is consistent because a foot is the same size as a human foot." wtf? I didn't know Americans all had the same size feet.

@Realciderreviews

4 жыл бұрын

It makes shoe shopping easier, they always have the same size

@catchdaweasel

4 жыл бұрын

Na the brits had same size feet cuz the foot comes from ye olden kingly days. nice try tho.

@techblogger8323

4 жыл бұрын

-RobloxGodFox - but an inch is one thumb so do all Americans have a thumb that’s one inch wide and do ye line up 6 people to measure a foot?

@gtc4189

4 жыл бұрын

Most feet are around 10 inches in length. Since this is close enough to a foot, it's still really easy to estimate rather than a meter. I also hope you realize that saying 'all Americans' you're referring to everybody in North America, only one of which (the US) uses the imperial system. I live in the UK, and yet this comment still does not humor me.

@michaeldavis2531

4 жыл бұрын

It's (ABOUT) the same size as a human's foot.

“If you have a body; you can use these measures” Ah yes, because all human feet are the same length

@group555_

4 жыл бұрын

This one just didn't make sense. Yes you can use them, but only as a rough meusurement. The moment it has to mean something you have to get out a tool. This is literally what everyone does and has no connection to what system you use.

@gabrielclark1425

4 жыл бұрын

Roughly, yes.

@FriedrichHerschel

4 жыл бұрын

@@gabrielclark1425 Yeah, and because it's only a rough estimate and varies, it was decided to switch to metric to get rid of all these variations, worldwide. Well, except for that one kid with special needs ...

@FrozenMod

4 жыл бұрын

@@group555_ That's the point. The U.S. uses metric when it counts... Military, government, businesses, and the scientific community. How often is the average Joe going to need exact measurements in their day-to-day life, not that often.

@group555_

4 жыл бұрын

@@FrozenMod no but my point is that a system being based on body properties is not a valid point for it being a better system. For the average joe metric is better because the increments of powers of 10 lead to way fewer mistakes and an easier time working with it in generall.

In Europe we use metric almost everywhere. The only exception that comes to my mind is screens. For some reason size of a phone or TV screen is measured in inches.

@FrodoOne1

3 жыл бұрын

Because of the "influence" of the USA.

@rhythmicmusicswap4173

Жыл бұрын

and as a oI'm so confused, I would prefer using the metryc system also for the screen XD

They should rename the video as "Excuses to not use both mesures unities on our videos"

What I only learnt recently is a a US cup is 236ml while it’s 250ml everywhere else

@neutroisking101

4 жыл бұрын

*☝THIS👆*

@turtle2720

4 жыл бұрын

English vs US gallons too :)

@JTCubing916

4 жыл бұрын

Also their drink cans are 355 ml instead of 333 or 250 like in Europe

@Kuhoochandra

4 жыл бұрын

I didnt know

@NickyAddrison

4 жыл бұрын

according to the FDA: For purposes of nutrition labelling, 1 cup means 240 mL (21 CFR 101.9(b)(5)(viii)). so the us cup is sometimes 236 and sometimes 240.

When I'm 50, I'll have a house that's two bus stops long and three subway stations wide.

@thatdude123

4 жыл бұрын

😅🤣🤣🤣🤣

@vibratingstring

4 жыл бұрын

Don't laugh. Look up the definition if furlong and acre.

@thatdude123

4 жыл бұрын

Well i did. So

@ASCAB

4 жыл бұрын

See it makes sense because everybody can relate!

@Stone_624

4 жыл бұрын

This is basically the US Imperial system.

How much heat does take to boil water The world :100 °c Us: I don't really care

The rest of the world: How big is your house? US: You know, about the size of half a football field

@Steveman27

3 жыл бұрын

It's called square feet, in case you didn't know. Also, a house that big would be a mansion. Most people, not even in the US, have houses that big. Justin Beiber and Donald Trump might have houses that big, but most Americans don't.

Oh yeh, a foot makes sense because *everyone's* feet are the same size right??

@kevliong2952

4 жыл бұрын

Horsepower, is it a big horse or a small horse? Stone, is it granite or limestone?

@moch.farisdzulfiqar6123

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@adik4923

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevliong2952 your point??

@Rrroarr

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevliong2952 except the official measure is Kilowatt *instead of HP, what are stones?

@nikmat

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevliong2952 are you dump

Sooo... let me get this straight..... a foot has 12 thumbs? I always thought it had 5 toes. Maybe I've been doing it wrong.

@fatetestarossa2774

4 жыл бұрын

ajajajajjaja Noice Metric system

@johnbenson222

4 жыл бұрын

Instead of saying "the whole nine yards", we would have to say "the whole 8.229600 meters".

@ericdonofrio6946

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@Wyrdangus

4 жыл бұрын

johnbenson222 Nah you’d round down because colloquial situation. So just 8m

@kiranmuraleekrishnan

4 жыл бұрын

mann, please don't introduce new units.. they'll adapt that too.. anything but the metric..

"It's consistent" but, 2 people can have completly differently shaped feet, and a feet is the length of a foot... good one there guys

@Milesco

Жыл бұрын

But a "foot" *_isn't_* the length of a person's foot. It is a well-defined unit, and has been for centuries. The "consistency" comes from the fact that Europe, up until the mid-19th century, had hundreds of different measurement systems that varied from kingdom to kingdom and even from town to town, while in the United States, we had ONE system that was consistent throughout the entire nation.

When i was a teenager and trying to use imperial system just for fun, i got so confused and and asking myself: Why using two different measeures types, feet and inch for mensuring lenght? Makes no sense. The metric system is so simple. Why just not use it?

You are a science channel therefore you should use “science” meassures. In my opinion

@coffeecatto3375

4 жыл бұрын

True

@frank7411

4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't go so far as to say they "should" because their goal audience is not of scients, but I do agree that it would make much sense if they did use metric because they are trying to inform normal people about science and metric is a (important) part of science.

@mlc4495

4 жыл бұрын

@@frank7411 You've just given a good argument as to why Verge SHOULD use Metric in its videos.

@myapproach7785

4 жыл бұрын

Like, I think some things “should” not be discused like useing metric when talking about science. Beaculse then you can say Hey, why do not we use binary computers use them why should not we. I know it is a little far fetched but you get the point.

@abhivvs

4 жыл бұрын

Oh No! Temperatures in Kelvin?

Just remember that NASA lost a multimillion dollar Climate Orbiter on Mars because the scientists and engineers messed up the conversion

@wawagabriel

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, but that wasn't Nasa fault because they have more or less always used metric. It was Lockheed Martin that built the probe and took some numbers as imperial instead of metric.

@spelcheak

4 жыл бұрын

Because messing up basic math wouldn't have any other side effects on a rocket design.

@DK-jd8bj

4 жыл бұрын

Yes because they tried to use metric. metric is evil. The only country that went to the Moon used Imperial. Americans will never ever use metric. If third world countries want to use it that's fine.

@skippityblippity8656

4 жыл бұрын

D K Nasa used metric for all apollo missions

@nouglas1989

4 жыл бұрын

@@skippityblippity8656 But America used(uses) Imperial, and that's what really matters.

Americans when they see velocity measured in kilometers per hour instead of diabetics per calculator

how did you convert surfaces and volumes in geometry at school? To convert from Inch² to feet² or yards²? Or cubic? If you have an area of 76252in² how do you convert it into ft² or yards²?

@danibot3000

3 ай бұрын

Nobody has an answer.. :D

Europe: That's 2 meters long. America: tHaTs 8 bUrGeRs wIdE!

@caav56

4 жыл бұрын

Which burgers? McDonalds or Burger King?

@lategamer6684

4 жыл бұрын

caav56 hungry jacks

@jennypai3763

4 жыл бұрын

I laughed too hard at this lol

4 жыл бұрын

Not Europe, the whole world

@lewisk3847

4 жыл бұрын

America and sumo wrestlers*:

Around half your audience is American so you have to use American units?! what about the other half of us? and the entire science community, verge SCIENCE?

@neutroisking101

4 жыл бұрын

The verge science are just a bunch of petty salty people. I bet they won't acknowledge this. I think American are like community who live in a white picket fence and thinks that the world revolve around them.

@slumpkiid3570

4 жыл бұрын

Bug off

@slumpkiid3570

4 жыл бұрын

5:40 theres your answer

@maganashaker167

4 жыл бұрын

They literally said that the metric systems were invented by Scientists. That should give them enough reason to switch

@slumpkiid3570

4 жыл бұрын

@@maganashaker167 our scientists almost EXCLUSIVELY use metric, it's even in the video!

3:22 Cat be sneaking in the back 3:41 Lol this guy and things sneaking whenever he talks

Ever bought a 2 liter bottle of soda? There ya go...

@mapron1

Ай бұрын

Yep, all the time.

@Joe-bh4vz

Ай бұрын

LOL 😂

@Somanybot

Ай бұрын

Never step out of usa?There ya go

You can call a meter a "leg" or a "torso" if that makes it easier for you. Everest, 8.8 klegs

@drmedick

4 жыл бұрын

I also call a meter taking one large step, because usually, the distance between your feet is 1 meter, so you can call a meter a big step or just a step.

@zukacs

4 жыл бұрын

ahhahahhahahahhaahhahaha nice one

@AlexaOrchid

4 жыл бұрын

It's a common knowledge in my country that one meter is the distance from you shoulder to the tip of your fingers with the arm parallel to the ground. You are welcome :D I once read the forum on this topic and people complained that traditional measures are just used to trick customers. Like, how do you multiply or, god forbid, divide into twelve in your mind?

@jonathanlee8950

4 жыл бұрын

Oh shieet here we go again

@lofg6926

4 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHA

Point 1: The imperial System just makes more sense and is more consistent. Point 3: Scientists were so annoyed by the inconsistencies in imperial they created metric. Well...

@gregg4346

4 жыл бұрын

@@jaredscott3133 could you elaborate on that?

@matchalatte5415

4 жыл бұрын

@@jaredscott3133 I'm sorry u are implying it's easier than metric in an everyday setting. As a person who sees measurements in meter, gram and Celsius everyday. What makes imperial better? You can train yourself to look at the metric system without any hassle or difficulty.

@RR-uc1wb

4 жыл бұрын

Jared Scott For daily use, any units are good since we are so used to it.

@tohakom

4 жыл бұрын

You are getting confused with those 2 points. He's saying that back in the 18th century imperial system in USA was more precise and accurate than metric, but for scientists the possibility of making all those units using only a few basics are much more vital feature + nowadays we have much more accuracy in meters and kilos than in the past.

@XX-lr6wm

4 жыл бұрын

...more sense like trump is a descent human being.

“Americas units were just more consistent” One word: LOL

@GH-oi2jf

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t understand what they mean by that. It just means the system is not self-contradictory. True, but that’s true of any system of measurement. The various units have to fit together to be useful.

I love how the cat photobombs the interview! He knows exactly where to sit and where to look!

I JUST WANT COOKING RECIPES IN GRAMS cups isn’t a sensible unit for flour

@yeah2853

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree

@Susedis

4 жыл бұрын

There are realy cup units? :D

@localzuk

4 жыл бұрын

4 cups of broccoli and 2 cups of carrots... I don’t even know what that sort of measurement means

@76Eliam

4 жыл бұрын

@@Susedis yes. They use "cups" and "spoons" (a lot of different spoons) to measure for cooking. Which makes no sense as it is a very inaccurate way to measure things.

@enricomontanari1390

4 жыл бұрын

So, look for european recipes

"Half of our audience is American" That means the other half is not. Q: John Smith has 2 apples. Jean-Luc Dupont also has 2 apples. Who has more apples? A: John

@aoyon_p

4 жыл бұрын

typical US mentality

@MrJosephAnthonySilva

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Jean-Luc Dupont's country could use some democracy...

@ChrisLuigiTails

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrJosephAnthonySilva Well if you're dissing France, I'm not French, so I have no idea what you're talking about

@MrJosephAnthonySilva

4 жыл бұрын

r/whooosh

@ChrisLuigiTails

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrJosephAnthonySilva r/ihavereddit

Thanks for a clear explanation - I'll be using this for my homeschool class; always a homeschooler, not a virus newbie :-) - I'll be skipping the first few seconds tho', they're younger kids.

Whenever I buy larger bottles of soft drinks, they're in liters. So there's that. And 1600 meters and 1 mile are very very similar in length.

You forgot the US military which has used metric for decades. Even before Vietnam. Why?. Because all it's allies use it.

@tenkaichi412

4 жыл бұрын

And because it's a more consistent system, which is kind of really important when you want to send missiles to a very specific point.

@felixtemann1477

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, and because it's better.

@colinbaxter1022

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed, freedom is delivered in metric

@farmalmta

4 жыл бұрын

And how many wars, exactly, has the US military actually WON while using the metric system? Zero, is how many.

@decept1k919

4 жыл бұрын

@@farmalmta actually, we have been using the metric system since 1918 in the military, and won every single war with the metric system (except vietnam, cause ya know, we lost, at least politically)

You forgot 1 detail though. Metric is consistant through distance/mass/volume. A cube with 1dm on each size, can hold 1l of distilled water and it would weigh 1kg. Metric is far more consistent in that sense (not just the decimal base mentioned).

@Mortyst

4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be surprised if the Verge journalists genuinely don't know this.

@cameraman502

4 жыл бұрын

Cool cool cool. That has rarely, if ever, be an issue.

@CommieHamiHa

4 жыл бұрын

*At STP

@petrkos164

4 жыл бұрын

@@cameraman502 That actually is very useful if you have ever taken basicly any Chemistry or Physics class

@cameraman502

4 жыл бұрын

@@petrkos164 So it's consistency is of little consequence and is outside the normal experience of people's experience. Hence rarely, if ever, an issue. Put another way, utility in HS chemistry is not a good reason for most things.

Depending on what you are doing you can use either one. If I use a recipe from my mom's old cookbook it's in ounces, if I get one out of a my wife's Russian cookbook it's in grams and ml. Turn the measuring cup around and use the other side, it's just a line on the scale. Then throw in a pinch more because in the end the right amount is by feel or taste.

I've used it, metric is good in some situations, not all. A mix of the 2 systems is optimal

@agn855

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, especially building rocket missions - kzread.info/dash/bejne/npeNzbGhZNHdlag.html

Come to Canada where someone who's 5 foot 10 will put a couple litres of gas in their car to drive a few kilometers to buy a couple pounds of butter.

@JakeNaughtFromStateFarm

4 жыл бұрын

My best friend moved to Canada for a couple years, where worked at a meat market. He said it was a nightmare with measurements. Shipments came in pounds, then converted to kilograms, then sold in ounces, etc. I remember him telling me all about that. Basically, I got ya bro.

@MsBhappy

4 жыл бұрын

If only most Canadians could afford a couple pounds of butter!

@alanmahoney167

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the UK lol

@Hibuy-

4 жыл бұрын

corrda1993 Canada is just not yet America

@iamnot664

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂👌

Once I took a peek on an Autocad manual. There were 17 pages explaining how to reduce something to 1/10 scale using imperial measures. Then, on the last page, the last paragraph said 'with metric system, just divide each measure by 10.'

@azarilh2355

4 жыл бұрын

LMAO.

@HanaTNT

4 жыл бұрын

Im a young Architect, I thank God everyday that we use the metric system. Just divide or multiply by 10.

@kevinmiller8111

4 жыл бұрын

It's not hard, in engineering we typically use decimal inch. *shrugs*

@azarilh2355

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevinmiller8111 So it's just metric system but with human body parts. Macabre, LMAO.

@diegonatan6301

4 жыл бұрын

@@azarilh2355 it is metric system, but with the wrong measures.

tbh units are relatable as long as you grow used to them. Sure i CAN'T find a meter in my body, but I've just learnt it's a very long step. I also knowe if i put my thumb and index just at the right distance i get a centimeter, and when i hold a bottle of water i can tell there's 1'5kg there.

I stumbled on this video after looking up "us metrication", and here's my 2 pennies: In my home country, the Philippines, we are for the most part already on metric. But US customary units are still being used in some contexts (for instance, we quote our height in feet/inches, and some products are dual-labelled in metric & US customary).

Wikipedia: "The ounce is a unit of mass, weight, or volume" They are not even sure of what they are doing!!!!!!

@harishganesan3575

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair, even other than america, people use Kilograms for weight, not Newtons

@HAWXLEADER

4 жыл бұрын

@@harishganesan3575 it's killogram force it's a different unit defined as 9.81... Newtons Or the force a 1kg mass would create on Earth G.

@abhisheksoni2980

4 жыл бұрын

@@harishganesan3575 for earth's surface, it could make sense. But volume and weight are not at all interchangeable! Not even while making a goddamn cake!

@harishganesan3575

4 жыл бұрын

@@HAWXLEADER yeah. An ounce force will also make sense right ??

@harishganesan3575

4 жыл бұрын

@@abhisheksoni2980 the point i was trying to make was mass and weight are universally used interchangeably.. but yeah volume and mass doesnt make much sense.

The "facade" will melt away when public institutions switch to metric. The media, like Verge, is a public institution. We, US citizens, will learn to use metric _if Verge uses metric._ Your problem is solved: use metric now.

@lilaclizard4504

4 жыл бұрын

exactly! by all means add on screen alternatives, but someone has to be a part of that facade crumbling & it should be channels like this

@paradox...

4 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly!

@iReppoGames

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Hunter Hogan, you have single-handedly destroyed the imperial system and now every American uses metric. Thank you for your service

@PostWarKids

4 жыл бұрын

came to the comments to say this

@bngr_bngr

4 жыл бұрын

Hunter Hogan Americans are not going to pay more for gasoline by switching from gallons to liters.

The imperial system is just old times method of putting numbers to guesswork

Personally I don't mind a separate measurement in parentheses but I have one UK cookbook where they had no clue what they wanted to do. It had cups ounces and grams listed for each ingredient. Luckily some recipe writers are starting to just put gram measurements in parentheses after listing the cup measurement.

If the US will go metric anyway, than why don't you accelerate that change by having metric measurements in your videos?

@frank7411

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, I've noticed that other US based science channels use metrics and don't even give conversions.

@bngr_bngr

4 жыл бұрын

Fran K its just the context of the subject. If they start using metric measurements for the speed of a car. Then they would lose US viewers. If they talk about milk in liters that would turn us off. Escape velocity, use US units, as our culture is ingrained with the use of our measuring system for the space program. If they do a show on construction techniques use our system. Our housing sector, construction/home improvement is done in inches and feet. When we talk about pies or pizza we talk in fractions. Our schooling is design to use our units for measurement. Even scientist us the fractional system in expressing mathematical formulas.

@900108Chale

4 жыл бұрын

@@frank7411 So right!

@zdcyclops1lickley190

4 жыл бұрын

Because you either have a mental picture of what the words represent or you don't. I've walked miles, but I can't say how far a kilometer is. That means the metric system is just words. If your bragging about the size of your Johnson, it sounds much larger in millimeters, but size isn't everything. Too bad the french didn't know this .

@orlock20

4 жыл бұрын

This is going to turn into a cooking and construction channel?

But you are a "science channel" why not use metric then on screen imperial units.

@piyushpawar6196

4 жыл бұрын

what he is trying to say that they explains science to normal people of US too who dont understand metrics

@auseziegieteursucraineiwst3680

4 жыл бұрын

Wow........

@Lime0888

4 жыл бұрын

What do you mean? They put examples of both metric and imperial

@ornachia2489

3 жыл бұрын

@@piyushpawar6196 Means most of normal ppl in the US don't understand science as well LOL

@ronan3730

3 жыл бұрын

@@ornachia2489 because you need the metric system to understand science, wow yes, good point

Can't wait!

News: Look at this massive hole the explosion made, it's about 500 small dogs long

@kingautumn569

3 жыл бұрын

small dogs? guns are better system

'How far is the school?" -"About two times the range of AK-47."

@whatever9506

4 жыл бұрын

How much college costs? About half the price of an F-35

@simondehaas6460

4 жыл бұрын

@@whatever9506 painfully real

@muslimsfortulsigabbard8646

4 жыл бұрын

How much high school costs? It's actually free but it might cost you your life!

@RawTopShot

4 жыл бұрын

What Ever meanwhile... In UK...free... We value educated citizens so we make sure you get at least a half decent education for free. If you want to continue beyond that, then it's going to cost you, unless you're exceptionally talented, in which case we'll gladly provide a bursary.

@SK-pw9id

4 жыл бұрын

Unless your family was in the army and it's free

WHY DIDN'T WE JUST LISTEN TO THOMAS JEFFERSON WHEN WE HAD THE CHANCE

@VergeScience

4 жыл бұрын

This comment should be higher up. - Cory

@dot32

4 жыл бұрын

@@VergeScience Pin it! :P

@diva1675

4 жыл бұрын

Because he was sneaky, didn’t see hamilton yet?

@fetB

4 жыл бұрын

someone from Fox News probably ridiculed it

@einarabelc5

4 жыл бұрын

@@diva1675 Nah...because you're obstinate.

Hah I actually am familiar with both metric and imperial because I lived in Canada for two years. Once you understand the metric system it does make more sense than Imperial. However I notice Canadians use both, they seem to use KM or meters for distance but feet for height and they almost always use pounds over kilograms. The weirdest thing tho is I noticed Canadians use Fahrenheit indoors but Celsius outdoors lol 🤷🏽‍♂️.

a meter is 2 arm lengths, or a big step or just use cm if you need something more precisely. I have a shoe size 40-41cm, which also means my forehand from elbow to wrist is also 40-41cm which also means my open hand span is also 40-41cm. Tricks exist everywhere, the difference from feet is instead of metre it's simply not called "twice the average arm length" unit, and the fact is, it's consistent across all units and makes other things really convinient.

“The US system has always been a little more accessible than metric.” - That’s very subjective and might be true to people that grew up with imperial measurements. But ask anyone in Europe, and they will have a pretty natural understanding of what one meter, one kilogram, or one liter is. Saying that imperial is easier is just a very American-centric opinion and completely ignores everyone else on the planet. Both systems are easy for those who grew up with it; and the other one is always very confusing for those that didn’t. And actually, as per your reason 3, there shouldn’t be a second thought about what units to use as a default: Half of your audience fully understands metric, and if America is already unofficially metric, then you can please everyone by using metric by default in your messaging. And for those that didn’t catch up with metric yet, include the imperial measurements additionally on the screen (in addition to the metric values, and not the other way around).

@dinamosflams

4 жыл бұрын

Also the flawd argument "If you have a body you can understand the imperial system"; well, If you are a giant maybe, cause the length of foot is nowhere close to the average human. And what ounces and miles are suppose to measure and compare to, according to this logic?

@Guiggs17

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah exactly what I think. Even because the video only picked foot and inch. How can a measure a yard with my body, a mile.. measure area, volume... It's just a nightmare. We already had a rocket accident because of this non sense. And also have the tourists, every time I go to eua it's hard to know if my car needs to refuel or not because I don't have idea if 2 gallons per mile it's enough or not.. finally how to measure tiny things, and the measures of tools.. everything it's a fraction..

@Vgamer311

4 жыл бұрын

Ignoring the others in the replies, I actually agree with your conclusion. I’m American and naturally am more accustomed to our system, but as with most of us, I don’t immediately get lost and confused if someone says a measurement in meters or something. Most of us have at least some understanding of both systems so it’s fine by me if a video primarily uses metric, preferably with imperial on screen. Despite the fact that everyone tries to call us the stubborn ones, I see WAY more complaints from Europeans on imperial videos than I see complaints from Americans on metric videos, which makes sense. After all, between the two groups we’re the only ones who were required to learn both systems in school, and the only ones who use both in our daily lives, so I’m in favor of using metric in these settings since it seems it would confuse the fewest people.

@bingewatchingintesifies809

4 жыл бұрын

No cause America

@bulman07

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed, imperial units are still widely used in the UK but I don’t have any natural sense of what they are because I was taught metric in school

2:15 "America's units were just more consistent." 5:52 "America was worried about the inconsistencies in the system they were already using"....

@mathiaslist6705

3 жыл бұрын

It helped that there was no Germany and that in the area where German like languages were spoken a lot of different measures were used. So a "Zoll" (inch) was different almost everywhere but had the same name and that helped in introducing the French metric system when it was there. I think that is what they mean in 2:15 .However that happened centuries ago.

@vedran5582

3 жыл бұрын

@@mathiaslist6705 The main reason the French introduced the metric system was to standardize. Every town, region, or village of France had some sort of a different measurement. An Inch in Brest was different from an Inch in Nica, and an Inch in Metz was different from the previous two, etc. This was the case all over Europe probably.

@arnaudgauthier9888

3 жыл бұрын

@@vedran5582 And then napoleon came forcing a big part of europe into the metric system

@alainprostbis

3 жыл бұрын

@@arnaudgauthier9888 non. Même pas... Le Portugal a été l'un des premiers pays à choisir le système métrique. Et l'a fait librement. Il y a aussi le cas de l'Allemagne qui s'est convertie au système métrique après sa victoire de 1871 sur la France. La France n'était pas en position d'imposer le système métrique à ce moment...et Napoléon était mort depuis bien longtemps... D'ailleurs la période napoléonienne est une periode où le système métrique a régressé en France et les anciennes mesures ont été rétablies. La France n'a pas imposé "son système" au reste du monde. C'est même le premier pays à avoir fait l'effort d'adopter un nouveau système sans aucun rapport avec le(s) précédent(s). C'est en ce sens que le système métrique a été conçu pour être universel. Chaque état avait le même effort à faire. Y compris l'état créateur. Effort que les USA refusent obstinément de faire en inventant toutes les excuses imaginables...

@bobbiusshadow6985

2 жыл бұрын

Proof of the consistency of their opinions ; )

I haven't watched the video yet. I learned both systems in school early on. I'm 22 always lived in the states and see no issue using metric compared to my parents. Besides driving I've made wooden things with tight fits and currently work in automotive. Both units work with the right knowledge and understanding

Don’t hold your breath for full on metric conversion. I remember when the Congress signed a law in 1975 to “voluntarily” go metric - I recall it very well because I had a class in my freshman year of HS on the metric system - I got an A. Here it is forty eight years later - and unless something changes the US is about as metric as it will ever be - now if they started teaching metric in school starting with kindergarten - in about twenty to thirty years after that - the US might really go metric. However the whole metric temperature system isn’t the best. It’d be really hard to think 37 sounds hot like 100.

@mardiffv.8775

7 ай бұрын

Yes, you are right, as long as metric is not taught from an early age, but USC is taught. Then the USA won't change to metric. The second reason why the USA won't change is cultural. The USC is seen an American. And third reason: the USC works well in practice. If you measure a wooden beam in feet and/ or inches, why would you use meters of centimeters? You are used to the USC system, so you stick to it. 20 years ago my country the Netherlands switched from the Guilders to the Euro. What a mess it was. What used to cost 100 Guilders, was now only 45 Euros. It took a long time before I had the new Euro prices for all stuff in my head.

"A foot is just a foot". But it isn't though. That's the point.

@catchdaweasel

4 жыл бұрын

It's not like we actually use our feet to measure things.

@alexanderchaney4107

4 жыл бұрын

Most feet are shorter than 12 inches, anyway. Unless you've got big feet, your measurements are always going to be short.

@P0YAIS

4 жыл бұрын

Must make shoe shopping easy over there, just gonna buy my new born, my wife and 7 foot tall relative the same 12 inch shoe seeing as they all have the same size feet, apparently.

@ben10pa

4 жыл бұрын

@@P0YAIS 7 foot tall relative? a kid's foot? Michael Jordan's foot?

@bingbung

4 жыл бұрын

Temaran but it is though. Because it's close enough. That's the point.

UK: mock USA for not using metric Also UK: weighs self in boulders

@jakejada1632

4 жыл бұрын

Also our (UK) road signs use miles and meters, not kilometers and meters, not yards and miles, but miles and meters, no joke. I've never even thought about how weird that is until now.

@tmarritt

4 жыл бұрын

@@jakejada1632 because we dont want old people going 90 mph

@xersys2556

4 жыл бұрын

Insert Name Here Sure pal. America is the only first world country where you won’t be put in front of a human rights tribunal for telling a gay joke, but go ahead and keep thinking how terrible it is.

@xersys2556

4 жыл бұрын

Insert Name Here oi, you got a loicense for that opinion, mate?

@michaeldavis2531

4 жыл бұрын

@Insert Name Here You don't need to get political. And anyway, America (my home country) is better than what your country will ever be, period. :)

“Consistency matters far more than what unit you are using.” So true. That statement gets to the crux of the issue.

Everyone in the rest of the world knows how to step 1 meter in length

@alvexok5523

2 жыл бұрын

Is the US really the only country which uses miles instead of kilometers, pounds instead of kilograms, and farenheit instead of celcius?

@camerongray7767

2 жыл бұрын

@@alvexok5523 yes lmao

@alvexok5523

2 жыл бұрын

@@camerongray7767 Well, I do agree that the metric system of measurements make more sense, 10 millimeters to a centimeter, 10 centimeters to a decimeter, 10 decimeters to a meter, and all the way to kilometer. The same system is used with grams. It's not layed out orderly like that with inches, feet, miles, ounces, and pounds

The benefit of metric is not that you can shift the comma, it is that units are connected: psi is unrelated to feet, watt is unrelated to any other imperial unit while it is Joules/second or newton*meter/second and so on. It just makes understanding physics way easier (example: in metric torque*rpm is power in watt, no conversion needed, but it is also Voltage*amps, linking electricity to mechanical power. In imperial all that connection is lost). I think that fact is so underrated.

@exantiuse497

4 жыл бұрын

This is not something most Americans care about. I don't want to be overly hostile towards Americans but there are a lot of them that don't give a damn about science, or even actively oppose it. "Muh traditions" is infinitely more convincing an argument than "it makes science more understandable" to many if not most Americans

@robertl.fallin7062

4 жыл бұрын

@@exantiuse497 Many if not most anericians would be befuddled by telling them watts can be converted into horsepower. Electric cars have no chance here!

@icenine135

4 жыл бұрын

@@robertl.fallin7062 only people who don't work in trades or science and medicine say that.

@icenine135

4 жыл бұрын

Most Americans, especially those working in medicine, sciences and trades want the metric system - doing any type of scientific work or trade work and medical measurements is so much simpler.

@joeblack4436

4 жыл бұрын

This is the correct answer.

Americans, they kicked the British king out but kept his feet for measuring distance

@DieFlabbergast

4 жыл бұрын

British people still use the Imperial system every day. Ask someone how tall he is or how heavy he is: he'll say something like "I'm six foot two and just over 16 stone." "Where's the Post Office?" "Oh, it's about a hundred yards down the road." "Is the river near here?" "No: it's miles away!"

@mosslimbayter277

4 жыл бұрын

@@DieFlabbergast .. In 1971 Canada also switched but it takes a while before those who learned only the imperial method eventually began using metric. The older generation still converts to imperial in their heads. A liter of milk is roughly an imperial quart etc. Everyone under around 35 learned the metric system in school so many don't know what a mile or a yard is. Ask them where the river is and they'll say it's 5 kilometers that way, ask in miles and they'll say it's 5 kilometers and make a guess of between 3 and 8 miles. Conversion to metric is an ongoing thing, 20 years from now it will probably be complete.

@CloneDaddy

4 жыл бұрын

@@DieFlabbergast I was just starting school when England switched to metric. I have no problem using metric at all. It *is* easier to work with. And while it *is* true that we still use the Imperial system in our everyday vocabulary, *most* British people couldn't work anything out in fractions beyond halves and quarters. Therefore, I would say that these days our use of the Imperial system is *mostly* linguistic.

@jester4886

4 жыл бұрын

Reptilians

Metric has 7 basic units, which can make up all other units. All of those basic units are defined by the laws of physics.

@FrodoOne1

3 жыл бұрын

Yes - as of 20 May 2019.

@mrjakobt

3 жыл бұрын

FrodoOne1 When has the last advancement in the imperial system been made?

@FrodoOne1

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrjakobt Probably "The Weights and Measures Act 1985", which defined Imperial measures in terms of SI Units.

100 cm3 stacked on top of each other is 1meter witch is also the amount needed to get a liter. 1 Liter weighs 1kilo. O Celsius is freezing point and 100 boiling point at an altitude of 0 m or sea level. How easy do you want it to be?

@GH-oi2jf

Жыл бұрын

One cc is a ml. It takes one thousand to make a liter.

There is only one reason, their ego is larger than anyone else.

@ankitwawage

4 жыл бұрын

That's a legit point. Whole world :Football/Cricket. America :Basketball /American football. Whole world :SI/Metric system. America :Imperial system. They are very egoistic and that's fact.

@nafeeahnaf6296

4 жыл бұрын

Yah that's the real reason nothing else, they think they can use whatever they want and whatever they use is the right thing even if the whole world uses something else

@jdawesomeguy7916

4 жыл бұрын

@@nafeeahnaf6296 Or maybe it is more just people following tradition, and there is no popular sentiment to change.

@thebomb0638

4 жыл бұрын

Nafee Ahnaf Siraj So if the majority of the world kill themselves that means that you should to because everyone else did it?

@thebomb0638

4 жыл бұрын

Ankit Wawage Or mabey because it’s one of our traditions and the fact of how much it would cost to switch out weighs the benefits as every school in America would have to buy new books and new programs that are metric which would cost millions.

A science channel but refuse to use measurements for science. What?

@AlexM-xj7qd

4 жыл бұрын

Agree

@ChristofferLund6

4 жыл бұрын

a youtube comment, but refuse to watch the youtube clip?

@DK-jd8bj

4 жыл бұрын

There is no such thing as a set "measurement for science". Just because a lot of scientist use metric does not make it any better. In fact for many things it doesn't work well.

@bicygni9932

4 жыл бұрын

@@DK-jd8bj No. Metric is clearly better than the imperial system. Conversions are so much easier. You have a millimeter, which is 1/1000 of a meter. A centimeter is 1/100 of a meter. A meter is 1/1000 of a kilometer. Much simpler than the imperial system. 1 inch is 1/12 of a foot. A foot is 1/5280 of a mile? Because that makes sense.

@MicDrg

4 жыл бұрын

D K Easier conversions and more precise. How is imperial ever better?

In 1999, NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the agency's team used the more conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operation, according to a review finding released Thursday.

In machine design, people have been switching to metric ball bearings and fasteners due to cost, but raw materials like steel tubing and bars still have better availability in inch sizes.

You're a science channel. You should have us conversions written on-screen, but speak in metric.

@StRanGerManY

4 жыл бұрын

@YoungD3mon314 I agree! People who don't use metric are outsiders to science. It's foolish to pander to these outsiders

@andreibratosin

4 жыл бұрын

@@StRanGerManY it's a POP science channel. The whole point is introducing laymen to science. As such, they kinda have to use imperial.

@flybeep1661

4 жыл бұрын

@YoungD3mon314 American scientist use metric, it's said right in the vid. It's a science channel, if you want to have some cred as a serious science channel you don't mess about with imperial.

@flybeep1661

4 жыл бұрын

@@andreibratosin And the best way to teach it is to learn them metric.

@StRanGerManY

4 жыл бұрын

@@andreibratosin Laymen are being introduced to science in school, when they are 12-14yo. Surely the US viewers of this channel have being introduced to physics and SI units, its not completely foreign concept for them. Actually, I'm very much curious. Does an average american never use metric system? Do they "forget" it after school? What about colledge and univercity? I'm also curious about the imperial system myself. When I was making home renovations, I used meters, santimeters and milimeters extensively. I wonder, are there santi-inches and mili-inches?

lol, "metric" is "controversial"? never heard that one, I wish teachers in our schools said that we were learning something controversial...

@Lagggerengineering

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, what? Controversial? How can a system like that be controversial? It's simple, it's precise, it's easy to learn. What else do people need?

@thedude4672

4 жыл бұрын

Try getting everyday average Americans to use the metric system and then say it's not controversial. LOL, indeed.

@Akab

4 жыл бұрын

@@thedude4672 Maybe americans are controversal! ;) jk.

@camembertdalembert6323

4 жыл бұрын

neither do I.

@stephenbenner4353

4 жыл бұрын

Lagger Onesixfour It May be easy to learn, but imperial units are easier. It’s just that imperial units do not convert very well to decimals to do math with them.

3:04 oof. That car just can't decide what lane to drive on, can it?

One important factor (so to speak) of traditional measures is that larger magnitudes can be more easily be divided up into smaller ones. Both meters and feet easily divide by 2 (50 cm, 6 inches), but not so easily by thirds (33.3333 cm, 4 inches). In cooking, measures are largely binary. The traditional, domain-specific systems evolved to be convenient on the job or at the market in the days before calculators. Some of these systems are so apt that even today has been little if any impetus toward metric in spite of their imperfections: dates and times (these were part of early metric proposals and experimented with at the time of the French Revolution).

so conclusion is... the smart people in america have already switched. lol

@TheChangeYT

4 жыл бұрын

Hi verge science

@Levitiy

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty much, and that's all that matters. Foreigners really shouldn't get so hung up on American roads being measured in miles.

@buntings

4 жыл бұрын

Everyone in America knows the metric system. It's taught in school. Used in science courses. We use both systems and utilize them for different things.

@mr.personhumanson6871

4 жыл бұрын

@@buntings Everyone in America? lol

@BrawndoQC

4 жыл бұрын

@total loss Well car makers, planes, copters, Nasa, engineers, doctors, etc all use metric. Check your pill prescription next time.

Actually the intuitiveness is a common pitfall. I can just so much as look at an IKEA table and "see" weither it's 60, 80 or 100cm in width without stomping on it to measure it in feet. What you become accustomed to, is what you are accustomed to. Surprise, surprise!

@TheEgg185

4 жыл бұрын

The bigger the number, the harder it is to visualize Having to describe something as small as a table as 100+ anything seems ridiculous. CM are too small white Meters are too large for most things. Given a choice between Inches, feet, or Yards, most people use feet to measure most things (like height, property, buildings, cars, etc). This proves that the foot is the most natural and intuitive unit of measurement.

@VulpeculaJoy

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheEgg185 ​How are meters too large? I know that a door is 2m high and 200cm at the same time, my bed is 2m long and 1m wide (200cm x 100cm), my desk is 60cm deep and 2m wide... etc. When using metric, you don't just have one unit that's most convinient. You instantly convert between them. 2m + 1.5cm = 201.5cm 3 1/4 ft + 1 1/8 in = ? It gets even more convenient if you consider that the prefix "kilo", "centi", "milli", etc is just a representation of 10^x . This makes maths just soooo much easier. E.g. the speed of sound in an ideal gas is calculated by: c = sqrt {(y * R * T) over M} y (adiabatic index) = 1.4 (for diatomic molecules) R (universal gas constant) = 8.3145 J * mol^−1 * K^−1 T (absolute temperature) = 293.15 K (20°C) M (molar mass) = 0.0289645 kg/mol (for dry air) c = sqrt{(1.4 * 8.3145 J * mol^−1 * K^−1 * 293.15 K) over 0.0289645 kg/mol} c = 343.236937 m/s Notice how that's exactly what we expected for 1 mach = 343m/s in dry air. Also notice how the units are multiplied in with the numbers and cross each other out like variables would K / K = 1 (or K^-1 * K = 1) and mol^-1 * mol = 1 NOW TRY THAT WITH FOOT POUND FORCE AND FARENHEIT!

@yenko5196

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheEgg185Everything you wrote is just so wrong. First of all if a table is more than 100 cm then you use meters. If cm are too small and meters are too big the you have decimeters, though the name is not used much basically everyone knows what 10 cm look like. There is no “choice given”, most people will use metric units just because most of the people in the world are not American and they grew up with the metric system. Imperial units just seems more intuitive to you because that’s what you’ve always used. When my country changed currency to switch to Euro we were all converting all the time in our heads for a few years but now I don’t even remember what the cost of a can of soda was with the old currency.

@stephenbenner4353

4 жыл бұрын

The intuitive nature of the imperial system has more to do with common fractions. I imagine someone who grew up with the metric system can just as easily visualize a meter as I can visualize a foot. But show me a third of a meter (3.33333333333333...cm), and I’ll show you a third of a foot at 4in.

@nerze3157

4 жыл бұрын

@@stephenbenner4353 That's 1/30 meter. And that argument make no sense. Of course a base 12 system makes it easier to compute a 3rd. What's a 10th of a foot though ? 1.2 inches. Less practical than 10cm (or 1dm)

3:05 I love that the footage you kept for the driving montage included this likely drunk driver in front of you

@starandfox601

2 жыл бұрын

No worse they are on their phone.

I remember going on vacation to Canada when I was 12, and it was April, but heard how it can still be cold there even then. I heard one morning there that it was 7 degrees outside and I thought "Oh my god, it's bitter cold out there today and I'm going to freeze and get numb fingers and ears". But then when we went outside and it was feeling fairly comfortably cool and not the raw bitter cold I was expecting, and it made me then think for a moment "man, I've sure learned to handle very cold weather better, it's not so bad out here at all". But it was then I learned that it was 7 degrees celcius out there and not farenheit, and that 7 degrees celcius is 44 degrees farenheit. Next winter back home in the US, I still found temperatures of around 7 degrees farenheit too cold to handle and still got numb fingers and ears from it

@3dvorator

2 жыл бұрын

Not to talk about Americans having holiday in Canada and putting their cruise control on the highway to 100 miles per hour beleving Canada traffic signs are in miles while obviously are in km per hour since a big ticket was waiting for them being 100 km/h 62 miles per hour...😁😁

@alvexok5523

2 жыл бұрын

@@3dvorator I wonder how many Americans have actually done that

I suggest you use the metric system because your channel is about science, and put the numbers in american units in the video

@hansb1337

4 жыл бұрын

This exactly

@dragoncurveenthusiast

4 жыл бұрын

Also agree.

@TLAngus1337

4 жыл бұрын

I agree 100%

@JordannEdwards

4 жыл бұрын

You mean, on-screen conversions.

@DK-jd8bj

4 жыл бұрын

Go start your own channel. Americans don't want anything in metric.

USA be like: Football fields/ school shootings per mile

@realdiamond1524

4 жыл бұрын

lmao

@ghostnoodle9721

4 жыл бұрын

you spelt minute wrong

@slumpkiid3570

4 жыл бұрын

@@ghostnoodle9721 you spelt wrightng

@LIFEOFSTUFFEDANIMALS

4 жыл бұрын

Guns per cheeseburgers

@IM-yu8tw

4 жыл бұрын

imjustsaying tho lmao

In Ireland like the UK we use both. For example, if we are measuring height we tend to use feet. We also use inches more frequently than Cm. Most people when referring to distance, and this is especially the case w/ the older generation, will use miles or yards. If I’m going into the butchers for example I ask for whatever meat I’m buying in Ibs. If I’m baking I’ll often use ounces. So, though we are metric we use imperial in day to day life.