Why doesn't America use the metric system?

We use metric in science and medicine

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Based Antarctica

because fuck the rest of the world, that's why. faggot.

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Why are you posting pictures of Detroit?

Because you're fucking retarded

12 is superior to 10

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Because every other country in the world is a nigger.

Because we are fucking retarded.

we have mexicans to do landscaping in detroit.
russians apparently dont.

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looks comfy af, I wish we had commieblocks

Because a filthy Brit killed one of Jefferson's men returning from France

This, plus we wouldn’t accrue the same benefit that other countries would. The US is the most insular economy in the world; we don’t need to measure things the same way other countries do. Over 80% of our trade is internal.

BECAUSE FUCK YOU THATS WHY. YEEHAAAW

>just be a sheep

no thanks

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Steady on

The laws of the universe works on a system of twelves, notice how metric time keeping/clocks just can't work.

We almost did.

In the early 1800's Thomas Jefferson invited a french scientist to come to the USA and discuss the new measurement system they were just starting to develop.

The scientist's ship was attacked by pirates and he was killed.

and drugs and guns

we use both and you, as an american, should know better. faggot. sage

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One international system is literally marxist

Because only faggots use degrees communist

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>The laws of the universe works on a system of twelves
maybe in alabama or somewhere like that

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It’s a way to shield scientific research from universal understanding. Why do you think the most advanced country does this? It’s like using a different OS - not fool proof. But it’s not easy for untrained engineers to move from SI to Imperial. They are more likely to make mistakes. It’s not as if NASA doesn’t get metric. Also 12

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Challenger was a faulty o ring.

T. Family member was on the fuel crew

We do
Any important measurement is metric

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DONT TREAD ON ME COMMIE

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>12/10 doesn't exist

Simply to fuck with tourists.

>Acts like "HURR DURR DURR MURRICA SO BETTA!!"

>Uses a measuring system based off the arm of the queen of the country that doesn't even use it anymore.

Nonsensical.

Bongland uses imperial too

>don't like metric system because its french
>drive on the french side of the road

burger logic

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Fuck 10! 12 power bitch.

show me a metric clock

Your OS runs on a metric clock, moon man.

Can't speak for the rest of the country, but I generally use it. It's nice to work with.

Unix

It would run better on a duodecimal clock, you European little bitch

Metric system is flawed and inaccurate

The US does use the metric system. By law most packages of food must have both the customary and metric measurements. There are metric measures all over the place. We just don't use metric exclusively but then again the UK still uses miles, stones, and a mix of other customary units. Canada uses customary units in some segments of the food industry. No one uses metric to describe their weight or height except maybe in Quebec.

it's binary, moron

>duodecimal
>first western country that will go below 50%
The plot thickens.

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Sorry but 12 is just a better number than 10

You win. From now on I will measure everything in Kingly feet lengths.

We use both. Metric in science and industry, imperial in general and for construction.

>From now on I will measure everything in Kingly feet lengths.
Welcome to the club

We use both, get on our level morons.

We also use both

It's the secret that makes USA #1. We'll never tell the world why.

>The international yard and pound agreement of July 1959 defined the length of the international yard in the United States and countries of the Commonwealth of Nations as exactly 0.9144 meters. Consequently, the international foot is defined to be equal to exactly 0.3048 meters. This was 2 ppm shorter than the previous U.S. definition and 1.7 ppm longer than the previous British definition

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a foot is the length of a foot.

a meter is ... what? tell me.

About a yard

Because we won the fucking wars, so fuck you

wait till you learn how meter is defined.

Average non-imperial dick length.

At least it hasn't changed, rendering all precision procedures from before 1959 useless.

It make more sense. And you can't use metrics all the time. Also, empire.

see? this is why europeans are stagnating. years of socialism completely desotryed any critical thinking. there is only authority and conformity. an arbitray thing is divine, jsut because everybody else accepts it.

and they get angry when someone acts differently. they feel violated if someone dares to defy the order they are slave of.

to answer the question

The metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 second.

1 second is defined to be exactly "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom at a temperature of 0 K

You will accept metric yet, thought-criminal. Soviet metric will prevail!

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Any measurement at it's base will be arbitrary. Why metric is superior to your bullshit is by relations.

we can handle different radixes just fine. it's really not that hard.

retooling would cost a lot of money.

and there's really no good reason to do so.

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Asian countries often use the most inefficient writing systems... but hey! at least they use the metric system, right?

Somehow UK pretending to use the metric system and not using it in many cases is better USA explicitly not using it.

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Spacecraft they lost to conversion fuckup was Mars Climate Orbiter in 1999.

US military also uses it, due to NATO standards.

Rest of the world used imperial system pretty much only in aviation and in some rather arbitrary random measurements like wood thickness and TV/monitor screen sizes.

A lot of it has to do with administrative structure of US. Building regulations are probably best example why it would be expensive as fuck and that is just one sector. Even individual cities may have their own building regulations, then state has its own building regulations and then we add even more building regulations from federal level. I wouldn't be surprised if counties are involved in complicating it even further. A fucking lot of laws and regulations would have to be changed and handful of idiots low level political offices could fuck up conversion. In UK metrification has dragged on for more than century due to few lobbying groups.

Only for few things like road signage and measurement certain food items.

I'm almost certain that you are phone poster... that uses metric time definitions on GPS in addition to its clock as well.

They changed the definition metre last time in 1983. The distance travelled by light in vacuum in 1/299792458 second. Official definition of all SI units are set change in May 20th this year, that was decided in last November.

That is disinformation. I posted the correct version here