Is The Metric System Actually Better?
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You guys are too harsh towards US. They've been using 9mm in schools for a while now.
Tolga Ekiz I just laughed way too much at that
LOL WHAT
at least something
I find this gun joke very funny, while knowing that I shouldn´t do that.
See you in hell, buddy. You'll be there for writing this joke, I'll be there for shittin' myself laughing
Imperial and metric have something in common: They're both incompatible with imperial
Gold
This.
Hilarious 😂
L O L
Absolutely!
There are 2 types of countries - those that use metric, and those whose units are federally defined by metric
I actually read this comment while he said it in the video. That was a brainfuck
@@genertec😂
Which is in turn defined by light...
So you mean there are Tier1 countries and Tier2 countries?
@@AngraMainiiu Any unit of length can be defined in terms of the speed of light in a vacuum, this doesn't make the meter special in any way.
There's a reason nobody's using plank lengths as their primary unit of measure.
As an engineering student, with the metric system I was able to find formulas I'd forgotten out of nowhere with a simple dimensional analysis, no arbitrary coefficients, everything is elegant.
Elegant? Its just easy as easy can be.
@@evobsm2328 yes, there is elegance in simplicity but you probably wouldnt know
which is elegant...@@evobsm2328
@@evobsm2328 THAT is what makes it an elegant system.
As a cnc programmer and machinist who works in an R&D machine shop, engineers need some manufacturing experience because they usually dont know how things actually work and we constantly have to correct their designs and show them better ways of doing whay yhey are trying to accomplish.
1 foot is legally defined as the distance a 9mm bullet can travel through a monster truck and 3 cheeseburgers inside a complete Vacuum
You mean submerged in Frying oil
Ovbiusly du'h *
Super👍😁
9mm? You mean 0,354 inch bullets...
How paradoxical - in this case their guns makes the most sense...
over the flat earth
I came here to see the imperial system get roasted and I was NOT disappointed
Thanks for the spoiler. I'll definitely watch the video then
Same here
Yessssss
Rodrigo Rex lol
Pew Pew! 😂
"He despised british units so much so he designed a rocket to fly to england to show them how great the metric system was" i'm dying over here 😂
If you're British quite literally...
Not so bad for a gap year project. I'm sure his friends were happy.
I’m confused. Didn’t the British use the metric system?
@@lordpengz16not at the time (and in a few ways we still don't), we invented the imperial system and used it for century's and as such it's taken us a while to shift off from it.
@@matthewmac5787you brits generally do some weird things.
But what annoys me the most is that i cant find any new shows with the typical british humor i loved so much during my youth. Heck, you can measure lenghts with your spitting distance if thats what floats your boat, as long as you bring out anything comparable to little britain
Hey, fun fact about the temperature in both systems:
In Celsius 0°C is the temperature, at which water freezes at sea level. 100°C is the temperature, at which water evaporates.
In Fahrenheit 100°F is the body temperature of a sweating horse of a very specific breed, at a very specific time, at a very specific spot in Germany. 0°F is the coldest temperature detected at the winter of 1708/1709
Just saying
Where in the heck did you dig that up? That's awesome.
And to avoid any confusion with the pressure-dependency that the freezing and boiling point of water have, you can even further simplify this by saying that the triple point of water is exactly 0.01°C or 273.16 Kelvin.
@@Mis7erSeven I think that's how Kelvin and Celsius scales are defined...
100 degrees is impressive for me meaning in Texas life is going to suck. 30.255334 is worthless to me. I dont care when water boils. Don't bother me with that. 32 is easy for freezing. 0 means death might be imminent. Same goes for speed 100 kmph not far 100 miles per hour fast and dangerous. The average person isn't a scientist no one cares.
that's not true
96F was defined as the human body temperature, and 0F as the temperature of an equal ice-salt mixture at an arbitrary point in time
America is moving towards the metric system, one inch at a time
or better one milimeter in a century
Please show your working.
The milli-furloung could solve all this.
* 3 centimeters at a time
Classic quote
Best thing ever in real life: 1 liter of water = 1 kg.
Oh yeah well 1 fluid ounce of water equals 1 ounce of water.
@@joiseystud Both are different measurements. It's about a relation between a volume of water (Liter or cubic decimeter) and an amount of its mass (kg).
@@joiseystud Well, but what about a cubic inch? But maybe it just takes a bit. Decifoot for decifoot, you will fin a way to use another completely weird system.
@R. Schowiada71 And if we wanna piss everybody off we throw in that the density of water alone varies due to its temperature etc. which would mean even bigger differences :P
But yeah, you're completly right though.
Well, that's only true if your water's temperature is 39.2 Fahrenheit :), (just kidding, I meant 277.15 Kelvin or if you insist, 4 degrees Celsius).
I grew up in South Africa and learned in the Imperial system until I was 12. When we changed to metric everyone in my class cheered! No more adding 33'9 and 3/8" to 21'8 and 25/64"!
Totally agree. I started my life with Imperial and with 3/16 and 8/32 and I still don't have a clue of what they are. Please give me a ratchet set and drill bits in metric!!!
to me always metric those number seem like a shitpost compilation lmao
That’s exactly why the imperial system is crap. Those ridiculous fractions of an inch.
People that were taught the Imperial system usually are slightly better at multiplying fractions. That's possibly the only positive 😂
@@arnolddavies6734 Some fields use tenths of an inch instead of fractions.
It's even more connected than you say.
1 metre was set at 1/10,000,000 the distance from the equator to the poles. (They have since then measured the distance more accurately and it's slightly out.)
Also, a cube 10cm x 10cm x 10cm has a volume of 1 litre.
1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogram.
At sea level water boils at 100°C and freezes at 0°C.
There are a ton of cool definitions of the meter. They also thought about having it defined as the length of a pendulumn that has frequency 1 with a weight of 1 kg attached to it. That's why earths acceleration is roughly π^2
Even energy units are defined by metric and even used in us... for example Calories and Joule are based on the metric system (1 calorie needed to heat 1 gramm / 1 millilitre of water 1 degree)...
@@georgigeorgiev891the mass doesn't change the frequency of a pendulum....
T=2π√(l/g)
The meter has an old definition as the lenght of a pendulum with T = 2 seconds.
Also 1 Metre is a 10000 Part of the distance between Paris and Barcelona
It's all the question how to measure all those zeros ....
Metric system
mm- millimetre
cm- centimetre
m- metre
km- kilometre
Imperial system
- Inch
- Feet
- yard
- size of Football field
- size of Texas
Don't worry, "size of ..." is pretty universal. In Germany we like "size of soccer field", "size of Saarland" ...
Since a century is a hundred years a centimeter should be 100 meters? 100x vs. 1/100th ?
Yes. Here in America a football field is common. It's easy to visualize. Trip most people that don't have to deal with it to visualize land area in English or metric and watch the stupid look.
Imperial system:
-inch: in
-Feet: Ft
-Yard: Yd
-Mile: mi
Metric is great for tiny measurements, because god knows there's a metric tonne of them you can use for that purpose. Imperial is more focused on larger measure, but can be broken down using fractions of a whole inch.
Break the cycle.
Change the norm.
Use the Nautical system.
@@captbiptoe 1. the "centi" in centimetre doesn't come from "century", but from the latin "centesimus", wich means a hundredth, 100 meters is called hectometre
2. technically football fields can have different sizes
"He designed a rocket to fly to England to show how great the metric system was." Oh god!
When the members of the British Rocket Society, sitting in a pub in London, heard the explosion of the first V2 to reach London they cheered, realising that the sudden explosion, with no pre-ceeding engine noise meant that a supersonic rocket had just landed.
U Estonian? Your pfp has nature in it and is Blue black white basicly, so it seems so Estonian.
Well he was German.
Was this rocket named V2 ?
@@helloWorld-dd2yc jes
I once saw on an American technical data sheet the unit oz/ sq.m. Crazy!
Unusual, but not crazy. There was likely a reason for it, but you didn’t say what was being measured.
@@GH-oi2jf It is quite "interesting" how YOU manage to keep up "defending" that which may be quite "indefensible."
The term "masochist" comes to mind.
Now imagine an aircraft engine overhaul manual diagram showing degrees of rotation, thread pitch (imperial), and tolerances within thousandths of an inch (thou) with adjoining heat treating verbage that calls out temperatures in both degrees fahrenheit and celsius with gas pressure requirements in atmospheres.
@@DangerB0ne - Units are arbitrary. Any unit will do.
@@GH-oi2jflike ameraca right?😂
I love a tiny error, the voiceover says "a lb is 0.435 kg" (9:12) which is just a perfect little example of how easy it is to make mistakes in such a silly conversion system.
but that's correct, a pound is 0.435kg
@@freshrockpapa-e77990.454kg or so I was taught?
World: *uses metric system*
America: Cheeseburgers per freedom eagle with gun
Football fields per war crimes
Russia's is bears per corrupted politician
Charlie day put it best, “Rock, Flag, and Eagle”
hot dogs per school shooting
War crimes per corporate bailout
The metric system is kilometers ahead.
You can say streets too, it's neither metric nor imperial ;)
streets ahead
Imperial is miles ahead.
Miles > Kilometers
A Yottameter ahead
@@adamgonzalez7450
The beauty of the metric system is that i could use arbitrarily humongous prefixes, like megameters, so it could always win.
megameters >> miles
Whenever I listen to a NASA program, I can easily tell if it's worth listening to - if they talk metric units, that means the person talking is an engineer or scientist and so it's worth listening, if they talk imperial - that means it's a PR guy so I won't hear anything interesting.
I'm a French engineer. And We tolerate only one none metric measure : the pint of beer !
Rack-mounted instruments around the world use the 19-inch rack.
Huh. I never thought of that. Are there any other niche places where imperial carries on?
Then again, if it's like here in Italy, we use the term without even any clear grasp of what's supposed to be.
For how many of us are concerned, a "pint" is just a kind of glass you use for beer rather than an actual unit of measurement.
There are several things used worldwide which are designed using inches. The ones most commonly used are automobile wheels, Schrader valves to inflate tires, threads to mount cameras to tripods, and square drives for socket wrenches.
I have learned that there is a Metric alternative to the 19-inch rack. I think it is a little larger, so any equipment designed to fit in a 19-inch rack would fit in the Euro rack with a suitable face plate.
Even the ordinary 19-inch rack was partially Metricized. The original design had threaded mounting holes built in. Current ones can be used with either US or Metric hardware.
@@josephwodarczyk977 Diagonal of tv's.
''I aimed for the stars, but sometimes hit London.''
Wernher Von Braun
Pretty cursed
:D
Oh that's gotta be one of the best comments I've heard, if only my friends had the same sense of humour to share it with. Well done 😎
@Simon Read works better if you write 10
There are two kinds of people. Those who classify everything in 2 categories and those who don't.
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: Still yes
short answer: yes
long answer: y e s
longer answer y e s
shorter answer ye
@@randomperson1955 shorter answer: si
Usa girl: i only date 6 foot guys!
The exchange student from chernobil:😏
@@denifnaf5874 lmao underrated
@@randomperson1955
Short answer: yes
Long answer: definitely
Longer answer: See the above
Most efficient answer: JA!
The biggest advantage of all in SI metric system is that most scientific formulae don't have extraneous constants in them. F = ma just works. F = g m1 m2/r^2 so I don't have to remember a heap of random constants! I tend to do calculations in basic units: m, kg, s etc. that way I don't have factors of 1000 and stuff complicating my calculations. Unfortunately some scientists still hold on to old cgs (not SI) metric units. I wish they would get with the strength and go pure SI but at least they aren't using poundals and slugs... :)
cgs is the worst "system". When I first learned they even used it for electromagnetic units and even have various cgs systems like esu or emu I went crazy. I had to read a old book with some measurements of ferroelectric transition in TGS and saw the units. I wanted to cry knowing I had to convert these to compare them with my own measurements.
cgs proves useful when doing calculations especially in physical chemistry. chemists generally deal in masses of grams and not kg. volumetric measurements are also in mL and so it proves useful to have gm and mL instead of the 10^-3 factors everywhere
6:21 Not to really bug you but you forgot to add an extra one layer of bolts after the division of intervals to cater for the end of the 1 mile bridge. So that'll be 881 instead. Amounting to 1,762 bolts.
Alternative title “ Roasting Imperial System for 12 mins straight “
*complaining about occasionally doing basic math for 12 mins straight
Skerples yeah but doing basic math IS where the mistakes happen. Not everyone is going to be able to simple math 100% of the time correctly. At some point you will make a simple mistake.
@@Z0DI4C you're missing the point, it all about efficiency
@@Z0DI4C the simple math is even simpler while dealing with factors of 10
@@Z0DI4C basic math errors are waaaaaay
more frequent than anything else, a good engineer would tell you to triple check a simple sum even if you do it with a calculator
"He designed a rocket to fly to England to show them how great the metric system was". LOL :-)
Wouldent be the first time a German tried to launch a rocket at England.
@@TheGrimPeeper, apparently the English didn't get the message about the metric system being superior - perhaps it was the Alabama accent :-). So the American on his gap year in Germany needed to keep sending them rockets until they understood it. That's why Britain is (mostly) metric now.
Spoken like a true Irishman...
@@TheGrimPeeper I see the reference went right over your head.
Well it wasn't that great because the bloody things kept crashing.
Next step: using the 24-hour clock all over the world.
It is used all over the world, as is the 12-hour clock. Use whichever you prefer.
In the USA they dont use the 24 hour clock, and they call it military time XD@@GH-oi2jf
the mix of units is the absolute best way to guarantee a spectacular failure
I'm here to watch "YES" being stretched to 13 minutes.
yes, actually the video could have been one second length...
Same here!
lol
@@elvisdorkenoo Or as we say here, 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 absolute zero.
So a channel to avoid then. As that's a simplistic view. Then again, what do you expect from something with "engineering" in the title.
Don’t even get me started on FAHRENHEIT...
Actually it's the least flawed of the imperial units. Yeah, Fahrenheit's defining points are really weirdly established, but in the end Celsius is just another arbitrary scale as well (though it is more scientifically defined). Fahrenheit doesn't have any inconsistent relations between several units, unlike all the other Imperial units. Though that probably is just because Imperial system doesn't have multiple units of temperature.
@@wombat4191 Hmm... Celsius is just a practical scale for me. If I hear it's 0 degrees Celsius outside, I know it's freezing, and slippery. If my water boils, I know it's 100 degrees. That are neat rounded values based on practical values. I don't disagree with you about Farenheit being the least flawed of the imperial units, but it feels weird for me that when everything outside is frozen over, the Farenheit scale still gives a positive value.
@@jclosed2516 Yeah I agree with you, Celsius at least feels more convenient as I'm used to it. That being said, people who are used to Fahrenheit will say the exacts same, arguing the normal "0 = really cold weather, 100 = really hot weather, and 100 is also the limit of fever". I don't really blame them, because it is a rare imperial unit that is not objectively inferior to its metric counterpart (except for scientific use). It's just a matter of how you view the temperature scale for everyday use. Celsius users see it as the area around 0, while Fahrenheit users see it as a scale between 0 and 100.
Given that Celsius isn't in the IS (the unity for temperature is Kelvin, where 0K is the minimum possible temperature: -273.15°C and +-1°C = +-1K):
Fahreneit who was the best at making thermometers at the time and Celsius (whi didn't invent Centigrade: the actual Celsius scale has 0 and 100 swapped) made a scale to measure in a specific range without needing negative temperatures for the field of application (respectively meteorology and medicine)
Seriously? When you tell a Brit that it's 32 degrees outside, instead of bringing a jacket and earmuffs they get dressed in shorts and flip-flops. Weird people.
There's just a few things you can watch with great satisfaction:
Waterfalls, fires, and someone shitting on the imperial system
It would be also nice to have similar video about different types of power outlet sockets in different countries.
British are the safest, unless you happen to step onto one at Night. Tom Scott made a good Video explaining why.
@@Genius_at_WorkThe Brazilian default is the safest. Half of each pin is plastic, only the tip of it is metal (which is more than enough to make contact), In addition to the connector having a format of a type of hexagon, which is mirrored in the socket so that it is impossible to get shocked unless you stick something in there by purpose. This shape also makes it much more difficult to cause accidents with water, no matter if there is ou isn't anything connected.
@@gn4sty731I believe the British also follow the semi plastic plug style.
"There are 2 kinds of countries -- Those that use the Metric system and those that used the metric system to go to the moon and later crashed a probe into mars because they were confused by metric units"
-Scott Manley
Scott Manley here!
@@wilhellmllw3608 Fly saf- oh dear
Measure safe! 😁
They didn’t crash a probe into Mars. They covertly carried out an excavation of the Martian surface. They’ll go back later to look for signs of past Martian civilization.
Joke’s on them though... they happened to excavate an area the past civilization had set aside as a nature preserve. There will be no signs of civilization there.
@@CarFreeSegnitz Mission failed succesfully
Alternate title: "Real Engineering roasts Imperial for 13 minutes"
Minus 8 seconds...
and fails the common sense test totally, typical for the lunatics of the French Revolution that destroyed each other and gave us the metric system as a result of their failure, a completely impractical system too incompetent to relate to the real world.
@@russedav5 I bet you have never even tried using metric before
I had to use it because of a physics class and I love it
@@russedav5 *laughs in metric using universal constants*
Metric Engineering: *The Real Engineering!*
Imperial Engineering: _If Donald Trump was a unit system._
Canada switch to the metric system in the mid 70’s, when I was a teenager in the sciences, so I am quite familiar with both. However, when it comes to people’s height (and to a lesser extent, weight), I still calculate metric to imperial for comparison. Everything else I prefer metric.
The uk also tends to do height using imperial and often weight as well. We also use miles for distance, because why be reasonable
I’m a 90s Canadian kid and I use imperial and metric interchangeably… though I can’t convert anything in imperial.
Well but I think that will phase out, in Germany we never use imperial units. The only thing I know is my grandma using the German pound (Pfund) from time to time (it's exactly 500g), but if only old people use something it will cease to exist
@@haselnuss43 Wow, that's really interesting. I'd never heard of a Pfund and didn't know that metric pounds were a thing. I've only ever encountered imperial pounds, which are approximately 454g
For me its the ability to do stuff like 'oh i dont have a 1L measure' but i have a scale so i can measure out 1kg of water and thanks to the metric system its 1L of water. I actually had to do that once!!
Keep in mind that it's only true for pure water. If there's impurities like ions or calcium (which is likely, unless you're using distilled water), 1L of water won't weigh exactly 1kg, but rather slightly more. Another thing to keep in mind is that 1L of water only weighs 1kg at ambient pressure at sea level (i.e an elevation of roughly 0m), so there's that too. Still, should be pretty accurate for most purposes
@@nocturn9x approx.. it works ( way better than trying to fill it up from just the looks of it)
@@user-eo2wl4ku5v Yes, which is why I said it works in most cases. Definitely better than eyeballing it
@@nocturn9x wai../ wah how did i not read that even tho i read the whole cmnt .sry.
for real. for every líquid similar to water (roughly same density), say milk or apple juice; I just weight a kilogram of it or any fraction for cooking. slight differences on density and pressure wont make It a 1:1 match but a few mililiters of difference don't matter for most things
Every time I come the US I have to get used to inches, miles, ounces, liquid ounces, gallons, Fahrenheit... And every time they ask or mention time, I get surprised that they use hours and minutes!
LMFAO
You do know most of the world uses the same the time system practically no one uses metric time
@@liamswiderski8978 , am I supposed to add #sarcasm to every sarcastic / ironic comment of mine? 8))
Besides, second _is_ a metric unit, as well as minute, hour etc. Whether you’re in the US, Europe, Asia or on the ISS, you use _metric time._ The meter is defined as the distance covered by light within 1/299792458 of a second in vacuum.
Funnily, inches and gallons are metric, too, cuz they’re defined through metric units: one inch is officially defined as 25.4 mm. There’s no other definition of the inch that is absolutely independent from the metric / SI units. Otherwise, international trade and science would be impossible.
@@SummerThyme-ye5rd Oof, burns.
@@SummerThyme-ye5rd Minutes, hours ect aren't metric. Metric time is measured in seconds, kiloseconds, megaseconds ect. starting from some arbitrary t=0.
“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. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”
― Josh Bazell, Wild Thing
Except only one of those is still true, one milliliter is one cubic centimeter. The others are no longer precise enough, which causes people to not look them up when they should.
@@zeroone8800 density of water is off by 2 ten of a gram/ml. Calories are still defined by heating water, but in joules.
Unfortunately that's where the system falls apart, as a calorie is 4.184 joules.
@@zeroone8800 Do you think that european scientists just use approximation instead of precise calculation?
@@wyattroncin941 Calories are no longer defined by the heating of water. The Calorie is 4184 J by definition.
And you're working with STaP water... exactly never, so none of that matters! Glad we could clear up why that argument is stupid.
The answer is roughly 284 calories, though.
There are two kind of countries : the ones that stubbornly decided to stay in the middle ages and the ones that use logic and common sense.
I'm an Australian born in 1960. During my early school years I was taught the Imperial system of weights and measures. I vividly recall my 1970 Year 5 class chanting in unison: "22 yards, 1 chain; 10 chains, 1 furlong; 8 furlongs, 1 mile." (The Grafton Sisters of Mercy were thorough to a fault.) That same year the Federal Government, after deliberating for half a century on and off, finally took the decision to convert to the _Système International d'Unités_ (SI, or Metric system). Parliament passed the Metric Conversion Act, establishing a Board of the same name to oversee the process, and planning commenced immediately.
The implementation phase began on New Year's Day 1971 and was almost fully completed by the same date in 1975. During this period I received instruction in the SI at school, so I'm right in the middle of a narrow age band of Australians that became fully "bilingual" and can reckon fluently within and between the two systems. That was never quite the case for many of my parents' generation, especially the less-educated ones or those whose work didn't require metric system proficiency on a day-to-day basis. It took decades for some of them to become comfortable with some less-used aspects of "the new metric". It was even more true of my grandparents' generation, then approaching or already past retirement age, who never embraced the change. However even they soon understood what a litre of milk or a kilogram of meat was. Conversely, people who were born only a few years after me never came to encounter the old Imperial system at all, either at school or in the wider society. Its pounds and ounces, pints and gallons, and yards, feet and inches are a foreign language to them. More than once in those early years I found myself acting as interpreter between an older and a younger person.
So, if Australia's experience is any guide, I suppose I'm confirming the expectations many Americans already have: that, like all change, metric conversion will prove to be very easy for some of them, somewhat less so for others, and rather difficult for a few, although they'll adapt readily enough to it to the extent that they need to for everyday living. Once the journey is seriously embarked on there will be no going back.
That isn't the way we do things in the USA. We are bimetral. Both US Customary and Metric units are legal here. People (and groups) are free to use whichever suits their purpose. Metric units are used in many places, such as automobile hardware and medicine. There is no need for a general conversion.
@@GH-oi2jf
"That isn't the way we do things in the USA"
No. You don't -- DO anything towards conversion..
"We are bimetral Both US Customary and Metric units are legal here." - which is the WORST situation possible.
See" Naughtin's Laws" - Number 1
(Look-Up "Naughtins Laws" - RUclips doesn't let one post a non RUclips reference. )
"People (and groups) are free to use whichever suits their purpose. " - So, they stick to the "OLD".(See the above.)
"Metric units are used in many places, such as automobile hardware and medicine." - The Automobile industry in USA HAD to convert during the 1970s - because they found it to be CHEAPER and they needed to exchange components/designs with the "rest of the world".
"In General Motors when they began their metrication program (in the 1970s) they created a group to monitor the costs so that they could claim them back later from the government.
Then, when they discovered how much metrication was saving General Motors, they quietly disbanded the metric costs accounting group."
(Look-Up "Cost of Non Metrication in the USA")
The above reference indicates how Non-Metric Conversion is COSTING the USA BOTH money and lives.
Please do look-up "Nerd Nite #5: Metric System Lecture" on RUclips.
I was born in 1936, went through a similar experience at school and am "fluent" in both Metric, Imperial and the "US Customary" (British Pre-Imperial) outlier!
However, my Wife and I made sure that our children, born in 1970 and 1971, would never need to be bothered with the cumbersome Pre-Metric measurement system, throughout their "Learning Years".
Of course, they now have STILL constantly needed to "convert" the Non-Metric dimensions inflicted on us through US Movie and TV programs - et al.
5.2k americans got triggered...
Is this even how they count people? Like, isn't someone 0.85632 feet or something?
the world: this video has 1 million views
american: "the people who watch this video is 4 "footbalfield" dense of people when they watch usain bolt"
as a non american i can definitely confirm that
It's like 0818 Yard Eagles per Cheeseburger with 76 Guns per War crime
.85856 hot dogs per school shooting*
@@subatenome yooooo
“So great, that he designed a rocket to fly to England to show them” shows a picture of a V-2 rocket lmao this had me rolling
Great at taking off, not so good on the landing ;P
@Anant Tiwari e
Wernher von Braun is seriously one of the greatest men of history just in terms of the roasts people make of him. Tom Lehrer's song on him alone is legendary.
Ari Rahikkala Any controversial historical figure will have their fair share of roasts
Jerry Rupprecht calling him controversial would be an understatement lmao
Yes, I can feel the disappointment when they say as big as an tennis court or Olympic swimming pool. Once did read where a newspaper mentioned a crater formed on a road as big as 4 refrigerator.
When I was learning to fly it seemed crazy that the (American) planes we were flying measured aircraft, passenger, baggage and fuel weights in pounds, but they measured fuel volume in US gallons (which bizarrely are not even the same as an Imperial gallon!), and we purchased our fuel in litres - lots of room for error there, even in light aircraft! Fortunately some light aircraft owners have been sensible enough to have the aircraft weights converted to kg and the fuel dipsticks to litres, removing most of the potential errors.
We think the Imperial gallon is bizarre. In olden times, “gallon” was not a fixed volume. It was a container for liquids and there were different gallons for different liquids. The US gallon was the British wine gallon. When the British formulated the Imperial System, half a century after the United States had left the Empire, they chose to standardize on a different gallon. Why they didn’t check with the USA first I can’t imagine.
You forgot another important unit in the US measurement system: "the football field" but of course not the football game every other country plays 😁😁
Underrated comment
Size of Texas.
At least it follows the Imperial logic. 12 inches in a foot but football is 11 inches long. Is mainly played by holding it in your hands and while you can call prolate spheroid a ball, it's still the weirdo in the family of soccer ball, tennis ball, basketball and the likes.
Are you talking about handegg ?
The "football" that the Americans play is basically discount Rugby.
Omfg the roasts. I started using metric in my chem class and I was shocked by how EASY it was to use, so intuative, no random ass numbers to remember. 5280 feet my ass...
That's a lot of feet for an ass
Welcome to the wonders of the metric system
YES! like, everything you just have to divide by 10. It's really, really simple.
It is all based around water which makes certain things easier, 1L=1kg=1dm³ and 1ml=1g=1cm³ and temperatures are the same, 100° boiling point 0° freezing point, not 32°F or whatever it is
@@matthewirvine1361 you got an error there. 1L=dm^3
m^3 would be a ton
Metric: logic
Imperial: medieval
I only use two non metric units, the nautical mile and the knot. they work well in navigation because they easily convert to angles on our planet.
Yes. This makes sense.
Any video that makes fun of the imperial system is a good video.
The international accepted unit to measure distance and speed of boats in the sea are nautical miles and knots.
The international accepted unit to measure elevation of planes are feet.
@@TheSyd19 more because of tradition than because of ease of use.
@@TheSyd19 And that sucks.
And also any unit now is based on metric, knots and feet are by definition conversions, I could use the length of my nose for that.
@@TheSyd19 and that's awful.
@@TheSyd19 If they change it, nothing really happens. Planes ain't gonna fall from the sky, it's just a conversion...lol.
You know a system is outdated when the country that invented it doesn't even use it as its primary system of measurement.
The Metric system was forced on the UK by the EEC, the forerunner of the EU, and I've used and still do use both systems depending on what I'm doing.
Huh? Miles?? Feet?? I will say that all forms of volume measurement in metric are better that the english system.
Technically the imperial system wasn't created by great Britain.
@@RandomPerson-cf3gt Good to know, which country is countries developed it?
@@rickyhall1772 i think france invented both systems
I remember at the beginning of my chemical engineering curriculum, we’d receive some easy mass and energy balancing problems that would have mismatched units. One pressure in psi, another in kPa, and one in mmHg for good measure. The purpose of this was to ensure we understood dimensional analysis and could deal with any units, but of course this was always frustrating for us students because it was usually unrelated to the course content. Eventually once the classes got a lot harder and the equations got longer, we never strayed from the metric system.
However, when I entered industry I realized exactly why my earlier professors gave us those annoying problems… many industries cling to the imperial system for dear life. There are definitely some newer start-ups and facilities now that are being smart about their units because its much easier to keep everyone on the same system if you’re starting fresh. However, basically all the old plants religiously use the imperial system; its deeply engrained and difficult to transition because it certainly does cost a lot of time and manpower to replace all of the necessary instrumentation and train the operators and technicians.
The benefit to investing in a complete overhaul of the instrumentation, SOPs, manuals, training, etc. to use the metric system is often going to be negligible for day-to-day operations. It can even be detrimental if it isn’t done properly, leading to the same errors discussed in this video that occur when transitioning between two unit systems.
So really, you can’t blame American engineers. It’s just not our fault, we’d prefer to use metric because we’re one of the few demographics that appreciate it’s ease of use. However the people that run the businesses and are down on the ground don’t think that way. They’ve gotten along fine with their imperial units and as such require us to produce products and services that utilize them. In academia and highly scientific and technical industries it is different because a great percentage of the working population in those fields do understand the value to the metric system.
Well said. I'm an engineer and metric does provide easier math, but I don't know what the result means until I convert it to imperial 🙂.
I’d have thought industry would jump on it just as quickly as science, but guess not, and you outlined the reason (cost of change) very well.
@@ArruVisionif im not mistaken, the US automotive industry once lobbied against changing to metric because the lobbying costs were cheaper than retooling costs.
Ah yes, Murrica the land of the money god. If the money god says it's cheap, the Muricans can do it, if the money god says they won't be able to buy 17 yachts that year but only 16, the smart and intelligent Muricans will not do it. Wouldn't want to make the big money priest unhappy, would be
@@LudwigVaanArthans 🤨
How the world measures fuel efficiency: XY litres per km
USA: XY bathtubs per football field
Metric monotheists are incapable of making a serious point on this subject.
Fuel "efficiency" is expressed as "Litres per 100 Kilometres" (L/100 km).
The SMALLER the number the more efficient.
Whole world: density of gold is 19.3 g/cc
America: gold is about 20 times denser than a duck
I saw that Kurzgesagt meme. I love it!
Wtf 😂
I see that you watch kurzgesagt
*wheeze*
And we all know how dense a duck is
Hex wrenches in millimiters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.... (some set may include 1.5 and 2.5 mm)
Hex wrenches in imperial: 0.05", 1/16", 5/64", 3/32", 7/64", 1/8", 9/64", 5/32".... are you fu**ing kidding me?
You never learnt fractions?
@@Locke99GS Why add complexity when it isn't needed?
@@dragonlord1935 Fractions aren't complex though.
Children learn fractions. In elementary school. Because they're easy.
@@Locke99GS They are certainly more complex than whole numbers, and a bit too unwieldy for day to day mental maths. Also, like I said, why add the needless complexity? if you already have a nice, standardized system which gives you a result in more understandable whole numbers, why would you want to willingly subject yourself to a system which displays the same result but in a more convoluted way? Is it just a matter of pride then?
@@dragonlord1935
1) "They are certainly more complex than whole numbers"
In the same way that decimals are more complex than whole numbers.
2) "and a bit too unwieldy for day to day mental maths"
They're not.
American children do them. Americans in general do mental maths with fractions several times a day, every day, without issue. Because Europeans are uneducated or mentally unexercised in doing those mental maths does not mean that it is in any way difficult or cumbersome for those that are educated and mentally exercised in doing those mental maths.
3) "Also, like I said, why add the needless complexity?"
It's not complex. It is _different_ .
4) "if you already have a nice, standardized system which gives you a result in more understandable whole numbers,"
The imperial system is standardized.
The imperial system uses just as many whole number as metric.
Decimal is not a whole number. Decimal is a restricted form of fraction.
5) "why would you want to willingly subject yourself to a system which displays the same result but in a more convoluted way?"
It is not more convoluted, it is _different_ .
The result is, as you mentioned, the same.
Because something seems more convoluted to Europeans does not mean that those familiar with it find it convoluted. The same argument could be made with language, religion, law, political system, etc...
6) "Is it just a matter of pride then?"
It is a matter of casual practicality. Since Europeans won't listen to Americans telling them why Americans are choosing to continue to use the US customary system, see youtube video v=N0U-XEmKPKg which is presented by a Brit, living in Britain. He explains why.
I agree. I'm an American, and I don't use mixed units. METRIC ONLY!! I even intentionally use metric units around other people to expose them to it.
I guess you don’t use a socket wrench, because the square drive is inch-based worldwide.
I remember when I was young, back in germany, TVs were measured in inches, and at some point that changed to centimeters.
@@mrxmry3264 actually not... display diagonals are still messured in inches... there are always some exceptions
Coming from a scientist: thanks for what you are doing.
you are right. how can a species with a brain use the imperial "system"
The other beautyful thing about metric is that 1 Liter of water = 1Kg, so start from there and you can go and scale it up. Here in Argentina we have a mess in agricultural machines, because in the 50's/60's we received lot of american manufacturers, so we are basically a metric country but the nuts and bolts are imperial. Then, our cars are mostly metric, so we must have the record of rounded bolts and nut just for using the incorrect tools.
“Imperial: invented by people who married their cousins”, i was laughing so hard…
Not a strong argument since everyone was doing all kinds of questionable stuff back then , they still do , still funny though 😂
@@Andreschannel_SA confusion of da highest orda
@@murica7095 gut
You,realize most of Europe used the imperial system
@@mmbleachtasty6121
people used to eat their children as well; just because they did something doesn't mean it was/is good and helpful.
" Freedom, 'Murica, Guns, PEW PEW, OOHRAH "
bro im ded
So many people where I live have that exact philosophy. I'm glad I chose Metric over Imperial. I would have suffered the same fate. I'm patriotic, but some just go way overboard.
Fun fact, I believe that the last photo of that parts where to Dutch marines
Hahahahaha
I’m American and I want the metric system idk how hard it is to convert but I already know people are gonna flip and we’ll see another influx in Karen’s
@@nate8652 may the white lady be weak in you... May the karen have no power over you... And make murica great again...
Short answer - Yes.
Long answer - Yes, it is.
To remember how many feet in a mile, remember five tomatoes. Five To mAte Oes sounds like Five Two Eight Oh, and there are 5280 feet in a mile.
To remember how many meters in a kilometer, remember 1000, because the Metric system wasn't invented by drunk mathematicians rolling dice.
jacob lansman Those mathematicians must have been blackout drunk and one millimeter away dropping unconscious to even consider the idea of something as impractical that forces unnecessary calculations. At least from my admittedly small sample size mathematicians unanimously hate unnecessary calculating.
Lol
"drunk mathematicians rolling dice." got me rolling 🤣🤣
@@skirata3144 As a graduate math student I can confirm mathematicians (both my kind and my professors) can't calculate for sht.
lmao
"Is the metric system actually better?"
Short answer: yes
Long answer: absolutely yes
@William Loudermilk ah yes, measuring everything by bodyparts, nice
@William Loudermilk hey since you are defining everything by teaspoons, what if I wanted to use your system but my oh so terrible country uses slightly bigger spoons?
*thanks! xD*
@@QuantumFluxable My household uses Chinese spoons to stir tea, so we're double screwed!
Funny enough I spoke some time ago with a Polish pilot that previously was flying only on Soviet Equipment and now was flying on the F-16 and he considered the imperial values in feet and knots a way better and precise measurment system than metric on MiG-29
"Just shift the decimal 3 places, no calculation needed, there is no room for error"
Challenge accepted!
Yes. It is.
The us and Myanmar are the only places measuring with primitive units, their feet, their hands and elbows.
AND Liberia, which (supposedly) is "Transitioning"
The "so, on his gap year, he built a rocket that flew to the UK to show them how great the metric system is" made me lmao
Me too, just remember who won that argument!
@@gregjewell4356 Well, the British DID switch to metric so...
Greg Jewell Russia?
@@darcyryan9693 Everyone knows the USSR steals the technology from the USA just like China...duh!
@@TripleCZ so... their mistake! Alfa Romero, Mini's,
Imagine learning thermodynamics in imperial units, goddamn...
Thermodynamics was developed in both English and metric units, because the principles are independent of units. Real scientists know that units are arbitrary.
@@GH-oi2jf yeah but there is something called 'engifuckineering"
Noooo...don’t gimme nightmares pls
@@GH-oi2jf I know that principles are independent of units, you are talking to an Engineer buddy. But anybody who has taken thermodynamics courses knows how things can get complicated really quickly when you are dealing with multiple properties or processes, now imagine adding the difficulty of English units to this.
Had to learn compressible fluid flow in both unit systems. Most foolproof option for me was to convert to metric at the start of a problem and convert back at the end. Otherwise I would usually have to include units in my equations with unit conversions, whereas in metric you don't have to if all of your units are the standard ones. (This gets crazy in some of the more complicated equations)
Also lb-mass, horsepower, and BTUs are garbage units
I don’t think US even uses Imperial. They measure in elephants for mass, football fields for length, olympic-sized swimming pools for volume.
We use US Customary units, not Imperial. And Metric units.
Large volumes of water are given in acre-feet.
@@GH-oi2jf imperial = us customary
Pre-Imperial British Units (Pre 1826) = US Customary Units.
@@GH-oi2jf
"One acre is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, 1⁄640 of a square mile, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet"
(What a nice "round" set of numbers !)
Hence, 1 Acre-Foot is 45,560 Cubic Feet.
The US gallon is defined as 231 cubic inches.
Since there are 12 * 12 * 12 = 1728 Cubic Inches in one Cubic Foot
1 Acre Foot is 45,560 * 1728 / 231 US Gallons
= 325 851.4 US Gallons. (1 233 478 litres = 1.2335 Ml)
Contrast that with the volume if 1 mm of rain falls on one square metre.
This is 1 Litre.
if ! mm of water covers 1 square kilometer (1 000 000 square metres)
that is 1 000 000 litres
= 1 Ml
If there were 1 metre of water on the same area
that would be 1000 Ml
or
1 Gl
(Simples !)
The Metric System IS better - By a Thousand.
@@DarkBraveStuff- No, Imperial and US Customary are not the same thing. You ought to learn the basic facts before commenting on this subject. The difference has been explained many times in various forums.
The US is inching towards the metric system.
Good one.
So basically Metric system is that hot, sexy and smart girl with high standards and Imperial system is inbred girl from Alabama that is married to her cousin
Yes.
But the metric system exists
Yes, but everybody can have the metric system😉
She travels internationally and doesn't measure herself by human concepts.
Bruh
I love that we can hear in his voice how he's just trying to remain chill and calm but deep inside wants to scream and shout on how stupid the Imperial system is LMAO
If the imperial system is so bad how come the greatest country in the world doesn’t use the metric system?
@@one9752 For the sake of argument, let's just say, that the USA is the greatest country (whatever you're basing that on). Best doesn't mean perfect, and as you see in the video, the imperial system is very flawed.
But really, what are you basing that on? The titles of happiest, safest and most equal countries go around in the nordic countries (no, I am not from there).
@@unkreativity1596 I basing this on very simple things, it’s also telling that most internet users and people who watched this video are American, it’s simply the best run country in the world, no other country has done better for society.
@@one9752 so baseless 🤦♂️
@@one9752 "best country in the world" America is falling apart bruh
When my friend Miles traveled to Europe, he preferred to be called Kilometers.
Respect to the thought of unified measures, but there's a bit of this script that reads like a Scientology manual. That was a lot of airs about dividing 5280 by 3 (for an example) to go on and note favorably that "distance travelled by a ray of light in 1 in [the very not round measure of C]'s of a second," and then to add this about such seconds triumphantly being endowed with a conversion from the empirically-reliable frequency of hyperfine structure transition in caesium. There isn't anything quintessential about either the distance or the time. Does anyone not forget that like the dozen subunits of a foot, 360 was a useful (for people doing actual calculating, not just moving decimals) stand-in for the number of days in a year, and that again fractions (not decimals) were the thought humanity was creating space for in deigning that 3 * 4 * 5 would be the nice number of seconds in the next bigger thing. At minimum, given the fact that a second is every bit as invented as a pace, they could have cleaned it up-to the 10 billion Hz mark-like they did with establishing metres not-quite-accurately as a 10 millionth of a quarter circumferential ring along one of Earth's meridians (albeit not through Greenwich).
Now, like good physicists, we're gonna use a frictionless vacuum, one without gravity wells or time dilation, then, in principle just say "sure" with caesium anchoring instead of hydrogen for now. Very well, go set your metre based on that distance light travels in the so-defined second (a right 300 real-world kilometres, rounded), and we have a start. But you've quashed the idea of an outward-facing, legally-defined regime for interfacing with the metric-SI-system (that you have been oddly avoidant of using the proper name for, given it's a piece about standards). Here, you've essentially called it a gaffe that Americans take ownership of one thing whilst respecting the existence of something else-except that the orthodoxy of SI is based exactly on some basket of ad-hoc units being back-converted (and recalculated not rarely) from physics of the actual universe until messily they fit. It isn't as though anyone sat divining the measure of energy released in neutron decay or determining about how many nonadecoPlanck-lengths were in this metre as I volunteered to have it defined above.
The thinkers all, up into this century-and using their best tools and insights-took imperfect measurements to apply to the things of greatest concern to them. Multiple "base" units and systems and conversions were proposed-some were implemented-and a select few were named for this great metric (system) whereby we contemplate our universe. Even this traditional list had to be paired down as interconvertability (that is, into derived units) was recognized. And again, even the certified list of base units (not the mole, though, which isn't fundamental at all) is not axiomatic. We could be stating all distances as being a scalar expression in terms of light-seconds, and it would be accurate. But, more importantly, we can define time according to a speed and a distance, setting (normal) ice crystal units for distance and counting all measures of time as a ratio to that in which light traverses said unit crystal of ice in such medium. It wouldn't be easy because it's so bleedingly fast as a basis, and it wouldn't be kind to astronomy since the average place in the universe quite approximates a vacuum better than it does the lid on a truly cold winter's lake, but it is not that committee has now arbitrated that Cs is the archetypical element, excepting its 39 diverse ways of not being atomically stable to allow calibrated time measurement. Yes, they were standardizing. They took a historical measure-each one in turn-tried to make it make scientific sense, reforged it to measure against an unwitting property of the universe whenever it couldn't be manufactured out of the set of previous ones; rinse and repeat.
Your video could have said it thus: base ten good; minimal number of units optimal. I think the very existence of scientific notation and the unfathomability of counting hands in picoAstronomical Units (that's a ring-figer-nail thickness less than 15 cm) belies the fact that there is no meaningful interchangability betwixt the extrema of quantifiers, large and small, in a human context. It is charming to talk about the sun as though it was serving up energy relative to bars of dark chocolate. (1.5 * 10^20 bars with "100%" cacao of the 100 g size each second is some serious wattage!) It is not, however, going to save a world that uses (big) calories-without a passing thought for their rightful prefix-to garner German accents and get directly on about taking our large treats only while with docility accounting them at over 2½ million (SI-approved) joules toward our waistlines. Math with big orders of magnitude, steps, conversions & cancellations, and calculators does benefit at least one short ton from ditching both the standard system and the old Imperial in favor of decimalisation.
The point above is valid to science, to engineering, and even by extension into the world of design. It is not, however, enlightened here to take the view that ratios and proportions in the human mind will ever naturally be conceptualized neither as with a half nor as relative to an item present or to the body and internal workings of the self. I can train my eye to detect an increment, 9 down from 10, but living things are very much stuck with being rooted in aggregations, divisions, and comparisons of things more elegant to the understanding than a numeric part of the 5th power of 10 of something no less arbitrary (out of its context) than the world at hand. I'll imagine a world where we repress the urge to drink liquid without a graduated vessel or to think of temperature of that drink being too hot with entirely different connotation than the temperature of the room, and one where I intuitively measure the rise from the ground to where I've taken a seat in centimeters rather than whether my knees sit high or hang over. Still, I expect before you come after us to decimalise ring sizes to a proper millimeter around, you'll at least consider getting on board with champagne in keeping with only the moment of an astronomical new year and getting Celsius fixed whereas most of the Earth is seawater anyway and most of the universe might have us ditch the metric system in favor of Kelvins.
My wife (American) and I (Australian) argue about this all the time. After watching this video I heard something I never though I would hear her say: ‘fine, I admit it, metric is better’. I can now die happy (and just may!)
you sound bigger in metric 😏
Big W bro
you may now Rest In Peace or at least get a good night's sleep...
You married a keeper, she told you that you were right. Try to replicate that result in different contexts.
Ok where's your addres and house
The most ironic part of this is that the US tried switching to metric directly after the metric system was invented and only failed because the guy that was supposed to carry the kilogram to the US got killed by pirates.
...and now we can figure what the One Piece is.
More ironic still, it was British pirates
And the pirates used YARRRRds! :D
Well pirate and privateer are used interchangeably because apart from one being legal and one being illegal they do the same job.
@uncletigger When half of your comment is in all caps, the intended effect of each usage diminishes. It's a "Boy Who Cried Wolf" situation, but with emphasis instead
I'll throw 1 small bone to the imperial system, I do like that some imperial units are based on the power of 12, with factors of 1,2,3,4,6,12...great for simple products but nothing more. Other than that, being a major in chem, I wouldn't touch it with a 3048mm pole.
It makes Brunel's achievements even more spectacular when you think how he was encumbered by imperial measurements !
He wasn’t encumbered. Most of his work would have been done in one unit of length - feet with decimal fractions. It is no different in complexity than working in metres. Units are equivalent.
@@GH-oi2jf I agree . The direction of this video was that imperial measures were ludicrously difficult - which would have made the achievements of our great engineers even more impressive.
I'd like to point out that the "eagle scream" used when making fun of 'merica is acutally a red-tailed hawk. It's a common conversion used in video because actual eagles sounds kind of silly.
Why would you do that? In this case, ignorance is bliss. now I will be forever annoyed.
Thank you man of culture, I didn't know that.
The eagle really sounds inofensive btw
yeah, bald eagles are just a over rated seagulls
you can tell Bald eagles are lip syncing lol
You obviously haven't been listening to Eagles. I witnessed a young bald eagle on its first successful hunt for sturgeon on the Snake River happen less than 30 feet from me. And as it hoisted is prize into the air it shrieked a piercing cry that echoed throughout the canyon. Then from high above its mother approved.
holy crap it is
I am European and while researching for old CRTs, I noticed their labels or model numbers measured the diagonal in centimetres. I had to do the conversion with a calculator because display size is pretty much always advertised on inches, for some reason.
You will get every dimension of the product on millimeters, then the screen diagonal on inches.
Proud owner of an "AK36" tv.
36 centimeters equals 14 inches, so one of the small ones.
In schools Americans always have embraced the metric system. I think they call it 9mm.
Is the metric system actually better?
Us: that building 4.20 football fields tall
That's a good argument. BUT. There are 3 skyscrapers that are about that tall (4.20 football fields). Guess where they are? Russia, Vietnam and China. Two are communist, one is former communist. Opposite of america. Hence, this completely refutes your argument that america is dank because they use the imperial system.
@@nottsoserious I cannot argue with that. Indeed, America is dank.
Sadly they use "fußballfelder" in the metric germany as well. You have morons in every country. At least Fußball is a game where you use your foot to kick a ball unlike american football where you use your body to takle opponents while protecting an EGG.
@@markusosterle3958 oh yeah ? In France, we use the area of paris, Luxembourg, and Belgium. Oh and also we measure liquids in Olympic pools.
@@nottsoserious I'm from Vietnam and I can tell that we don't use Football fields as a measurement like at all.
Is metric better?
Me, who is an american electrical engineer: YES.
Sure, but 'Better' is subjective. Scientifically, and maybe in your field, metric is better, but for every day use the english system is more intuitive and easier.
@@rickyhall1772 in the US only, I moved to us 5 years ago and I still don’t understand why there are 12 ounces in a cup and not 10.
@@welove2134 I believe volume measurements are all simpler in metric. But things such as length, temperature, speed, fuel economy, tire size, rim size, air speed, and nautical distances and speed are all FAR SUPERIOR not in metric. Then there are things which go either way, such as time in 12vs24 hours, wire gauges, things like bolts size or thread pitch and bolt strength, and things such as lubricity measurements. At the end of the day, we have computers that can do these conversions for us, so the conversation of standardizing measurements on a global scale is moot.
@@rickyhall1772 what can be easier than multiplying/dividing by 10 to achieve any conversion inside the same measure system? you feel imperial is more intuitive because you are used to it, metric is the easiest to learn and to use. Give it a SERIOUS try.
@@rickyhall1772 Uh....nope. The Metric System is superior. Saying that the imperial system is more intuitive and easier is absurd. You could teach someone the Metric System in a few minutes. Try that with the imperial system. When I build things I use the Metric System. It is so much easier than remember inches, feet, yards and also working with fractions.
Just because you are more familiar with one system doesn't make it easier to teach for the masses, or more intuitive to use. There is a reason everyone else uses the Metric System. There are about 195 countries. 190+ countries didn't get it wrong, and the US along with a couple of other countries got it right.
We use the Metric System at work-in medicine. We don't do conversions because mistakes can kill people. Some of the most dangerous and expensive medications are usually dosed in milligrams per kilogram. I weight about 172 pounds, and I'm about 5 feet 9 inches tall. That's about 78 kilograms and about 175 centimeters. Once I know that everything else becomes notoriously easy to estimate just like you'd estimate in pounds, feet and inches. BTW, get those units wrong either with relaying a measurement to a third party or converting erroneously and you'll gravely under dose or over dose the patient.
There’s another point: when converting imperial one hardly use all significant digits, so there’s always some error which can accumulate. That doesn’t happen with metric: 1 km is exactly 1000 m, not only the conversation is easier to make, it is always precise.
Give me a third of a meter.
@@wta1518 talking about unit conversions within the same system
@@bearcb Metric doesn't have unit conversions.
@@wta15180,3333 m
@@binkobinev2248 Why would you need a centimeter?
The Math is just so mich easier. You can simply control yourself or develop fitting formulas based on the SI units. Also, up-/downscaling etc. The imperial unit system had its time when people didnt need precise results in their every day life. But then people thought about a new standardized system that makes math, trade and production a lot easier and a lot easier to learn (which was a big problem back in the days). Its just a unit system made for math.
i was thinking imperial when a "ballpark" number is appropriate, metric when fine measurement is required..
Imperial was better for mental calculations because you could divide by more ways before getting to decimals and the size of the units are more suited for things that a human being will interact with in day to day life. It’s good for mental manipulation and keeping things units in single digit even numbers. Other than that it’s pretty useless
@@Alphabunsquad No, actually, even for that the metric system is better. Just because you can easily transform units in your head. E.g. when thinking about lengths.
@@Alphabunsquad that's just complete nonsense.
No one forces you to use decimals in the metric system. If you like you can use fractions.
And how quickly you get to decimals solely depends on the number you are calculating. Not on the system.
And that the units are better suited for things that humans interact with day to day is just laughably absurd.
The metric system has units scaled for everything (just like the imperial system).
Like seriously, do you think that the metric system only has kilometers? Or that we only us micrograms? Like wtf are you even talking about?
"Is the metric system actually better?"
95.75% of the world population: Yes.
nice use of the fallacy Ad populum ;-)
@@chrisyukna8007 Then ask yourself "why?". Or i'll bring up the Dunning Kruger effect.
@@The360MlgNoscoper Bring it on, the Dunning Kruger effect is used by pointy head experts who don't understand why their advice or ideas are opposed, They snidely say stuff like inexperience casts the illusion of expertise. However, in the real world, gut-based decisions "trump" rationally or logically derived ones far more often than not. And speaking of "effects" the outsider effect might be cited here where it has been suggested that the less you know about the stock market the better you pick stocks. We live in an absurd universe matey. Nuff said
@@chrisyukna8007 You sound proud as you tell me this. Are you assuming the Dunning Kruger effect is false, or just that you're beyond it? Either way you're a prime example of it.
@@The360MlgNoscoper Attack the man is a cheap shot, look at what I have written if you honestly wish to debate.
Nobody:
TV reporters: "A lightyear is 9461000000000 metres"
*"That's more than 5 football fields"*
And they call a game football
That’s not even football
And they call football, Soccer
Like, Grow a Brain
@@nabeelshariff6006 wut
@Samuel Guo the game where people run around with the "ball" in their hands?
@Samuel Guo No, nobody's heard of American football. There's rugby league, rugby union, AFL, soccer, and that weird game they play in the US, where people dress up like oompa loompas and roll over each other with a football, and the 'world series' has one country.
Samuel Guo
That’s not football idiot
'these units are the language of the universe' is only partially true, its the relationship between properties that are important rather than the specific units used to represent those relationships - this to me says that there is something more fundamental to relative representations than decimal numeric representations.
When I flew helos in the Army, we used maps with kilometers, speed in kts/mph, altitude in feet, engine gas temp and free air temperature in Celsius, but oil Temps were in Fahrenheit. Vibrations were measured in mils, but balance weights were added in grams.
Fuel and gross weight were in pounds. No metric weights were used.
I'm an American electrical engineer. I HATE fractions and imperial. Any time I measure and 3D model anything, it's in cm.
This is Sooo Freaking stupid we still use imperial.
Agreed. Had to pull out a calculator just to convert miles-per-hour into feet-per-second among other Imperial measurements. It sucked.
As someone who uses the metric system, I'm proud to see that you are staying away from the imperial system. However, you should use either mm or m, not cm.
@@Wuzzup129 Well the metric system is not much better in that regard since km/h and m/s are ducked by the 60 sec 60 min division still. So 1 m/s is 3,6 km/h and yes i looked that one up. LOL
And using a old British thing - the ones USA's founding fathers fought to get rid off.
@@AustralianEX Strictly SI!
"Is The Metric System Actually Better?" Yes. No need to watch whole video.
It’s fun tho
Agree, it is a waste of a video. Everybody already believes, even Americans, that the metric system is better.
@@Locke99GS Why they keeping using it?
@@RDCST Because there is no practical reason for the average American to switch.
But it is sooooooo funny!!!
I grew up with metric, and as an engineer i grimace at time… 60seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour, 24hrs per day…. Why??? It’s so painful to have been left out.
I have engineering degrees. Every place in the world uses the same system of timekeeping. If you think it is difficult, imagine the difficulty of having two different systems. Actually, you don’t have to imagine. Try switching to Swatch time and find out directly for yourself.
In Canada, I grew up with both systems. The official conversion took place in 1980 and all my scientific text books were in metric. I'd say I am pretty comfortable in most metric units. I do however, still use feet to measure a person's height, pounds to measure a person's weight. Occasionally, I will reference 500g of hamburger to one lb of hamburger, however imprecise.
The Alabama Rocket man story killed me as a german 🤣
DIESER TEIL DES CHATS IST EIGENTUM DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND ALS RECHTSNACHFOLGERIN DES DEUTSCHEN REICHES.
Absolut. Das war einfach heftig
Nine, Nein, NEIN! 😂
@@warphole0369 Haben wir ihn schon besetzt?
Exactly what your rockets did to Londoners... ahahaha just joking.
Short answer : yes
Long answer: definitely
5.56 mm is used in Public places in the United States by people who like to play Call of Duty Multiplayer without Internet on Non-Virtual REALITY.
What's that in inches?
@@havenbastion .223 inch
Longer answer: indubitably
there are two types of people - those who use imperial and those who use system that got us on the moon
Would you prefer a doctor to prescribe you medicine in the Imperial or Metric System?
Imperial
When I first saw this video 3 years ago I was all for ‘murica and got slightly offended by this video. Now that I’m in my junior year of mechanical engineering when I’m given a problem with imperial units it pisses me off. It’s so much more needlessly difficult
A French inch was longer than a British inch, which is why the British made fun of Napoleon for being short despite being taller than average.
8-inch British penis may be equal to 6-inch French penis then?
All those measures were different on every country. There was no standard body regulating them.
@@framegrace1 Differed not only by contry, but sometime by county :)
In France the pound (livre) was different in the city of Paris and the city of Tours, and they had to give different names; livre parisis vs livre tournois
@@framegrace1 "...no standard body..." Hah!
I thought it was because his imperial guard were all giants and that made him look small...
The imperial is so bad that they gave up and started using Football fields as a measurement unit
+ Jumbo jets, washing machines, school buses, aircraft carriers, Empire State Building
Psychonaut might as well start using this new system of measurement lmfao, sooo the gas station is just one Empire State Building and one jumbo jet down that road
Which football?
@AlexisBubba15 The number of each in their larger counterpart literally doesn't matter. To your brain it's simply "big, medium, small measure" Building an intuition for a large distance in kilometers or miles makes no difference. Building an intuition for meters or feet makes no difference. You never measure things in miles _and_ feet at the same time, just like you never measure things in kilometers and meters at the same time. If you need granularity of a mile then you use decimals. If you need granularity of feet then you just use inches from the beginning (e.g., 48 inches.) No one "visualizes" miles in yards; they visualize large distances in miles or kilometers or knots or whatever depending on what they've built an intuition for and what they're using it for.
Not to mention olympic swimming pools and an area the size of Burkina Faso.
I haven't watched the video yet, but based on the fluid mechanics homework I did earlier today, I can say the metric system is absolutely, without a doubt, 10000% better. If I have to try to differentiate between lb-force and lb-mass again, I'm gonna lose my shit. also, why is the most used measure of pressure not in the same units as the most used measure of length/area? Also also, who decided that water should have a density of 1.94? God this system makes every calculation so much harder than it needs to be.
Another illustration of the "Cost of Non-Metrication in the USA"
(See themetricmaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/CostOfNonMetrication.pdf )
Whatever the system you mesure with, it is still the same size.
"Is The Metric System Actually Better?"
Yes, its not a debate. Who in their right mind would want to overcomplicate an already complicated subject that most likely uses measurements to solve problems
Imperial units were made in relation to common objects, so people would have an intuitive reference. Nowadays, when we can standardize everything, reference to common objects is no longer needed.
It wasn't intended to be complicated, it just happened to be.
But it doesn't matter if the metric system is better than the imperial system when everyone around you uses imperial units. I wish I could use the metric system on a daily basis but if I did I would have to constantly convert the units I'm using to imperial to talk to anyone. That's the problem with videos like this saying how bad the imperial system is and how good the metric system is It never considers the fact that you can't just switch when everyone else uses imperial.
Can't wait until the Laws of Physics end up changing in the future or being irrelevant in certain aspects and ruin the Metric System entirely lol
@@roji556 Yeah sure, we discover new things but constants are... constant
@@drabberfrog Use metric. Let others do the conversion.
I know, I know, easier said than done.
"We choose to go to the moon not because it's easy, but because it's hard. And we use imperial just to make it harder." JFK, maybe.
Exactly, because this way noone can say the Germans helped to reach the moon. The Amaricans did it cause they used their damn imperial system!
@@balintegri3079 I think the Americans secretly long for the old days before they threw out the Brits - why else are they clinging on to a British system of measure that even the Brits have largely abandoned? ;-)
@bikingcat ...or should that be; Herr Herr von Braun?
Lol
@@balintegri3079 imperial system is german and metric system is international