Why One Road in the US Uses Metric (Because of Pirates)
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He's finally lost it.
*AMPHETAMINES*
This isn't even his final form
Yeah but it was funny !! He gets points for amusing us.
Most extravagant segue ever
I think he didn't know what to tell anymore and didn't know how to end it
Converting to and from metric isn't that hard actually. Since we're (not technically) on Wendover, let's use the follwing example:
A Boeing 737-800 is 39.5 meters long, or 129'6'' and has a wingspan of 34.4 meters or 122'7''.
It can take off at up to 79,01 tonnes or 174187,23 lbs, burning 3200 liters or 850 gallons of fuel.
It can seat some 185 passengers, or 100 American passengers.
Ahahaha, got me at the passengers capacity hahaha
Lmao 100 murican.
But seriously you should look the Air Crash Investigation. Cool shit, looks like the pilot learned from Takumi
In aviation the standard for altitude (unless in Russia and a few other places) is feet. Also, knots/nautical miles is used.
Mikosch2 I feel like there was a fat joke in there
Planes can easily convert between the two measurement systems but what's keeping airplanes using feet is the flight level system used around the world. What's keeping them using pounds is because most ATC around the world communicate in pounds. That being said, France is special in this regard... for reasons... (they "invented" the kilogramme)
The problem isn't conversion though, the US system is currently defined by the metric system. If the metric system changes so does the US system.
The problem is communication and expectations. Since everyone expects feet and pounds, using a different measurement can easily be lost in communication, transmission and/or tracking.
The entire island of Puerto Rico uses the metric system on their highways.
That is wild
Because Spain
Matty Bruno Lucas Zenere Salas yes we do. Distance is measured in KM and Speed in Miles per hour. Next time you drive look at the signage.
And speeds in MPH ... and gas in cents per liter... but we sell our milk in gallons... it’s tough...
Lol and so does Delaware state Route 1
1:15 "That time that plane ran out of fuel over the Atlantic" I wasn't aware the Atlantic was between Ottawa and Edmonton, smack-dab in the middle of Canada.
There was also Air Transat Flight 236, where an Airbus A330 started leaking fuel.
I am glad you mentioned that. I was thinking that the research missed a beat there. ruclips.net/video/GlkCofOyxUA/видео.html
Didn't that plane run out of fuel twice due to a conversion error, on the same flight?
Andy Madden. That was leaking fuel not some dumb conversion error.
thx for letting me know that i am not the only one who noticed this
damn the pacing is on fire in this one 😁
Ranton I absolutely love your videos man .
Kimberly Thompson no thanks go away
How else is he going to sneak all the bullshit past you if he allows you time to think?
The pacing is so high due to a conversion error.
I'm impressed by this ability of Yanks to do this. Not so common in the UK.
2:06 worst dad joke of the century
Nah, my dad has made much more horrible dad jokes.
@Jimbo Kimbo Oh boy you don't want to know
@Jimbo Kimbo He told me this one like three months back.
He asked me, "Did you know archaeologists in Egypt found a pharoh that was buried with a lot of chocolate?" I said, "I didn't know." He said, "They named it Pharoh Rocher"
@Jimbo Kimbo Let me think of another one he told a few days ago
>Plane loses fuel over the Atlantic
>Shows article of Air Canada flight losing fuel over Manitoba
>Same plane used in an Initial D drift meme.
Gimli glider baby
It sounds better if it's over the Atlantic. It's all fiction anyway. The metric system doesn't exist. ;)
@@mikeburns6603 No, you don't exist.
@@tcg1_qc Actually, he does have a point.
The metric system is now entirely based on quantum physics.
Which can NOT be explained in reality, but only in mathematical abstractions.
@@fliteshare are you joking? What do you mean by "can not be explained in reality"? Also wtf are you talking about? Metric system was created in the late 1700s and is based on the meter...
Just a small correction, the Gimli Glider did not run out of fuel file flying over the Atlantic. It lost fuel while flying over central Canada.
I mean, what's the difference?
Canada is part of the atlantic ocean idiot. It’s where it rightfully belongs.
@@TheSonicsean I mean it really doesn’t matter that much, but having accurate facts is always better than not
How many drugs are there in your tea? Mine has two
69
Umm 0, I guess?
Are you feeling okay?
Bahaha
5 ounces.
You could add that in Puerto Rico the highway speed limits are in miles per hour, while distances are in kilometers! 😊
(I think this is because the cars there are US mfg. types, and the speedometers show speeds better in MPH.)
Canada, though have the same cars as the US but kilometres appears bigger. It is really just a small change
When pirates made an entire country be special and screwed up space missions
Top kek
All according to plan
He is going meta, though I prefer the beta approach to topics.
I prefer a healthy combination.
ignorant here, what does meta or beta mean? (couldn't understand much from Google). Also, I usually enjoy the topics, but the way he presented it felt weir to me, not sure if thats going meta.
Beta cucks, the AlphAlpha male is here to show you all up.
I like the comedy
Yeah. It's in his tea.
that's probably the most far-fetched segue to a sponsor I've ever seen.
Roarbit Hahaha your profile picture is great!
Thank you for not spelling that "segway". I had lost all hope.
Peēn This is the most aggressive comment about grammar that I've ever read.
Peēn it may sound for phonetic but it's not the correct. It's like the same if someone wanted to describe the character in shining armour as a 'nite' instead of 'Knight'. I mean yeah it's more phonetic but it's not actually correct.
00:26 it's asterisk, Asterix is a French comic book character.
"Not a single American knows what a kilogram is"
American scientists: Are we a joke to you?
EDIT: WHY WAS THE SWEARING CENSORED IN THE LAST PART UGGHH maybe because YT again?
Did he really say that? The US Federal government adopted the metric system for government purposes in 1978, the US military uses metric (apart from a small number of Navy measurements), NASA uses metric, US Customs measures drug seizures in kilogrammes, the American automotive industry has been metric since the 1960s. In fact, the only US industry consistently using US customary units is the construction industry. Apart from the American general public who measure, cook, heat, travel in their domestic lives, America uses metric when it matters. Like American manufacturing who produces Imperial stuff for internal consumption but manufactures in metric everything for export. Because no countries would buy American stuff otherwise. And, of course, countries exporting to the US build stuff in Imperial - because they can. It's not a big deal.
This is a complete nothing burger. If the US wants to use its eccentric, kranky, customary units in America, why would the rest of the world care? It doesn't.
@@alastairbarkley6572 well, if the Americans would finally switch totally, than no one would speak in videos in one of the crap units and would think, everyone knows, what they mean. I think in the metric system and only in it
What is a kilogram tho
@@tutszumi maybe the most used unit of measuring weight in the world? And place two and three goes probably to metric tons and grams
Hendricus Maximus Bro, I’m pretty sure he knows what a kilogram is.
>China
>Communist
>Plays the anthem that is not Chinese
that’s the ussr anthem
like
the soviet union
*communism*
sir, are you aware of the fact that you are an idiot?
whoosh a roony, plus another 73 whooshes for eveyrone liking this comment
@@mickmickymick6927 seriously. Stupidity may not be a disease but is sure spreading like one
Doc Brown
You know Chinese takeout is very much not Chinese, right?
0:14 Forgot the Toyota Corolla?
Samuel Chen ikr
Wrong channel.
대만 dude guy Lol no, the Toyota Corolla is a universal unit
wronh channel
How about banana scale?
Joke Count:
Top Five Unit Systems 0:13
It Just Makes Sense 0:20
International=China=Communist 0:40
Columbus Conversion Error 1:20
Not a kill-o-gram 1:35
Secretary of State Detail 1:45
Pirate's Favorite Unit 2:00
etc. etc. etc. BAM! 2:29
Murder is Democratic 2:50
Government Never Lies 3:10
Great Metric Revolution 3:20
Nothing in the Script 3:42
10 seconds after that
The Tea is Drugged 4:09
According to... Scientists 4:17
uhh.... Ok?......
And none of them are that funny?
And that's not Chinese national anthem
MonoPalisa ...are you talking about 0:43? that’s the USSR anthem. no one said it was the chinese anthem lol
you forgot the one between 0:13 and 0:20 where he got the US customary unit conversions wrong on purpose
2:33 The blurred label says "retarded rollercoaster", for what ever reason he censored it...
Because it uses some outdated language that people tend to avoid these days.
Maybe it's from Deadbug's site and some thievin' fuck stole it. Hehehe
How do you know
@@coeurdechoeur The only correct answer
That is the smoothest transition to a sponsor I have ever seen. I want to congratulate you.
Kuick I get confused seeing imperial systems/units 😵😵😵
I like how each episode it becomes less and less serious
Ann Onymus soon it will hit the "history of japan" seriousness
I find this trend deeply disturbing.
I’m from the future. I have news
@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music try watching him now
The question should be why are all the other roads not metric.
I’d imagine it would be because the exit signs are also labeled off of miles away from the nearest state border, so even if America switches, it’s still be a huge pain in the ass and you’d end up with “Exit 10.5” or something like that.
They tried. Delaware 1 was signed in metric when it first opened in the 1990s. Within 2 years people complained so loudly that they had to switch or politicians would have lost their jobs. The exit numbers, however, are still based on the number of kilometers to the Maryland state line.
Because America
Because America is too sophisticated for tiresome metric
@@squidgrill if it's 10.5 then will be "Exit 11" and under 10.49 "Exit 10"
1:17 You said an Air Canada flight ran out of fuel over the Atlantic when clearly there is no ocean between Edmonton and Ottawa.
Was that an ISO standardized cup of tea?
Tom Scott made a video about it.
@@JonasDAtlas Pretty sure the joke is that hai made a video about it
@@booxwee3804 I was tired and misread, thought it said "what is...".
@@JonasDAtlas tired and emotional?
@@MajesticSkywhale I am now, but I think I was just tired when I wrote that.
1:33 dear France,
Kilogram pls
Xoxo,
T-Jeffy
"Kilogram of what, Jefferson?"
"No, I want *a* kilogram."
Erwin Schrödinger I think you're right
Only at 4 degrees Celsius. Water's density is maximum at this temperature.
+Erwin Schrödinger unfortunately only with extremely insufficient precision (and one liter is 10 cm *cubed* of course). Back in those times, most units were unfortunately only available in term of prototypes (even the meter that was *based* on the 10 millionth part of the Paris meridian quadrant, was distributed and defined in terms of meter prototypes, which is - strictly speaking - not better than using some king's foot as prototype). They have repeatedly been adjusted in order to get rid of prototypes, e.g., the meter first in terms of a specific wavelength, nowadays in terms of the speed of light and the second). We are soon to be witnessing the removal of prototypes for the kilogram as well. All transport risks thus being removed, the US could maybe take that as an incentive to complete Jefferson's plan
Pete Smyth No, I want *the* kilogram
3:46 _We are currently experiencing technical difficulties_
The Air Canada flight did not lose fuel over the Atlantic, it lost fuel over Canada in an Ottawa to Edmonton flight
Where your theory breaks down is that I don't know where Edmonton is.
The Air Canada plane that ran out of fuel was not over the Atlantic, that was over Gimli Manitoba (hmm, aka "Little Iceland"). It was Air Transat 236 that ran out of fuel over the Atlantic due to a fuel leak and landed in the Azores.
This is what I was thinking.
And the Mars climate orbiter crash was Lockheed Martin's fault, not NASA's.
He didn't say it was NASA's fault, he just said "NASA lost an orbiter due to a conversion error," which is true.
The Gimli Glider was definitely not over the Atlantic, though (heck of a cool aviation story, all the same).
Air Transat didn't run out of gas due to a fuel leak, it ran out of gas because the flight crew cross fed fuel from the good fuel tank to the tank with a fuel leak.
Also the Gimli Glider wasn't due to a imperial to metric conversion error, but due to a metric volume to metric weight conversion error. At the time metric was new to Canada, and the Gimli Glider was the first Air Canada aircraft that operated in metric.
0:14 The Imperial system is actually number 6. Toyota Corollas are number 5.
Wrong channel.
Me, passing through Tucson:
Tucson: *kilometers*
Me, sweating:
How would you not be sweating anyway?
@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music yes, but on that road he is sweating in millilitres.
my dad grew up in Nogales and used this interstate a lot and he said "if you're going through there, you're already VERY Mexican and probably an immigrant, so it's fine"
Sir Toasty Castro that’s about the half of it. I19 is used more by hispanics traveling from nogales to tucson and back. even though green valley/sahuarita is on I19, its use is more to and from the boarder, and being that mexico uses the metric system, i doubt it will ever change
DE-1 in Delaware and parts of I-265 in Louisville are in metric as well.
You quit halfway? Guess that makes it..
..half as interesting..
darkhayou quarter* 1/4
The way you broke the 4th wall was very funny
LucarioAura Kitty there is no fourth wall, its not fiction, he's not playing a character
Yes I found that funny as well. This guy cracks me up and in fact I have to watch multiple times and slow it down or stop it to appreciate it fully.
Very immature, to my ears. Disliked.
almightyhydra someone needs to lighten up. Seriousness has no place here
fourth wall? this is the internet, it goes through walls!
“We’re excited to not be British”
O o f
There are eight fluid ounces in a cup. Up here in Canada, two and a half cups make a pint, but in the U.S., two cups make a pint. Two pints make a quart, and four quarts make a gallon. Your fluid ounce is slightly bigger than ours, so our quart is still slightly bigger than yours, but not by 25%. Since our quart is bigger than a litre, and your quart is smaller than a litre, we almost could consider metric liquid measure.
The best part about using metric as a pirate is that all the units can easily be converted into wordplay. Kilometarrrs, Metarrrs, Centimetarrrs. You can even have Decimetarrrs as your favourite, even though literally no one knows what Decimeters are (arrr).
well, decimetre is 10 centimetre. But I've never seen anyone actually using them in real life :)
they are one hundredth of a dekameter, of course.
Faux! Les règles d'écoliers par ex, sont des double décimètres (20 centimètres), et il y a beaucoup d'écoliers !!!
jur4x Scania uses dm to denote the cab's length
@@jur4x We chemists use cubic decimetres quite a lot actually!
1:15 "That time a plane ran out of fuel due to a conversion error"
From article shown: "The pilots of the Ottawa to Edmonton flight came in over the end of the runway at Gimly, Manitoba..." If that plane was over the Atlantic, those pilots had some serious navigational errors.
If you head east enough, eventually you'd be in Edmonton Canada.
He made a conversion error, calm down.
Like anyone knows where Manitoba is.
KEEP CALM and PLAY SOCCER IN YOUR PAJAMAS ppl in Canada: am I a joke to u
They sometimes introduce errors on purpose to get people to correct them... And sometimes they just make errors
2:38. The date format I've always used is what I was taught in grade school in Canada in the late seventies: Year-month-day. Logically following biggest to smallest unit, and if the time is included it fits right in after the date. Formal metric time includes 4 digit year and 24 hour time for complete unambiguity. Right now it's 2020-05-24 17:08:26 UTC -4
I do all my dates and times in the same format. SQL databases natively store dates in that format for fairly obvious reasons of sorting efficiency. I have no idea when I see 4-5-2020 whether it is the 5th of April or the 4th of May. I got out of a parking ticket once because of that!
Chuck Grassley, a fool even in his younger years
The US technically has gone metric as all imperial units are now defined in metric
Came to the comments to see if anyone also noticed it was the same obstructionist
It's actually the number 6 unit system after Toyota Corollas.
DysnomiaFilms this dude is not RealLifeLore 😂
I didn't say he was. Doesn't mean Toyota Corollas are used as a system of measurement any less frequently than the Imperial system!
Would've been a nice shout out if he put them in there
Are we going to get into Nissan's engine naming conventions?
came here to say this
This video covered a *tonne* of stuff, I am glad you took the *weight* off your shoulders, by publishing this, viewers are *pouring* in and the video wasnt *long* .
The Astro Gamer those jokes were *gross*
The Astro Gamer i see what u did there 🤔
Those jokes were *imperial.* Quit *pound*ing on the guy.
These jokes are forced and utter shit. Go back to plebbit and don't ever come back to the comment section you unfunny lund
Admiral Have a Pint and chill out man!
Sometime around 1980, all of the "mile markers" on US 431 by my home were changed to kilometer markers. This cost a lot of money. A few years later those were removed and replaced with mile markers, which again cost a lot of money. I am pretty sure that rural Alabama was not the only place affected in this way.
Not the only one. I-265 in Louisville KY (where i live) has metric units on road signs near the Kentucky Truck Plant, where they make the Ford Super Duty and Lincoln Navigator. A lot of semis come in from Mexico and Canada so there is about 2 miles where the metric untis are first and Imperial in parentheses.
Not everywhere outside of America, Liberia, and Myanmar/Burma only use metric, the UK uses imperial for roads, milk, and beer, and most people use stone & feet for measuring people's weight/height Most rulers/tapes and scales/balances here have both metric and imperial.
Erwin Rommel
Sorry mate but your info about the Philippines is dead wrong. Filipinos use the metric system.
@Lensy6; More than 95% of the world population use metric. Imperial units are impractical relics. Imperial units lasting legacy is to make math and physics education more difficult that it has to be.
@rif42 Let's look at time for an example. Metric time does exist, but most people never use it. That's because what most people need is to be able to easily divide periods of time. 12 can be divided into integer halfs, thirds, quarters, and sixths, many useful divisions. 10 on the other hand can only be divided into halves and fifths and remain integers. This makes metric time much more difficult to work with on a day to day basis. Like I say, metric time does exist but is only used in specific scientific applications because they're the only ones who need it. The same applies to all units.
And as for making education more difficult, as someone who grew up using both it really doesn't cause any problems at all. If anything it made it easier to understand the concept of counting in systems other than base 10, which is very useful when it comes to dealing with binary and hexadecimal (which is something I have to do).
@Lensy6; ???. The US has signed the Metre Convention and that is what US should use. It does not concern that you tell the clock in slices of 24 hours and 60 minutes.
@rif42 So I assume you have no objection to the principles I mentioned on non-metric time, which we currently use, and apply to most imperial measures, are good principles, and that you also have no objection to my argument that knowing both imperial and metric is useful in understanding non-base 10 counting such as binary and hexadecimal.
I only assume this because your reply doesn't mention anything I said in my earlier reply.
I'm American and I agree that the metric system is better. (See edit, please.)
Edit: First, I didn't realize my comment had sparked such a debate (and why did RUclips not notify me until 2 years later?) Second, I understand there are many argument for and against the metric system. My pov is that because *almost* the entire world uses the metric system, science should be standardized worldwide to it. Yes, we have computers that can automatically do the conversions between imperial and metric but I don't think there is any need to have this step in the beginning. However, I recommend reading @Jason Bowman's comment for a more informed comment than my own.
You're wrong
Same,
Imperial units are superior to metric
Isnt one foot = the length of your arm. Oh wait everyones arms are different LENGTH
I'm American and I disagree.
@@imperialunitsaresuperiorto2867 lmao how so? And Metric helped you put a man on the moon and your military uses Metric
Going to elementary school in the 80's, as anyone else here that did will probably remember, we were all told that by the time we grow up the US will be on the metric system, so we learned both. I knew even then it was unlikely to ever happen, because even as a young kid I thought about how big this country is and how difficult it would be to change every piece of road signage in the country, and I wasn't even thinking about the cost. That's the main reason why. But also, if you haven't figured it out yet, Americans also aren't big fans of doing things like everyone else...we always have to be different. And you know what, I kind of like that it actually bothers people in other countries that we do things like this our own way.
we stall have to learn metric in school, its a requirement for maths and sciences in middle school through college
If I could like every one of your videos at once I would!! How could anyone dislike any of your vids?! Even if they don't like the specific content, the video is still really done/edited well.. Keep up the awesome work!
Commie?
COMMMIEEEEEE!! REEEEEEEEE
Oh shit you actually did it.
Rizky Aiman hi there Eizenhower.
Rizky Aiman logan prod. Fan eh??
Rizky Aiman Sam O'Nella reference ?
ruclips.net/video/QgydTdThoeA/видео.htmlm37s
Wait, because there are two half-as-interesting facts in this video (The main one, and the one about tea,) does that mean that this video was actually, completely interesting??
This video left out the US attempting to convert to metric in the late 19th century. Also, many cities in the US are laid out using the Spanish vara. The centerlines of the streets of downtown Houston are a whole number of varas apart. There are even official conversion factors as part state law defining the vara in both feet and meters. This is still relevant today because lots of old property records use varas exclusively.
"Hello, officer, the signs clearly say SPEED LIMIT 120.... "
The speed limit signs are still in MPH
@@codymamon2004 So you have to convert to figure out how long it will take to get somewhere? Fun!
The speed limit signs are in Mph.
Imagine all the people driving slowly on this road. Thinking that the speed limits are in metrics
@@marvnuts oh my god
Brilliant transition
The Student Official Brilliant pun.
AdrianAtGaming brilliant.org is blue which is blue apron. Coincidence?
i think not
Here in Australia we are metric and started converting in 1970s and its so much easier than imperial. If we can do it the US can do it.
I am beaming with pride to know Australia is volunteering to pay for our conversion. You guys are fair dinkum
You have LITERALLY ONE HIGHWAY
Short, full of quality and to the point. The kind of videos we actually want. Good job!
For the record Canadians still use the imperial system too ...ALL meat for example is still sold by the pound in EVERY Grocery store across the entire country ... EVERYONE says gas milage in Mileage per gallon (although the larger imperial gallon) ... ALL plywood and drywall is sold in 4 foot X 8 Foot sheets we use 2X4's and 2X6's same as the US .... all house construction has 8 foot high ceilings etc etc etc
In England we use metric but instead of km/h, we still use mph.
Y’all are weird in England, and, in all honesty, I am fine with that. Stay weird UK, stay weird.
That being said, the driving on the left side of the road is still weird to me, but if it works for y’all, then it works for y’all.
England is so fucked up. I'm glad they are being kicked out of europe.
Well ain't you clever? We getting "kicked out" cause the EU don't want our 110 million per week anymore.
The Motorway distance marker signs are kilometres but, as it stands, the government rules do not allow the text “km” to be displayed on a road sign.
Catherine we use both. For example you got B&Q you can buy pipes and tubes by inches. Men measure waist sizes and suit sizes using inches. Shirt sizes by inches. The UK doesn’t just use metric it uses so much imperial. We say pint of milk. We measure height in feet and inches mostly. So don’t say in England we use metric. We use both. Our rulers have both inches and cm and so does our measuring tapes. We do distances by miles, measure material in yards. WE USE BOTH
If only DHL was around back then. Actually, it still probably wouldn't have made it.
maybe. I he had chosen UPS he couldn't have afforded it ;-)
brainthesizeofplanet if they used USPS we’d just be getting it now.
Is DHL even still in business?
If DHL was around back then they would've dropped the Kg off in Canada and not told us about it.
There is a company now doing business as DHL but I think it is actually Deutsche Bahn trying to sneak in. Fuck Krauts.
Delaware Route 1 between Milford, DE and I-95 between Wilmington, DE and Newark, DE has its distances measured in miles, but its exits in metric-post. In fact, when the segment of Delaware Route 1 between Dover A.F.B. and Smyrna opened in 1993, like I-19, the entire highway was in metric.
Not sure if you're aware, but there's another highway in the US that partially uses the metric system. In Delaware there's a State Highway (Route 1) that has their exits (on the freeway portion of the road) in metric, but still uses mile markers. When they were building the freeway), it was rumored that the US was going to switch the country to the Metric system so (like I-19) they were preparing the exit numbers to be in metric.
1:17 This flight did not run out of fuel over the Atlantic. AC143 was flying from Ottawa to Edmonton, no part of this route goes over or even approaches the Atlantic.
It headed *AWAY* from the Atlantic
In awe at the size of this lad
absolute unit
He's a joke
The plane that ran out of fuel was over Manitoba. It’s the Gimli Glider incident.
There was a Canadian plan that ran out of fuel in the middle of the ocean but it was due to a fuel leak. That flight was Transat 236.
If I recall correctly, when the United States promised to convert everything to metric (since most of our imports were built under the metric system), Knoxville, TN. and County, jumped the gun and changed all the speed limits and distance signs to metric.
Why? Because Knoxville was the home of the every-four-years World’s Fair, and they wanted to showcase what the U.S. was doing to “go metric” and join the world!
Years later, on I-40 heading for Virginia through Knoxville, the highway signs were still in metric. Maybe just a revenue opportunity for the cops: ticketing folks for going 100 mph in a 100 kmh zone. 🤪🤪🤪😁😭😭
They had signs on I-40 east of Memphis with a speed limit of 89 Kilometers per hour (55 mph) and people were beating traffic tickets in court stating that they thought it meant 89 mph. The signs were changed back.
That was a... smooth.. transaction into ads.
Gimli Glider wasn't flying over the Atlantic.
isaacfrancois yup
Don't tell the elf!
I love that a sign I pass almost everyday in (just outside of) Toledo Ohio is used to show the KM and miles.
Three things -- 1. the UK still uses imperial units on their roadways. Distances are measured in miles and car speedos are in MPH. They have no issues using a hybrid system. 2. Aviation worldwide still uses imperial measurements -- altitude in feet, distance in miles and speed in MPH. 3. The US is far metricised than most folks realize. Manufacturing, science, healthcare, technology and the military switched to metric units a long time ago.
Have you checked out the traditional Chinese system of measurements? It's pretty extensive, and I daresay a bit more in use today than than areas the size of Wales.
Nonsense. They use the metric system in China. The only non-metric unit that you will commonly see, is that they display vegetables for sale by the 500 grams, for which they use the traditional name ( but not the actual amount ) of their old unit similar to an American or English pound ( weight, not money ).
Ironically, customary units in the USA are now *defined* in terms of metric units. The US just makes broader use of the customary units than many countries.
Yes, but we don't use Chinese unit system in scientific researches and official purposes
Imperial dominates international shipping and aviation.
Mariners had their own metric system: 1 nautical mile = 10 cables or 1000 fathoms, 1 cable =100 fathoms. Anyway most maritime charts have their depths in metres and done so at least since the 1970's. The nautical mile is useful for navigation because it relates to the circumference of the Earth (one minute of arc on the equator = 1 nautical mile).
As an (reluctant) American who grew up in a Commonwealth country, went back of fourth for years these are my observations.
- Places like Canada are 'pretty' metric. Loads of things here are still in a state of limbo, mainly consumer goods, particularly when the imperial units appear to provide a greater value proposition compared to the metric expression. Officially Metric and civilly Metric, but in practice still a mish-mash.
- The UK and some EU countries do weird stuff with temperatures.
- The US Armed Forces, DoD are, essentially Metric both in operationally and technically. For NATO and international interoperability, has been for sometime. Loads of hold overs and nomenclature anomolies.
- The vast majority of manufacturing, machining, and aerospace is still in imperial, but as the old geezers die off more metric is starting to seep in particularly when doing business internationally as most aerospace does.
I personally don't find it a problem, more of an inconvenience that could be solved with a huge expenditure to make everything consistent (which will not happen in the US, ever). Joe Shmoe USA will never want to convert due to high cost, low reward, and to the fact no one wants to be told to change the way to do anything.
The United States of America is a silly place, but it's the best damn silly place on the planet (for being stubbornly silly and completely unable or willing to change to better itself). 'Murica? (lol)
I think it's unrealistic to expect people to completely stop using the Imperial system in informal situations anytime soon; that takes two generations at the least. What is achievable, and would solve 99% of the problem, is to have the economy switch over. Let people talk in feet and pounds if they want to, maybe even mention feet and pounds as supplementary measurements on your packaging if you feel it'll help things sell, but develop your products or services in metric, and sell them in metric as well. Maybe even more importantly, gradually get rid of all the old standards that were based on the Imperial system and for which there are very good and widely used ISO alternatives: no need to screw something down with a 6/32 screw when there's a perfectly good M3 screw available.
Indeed. The problem is there is a lack of coordinated willingness on the individual and any industry that deals with the individual to change this.
(I am of the opinion the US needs to actually officially adopt the Metric system as it will only make it harder for business to compete abroad the longer this standards isolation continues)
The resistance to change in regards to this issue is part of a much larger cultural issue. It feels, in my own experience of course, that much of the the US just isn't interested in change for the better. "Change is foreign, foreign is bad" as the world zooms past.
Ugh, don't get me started on fractional measurements when trying to communicate...
"Good sir, would one prefer another drachm with his 20 tower ounces of Steak?"
I've forgotten to mention: Agriculture in Canada is overwhelmingly Imperial. Almost across the nation, from small family producers to massive operations they just said, "F*ck you" to the Liberal Government in the 1970s when they enacted Metric conversion.
Didn't help matters that agriculture is typically undergone by conservative folk.
I didn’t go through the work of reading all the comments here but, this is not the only place in the US where roads are marked using the metric system. In Puerto Rico, which the United States owns, since 1898, our road signage uses KM for distance units and MPH for speed units. You would see a sign that says “Next Exit 3 km, Max Speed 35 mph”. Roads and the laws related to roads were created during the Spanish occupation but cars and the laws related to cars were created under the current US occupation. This has resulted in a bi-unit system.
0:22 I was so confused, since when have 2 quarts made a gallon.
i feel like i’m the only american who wants to switch to metrics and celsius, it makes so much more sense..
Communist!
You're not the only one, I'm an america and want to switch to metric and celsius too.
Sylz why celcius though? It's way easier to understand, and more precise to see hot or cold with a scale of 32 to 100 than 0 to 37
gunnar bucher LOL, no. Water freezes at 0 and boils at 100.
I don't want to switch because it will literally cost millions (actually, more likely billions) of dollars to mandate the switch, and there is no real benefit. Will metric save any lives? Cure cancer? Prevent "fake news" or any other issue?
No. No. No.....For the people/jobs that would benefit from the metric system (aka, many chemical companies, certain drug and manufacturing industries) THEY ALREADY USE METRIC. Things like cars (all metric fasteners, etc) and aerospace, and drug companies, etc, etc, etc.
It's OK American bros, here in UK we still use imperial miles on our road system and car speed. Don't ask why the fuck why! I really have no idea. Everything else is metric I think, yes even our measurement. You know how it goes millimeters, centimeters, meters... miles...
What about milk and beer?
When Britain still attempts to resist anything French because long live Britannia
It's probably because the government didn't want to change all the exit numbers from miles to Km since it would be expensive and you'd end up with decimal exits.
Zanzubaa1 - Lord Poohbah's 1933 Rolls-Royce has a speedometer and odometer graduated in miles and he refuses to change his car to use the French systeme. Since Concorde had an "e" added to a perfectly good English word to please the d--- Frogs we ought to be consistent and add a superfluous "e" after every ending "d." And spell every word French style when an ending "e" is the difference between an English and French word that is otherwise identical.
Adam Smith - "Decimal exits?" Why?
I was in elementary school in Tucson when the switch to metric was attempted. For about 6 months, we were taught about the metric system, and the signs on I-19 were changed to metric units. Then it all went away, except for the signs. I don't have a problem converting between metric and imperial units at all, except for temperature. I still use Fahrenheit over Celsius simply because the formula is more difficult to do in your head.
Video got it wrong about roads being marked in kilometers. From the end of the revolutionary war until 1820, virtually all roads were marked in kilometers. The reason? Benjamin Franklin was head of the postal service and had fallen in love with the kilometer while in France. Wherever the post office operated until 1820, the roads were marked and maintained by the postal service. In the U.S., a "post road" originally meant one maintained by the post office. It means something else in other countries, I think. Some of the old kilometer markings are still in existence in rural areas of the notheast.
am i the only one lost right now?
*DUE TO A CONVERSION ERROR*
Whatever you smoked before you made this video...
Delaware has a road (SR-1) that was originally in kilometers but later switched to miles -- but the exit numbers are still spaced and number using kilometers so they wouldn't have to change them all.
Actually there are tons of places that use metric units. Louisville, KY has a few places on their highways that have them.
I use the metric system and when I watch videos about Fahrenheit, miles, miles per hour, Feet, inches, yards and pounds I really get confused 😵😵🌠🌠
Try getting an Engineering degree and being asked on an exam to convert ft-lbs of force into torque in a zero gravity environment.
I just stop watching. Not interested in that crap.
0:22 had me so confused. I learned that shit in second grade, cant fool me!
I've never actually noticed that riding down to the Sahuarita Walmart (there's too many tweakers in the Tucson Walmarts).
I think measurements of distance should be the first to convert. 3m is roughly 5k. 1" is roughly 2.5cm. 1 yard is roughly 1 meter. And AR500 steel starts to pit at about 2800fps or 850 m/s.
There's highways around here in Louisville that use KM. Oh, you are talking about ones that only use KM.
Guess there's ones elsewhere in KY too because of that bowling green sign haha.
2:36 what was blurred out? Something rude?
It said "Arbitrary Retarded Rollercoaster"
I kind of wonder why he didn't just open the image in Paint and edit it out by drawing a white box over it.
@@numberMX nobody would have asked about it then
An absolute unit.
lilkhalim The only true measurement system.
Delaware Rt 1 which opened in the mid 1990s was signed exclusively in metric as well. It was due to Federal funding and one of the times when the US government had decided we were really really going to push this time to go metric. It stayed metric for more than a decade I believe but eventually the distance signs were all replaced with miles. However to this day the exit numbers are based upon the kilometers measurements.
There are a couple of 1 mile (2k.m.) To Massachusetts on I-95 South in Hampton, NH
I remember driving on that road when I was like 5 years old while on vacation and wondering why none of the signs said miles lol
But you weren't wondering why a 5 year old would be driving a Winnebago?
In order from least to greatest crimes:
Jaywalking -> Assault -> Murder -> Using imperial units
The highway between Cincinnati and Louisville also uses kilometers, but the signs are also in miles and use miles as the base
Haha, every episode you put it keeps getting better and funnier! (It's not half as interesting, it's fully interesting)
Asterisk, NOT ASTERIX
*asterix* is the metric spelling for *asterisk*
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Who axed you?
No, it's an Obelix!
Noticed that too.
Columbus didn't discover the Americas, he explored them.
The UK has not fully moved over too metric either, for driving we still use miles, yards and MPH, our tape measures, have both metric and imperial units. When talking about beer and milk, we use pints. when talking about water, it's more often litres. when filling up fuel we use litres, but when driving we use miles per gallon. When using weight limits for HGV's we use metric, but for a car we often use the ton. we also use the ton for allot of other things, such as scrap metal, and gravel bags ETC. it's possible to go into a garden centre, and see an advert for compost measured in KG, then right next to the advert you could also see an advertisement for a ton bag of gravel. Yep the UK is a strange country.
At 1:16 you're referring to the "Gimli glider", which experienced duel engine failure due to fuel exhaustion. This was due to a conversion error, yes, but it was not over the Atlantic ocean. I believe there have been cases of fuel exhaustion on airliners over the atlantic, but none due to conversion error. The article that accompanies this part of the video is that of the gimli glider.
Don’t all good stories involve pirates?
Wrong! The date needs to go yyyy/mm/DD not the other way around. This way you can alphabetize a list of dates and they will show up in chronological order.
aarocka11 for computers yes, but if someone asks for the day you won't say it's 2018 march 12.
MrAlfre2000 I'm a computer scientist so technically when I'm working I say the date like that and also count from 0. Somebody help me.
YMD is indeed the best system for organisational reasons, but in daily parlance, DMY has the edge since it gets to the most relevant number (day) first. MDY on the other hand is just idiotic; whether you want your date format one way round or another doesn't matter too much, but having a non-sequential date format is just madness. Then again, the country in question also still insists on using 12-hour clocks, so maybe it's just national policy to make date and time formats as needlessly confusing as possible...
in slovenia we use dd/mm/yyyy
While studying Japanese, I noticed that they use the YYYY/MM/DD system. I think it's a more logical system, counting the largest units first. After all, digital clocks show the time as HH:MM:SS, not SS:MM:HH. Largest to smallest just makes more sense.
@Half as Interesting,Delaware Route 1 traversing Delaware also uses metric units except for Exits 79,83,86,88 and 119
In the 80s we were on a good track to adopt the metric system, but when it was over, all we got was liter soft drink bottles and liquor bottles. A "fifth of liquor (4/5 quart) became 750 milliliters which is less. Some of our highway signs were changed, but speeders would claim "confusion" in court when they were cited for speeding claiming that they thought the signs were for mph.
Its asterisk, asterix is a french cartoon character
Given the context of the type of jokes on this channel, it was probably intentional