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Where it matters, the US already uses the metric system. Virtually all products are dual labeled, with good chunk being in metric sizes. The military uses metri
by sgjohnson 5y ago
Where it matters, the US already uses the metric system. Virtually all products are dual labeled, with good chunk being in metric sizes. The military uses metric exclusively, and so does most of the science community.
But to force the people to go fully metric would take a genereration.
- CRConrad 5y ago> But to force the people to go fully metric would take a genereration. It's already taken more.
- unbalancedevh 5y ago> to go fully metric would take a genereration Longer than that, I'd say. I remember watching videos about the metric system when I was in grade school back in the 70's. ("You can measure how far from your car to a star -- with the metric system!")
- sgjohnson 5y agoI mean, not if there was an actual metrication effort. There isn’t. Nobody’s putting up any speed limit signs in kilometres per hour or using celsius for the weather forecast.
- genewitch 5y agonot just speed limit signs. Mile markers, exit numbers, distance signs. There's millions of them all over the US. It would cost unfathomably (lol) large amounts of money to do that, and for arbitrary reasons.
- not2b 5y agoYou saw it in the 70s because that's when there was an effort (later abandoned) to convert the US to metric.
- oasisbob 5y agoI'll believe the US is using metric when you can buy rice by the kilo, gas by the liter, paper in ISO sizes, and construction sheet goods in increments other than 8x4 feet. Non-metric preferred sizes are embedded everywhere.
- not2b 5y agoThe Carter administration attempted to start a full transition to metric in the late 1970s. When Reagan took power this was killed and no one attempted to revive it, because it was turned into a nationalist thing, one of those things Republicans reflexively oppose.