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> 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 i
by 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.