> Jesus Christ, who the hell came up with this madness? They made historical sense. A foot is the distance in one step (ie, a foot placed after the other). A

> Jesus Christ, who the hell came up with this madness? They made historical sense. A foot is the distance in one step (ie, a foot placed after the other). A mile was the distance a person could walk in an hour. A pound was roughly a fist worth's of meat-- so if a piece of meat was fist sized it was roughly a pound in weight. These were intuitive units that made sense when they were invented. It was only later on when we needed more accuracy that the metric system was invented