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Probably a host of stuff from one less NASA orbiter crashing, down to not having the sticker on millions of car B pillars printed with imperial and metric tyre
by cs02rm0 12y ago
Probably a host of stuff from one less NASA orbiter crashing, down to not having the sticker on millions of car B pillars printed with imperial and metric tyre pressures.
There are lots of downsides, it's interesting you give a construction example; in the UK we have houses built from imperial bricks. Metric bricks aren't the same size, but a conveniently round number in millimetres. A house I'm buying was built in imperial bricks and someone with not quite enough sense has filled in some old doorways with metric bricks.
The costs of maintaining different systems aren't large but accumulate indefinitely, the cost to switch is finite.
- trothamel 12y agoAgain, it's interesting that all of those are issues caused by metrication, the switch to metric units, rather than issue caused by customary or imperial units themselves. > The costs of maintaining different systems aren't large but accumulate indefinitely, the cost to switch is finite. That only makes sense if there's no discount rate, nothing else that could be done with the money we'd spend to switch. I suspect there are a lot of things that could be done that would yield higher rewards.