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About 15 years ago now, I remember watching a PBS news show where this question came up. One of the guests said that we would never leave the Imperial system b
by Kaizyn 17y ago
About 15 years ago now, I remember watching a PBS news show where this question came up. One of the guests said that we would never leave the Imperial system because all the land in the US was surveyed and alotted in Imperial. The switching costs away from that were deemed too high.
- jrwoodruff 17y agoFunny you mention that - it's actually how I got on this tangent. according to wikipedia: "Twenty-four states have legislated that surveying measures should be based on the U.S. survey foot, eight have legislated that they be made on the basis of the international foot, and eighteen have not specified the conversion factor from metric units" Yea. Survey foot. That's not even the current international standard for the length of a foot. Ridiculous. Glad I'm not an interstate contractor that has to deal with this mess.