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I'm an electrical engineer by education. Everything is metric when designing circuits, devices like lasers, and receivers/transmitters... stuff like that. As an Old Soldier, everything is metric in that world too. The Maximum Effective Range of an M4 rifle is 660 meters. One "zero's" one's weapon on the "25 meter range". The "burst radius" of a 155mm artillery round is 50 meters. The "burst radius" of a hand grenade is 5 meters.

Science is all metric too.

 

Now if we can just teach these stupid kids to stop putting metric sockets on standard wheel lugs and standard sockets on metric wheel lugs.... Maybe we can stop stripping wheel lug nuts with sockets that "almost" fit.

 

What kind of a "lug" would use a standard socket on a metric lug. That would be "nuts".

 

I'm an automotive engineer by trade. Everything for me is a mish-mash of metric and imperial.

Fuel economy is either Miles Per Gallon or grams per mile depending on which agency does the measuring.

Emissions in heavy-duty is measured engine out in grams per brake-horsepower-hour.

No wonder we're so confused.

 

The confusion now is real. There are two systems used in the US: imperial for everyday use and metric for science, industry, and trade.

Or do you think Coca-Cola is sold in ounces????

 

I'm sitting here looking at a 12 ounce can of Coca-Cola as we speak.

 

My 1,5 l bottle of Zero Kola (not Coca Cola) is empty and tomorow I will get my deposit back

 

Not even sure what a 1.5 L bottle of Zero Kola looks like.

You must not be from around here.

 

Exactly like any other 1.5L Coca-Cola-bottle outside USA

 

Great. I live in the USA. Guess I'll take your word for it.

 

Having two systems doesn't reduce confusion. It separates Americans from science and from people in all other countries.

 

Safeway large size bottles of soda come in 1 or 2 liter bottles.

They are also labeled in ounces 67.6 ounces is 2 liters.

 

No it doesn't. America works quite well the way it is. How on earth could it separate Americans from science?

 

Yeah. And?

 

Science uses centigrade.

 

It sounded like you weren't sure what a liter is.

 

He was talking about a 1.5L bottle that isn't available in the US.

 

And again, so what?

 

Science uses the Kelvin scale.

 

True. For cases where absolute zero is important, for example.

 

I can travel to 98,5% of the countries in the world without a calculator. You cannot even cross a single border without. Who of us has more freedoms?

 

I've traveled fairly extensively in my career. Europe, Asia, South America. Never needed a calculator.

I don't know what you're talking about.

 

What is so bad and difficult about having two systems? I frequently wrench on bicycles and motorcycles and I'm quite familiar with metric and standard. My toolbox has a good assortment of metric and standard tools. Does a surprise you to know that I happen to know that 1 in is 25.4 mm? 40 caliber is roughly the equivalent of 10 mm?

Neither system is necessarily better but it is better to be familiar with both. But I guess if it makes people feel better to think their system is superior they should only learn one of them.

 

We have Harley's, Honda motorcycles, American make trucks, Honda, Hyundai's.....So nearing Christmas its the same question to my husband--what sae tools you need, what metric tools..... I get confused but he always knows exactly what he needs...

 

Funny , all metric sockets have standard 1/4, 3/8 , and 1/2 inch drive. No metric drive.