Wyvernphlare

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There's a reason science uses the metric system--people need a standard measurement system so that every scientist around the world knows what every other scientist is saying, and guess what? Metric is more common in the rest of the world. The majority shouldn't bend to the will of a single nation. It's not making science more "excess able" to people who shouldn't be in the field, as you put it, but to create a standard language between scientists. Every argument you make about people being lazy or stupid for not wanting to use your preferred unit of measurement can also be reflected back to you. Now in fields like chemistry, where a standardized system is important, trust me, imperial or metric, the ruler doesn't matter as much as you knowing how to use conversion factors. It's just simpler if, in the final product, there is a standard way of reporting.

Also 10's are better than 12's.

I'm American and think the U.S. should switch over to the metric system. I'd rather have one system for both common and scientific usage instead of one system for common usage and one system for scientific usage like we have now.

My only anger towards the metric system is that they didn't teach us it when we were kids--they make us learn it in high school and it's so brief we don't remember it. It SHOULD be taught when we're learning all the other units of measurement... not taught as an afterthought

I'm American and but I live in an asian country. The metric system is so much better? What can you multiple and divide better, 10 or 16? Also everything is the same, kiloliter=1,000 liters. Kilometer=1,000 meters. It's [I]soooooo[I] much easier.

The only imperial units I actually understand are the length ones... Everything else, I have no clue. Especially liquid measurements, they make cooking so hard!

The metric system just makes more sense anyway.

It is sooo bloody easy the British way (metric xD). Like honestly, seeing American recipes for this much pints or cups I'm like.....fucks sake. I stick with my grams and ml as its sooo much easier.

I don't understand why you would not want to make science more accessible. Seriously, this is the opposite of what pretty much everyone else wants. The only real reason would be to be able to say "I'm so cool because I understand this and you don't", but there are areas of maths and science that fit that category anyway.

I've never had to do science under the imperial system, but I can imagine it would be hell. The imperial system was created before people started to really do maths with their measurements; once they realized they needed to do this, the metric system was created.

What is better?
Dividing everything to hundreds to facilitate science and measurement worldwide?


Or this.
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Although, I can handle using Inches in terms of heels e.t.c ;) aswell as cm's. I'm more comfortable for inches in heels and other things, otherwise cms and other metric measurements elsewhere.

Wait, you don't like it because it makes maths easier? That's only if you're doing basic 'converting metres into kilometres', 'converting feet into miles' maths. Higher theoretical mathematics doesn't even use either, so that point is kinda moot. Though in applied mathematics... equations of motion just need to be in Metric...

And also, in a subject like Chemistry or Physics using the metric system makes so, so much more sense. Moles can be easily converted into kilograms, concentrations of solutions need to use volumes in dm³, it doesn't make the subject easier but it makes the whole process make just so much more sense than if you used imperial. The triple point of water is zero (well, 273K but whatever, even the Kelvin scale is linear to the centigrade scale. You need a special 'imperial Kelvin' scale called the Rankine scale to make it work with fahrenheit) rather than 32 degrees fahrenheit, things move at metres per second.. f=ma, e=mc^2... why bother using imperial to confuse things?

It makes so much more sense and everything relates with one another using the SI base units. Why complicate it? It doesn't make you seem more intelligent using some crazy scaling that just doesn't make any sense. :P

I'm a scientist. I like the metric system because it is logical, straightforward, scalable and set up so that (for example) you can instantly convert between mass and volume when dealing with water. Just thinking about trying to do molarity calculations with imperial units makes my head spin.

I guess this means I'm too stupid to be a scientist, huh?

Just thinking about trying to do molarity calculations with imperial units makes my head spin.

50 milliounces of Sodium Hydroxide was added to half a gallon of water. After removing a pint of the solution, work out the concentration. :3

It's okay, Alpha. Sometimes I get mad at things for no reason, too.

BUT SEE? I was right all along in hating Oshawott! At first I was just a lunatic! And then he got annoying and everyone hated him, I TOLD YOU!
*ahem* So yeah. You are right to hate it. One day the metric system will come alive and strange people.

Yeah.....no.

Metric system works on multiples of ten. Clean, simple, easy to remember.
Imperial works with all these shitty twelves and fours and eights and crap.

Just wait until you take a chem class and you start working with moles.

Originally Posted by Shinobu

Just wait until you take a chem class and you start working with moles.

I took a chem class a year ago it was easy

Originally Posted by Alphaphlare

I took a chem class a year ago it was easy

Well, did you have to do calculations like working out the concentrations? It most likely wasn't easy if you worked in Imperial.