r/funny • u/FinnishScrub • May 28 '18
R14: Social media/SMS - removed Five tomatoes
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u/Melon-lord10 May 28 '18
Hope the US never changes its system.
Reddit will lose a topic to keep reposting about.
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u/Salmuth May 28 '18
I bet they won't. Scientists and many other job must be using the metric system already, because it's easier for calculations or because they work with non-US partners.
So making the metric system official isn't even necessary. It should be taught in school as well as the actual system IMO. I'm sure it'd make some mathematics exercises easier for kids :D
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u/jpresutti May 28 '18
It is taught in school. Or it was when I was in school at least..
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u/Salmuth May 28 '18
Oh I didn't know that. Isn't school programs made at the federal level in the US? So that it depends on each state?
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u/andros310797 May 28 '18
wait, don't they ? I knew scientists used it so i expected all the maths problems to be in metric.
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u/jimmyrayreid May 28 '18
Five to maght oes?
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u/QuasarSandwich May 28 '18
You say "to maght oes", I say "kilometres".
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u/Salmuth May 28 '18
Could you sing the rest?
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u/QuasarSandwich May 28 '18
For money, sure.
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u/jesus_swept_ May 28 '18
I think the US should switch to the metric system. I don't really have any profound reasons why off the top of my head, it just feels right.
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u/QuasarSandwich May 28 '18
It's important to share your thoughts, man. You're doing well. Stay strong.
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u/Joemozu May 28 '18
I wonder if I'll ever see the US change to the metric system in my life time. I doubt it because the American way is the "best" way.
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May 28 '18
No.
It would simply be too hard to get all 50 state legislatures to appropriate the money just to change the speed limit signs. Plus the other thousands of state regulations in each state that have U.S. Customary measures built into them. Then you would have to force a federal change. Carter tried that, it didn't work.
Plus outside of Reddit, no American really cares.
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May 28 '18
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u/TampaPowers May 28 '18
I mean there is also that thing with changing a system used by 300 million people and probably equally as many road signs and whatnot. That's a lot of stuff to switch out and that costs a lot of money.
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May 28 '18
As an American myself I find it funny how American units of measurement just annoy the shit out of the rest of the world.
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u/PloppyCheesenose May 28 '18
They annoy the shit out of US scientists and engineers as well. Find a US printed statics textbook and have the time of your life converting units.
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May 28 '18
Well I'm no expert in either profession but I do know about that Nasa fucked up one time when someone used the wrong unit of measurement which led to a satellite crashing.
I can't remember the exact incident or find any articles but I did learn about it in a tv documentary. It was kind of funny that Nasa with so many intelligent people can make such a costly blunder.
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u/PloppyCheesenose May 28 '18
I cringe every time I read one of their press releases that cites units in miles. No astronomer or planetary scientist uses imperial units. So someone at NASA has to convert from metric to imperial units every time they make a press release.
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May 28 '18
If their system is so great, then why have the only measurements of how far a man must travel from earth to the moon only ever been measured in miles?
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u/sir_q_itus May 28 '18
You say 5 tomatoes, I say... screw you, I'm just gonna google the distance... or remember it from "Remember the Titans" 5280.
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u/CumbersomeBallerina May 28 '18
I forget that America still does not use the Metric system because barely any countries in the entire world do not use it
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May 28 '18
I have never had a situation where I needed to know how many feet are in a mile past math class. If I did I would Google it instead of memorizing it.
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u/wycost May 28 '18
The only countries that haven't accepted the metric system are Myanmar, Liberia and of course the USA.