Anyone who watches the (British) Top Gear, should know they use mph. In my country we use metric system and we drive right side of the road.. not wrong.. not left. Right.
Pardon?! I believe that 0c is +32F and 100c is 212f. (Boiling point) I still prefer to have my vehicle's units set to Metric, rather than Imperial. I work at a Toyota garage, and a lot of our measurements are in CM or MM, so it keeps me fresh on everything.
After living in Europe for about a year, I got used to metric units, even after moving back to the US, I prefer to use metric for some things and imperial for others. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - now Free
We don't get to see much of any other life than 'American life' on tv or magazines and things like that, so I think largely it's due to the lack of information that actually makes it to the (unfortunately) popular mediums here. I work with the metric measurement system every day, it's amazingly simple! I much prefer it
The metric system makes so much more sense. I wish everyone used the metric system as a standard. Although I like Fahrenheit a heck of a lot better than Celsius(except for when measuring hardware temps )
Unfortunately only one of the systems makes sense, guess which one it is Even our american teacher wondered why people stuck using stupid imperial system. I've read that USA has officially adopted metric system but the government did't take any means to enforce using it, and that is why e.g. the US army use it. Seriously, many calculations are way easier in metric system. I know people are used to it. Just like people were used to know how much a Deutschmark was and now they have €. Let's start unit system flamewar, hell yeah!
Yeah, I watch Top Gear which is why I know that England uses MPH. (Which I like a lot better than KPH)
And drive on the normal side. AFAIK Metric is becoming more common, imperial is no longer used in schools, but I think road signs will stay in imperial.
The normal side is the right, but you said it's not and then gave me a link stating 90% of countries drive on the right
I have never understood Fahrenheit. what were they using as a reference when thinking it up? Celsius makes the most sense to me. 0 = freezing point of water, 100 = boiling point of water. what was the Fahrenheit scale based on? The freezing point of Antifreeze? I don't mind what measurement scale people use, I just never figured out what the hell was going on with the seemingly random numbers on the Fahrenheit scale. I should google it, but meh.
Want real sense. Kelvin. 0 kelvin is also absolute zero, the point where entropy = 0. About -273 celcius. Also happens to be that an increase in temperature of 1 celcius is an increase of 1 kelvin too so 0 celcius is about 273 kelvin. Personally reading a temperature in farenheit is absolutely meaningless to me, but the same would apply to others in celcius. Metric units for just about everything. Speeds in mph though.
tbh Fahrenheit doesn't make sense at all, and I'm even American! I like it though, and would rather use it than celsius.
The only issue I have switching systems is that it is kinda like learning a new language. I know what 63°F feels like, I know how long 5ft 8inches is, I know how heavy 40 lbs is, but I don't know what their metric counterparts are. To truly understand what those numbers mean in metrics means that I'd have to convert them to the standard system. I have no way to visualize when someone tells me that they are 1.6 meters tall without whipping out google unit converter. That's pretty much the only reason I don't like the metric system. In terms of math and science I do find the metric system to be 10x easier.
