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The metric system should be implemented in the U.S (devilsadvocategame.com)
1 point by lenkendall on June 5, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Well, this calls for an excellent quote from "Wild Thing" by Josh Bazell: http://imgur.com/gallery/iDOzAa5

Also, Americans of XVIII century were like "We don't want your tea! We don't want your laws! We don't want your imperium! But the length of an arm of king Henry I should make a good base for measurement system." (Unfortunately I can't recall where I read it from.)

And to the article,

> [...] You can google conversions in seconds.

A counterargument to this point should be several failures (some by NASA) caused precisely by failing to do the conversion. I believe the author simply forgot to raise this one.




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