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[–] Thisismyvoatusername ago 

Imperial. Metric is a way of dumbing people down by not requiring them to need complex thinking. Britons are greater slaves now than ever they were in the old days, because they've been turned from thinking men into cattle.

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[–] Miss32E ago 

1 inch = 2.54 cm fuck right off.

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[–] Thisismyvoatusername ago 

But how many shillings to the crown?

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[–] phw 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Metric is much easier if you need to convert across dimensions or scales.

Pop quiz time. Without looking anything up or using a calculator, estimate the mass of a 1 cubic mile mountain of granite.

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[–] L_Etranger 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

There's at least 1k yards in a mile, so a cubic mile is about a billion cubic yards. A cubic yard of water would be at least a thousand pounds. So the granite will weigh more than a trillion pounds. I think the yard conversation up front was off by a factor of two and got cubed, so the actual amount might be up to 8x more. I feel like the water is actually about twice as dense as I remembered and granite is probably 2-5x as dense as water. So reasonably, it's several tens of trillions of pounds.

How did I do?

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[–] phw 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

You passed.

I got about 10-15 billion tons (uncertainty based on estimated density between 2.5 and 4) or 20-30 trillion pounds.

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[–] Nofatpeople 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

Metric is superior.

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[–] iswallow 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

1 liter of water fits in 1 dm^3 and weighs 1 kg

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[–] spookybm 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Terrorists use metric

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[–] Talc 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

so does 99.9% of the world

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[–] spookybm ago 

Then 99.9% of the world is a terrorist according to the FBI

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[–] AndersonBlitzer ago 

supposedly imperial had advantages because it was easier to do sums in your head and divide into fractions quickly. it was better for buying and selling, shops etc. the fraction used are actually easier in some ways (I'm not sure how this works exactly, but for people who defend it, that's their argument)

the thinking behind fahrenheit is to avoid having to deal with minus numbers I think, that's why freezing is so high

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[–] Talc ago 

Before metrication, different countries had their own interpretations of measurements. A mile in one country could be vastly different to a mile just across the border in the next country. A "scandinavian" mile is about 11 thousand yards. Even if there are a couple of refuseniks still out there enough of the world succeeded in dumping the out of date measuring systems to remove the ambiguity.

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[–] AndersonBlitzer 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

still some differences, gallons in US and UK for example not same. pints also different.

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[–] iswallow ago 

1 liter = 1 cubic decimeter

1 cubic meter would be 1000 liters, and 1000 kg