Why the US doesn’t use metric (even though it does) | Did You Know?

1. Its insane how this gal sounds exactly like every second generation Chinese descendant in an English country but with an Australian accent!

2. I have converted most of my recipes to metric because I weigh most of the ingredients, and it is much easier to scale a recipe in metric. In my Chemistry and Physics classes at university, we only used metric.

3. Very good explanation, very informative!
   There is NO "Metric System", what in fact exists is the "Système international d'unités" (International system of units) also known as "SI units" since 1960 as you explained.
   The reason for the US not using SI units in daily life is NATIONAL PRIDE, there is no other explanation.
   Greetings from Brasil.

4. How about kitchen recipes. Are the use the metric system. Operating with spoon and cups is confusing for metrics.

5. imagine an american driver coming to an european country and starts driving 60 mph in a 60kph zone…

6. I use Alen (forarm), an old viking measure, and insists on using that in the US.
   I'm not fond of eating foot long baguettes. They have to take of their shoes to measure it…… 😮

7. Imperial system just suck😂

8. Fun fact, the mass of 1 litre of water is equivalent to 1 kilogram

9. US is living in the past. They call it American and defend but they got it from the British.

10. Common sense seems to be lost for the Americans. The rest of the world is using a system that it is not only easier, it is logic.
    Being different is not the same as being stubborn and that is the main reason because the Americans, and not surprise: the Canadians keep doing the same.
    I truly believe that those folks refuse to change their ways for another good reason: old people can not learn new tricks.
    Greetings from Toronto.

11. You may want to add a major barrier is the US Building Code that is imperial. Converting every county buildings office to SI would be pretty onerous.

12. Metric is boring. We will never switch. Btw imperial's a lot older than you think, back to Ancient Aramaic and probably still further.

13. 2:34
    Time?
    So 1 minute is 10 seconds?
    1 hour is 10 minutes?
    1 day is 10 hours?

14. Also you may see very often they use car tire diameter in standard system in many countries. Rim diameter 14", 15" 16" and ….
    
    The whole world haven't change it to metric.

15. i love this:
    1 kilogram = 1kg
    1 pound = 1 lb
    …

16. In United States beside medical, metric system is used in modern radial car tire size.
    For example 195, 205, 215mm and ….

17. As a carpenter in my 30’s theres no way in hell I could switch to metric now. People keep saying how “intuitive” it is. Intuitive is entirely subjective. It would take me years to learn new ways of measuring and figuring things by eye and getting to the same level of “intuitive” the standard system is for me now. It’s no different than language. I could say Japanese is less “intuitive”, but that would indeed be an ignorant thing to say.

18. And how the hell to these poor metric people tell time? What with all those fractions of 60 and 24!?!?? WE NEED 100 SECOND MINUTES AND 100 MINUTE HOURS AND 100 HOUR DAYS AND 100 DAY YEARS! IT’S MORE INTUITIVE!!!!!!

19. Metric is precise & USCS/Imperial is general.

20. Why you ask? 'Cuz of feelings…. They can't bare the thought of using something someone else figured out…Boo Woo

21. So if all your friends are jumping off a cliff, you'd do it too then? Seems reasonable.

    Metric system should be banned in the US period

22. It is 100% true the USA uses the metric system in medicine, science and engering, however, the domestic market, they still use miles, gallons (USgallon=3.7 Litres, UKgallon=4.5 Litres), even though packeting has both measurements, but generally, 98% of American's use imperial measuraments!

23. Alpha issues caused this lol. Sorry, I mean independence. Metric was much easier to learn IMO.

24. Thou shall not betray the freedom unit🦅🇺🇸

25. Uk Speedometers are in Miles and the road speed limits are Miles per Hour

26. The United States simply won’t give an inch..

27. The US doesn’t use the Imperial system. It uses US customary units. These units are based on the measures used at the time. Those measures are also the parents of the British imperial system.

28. As an engineer, units of 10 is enticing. As an American, our system connects us to our culture and is derived from man's unit of labor. The Metric system is abstract and demands conformity to units of 10. It's not derived from anything related to culture, it's all made up.

29. I’m totally ok with the US using their own measures, but why use different fractions? 1/12? 1/16?
    With metric you only have to use decimal base fractions: 1/10, 1/100, 1/1000, etc. There’s a reason why it’s used for currency: it’s easy, quick, and minimize errors.

30. I wish the U.S. would fully commit to the metric system! It makes more sense and already most of the world is on the metric system

31. Imperial system was kept to define satanic globe
    Why is our government/science honoring Satan ?
    
    The speed of Earth’s orbit is 18.5mps which just happens to be 66,600mph. Earth’s curvature drops eight inches per mile squared, which just happens to be .666 inches per square foot, 10 miles = 66.666 feet, 100 miles = 6666.666 feet and so on. Earth’s axis of rotation and it’s plane of orbit around the Sun just happens to be 66.6º. Both polar circles which are located near the poles of the Earth just happens to be 66.6º. There's a 666 trillion mile discrepancy concerning the distance from Earth to Polaris and of course the Earth is tilted at 23.4º which just happens to be a 66.6º tilt from the 90º right angle. All of this while exploding through space at what just happens to be 2,843,666mph. Do you see the problem ? We've been worshiping Satan all this time without even knowing it. The joke is on us. (Such is the way of true evilness.)
    
    Gravity was fabricated in 1666. The Washington Monument just happens to be 6,666 inches by 666 inches ? The Pentagon just happens to be a pentagram ? The Vatican (synonymous with pedophilia) just happens to have named their telescope ”Lucifer” and they won’t let us near it.
    
    ºThe word nasa is in The Bible* it means beguile which means to deceive. Goddard as in “The Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center” is also mentioned, its Lucifer’s original name and it still is.
    
    ºNASA named their Tower of Babel “ Saturn V” in honor of Satin and their missions Mercury, Gemini and Apollo were all named after false gods. And let’s not forget the many human sacrifices that there were. When we give praise or money to NASA and it’s Goddard religion, we are literally praising and financing the Lucifer concept. Rather there's a God or not.
    
    ºScience named the chief/wondering stars “Planets” so we’d think that there are other worlds and then they named the so called planets after false gods except Earth which is not a planet, it’s a world (There is physical or phenomenal life here and only here).
    
    There’s no such thing as planets, gravity, relativity, infinite space, aliens or even evolution. Depth is a perception and space is fake. Space is water it’s called "The Waters, The Great Deep, Thrum, Mayim, Celestial Seas or Primal Ocean" and it doesn't surprise me one bit that millions of people can spend their entire lives looking into an ocean with a telescope and never see any water. People have been trained to trust not their minds and eyes but their education. Water was never created, water is the medium of creation.

32. Video: A ton of 2000 pounds? or a ton of 2240 pounds?
    Me: A ton of 1000 kilograms

33. All countries use both. Who cares? Lol

34. I well remember the new speed signs in Australia and lessons being taught in primary school to get us all accustomed to the changes. My first car in 1980 was built in 1968 so the speedo (yes, we call that dial a speedo) was in mph. Australia already had converted from UK currency to dollars and cents in the early 60s so this was just one more innovation to make life easier.

35. Why didn't they top the tank in the airplane? Look at the fuel gage to see if you have a full tank.

36. The thing about the US and changes peoples daily lives in such a direct way is it you have to basically ram it through (with lots of lube of course). Because if you go about it slowly and voluntarily, it’s gonna fail.

37. i hate those anti metric memes.. i know the usa went to the moon, but thats thanks to the budget and has nothing to do with the system they use, and non of the metric people cant use imperial, but imperial understand both.. sorry but that means metric people dont need imperial, and imperial users need metric..

38. 1 liter = 10x10x10 cm
    1 meter = 100cm
    1000 grams = 1 liter of water
    0 degrees celcius water freezes, 100 degrees celcius water boils
    1 bar = 14,5psi = atmospheric pressure at sea level
    day month year instead of month day year

39. “Since 1959, the pound has been EXACTLY. 0.45359237 kg”. Bwahaha. Exactly.

40. Celsius needs to be more divided. At least for AC units. Fahrenheit is far more precise to getting the temperature you want. Since AC units don't do fraction temperatures.

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