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Dr Know

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10/29/2013 02:44 PM

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Report Copyright Violation The Metric System is Retarded Metric is BULLSHIT.



Of course, it makes SO much more sense. It's all in Base 10, and you have ten fingers. That's why it's more sensible, right? WRONG.



Why are their twelve hours on a clock face? Why are their twenty four hours in a day? If this metric shit makes so much sense, why don't we have ten hours a day, of a hundred minutes each, and each minute a hundred seconds? WOULDN'T THAT MAKE SO MUCH MORE SENSE?



What do you think, people in the old days had twelve fucking fingers? Was everyone just retarded in the old days? Or were they crazy?



Why are there 360 degrees in a circle? Why not 100 degrees of 100 arc minutes and 100 arc seconds?



I'll tell you why not. QUICK: what's one third of a "meter"?



What's one quarter of a meter in one third of an hour? How fast are you going?



What, you need to bust out the calculator for that one? Whaddaya know?



Land miles don't make a lot of sense either. Ever wonder why it's the nice round number of 5280 feet? Yeah, doesn't make a lot of sense. It has something to do with how fast a horse could run. NAUTICAL miles are where it's at.



As a boat captain, I learned this stuff as a child. A nautical mile is equal to one minute of latitude.



From the equator, zero, to the Pole, ninety degrees of latitude. Each degree is further divided into sixty minutes, and further divided into sixty seconds.



A nautical mile is one minute of latitude. In other words, it is directly related to the SIZE OF OUR PLANET. Do you even know what decides how long a meter is? Yeah, I doubt it.



"The meter is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second."



Nice round number, eh? The reason all old measures were in base twelve or base eight is because you can easily compute in your head. Twelve is easily divided by 2,3,4, and 6.



Ten is only divisible by 2 and 5. Making it very difficult to calculate things.



In a boat traveling at six knots, I can easily compute for my navigation, knowing I am moving one mile every ten minutes. Once you bring kilometers into the equation, everything gets very difficult. I ran 6 knots at 270 degrees for 48 hours 40 minutes. I can easily compute I moved 292 miles. In metric I would need a calculator. This is why aero navigation also still uses knots.



Weight and volume? One ounce of fresh water weighs one ounce. 16 ounces is a pint, and also a pound. A pint a pound, the world around.



Temperature: The retarded centigrade or Celsius scale. Seems to make sense, zero is the freezing point of water, 100 is the boiling point.

However, on THIS PLANET, temperatures often go below freezing, NEVER do they even approach boiling. That's why in Canada it's BELOW ZERO almost the entire year. In Fahrenheit, well, in the temperate zone, where most of the people in the world live, it will hardly ever drop below zero or over 100. Below zero is really fucking cold, over 100 is really fucking hot. In centigrade, well, most of the year is below zero, which isn't all that cold, yet at 45 degrees you will die of heatstroke.



I could go on and on, because I know I'm right.



Flame on, METRICTARDS.

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10/29/2013 02:50 PM

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Metric is BULLSHIT.



Of course, it makes SO much more sense. It's all in Base 10, and you have ten fingers. That's why it's more sensible, right? WRONG.



Why are their twelve hours on a clock face? Why are their twenty four hours in a day? If this metric shit makes so much sense, why don't we have ten hours a day, of a hundred minutes each, and each minute a hundred seconds? WOULDN'T THAT MAKE SO MUCH MORE SENSE?



What do you think, people in the old days had twelve fucking fingers? Was everyone just retarded in the old days? Or were they crazy?



Why are there 360 degrees in a circle? Why not 100 degrees of 100 arc minutes and 100 arc seconds?



I'll tell you why not. QUICK: what's one third of a "meter"?



What's one quarter of a meter in one third of an hour? How fast are you going?



What, you need to bust out the calculator for that one? Whaddaya know?



Land miles don't make a lot of sense either. Ever wonder why it's the nice round number of 5280 feet? Yeah, doesn't make a lot of sense. It has something to do with how fast a horse could run. NAUTICAL miles are where it's at.



As a boat captain, I learned this stuff as a child. A nautical mile is equal to one minute of latitude.



From the equator, zero, to the Pole, ninety degrees of latitude. Each degree is further divided into sixty minutes, and further divided into sixty seconds.



A nautical mile is one minute of latitude. In other words, it is directly related to the SIZE OF OUR PLANET. Do you even know what decides how long a meter is? Yeah, I doubt it.



"The meter is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second."



Nice round number, eh? The reason all old measures were in base twelve or base eight is because you can easily compute in your head. Twelve is easily divided by 2,3,4, and 6.



Ten is only divisible by 2 and 5. Making it very difficult to calculate things.



In a boat traveling at six knots, I can easily compute for my navigation, knowing I am moving one mile every ten minutes. Once you bring kilometers into the equation, everything gets very difficult. I ran 6 knots at 270 degrees for 48 hours 40 minutes. I can easily compute I moved 292 miles. In metric I would need a calculator. This is why aero navigation also still uses knots.



Weight and volume? One ounce of fresh water weighs one ounce. 16 ounces is a pint, and also a pound. A pint a pound, the world around.



Temperature: The retarded centigrade or Celsius scale. Seems to make sense, zero is the freezing point of water, 100 is the boiling point.

However, on THIS PLANET, temperatures often go below freezing, NEVER do they even approach boiling. That's why in Canada it's BELOW ZERO almost the entire year. In Fahrenheit, well, in the temperate zone, where most of the people in the world live, it will hardly ever drop below zero or over 100. Below zero is really fucking cold, over 100 is really fucking hot. In centigrade, well, most of the year is below zero, which isn't all that cold, yet at 45 degrees you will die of heatstroke.



I could go on and on, because I know I'm right.



Flame on, METRICTARDS.

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Metric is BULLSHIT.



Of course, it makes SO much more sense. It's all in Base 10, and you have ten fingers. That's why it's more sensible, right? WRONG.



Why are their twelve hours on a clock face? Why are their twenty four hours in a day? If this metric shit makes so much sense, why don't we have ten hours a day, of a hundred minutes each, and each minute a hundred seconds? WOULDN'T THAT MAKE SO MUCH MORE SENSE?



What do you think, people in the old days had twelve fucking fingers? Was everyone just retarded in the old days? Or were they crazy?



Why are there 360 degrees in a circle? Why not 100 degrees of 100 arc minutes and 100 arc seconds?



I'll tell you why not. QUICK: what's one third of a "meter"?



What's one quarter of a meter in one third of an hour? How fast are you going?



What, you need to bust out the calculator for that one? Whaddaya know?



Land miles don't make a lot of sense either. Ever wonder why it's the nice round number of 5280 feet? Yeah, doesn't make a lot of sense. It has something to do with how fast a horse could run. NAUTICAL miles are where it's at.



As a boat captain, I learned this stuff as a child. A nautical mile is equal to one minute of latitude.



From the equator, zero, to the Pole, ninety degrees of latitude. Each degree is further divided into sixty minutes, and further divided into sixty seconds.



A nautical mile is one minute of latitude. In other words, it is directly related to the SIZE OF OUR PLANET. Do you even know what decides how long a meter is? Yeah, I doubt it.



"The meter is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second."



Nice round number, eh? The reason all old measures were in base twelve or base eight is because you can easily compute in your head. Twelve is easily divided by 2,3,4, and 6.



Ten is only divisible by 2 and 5. Making it very difficult to calculate things.



In a boat traveling at six knots, I can easily compute for my navigation, knowing I am moving one mile every ten minutes. Once you bring kilometers into the equation, everything gets very difficult. I ran 6 knots at 270 degrees for 48 hours 40 minutes. I can easily compute I moved 292 miles. In metric I would need a calculator. This is why aero navigation also still uses knots.



Weight and volume? One ounce of fresh water weighs one ounce. 16 ounces is a pint, and also a pound. A pint a pound, the world around.



Temperature: The retarded centigrade or Celsius scale. Seems to make sense, zero is the freezing point of water, 100 is the boiling point.

However, on THIS PLANET, temperatures often go below freezing, NEVER do they even approach boiling. That's why in Canada it's BELOW ZERO almost the entire year. In Fahrenheit, well, in the temperate zone, where most of the people in the world live, it will hardly ever drop below zero or over 100. Below zero is really fucking cold, over 100 is really fucking hot. In centigrade, well, most of the year is below zero, which isn't all that cold, yet at 45 degrees you will die of heatstroke.



I could go on and on, because I know I'm right.



Flame on, METRICTARDS.

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10/29/2013 02:56 PM

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Report Copyright Violation Re: The Metric System is Retarded I pronounce this as Rant of the Year.

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Lol!!! True!



OP, the metric system is based on scientific measurements. For example the meter: the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second [

Lol!!! True!OP, the metric system is based on scientific measurements. For example the meter: the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second [ link to en.wikipedia.org ] is scientifically more accurate than the "foot system", note, not better, only more scientifically accurate. Quoting: MaybeTrollingU



So, that nice round number is better than 1/21,600th of the circumference of our HOME PLANET? So, that nice round number is better than 1/21,600th of the circumference of our HOME PLANET?

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10/29/2013 03:02 PM

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Report Copyright Violation Re: The Metric System is Retarded The rest of the world use metrics system only the USA does not use it. I guess the rest of the world is wrong and only the USA is right. </sarcasm>



I think the main reason stopping the USA from converting to metrics is that it would be too costly.



Nice rant though, I give you credit for that. The rest of the world use metrics system only the USA does not use it. I guess the rest of the world is wrong and only the USA is right. I think the main reason stopping the USA from converting to metrics is that it would be too costly.Nice rant though, I give you credit for that.

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I think the main reason stopping the USA from converting to metrics is that it would be too costly.



Nice rant though, I give you credit for that.

The rest of the world use metrics system only the USA does not use it. I guess the rest of the world is wrong and only the USA is right. I think the main reason stopping the USA from converting to metrics is that it would be too costly.Nice rant though, I give you credit for that. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 48201356



i dont think UK is metric yet are they? i dont think UK is metric yet are they?

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10/29/2013 03:24 PM

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Fahrenheit invented the thermometer, but used the freezing point of brine and the human body temperature to define the points of his scale. Highly unscientific. Professor Celsius fixed that error for him, and correlated the scale to the basic properties of a vital and everyday element, under normal earthly atmospheric conditions.



There are VERY good and interconnected mathematical and practical reasons for the 360 degree circle and the 12 hour division of the face of a clock, but besides the arguments you yourself put forth, I can't quite remember them. You should know more than me about this subject, as a boat captain.



As for the metric system compared to the archaic imperial one, there is no arguement, really, and this I think you are well aware of.



Coherence and mathematical and scientific simplicity is the keyword. The meter defines both length, volume, and weight. Again by partially adhering to the basic properties of the same element as Professor Celsius looked to, when rationalizing Mr. Fahrenheit's scale of measure in his day...

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I think the main reason stopping the USA from converting to metrics is that it would be too costly.



Nice rant though, I give you credit for that.

The rest of the world use metrics system only the USA does not use it. I guess the rest of the world is wrong and only the USA is right. I think the main reason stopping the USA from converting to metrics is that it would be too costly.Nice rant though, I give you credit for that. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 48201356



i dont think UK is metric yet are they?

i dont think UK is metric yet are they? Quoting: Anubis



Yes they officially are, but mentally stuck in their archaic system.



But the US is in great company, with Burma and Liberia still stuck in the 18'th Century. Yes they officially are, but mentally stuck in their archaic system.But the US is in great company, with Burma and Liberia still stuck in the 18'th Century.

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Report Copyright Violation Re: The Metric System is Retarded You know whats dumb about this, America is like one of the only few that won't switch to the metric system. If you were born only knowing the metric system you wouldn't despise it. I know both Imperial and Metric very well and I actually use Imperial a lot more. But to say the Metric system is retarded only makes you look waaay more unintelligent.

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Report Copyright Violation Re: The Metric System is Retarded I'll bite.



Fahrenheit invented the thermometer, but used the freezing point of brine and the human body temperature to define the points of his scale. Highly unscientific. Professor Celsius fixed that error for him, and correlated the scale to the basic properties of a vital and everyday element, under normal earthly atmospheric conditions.



There are VERY good and interconnected mathematical and practical reasons for the 360 degree circle and the 12 hour division of the face of a clock, but besides the arguments you yourself put forth, I can't quite remember them. You should know more than me about this subject, as a boat captain.



As for the metric system compared to the archaic imperial one, there is no arguement, really, and this I think you are well aware of.



Coherence and mathematical and scientific simplicity is the keyword. The meter defines both length, volume, and weight. Again by partially adhering to the basic properties of the same element as Professor Celsius looked to, when rationalizing Mr. Fahrenheit's scale of measure in his day...

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OK here is a good a valid response, thank you.



Metric is no more accurate in any way, until you get down to micrometers and nanometers. There was just no way to GET that accurate in the old days, without microscopes.



IT IS MUCH MORE AWKWARD TO WORK WITH. There is a good reason why old systems used base twelve. It's much easier to work with. You know, coherence and mathematical and scientific simplicity.



Everyone was not retarded in the old days, nor were they crazy. Nor did they have twelve fingers. The people who came up with these systems were, I'm sure, a lot smarter than you and me.



And this is not a "America is better than the rest of the world" type rant. Though that used to be true, it no longer is and hasn't been for a loooooong time. When I was a kid in the seventies, they were drilling us on metric and telling us how we were all going metric. Somehow, that never panned out. I think it had to do with retooling all the factories to metric, would have been prohibitively expensive. And since, at that time, the US produced most of the manufactured goods IN THE WORLD, it made sense. Now, since those factories are all abandoned and everything has been sent abroad, for reasons no one seems to be able to define,(greed and crime) it maybe doesn't matter so much. Sad.



Temperature wise, Fahrenheit is a scale that you will mostly never go outside of in normal life. Celsius, on the other hand, like I stated above, will be below zero more than half the year and NEVER even approach the top half of its scale on this planet. Therefore, it does not make any sense. For example, today here in the tropics it is a balmy 28 degrees. To me, that sounds a little bit chilly, nice ice skating weather, but I know it is steaming hot. This is the tropics, and it will hardly ever go above 30. OK here is a good a valid response, thank you.Metric is no more accurate in any way, until you get down to micrometers and nanometers. There was just no way to GET that accurate in the old days, without microscopes.IT IS MUCH MORE AWKWARD TO WORK WITH. There is a good reason why old systems used base twelve. It's much easier to work with. You know, coherence and mathematical and scientific simplicity.Everyone was not retarded in the old days, nor were they crazy. Nor did they have twelve fingers. The people who came up with these systems were, I'm sure, a lot smarter than you and me.And this is not a "America is better than the rest of the world" type rant. Though that used to be true, it no longer is and hasn't been for a loooooong time. When I was a kid in the seventies, they were drilling us on metric and telling us how we were all going metric. Somehow, that never panned out. I think it had to do with retooling all the factories to metric, would have been prohibitively expensive. And since, at that time, the US produced most of the manufactured goods IN THE WORLD, it made sense. Now, since those factories are all abandoned and everything has been sent abroad, for reasons no one seems to be able to define,(greed and crime) it maybe doesn't matter so much. Sad.Temperature wise, Fahrenheit is a scale that you will mostly never go outside of in normal life. Celsius, on the other hand, like I stated above, will be below zero more than half the year and NEVER even approach the top half of its scale on this planet. Therefore, it does not make any sense. For example, today here in the tropics it is a balmy 28 degrees. To me, that sounds a little bit chilly, nice ice skating weather, but I know it is steaming hot. This is the tropics, and it will hardly ever go above 30.

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Report Copyright Violation Re: The Metric System is Retarded You know whats dumb about this, America is like one of the only few that won't switch to the metric system. If you were born only knowing the metric system you wouldn't despise it. I know both Imperial and Metric very well and I actually use Imperial a lot more. But to say the Metric system is retarded only makes you look waaay more unintelligent.

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Just because you grew up with it hammered into your head does it appear to make sense. Otherwise you would see how nonsensical it really is. Just because you grew up with it hammered into your head does it appear to make sense. Otherwise you would see how nonsensical it really is.

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Report Copyright Violation Re: The Metric System is Retarded You know whats dumb about this, America is like one of the only few that won't switch to the metric system. If you were born only knowing the metric system you wouldn't despise it. I know both Imperial and Metric very well and I actually use Imperial a lot more. But to say the Metric system is retarded only makes you look waaay more unintelligent.

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Just because you grew up with it hammered into your head does it appear to make sense. Otherwise you would see how nonsensical it really is.

Just because you grew up with it hammered into your head does it appear to make sense. Otherwise you would see how nonsensical it really is. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 48325963



Hahaha!



For me it's the other way around. Completely



How many feet in a mile? Inches...?



And why fractionate, when you can just use decimals and a factor of 10?



How many gallons in a cubic foot? Or cubic mile?



I can do those conversions without a calculator, just some simple fingercounting at worst, keeping track of the decimals. Hahaha!For me it's the other way around. CompletelyHow many feet in a mile? Inches...?And why fractionate, when you can just use decimals and a factor of 10?How many gallons in a cubic foot? Or cubic mile?I can do those conversions without a calculator, just some simple fingercounting at worst, keeping track of the decimals.

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Report Copyright Violation Re: The Metric System is Retarded You know whats dumb about this, America is like one of the only few that won't switch to the metric system. If you were born only knowing the metric system you wouldn't despise it. I know both Imperial and Metric very well and I actually use Imperial a lot more. But to say the Metric system is retarded only makes you look waaay more unintelligent.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 48628254



Just because you grew up with it hammered into your head does it appear to make sense. Otherwise you would see how nonsensical it really is.

Just because you grew up with it hammered into your head does it appear to make sense. Otherwise you would see how nonsensical it really is. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 48325963



Hahaha!



For me it's the other way around. Completely



How many feet in a mile? Inches...?



And why fractionate, when you can just use decimals and a factor of 10?



How many gallons in a cubic foot? Or cubic mile?



I can do those conversions without a calculator, just some simple fingercounting at worst, keeping track of the decimals.

Hahaha!For me it's the other way around. CompletelyHow many feet in a mile? Inches...?And why fractionate, when you can just use decimals and a factor of 10?How many gallons in a cubic foot? Or cubic mile?I can do those conversions without a calculator, just some simple fingercounting at worst, keeping track of the decimals. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 48842757



This.



Factor of TEN BIAAATCH! This.Factor of TEN BIAAATCH!

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Report Copyright Violation Re: The Metric System is Retarded Using base 12 would make more sense in a way, because it would make fractions easier to understand (1/3 in base 10 is 0.3333 recurring, but in base 12 it's 0.4)



A power of 2 based currency would be quite interesting (128 pence in a pound, have coins of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64 pence, etc...)



Incidentally I suspect that the reason the UK went to decimal currency in the 70s was because it would be difficult (or more accurately, not memory efficient) to write computer programs to use pre-decimal one.