A meter is a measurement drawn up by arrogant Frenchmen, thinking that measuring things for the use of man should have their basis in measurements of dead things. Like the planet Earth. They carefully measured the circumference of the Earth, took a fraction of that and called it (ta da!!!!!) the meter. Made a platinum bar they put in some vault as the arbiter of the new unit. Imagine, people who liked to style themselves "humanists" dehumanizing the entire measurement system! Makes sense. To the ancient Greeks man was the measure of all things. To the French of the time man was only raw material for the guillotine.
Except that they measured the Earth wrong. And the meter is just an arbitrary unit with no basis in either human or "physical science" measurement. It is a group of crazy French "scientists" telling the world how to measure things.
Their next mistake was to depart from the natural order of things, being sized in ratios determined by multiples of small prime numbers and hautily deciding that different levels of measurement should differ from each other by factors of ten. Mind you NOTHING in the natural world is scaled in such a way. When a tree branches, the diameter of the branch is not one-tenth the diameter of the trunk. There is no proportion in a snowflake that is a factor of ten from anything else in the snowflake. Measuring your height in meters is ridiculously too large a unit and centimeters ridiculously too small. There is no way out. The metric system steps on its foreskin from beginning to end.
So to justify that, the metric apologists say, our units are in factors of ten for easy calculation. Whoopee doooo.
Who cares! The universe is not constructed for ease of calculation. That's stuffing a square peg in a round hole just because you don't have a square drill. And I'm typing this on a device that doesn't give a rip whether something is base 10 or base 16. It's all easy. As a matter of fact it works in base 2 and second level up figures everything in base 16. It has to convert base 10 to even work with it. So the metric system and the imperial system are equally foreign to the computer. And it works both at equal speeds.
Final nail in the metric coffin. Even the Germans figured their speed in knots. Do you know why? It goes back to the hauty French "scientists" who botched their calculation of the circumference of the earth. You see the knot DOES have a precise fraction of the diameter of the earth.
You see, a nautical mile is equal to
one minute of longitude at the equator. The imperial measurement system DID NOT botch the earth's circumferance. Their units, the nautical mile and the knot (one nautical mile per hour) actually help you navigate! (imagine that.....a useful measurement unit, what a concept--totally foreign to the metric gods) If you travel at one knot for 60 hours you will traverse one degree of longitude or latitude at the equator, and pretty close for longitude all over the world, with latitude proportional to your latitude. At 45º latitude you'll travel about 2º longitude per hour at one knot.
Because the imperial measurement is useful and corresponds to the natural order in ways that the metric system never can, even the Germans were smart enough to use it for their navigational unit.
Again, the natural world is proportioned in ratios of products of small prime numbers: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 with proportions of multiples of the smaller numbers much more prevalent. A proportion of 1/10 occurs nowhere in the natural order, so in measuring that way we conceal the natural order of the universe. Whole number ratios become dizzying processions of numbers after the decimal point. Sense is lost and understanding turned to gibberish.
Even metric fanatics are not stupid enough to divide the day into ten hours or the week into ten days or the year into 10 months. They continue to divide the circle into 360 degrees and other quite sensible things because even they are knowledgeable that ultimately the metric system analyzes into pure human hubris and foolishness.
To measure things designed for the use of man, measurements derived from the size of man is appropriate. An inaccurate fraction of the earth's circumference is just loony. To measure the earth, an accurate fraction is appropriate and the French "scientists" botched the job, leaving the nautical mile unchallenged, even in countries which went metric. There's a lesson in there.
