Imperial System... oh how i loathe theee!

DarkFish · 09-19-09, 12:48 PM

I don't agree with you that the metric system is harder to use because the units would be too far apart. I can estimate pretty well how long a meter is, just as easily as someone who grew up in the US can estimate the length of a feet/yard/inch/mile/whatever. The imperial system might be based on human measures, but I'm positive my feet are a lot bigger than yours

Besides, because we've got 10 fingers to count with our natural counting system is base 10.

BTW, Fahrenheit VS Celsius has nothing to do with metric, the only difference between them is that celsius is based on the freezing (0°) and boiling (100°) point of water while fahrenheit is based on brine (0°) and the body temperature of a human (98.6°).
They both make sense, they are only based on other values. It's not like a fahrenheit is divided in 14 feirenhahts which is divided in 8.36 hahrenfeit or something

09-19-09, 12:48 PM	#11
DarkFish Sea Lord Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Stinking drunk in Eindhoven, the Netherlands Posts: 1,844 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	I don't agree with you that the metric system is harder to use because the units would be too far apart. I can estimate pretty well how long a meter is, just as easily as someone who grew up in the US can estimate the length of a feet/yard/inch/mile/whatever. The imperial system might be based on human measures, but I'm positive my feet are a lot bigger than yours Besides, because we've got 10 fingers to count with our natural counting system is base 10. BTW, Fahrenheit VS Celsius has nothing to do with metric, the only difference between them is that celsius is based on the freezing (0°) and boiling (100°) point of water while fahrenheit is based on brine (0°) and the body temperature of a human (98.6°). They both make sense, they are only based on other values. It's not like a fahrenheit is divided in 14 feirenhahts which is divided in 8.36 hahrenfeit or something __________________