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That’s bullshit. There is nothing about the imperial units that makes them better for consumption or perception.
Gallones vs liters? Doesn‘t matter for drinking.
Feet vs. meters? Doesn‘t matter for eating.
Fahrenheit vs Celsius? Doesn‘t matter to estimate the temperature or to prepare for how cold it is outside.
It doesn‘t matter. -
@retoor femtofeet, kiloinches, centigallons, attoounces
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@cuddlyogre nasa uses metric
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Well, my gripe (and I think every engineer's) with imperial system is not the units per se, it's their retarded conversion factors.
Metric is simple, just move the comma, and has other useful properties like easily linking stuff like volume and mass for, you know, everyday stuff like water.
The whole "one hundred doesn't make sense for human perception" is bullshit since it could be as easily applicable to any arbitrary number.
In the end, it's like crapple. You can do what the rest of the world does (including, of course, NASA, since there's smart people there), or keep "being different", and mostly shitty at it. -
@kiki The general population uses imperial and NASA still does just fine.
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@Lensflare 69F > than 20.5556 C
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@kiki - long time ago Slavs had 90 minutes in one hour, totalling to 16 hours per day. Coincidence (totally not) is that 1 Slav hour is one sleep cycle.
In past Slavs were connected to nature and natural rhythms. Each one of the 16 hours had a name that revealed the purpose nature had for you to do at. When to go to sleep, when to do the work, when to go to raid non-slav villages in the area etc.
Time is constant motion for everyone, but not everyone measured it the same way.
To be honest, I find the modern time and calendar setup retarded for a significant number of reasons but can't say anything about it because I am immediately labeled as flat earther (which i am totally not) because I live in backwards mentality environment. -
@devJs just to be pedantic, different kinds of measurement is not the same as different units.
I‘m curious why you find the modern calendar retarded. I mean I don’t want to defend it but at the same time I can’t think of anything that would be a drastic improvement.
For example, you could try to make every month have the same number of days but it wouldn’t add up to a whole number, etc.
It looks like a good enough compromise to me. -
also, the notion that 100F is "really hot" and 0F is "really cold" per human experience is simultaneously completely useless and false, because depending on who you ask around the globe, either of those temperatures may be cozy or unimaginably extreme. Celsius is at least useful for cooking and dealing with ice (both in the kitchen and outside), and since both of those are universal experiences, everyone on Earth (except in Nepal) will have the same intuition for it.
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@devJs interesting
days of the year mirror common playing cards. I found this wild book from 1895 about it. don't know if I believe the weird things in it
52 cards * the 4 seasons and 1.25 for the fool (the day before new year and the leap year)
I grew up in Russia. We don't use imperial units in any way, shape or form: we're fully metric. Every single person who taught me at school and whatnot was born and raised in Soviet Union that was also fully metric, and science was worshiped. We used to laugh at imperial units.
Given all that, I... don't hate imperial system. Inches, feet, miles, Fahrenheit degrees, gallons, all units based on human proportion. Just think where the word for "feet" came from.
Zero C is meh, nothing in particular. A hunge boils your blood kills you instantly. It's useless: it's a "shit ton of heat" in human scale.
Zero F is chilly, a hunge F is toasty. It's based around human perception. To me, there is no difference between 100 and 90 C, but the difference between 100 and 90 F is more perceptible, and thus more useful to a human being.
Same with every other unit. What's a gallon? A gallon is enough for an average Joe to get drunk, that's what a gallon is.
Where it all falls apart is when you're trying to create something. When you're trying to get some calculation going. When you're making — not consuming — you need your units to add up, e.g. to have the SYSTEM in place. Imperial system is not a system.
Imperial units are perfect for _consuming_ stuff: a gallon of milk, a pint of beer, a (real) footlong sandwich, a pound of meat. Six foot high dude with seven inch dick.
Metric units are indispensable when you're _making_ stuff, at any scale. That's the difference. Imperial units are the tool of consumption, metric system is the tool of creation.
Only the time units seem to be the same for everyone on earth right now. Time itself in its mercilessness gives the same treatment to all entities, doesn't matter if you're a human or a grain of sand.
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