D20 Modern - Meters or Feet

[Dieter]

We Stonecutter's feel that everything should be used in the imperial, because who wants to try and convert litres to gallons when you're attempting to guesstimate how much fuel your American car needs while driving through Canada?

 

[trancejeremy]

Bear in mind, the US actually uses both systems. (And both are taught in school - at least I was, and I'm 30)

For instance, I was just recently drinking from a 2-liter bottle of soda. Pill dosage is given in milligrams, not grains.


Personally, I like using the Imperial system better. It's actually easier for everyday life, at least me, because my foot is exactly a foot long.

Also, the metric system is flawed. People use mass instead of the proper unit for weight. While there is a corelation, it's very easy to weigh something, but not so easy to figure out somethings mass (since most scales are dependent on gravity to work, and the Earth's gravity varies a tiny bit).

Also - the celsius system sucks for anything other than boiling water. Even in science, you have to convert it to Kelvin. While the F scale is based on the common extremes you experence on Earth - where I live, it gets to be around 100 degrees in summer, and 0 in winter. Much better for weather reports than 38 degrees and -10 or so.

 

[Mal Malenkirk]

Also, the metric system is flawed. People use mass instead of the proper unit for weight.

Of course. Weight and mass are the same thing for most purposes.

We leave specialised measure unit like the Newton to the engineers.

It's the same thing with the imperial system; don't tell me that a pound is both a measure of weight and mass.

Originally posted by trancejeremy
Also - the celsius system sucks for anything other than boiling water. Even in science, you have to convert it to Kelvin.

1 degree Kelvin = 1 degree Celsius.

Only the zero point change.

As for figuring temperatures, 0 to 100 F means nothing to me. It's not more convenient than Celsius, you are simply used to it.

 

[MythandLore]

We Stonecutter's feel that everything should be used in the imperial, because who wants to try and convert litres to gallons when you're attempting to guesstimate how much fuel your American car needs while driving through Canada?

Who controls the British Pound?

Who keeps the metric system down?

WE DO!

WE DO!

Who leaves Atlantis off the maps?

Who keeps the Martians under wraps?

WE DO!

WE DO!

Who holds back the electric car?

Who makes Steve Guttenburg a star?

WE DO!

WE DO!

Who robs the cavefish of their sight?

Who rigs every Oscar nights?

WE DO!

WE DO!

 

[PenguinKing]

Also, the metric system is flawed. People use mass instead of the proper unit for weight.

Like everyday schmoes who use Imperial don't say "pound" for both weight and mass too? You don't avoid the same problem, you just rotate it 180 degrees.

(And don't even get me started on how your system uses the same word for both units of weight and units of volume. )

 

[Vadania]

I hope it has both.

 

[mirzabah]

Bear in mind, the US actually uses both systems. (And both are taught in school - at least I was, and I'm 30) ...
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Actually, some of the US measures aren't the same as the corresponding imperial measures that were in use around the rest of the world - US gallons, for instance, are different from imperial gallons (1 imperial gallon = 1.2 US gallon IIRC). So you could argue that you use 3 systems. No wonder you guys keep losing spacecraft

 

[HellHound]

A total of three countries have not officially adopted the Metric or SI system:

The United States of America (USA), Liberia (in western Africa) and Myanmar (also known as Burma, in southeast Asia).

A majority of the world population is raised in an environment of metric measurement.

 

[Crothian]

Americians run across the metric system enough we should know it. All my science classes in High school and college (maybe even earlier, but i don't have those notes ) use the metric system.

But then again, I'm not good with the metric and I still think first in Imperial terms. So much ofa habit, hard to snap out of it. I guess it's like a foreign language, once you stop translating in your head you know it.

 

[Tsyr]

I know metric. I can use metric. I just don't LIKE metric. As someone else said, it doesn't catch as easy for some things. The 30cm dagger, for example.

Personaly, I see this as akin to "if all your friends jumped off a bridge"... just because all the countries are going to metric doesn't mean we should too.