Comments by "Beer_Dad" (@Beer_Dad1975) on "Nissan 370Z Nismo vs Ford Mustang GT - 6 Key Differences" video.

  1. legacysage I think that's a big mental stretch for the vast majority of humanity.
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  2. legacysage You could move your hands in and out at arms length rapidly to illustrate the difference between a yard and a meter...
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  3. +JinzoDefiler That's why we say "Kays" - "Ten Kays per Hour" - it's slang but everyone uses it.
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  4. ***** Yup, if the US ever does move to metric, it'll take a generation or two to become "normal" - my parents still often slipped back into imperial units as they were still in use here when they were children.
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  5. The issue for them would be that imperial measurements are a pain in the arse when dealing with physics.  The SI system of measurement is now almost entirely based on reproducible physical constants - specifically C, the speed of light.  Unlike the imperial system, the only unit of measure in the metric system that isn't based on something that can be experimentally reproduced with exact results is the Kilogram.  In fact most imperial measurements have now been redefined as exact fractions of SI measures - so only a total ignoramus or a troll would claim that imperial is superior to SI, since imperial measurements are now a subset of SI that exist only because people, specifically Americans, don't like change.
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  6. mountainhobo hey, I didn't start it.
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  7. TheFriendlyamoeba I think in the long run it'd be better for everyone if we had a total global standard - the US is pretty much the only holdout to imperial units now, barring the UK still using miles on the public road system, and possibly a few other countries I'm not aware of - for some reason they seem just too stubborn to change.
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  8. The Apollo guidance computer used SI and had to convert everything to imperial before display.
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  9. mountainhobo binary is a numeral encoding system, not a system of measurement. You can use it to represent a number (data) but you still also have to give that number context (making it information). The context used internally by the software was metric, and it was then converted to imperial for the astronauts.
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  10. mountainhobo Yeah, I'm a software engineer and have a masters degree in computer science, so I do have some idea how computers work :-)
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  11. mountainhobo because you don't understand the difference between numeration (how numbers are expressed) and units of measurement (what defines what the number means). Just trying to correct you,not trying to start an argument.
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  12. ernest tibbs I think you are entrenched in the system you have been brought up with. Your clock analogy makes no sense since time does not fall into either imperial or SI standards, time is a thing unto itself, and makes sense due to its circular nature. The rest of your arguments are simply you arguing that because you learned it that way it should stay that way forever. I learned both growing up, and from my perspective imperial is simply an anachronism that is very irritating and clumsy to deal with for anything beyond simple measurements. This is why SI has been adopted by everyone but the US, and even in the US, scientists and engineers now work in SI.
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  13. ernest tibbs US gallons... USCS differences to BI yet another source of confusion. I'm 41, can probably still use my slide rule, at least I own one.
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