Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "American Reacts to Who Invented The Metric System, u0026 Why It's NOT Perfect" video.

  1. The beauty of the metric system is not in the origin of the meter but in the fact that a cubic meter is equal to a 1000 liter, and a thousand litre of water weighs 1000Kg. It's not how to meter relates to the earth but to other measurements. If you heat up 1 litre of water 1 degree, you have another measurement for the required energy.
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  2.  @stephenlee5929  The decimal system in Europe is much older, that is late 1500's and early 1600's by Simon Stevin's "De Thiende" from the Dutch Republic and the German Pitiscus and the Scot developped that a bit further. The metric system is about power. When the early englightenment blossomed up North Louis XIV was centralizing France by absolutism. The French revolutionaries inhereted a highly centralized state like hardly ever seen in Europe before, and authoritarian too. They harmonized measurements nationally because they could, by the force of the state. They wisely used the decimal system for that and made it very elegant and a great export product, allthough also by Napoleon's force, but power made it happen, not the great idea of a decimal system.
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  3.  @filipbitala2624  Underrated comment.
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