Comments by "TheThirdMan" (@thethirdman225) on "Is America Actually Metric?" video.

@vexu- The “too expensive to convert” is false. Every other country that converted has done it. It’s becoming too expensive to not convert. For example, unless you drive a car from the 1970s, all of your sizes are already in metric. You might be able to find an imperial socket to fit but do you really want to risk damage? Converting for Americans, even within the United States, is rapidly becoming uneconomical for businesses. I do a lot of woodwork and I’ve noticed that even the most traditional of American tool companies now make metric measures. The F-22 fighter is 100% metric. I’m pretty sure the F-35 is too. The American government tried to go metric in the 1970s and made a dog’s breakfast of it. They entertained every crackpot push back argument from “not worth the effort”, to “unconstitutional” and they referenced the conversions badly. Worst of all, they didn’t complete the job. No school kid in the US today should be using anything but metric. I suppose someone will cite “personal Liberty” but a society’s ability to function together depends on its ability to communicate.
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@vexu- I don’t mind people using imperial in their own time as long as they don’t expect the rest of society to believe their “commonsense” arguments that metric is harder because it’s harder to divide by two… yes someone really said that. There are always holdouts.
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@robertheal5137 That comes from being asked by granny how tall you are and watching Americans on television and the internet. Nothing broken because all those kids can use metric instinctively.
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Well, as someone said, the imperial system of weights and measures was invented by people who married their cousins…
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@CaliMeatWagon Tell it like it was. The US used both systems to go to the moon. The rockets were built in both systems and the engines were 100% metric because all those German rocket scientists used it exclusively. ALL the calculations for the flights were done in metric but had to be converted for the astronauts so the cockpit representations were in imperial. The amount of computing power wasted on conversions and the opportunities for errors was extraordinarily high. So high, in fact, that most people who know the story are simply amazed there were no fatal errors.
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