Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "Proč je metrický systém důležitý - Matt Anticole" video.

  1. Some businesses do, when trade is international. Commodities shipped worldwide are generally denominated in Metric tons. But they don’t have to be Metric. The oil industry uses barrels.
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  2. The foot and inch date from Roman times.
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  3. As a matter fact, the United States participated in the Convention of the Meter in 1875, the only English-speaking nation to do so, and we have participated in the development of international measurement ever since. We adopted the Metric System in 1866.
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  4. The American Revolution was not about unuts.
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  5. Precision does not depend on units.
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  6.  @thomaskennedy5728  — I looked at the OPEC website. They report production in barrels.
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  7. If you don’t understand them, use something else.
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  8.  @fastertove  — There is nothing intrinsically wrong with redundancy. Language is redundant, making communication more reliable. Structures often have redundancy, making them less likely to fail. All could safety protocols have redundancy. We have countless choices in every aspect of life — what to wear; what to eat; what to drive. Choice is good.
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  9. Russia switched to use standard flight levels above the transition level in 2011.
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  10. The United States redefined US Customary units in terms of Metric units long before NIST existed. There were good reasons for doing so, but consistency wasn't the reason. One reason is to avoid duplication of effort in refining the standards.
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  11.  @Mis7erSeven No, the second is not Metric. It is not derived from ke mètre. It is a legacy unit and an S.I. unit.
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  12. In order to make time truly Metric, i.e. derived from le mètre, you would have to change the value of the second. That would cause world-wide disruption. There is no good reason to make it Metric.
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  13. I can't remember "cup" ever being used in high school chemistry, which I took in the 1960s. Chemistry and physics in the USA mostly used Metric units. You had a strange chemistry class, unless you are calling a cooking ckass "chemistry."
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  14. It is spelled "meter" on the English language pages of Laboratoire National Metrologie et d’Essais. In US English, we usually change the spelling of borrowed French words which end in "re" to "er." British spelling differs. Punctuation, too.
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