Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Is The Metric System Actually Better?" video.

  1.  @ck0311  US Customary uses English unit names. So that's where the confusion comes from. The US standardized on the industrial inch like everyone else did too. Which further confuses people. Because then both the name and the unit are the same. Mix all of these similarities with a healthy helping of ignorance and there you go. People run around saying the USA uses the Imperial system.
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  2.  @crgkevin6542  speak for yourself. I know everything there is to know about metric. I know that US Customary is twice as good. I can prove it logically too. The metric system is decimal based and US Customary is based on duodecimal. Duo is two. So twice as good!
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  3. I won't use metric because I simply find US Customary more practical. For me and what I do US Customary is a richer measuring system. Metric does not offer a varied enough granularity scale. I like having the ability to choose how close a tolerance I want to work to. Metric offers no real guidance there.
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  4.  @sethhu20  first off the USA never used Imperial. We use US Customary. Second we invented the screen and the airplane. So we get to measure them! Just like in electronics the standard parts pitch is a tenth of an inch on center. That's because we invented electricity! When you people invent something then you get to use that metric crap. We get to define what we create though.
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  5.  @anthonyguitron6741  most US industry moved offshore too. Coincidence? I think not!
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  6. The joke goes like this; There are two kinds of countries on Earth. One's that use the metric system and one that's put men on the Moon.
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  7.  @BendeVette  if you listen you can hear them say feet when they land. No one cares how many meters they are off the surface. Or how many meters in one direction or the other they need to go. https://youtu.be/ae6VJ6YU8uo?t=139 Maybe you can't walk to the Moon but you need to use feet to get to it anyways.
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  8.  @th3b0yg  you should fix how many fingers you have. If you only have two you'd be really good at binary then. Which would be useful in today's digital age.
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  9. Did this guy do any research at all? Or is he just trolling us for the lulz? Even the British gave up the Imperial inch 185 years ago. The world adopted the industrial standard inch in the 1930s. The United States never used the imperial system of measurements. For God's sake we went to war to kick them out of the country. Thomas Jefferson developed US Customary in 1789. Yet this buffoon insists on calling what we used on the Apollo program Imperial? Get a clue!
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  10. Your generation has done nothing. And likely never will.
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  11. The USA has never used the Imperial measuring system. We use US Customary. It may look the same to you but it is not. You ever hear an American tell you how many stone they weigh?
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  12. The MCO was part of the faster cheaper program so it was launched at a fraction the cost of a typical Mars mission. That's why it failed. There was a lack of fund in the mission for adequate quality control. Otherwise the error would have been caught before it flew.
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  13.  @hoffmannMP  the USA built more single unit houses than the rest of the world combined did last year. So I'd say the quality of our lives here is pretty good. Nice try though, loser.
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  14. No. Some yo yo forgot to tighten a nut.
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  15. You have the metric system right now. US Customary is pegged on all metric standards today. Metric instruments are widely available to all American citizens now too. You can get metric rulers, measuring cups, whatever else anyone anywhere in the world can get.
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  16. Imperial? A loyalist, are you? I'll give you the royal treatment then!
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  17.  @sangwoohan1177  I don't think Ma Deuce likes everyone calling her 12.7mm. Just seems unAmerican.
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  18. US Customary has no natural base. So it can and quite often is expressed in base 10 numbers.
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  19. I don't understand why it was so bad for the Nazis to try to destroy the USSR but it was OK for the western Allies to destroy the USSR. Care to explain that?
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  20.  @skoniramont  Thomas Jefferson developed US Customary in 1789. So we never used the Imperial system. As you seem to be aware we did fight a war against them. TJ also wrote the Declaration of Independence. He was a polymath genius too. Furthermore TJ developed US Customary after attending the symposium in Paris, France where metric was conceived.
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  21.  FrizzLokeyEpic  yeah I've never used the Imperial system either. I am an American!
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  22.  @skoniramont  you have zero understanding of what maintaining measuring standards means. Because if you did you wouldn't say the nonsense that you do. Of course we only maintain one set of standards. Converting is simple. Maintaining standards is not. Maintaining standards is incredibly complex and expensive. It is the absolute peak of our technological expertise. Because if we could do better then we would. As the rest of our science and engineering relies on the standards. So it makes sense that we apply ultimate effort on standards. Only a fool such as yourself would think we'd maintain more than one standard. As having one is expensive enough by itself. Are you a government employee yourself by chance? You seem stupid enough to be.
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  23.  @ilghiz  I do not care what the world wants any more than the world cares what I want. So I will not comply. The world can go hang!
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  24.  @BendeVette  you can hear mission control using feet too. Because US Customary rules!
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  25.  @BendeVette  the recording of the landing still exists. In it you can clearly hear them say feet and all numbers are in feet. They used feet to accomplish the feat of landing on the Moon. The greatest engineering project in human history! USA! USA! USA!
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  26.  @BendeVette  I already know everything now. I am knowledgeable like that.
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  27.  @Alexiofy  was it? This video sucked so bad I could not stomach watching all of it. I'm sorry if you did watch it all the way through.
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  28. What is metric better for? If metric is so much better then explain why the US completed more single unit houses last year than the whole rest of the world combined did? And you can be damned sure our builders didn't use metric to do that. They all have measuring tapes graduated in inches and feet. If someone tried to use metric they'd get laughed off the job site. They'd have better luck coming to work wearing a dress than trying to use metric.
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  29. How does knowing what it takes help get the job done in any way? Throw some wood on the fire and get heating it you fool!
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  30.  @sebastianhansson6919  I have micrometers that measure down to 0.0001 of an inch. Which is 0.00254 mm. That's close enough for me. I have metal scales graduated to 1/128th of an inch. But they make my eyes go buggy just to look at them. Mostly I just use my digital calipers. They go down to 3-1/2" digits to the right of the decimal point. So you have a 0 or a 5 for the last digit. They have a button on them that switches from inch to metric. In metric they only go down to 0.01 mm. A scale graduated in sixteenths you can resolve to a thirty second of an inch. You can tell if something is halfway between graduation marks. Even if it is more one one side than the other. Working to a 32nd is close enough for anything you're going to do with a tape measure. I have a big gauge block set for if I really need to be precise. I don't know how long I can put it together to. Pretty long though. I use it to setup CNC machines. Beyond having the instrumentation when you measure very close tolerances you need a certain feel for the work. It is not a given that you are going to make a correct measurement even with the gear. There's a bit to it. Sometimes I'll check up to a half a dozen or so times just to make sure I have it myself. If I get the same reading a few times in a row that improves my confidence.
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  31.  @paulbradford6475  of course it does. US Customary is part of our national identity. The first two letters in US Customary are US after all. As in USA. The same guy that wrote the Declaration of Independence came up with US Customary. Good old Tom Jefferson. Who was a polymath genius in his own right.
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  32.  @gabrielmardis8965  yeah like Americans are running around saying how many stone we all weigh. Americans don't even know what a stone is. Now stone weight is goofy.
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  33.  @panekpatrik  I would not know about the Imperial system. I am an American. In fact even the empire gave up on the Imperial system 185 years ago now. The USA never used Imperial. We use US Customary. Thomas Jefferson created it after he attended the metric symposium in Paris, France. On his way back home the Europeans screwed him over though and came up with an entirely different system than was discussed.
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  34.  @Liftium  why would I ever care how many feet are in almost a quarter of a mile? But if you really do need to know there's approximately 1,235 and a half feet. The metric conversion arguments are nonsensical. You're mixing units that don't get mixed in actual use. It is like asking how many inches are there in a meter? Who cares!
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  35. You can if you're a dictatorship. You can tell folks they must do all sorts of things then. That's how they operate in Great Britain with their subjects. They just tell them what to do. America is a bit different. Here we are not subjects but rather citizens.
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  36.  @teamfacm5155  money has nothing to do with it. It is a matter of national identity. In America we use US Customary. We don't use metric here. It is a bad fit for our country. The continental US is already 3,500 miles across as it is. In metric it'd be even further! With 4 million miles of roads in the country and a speed limit sign at least every 2 miles that's 2 million speed limit signs minimum. The cost of a sign alone is $50 and installing it will be more than that. But let's say it costs $100 materials and labor to change the sign. That's 200 million minimum. With the government running it the costs will spiral out of control. So maybe 20 billion?
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  37. ​ @ntphan  America has tried to do some conversions around the world too. It never works out for us. Sure for a little while we can keep one of our puppets in power. But they never last. Clearly this conversion thing is not nearly as easy as you seem to think it is.
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  38. Go to Hell and don't come back.
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  39.  @BendeVette  you know nothing. In fact you know so little you do not even know how little you do know. You might just find some things out someday though. The Devil may teach you yet.
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  40.  @rudamachoo  your love must go unrequited then. Because the feeling is not mutual.
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  41. They have bad teeth and funny ears too.
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  42. They missed the pole by 20 kilometers and no one noticed that.
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  43. Metric thread pitches are an abomination.
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  44.  @Liftium  normal people do nothing so they use nothing.
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  45.  @TheSometimesEpic  you do not have to tell me it is OK zoomer.
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  46. What do you use metric for specifically? Based on what you've said I can only assume that all you do is play Dungeons & Dragons. So tell me what great works you're accomplishing using metric. Precisely what kind of skin do you really have in this game? Are you an architect, or perhaps an engineer of some sort? Maybe a furniture designer?
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  47.  @d.o.m.494  I asked you what you did. We can assume how you did it. What are you measuring the distance of? Or don't I want to know? You're not supposed to start at the belly button for that either.
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  48.  @gabrielmardis8965  even the Brits gave the Imperial system up long ago. They adopted the standard inch even before the USA did. Which was created by a Swede.
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  49.  @th3b0yg  the drunken pilots in the cockpit were pretty dippy.
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  50.  @CarrotConsumer  it is foreign entanglements. Which Washington warned us against.
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  51. We could conquer the rest of the world. But honestly what would we do with it then? We wouldn't admit most of it if they petitioned for statehood. Most of them are too financially insolvent. We're having a hard enough time now just keeping foreigners from entering our country illegally. Why would we go out, conquer their countries and then make them all citizens?
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  52.  @piedrablanca1942  If there was a brawl between NFL players and players in any other sport I'd put all of my money on the NFL. I don't even care if they're going up against UFC fighters. The gorillas that play US football will rip them apart! At some point sheer size and strength are the only factors that matter.
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  53.  @piedrablanca1942  you keep believing it. They only need that against each other.
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  54.  @piedrablanca1942  maybe. But they're really good at catching people.
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  55.  @Solitaire001  in machining we use the decimal inch but also try to stick to using common fractional sizes. There's nothing that says anyone has to do that but it is convention. No one really uses the 64ths scale that I know of either. Long ago there were some weird wrench sizes. A standard set runs in 16ths today.
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  56. You know the USA has never used a system of measurements called, "Imperial", don't you? We use something called US Customary Units. And yes the length measurements are the same today but they are neither Imperial or old US. Today everyone uses the industrial inch. Which was actually developed by a Swede. He made the nicest inches on the planet so everyone adopted his inch.
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