no because its easy enough to understand for americans, but yuropoors dont know out system so it confuses them. It gives us the upper hand come invasion of the USA. its 300 miles to atlanta, how many kilometres is that
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Didn't a space probe crash into a planet/moon because a majority of the components were reading/outputting metric and some others were in imperial. So when the probe was 1 KM from the surface, and the thrusters said 1 mile, it descended and crashed in a billion dollar pile of ashes
found it on CNN http://articles.cnn.com/1999-09-30/t...eam?_s=PM:TECH
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Converting between imperial and metrc(SI) is easy. More so if you've got a smartphone. Converting WITHIN imperial, that's what the hassle.
Had you been using a hexanumerical system it would have been a different story!
It's the same scale as Celsius, just uses the absolute zero (temperature at which even Oxygen freezes) as 0 degrees, whereas Celsius uses the freezing and evaporation temperatures for 0 and 100 degrees
Also Metric>Imperial in any way possible. If in doubt, look at the picture in OP.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
first of all we couldn´t invade the US even if we wanted to... second we own calculators, it´s not like that we can´t mulitply or divide... and third being able to easy convert from volume to length is pretty practical, but do as you please it is really none of my business
Newer signs can last up to about 20 years. That's more than "every so often".
EDIT: I think people might also be forgetting that it's not just the overhead signs and the 300 miles to X signs but also the mile markers and exit signs (that are based on mile markers) that would need to be changed.
Last edited by Dasffion; 2012-12-14 at 02:55 PM.
So? Change them when their 20 years are up. It's not as if all the signs out there right now are brand new, either. You'd get some percentage of the signs changed over each year until all signs had both notations on them, then you'd start changing to metric only. The whole thing might take ~40 years, but if we care about it enough, that's really not a big deal, and the costs wouldn't really be much more than the costs were going to be if we stuck with Imperial units.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!