3:30 that joke flew over your head like those v-2s flew over the Big Ben

The main thing is that is is not just meters vs. feet or Kilo vs. pounds or liters vs. gallons. 1 liter is 1 kilo of water. That freezes at 0C and boils at 100C. And the place it would take is 0.1x0.1x0.1 meter. (In Science you would need to add more info, like the purity of the water and the temperature and what not.) Try doing that in Imperial. A gallon of water is how heavy? What is the freezing and boiling point and how big would a square be in inches? And in feet? Or how many could you put next to each other to get to a foot? And a mile? It is also the reason in Europe recipes are often in weight. Because it is easy. If the recipe asks for 0.25 kg of flour and 0.5l of milk, what I do is set a bowl on on a scale and set it to 0. I then add 250 grams of flour. Set it the scale to 0. Add 500 gram of milk. And I can do that will all 5 ingredients. I do not need to make several cups dirty. I just put it all in the same bowl I am going to use. And if the recipe says 500ml or 50cl or 5dl or 0.5l, I still know what that is and know that is 0.5kg or 500 g.

Metric system is the easiest to work with because of its logic. It's simple as that, no other reasons needed. Imperial is just too complicated.

The video elaborates on the current scientific definitions of the units but skips some other nice properties of the metric (SI) system: The meter was in 1799 originally defined as 1/10 000 000 the distance from the equator to the north pole, so the earth's circumference is approximately 40 000 000 m. A pendulum with a string length of 1 meter takes roughly 1 second to swing in one direction. 1 liter is 1 dm³ = 1000 cm³ = 10x10x10 cm. 1 liter of water has a mass of approximately 1 kg. 1 g of water has an amount of substance of approximately 1/18 mol (average water molecules consist of 18 nucleons). 1 candela is approximately the brightness of a household candle. A light source shining in all directions at 1 cd outputs 4π ≈ 12.57 lumens and illuminates an area at 1 m distance with 1 lux.

The Alabama accent thing was sarcasm. He was a scientist during WW2 working for the angry Austrian mustache model.

Already NASA, US Army and others use the metric system, and Celsius degrees instead of Fahrenheit. The U.S. military uses metric measurements extensively to ensure interoperability with allied forces, particularly NATO Standardization Agreements (STANAG). Ground forces have measured distances in "klicks", slang for kilometres, since 1918. Peace out.

He was German not Alabamian he worked with the no no Germens during WW2 and then was picked up by USA after the war. Well since the metric is unchangeable like the radiation in an enclosed set will always move the same speed thus we can always have the same nr to start from it does not matter the gravidity, the weather or any other interfering where the imperial needs metric to be accurate enough for science

Americans use the metric system already, especially for their gun ammunition, where the 9mm is pretty popular as far as I know.

Rolling down the road in my 5.0 ... liter. Administer 5cc (cubic centimeter) of medicine now!

As a qualified and experienced teacher math and physics I have two points. 1. Don't bother with the official definitions of meter and second (or any other fundamental unit). Nobody needs them in daily life. 2. The metric system is handy because it's so tightly connected to the decimal system.

Farmers in my country sometimes use old measurements like Bunder (also known as Bonder, Bonnarium or Bonnier) or Morgen, the last means morning, it is a measurement of how much land can be plowed in a morning with a team of two oxen, which is about 10,000m2. In Dutch there is also the measurement of Dagwand, which is 3,300m2 and is a piece of land a farmer can plow in a day (Dag is Dutch and means day) with a team of one ox. In English they have the same, it is called an acre, which is about 4,000m2, in Germany it is called a Tagewerk which is about 3,000m2 and in France it is called a Jour, which is about 3,300m2. So they’re all kind of the same and yet all are different. It’s good that we have the metric system.

There is an unofficial metric mile, or the Swedish metric unit of mil, 10 kilometers. Mil was a measurement that was around in Sweden before the metric system and was just as convoluted as the imperial system, then the word was adopted to mean 10 kilometers. Sweden is about as big as Texas (or so I hear) so with a lot of sparsely populated areas so I guess we needed a bigger unit to calculate how far we needed to go. It's easier to say 40 mil than 400 kilometers.

Reminds me of the temperature thing! Water freezes at 0°C and boils at 100°C ... < easy system! Meanwhile in the US: Water freezes at 32°F and boils at 212°F. So for your better understanding and calculation: FREEZE = (0°C × 9/5) + 32 = 32°F and BOIL = (100°C × 9/5) + 32 = 212°F ... you are welcome! :) *lol

I grew up with metric so maybe im bias, but it seems so much more logical

Well, I'm British and the Imperial system was ours before the Americans adopted it. We converted to the metric system as well as the Americans. The metric system was invented by France but was based on the size of the Earth, so everyone agreed to use it. If you're a scientist or engineer, you use the metric system. I was taught the metric system at school, but my three year older brother learned the Imperial system. I can use both, but in the UK, we still talk in miles for distances, stones and pounds for weight in general use. In the US the scientists etc are all expected to use the metric system because of the conversion problems. I use Celsius, which is a bugger when you have an Amercian cooking recipe in Fahrenheit (doable though).

To be fair with the plane fuel conversion issue, it happened the first day (or the first days) the change to metric was introduced.

There are 2 different miles. On land it is just over 1.6 kilometers. And at sea 1.8 is almost 1.9 kilometers per mile. Still paying attention at school and getting my boating license.

I guess part of the American/Anglo incomprehension about the metric system comes from a linguistic difficulty. If you speak a Romance language, you can't have any doubt about how many millimeters are there in metre (milli=mille=a thousand) and so on...

Love that shirt man!

1 meter = 10 decimeter/100 centimeter/1,000 millimeter 1 kilometer = 10 hectometer/100 decameter/1,000 meter Just give in by now and accept the metric system and the fact our football is superior to your hand-egg-ball.

If everything around them was changed to metric, the people in the US would learn it and get an intuition for it. For some people of the first generations it might never completely change their mind. But for most it's just a matter of getting used to it. Just like when the Euro was introduced, some old people still sometimes do conversion to their previous currency, but most people moved on.

Metric has two things going for it, and most people only know the one obvious thing: it makes more sense, as in you can find yourself on an island with nothing else, and still you can determine what 'zero degrees' is (water freezes), what '100 degrees' is (boiling water), what a meter is (the earth circumference divided by 10 million), what a kg is (10x10x10cm water) etc. You will be up and doing science in no time. Imperial on the other hand, has no connection at all with reality, and the different measurements are only connected haphazardly. Take for instance length. Length is in meter. There are dividers and multiplicators, like 1/1000 is a milli, 1000 is a kilo, etc. But in Imperial, its a complete joke. Length is given in what. Miles? Yards? Inches? Feet? What are their relations? 1 foot = 12 inches, 1 yard = 3 feet = 36 inches, 1 mile = 1,760 yards = 5,280 feet = 63,360 inches. Is this a joke? Has a clown defined your length measurements? But the most poignant improvement over imperial, comes in physics. Everything in physics is related, and condensed to the most simple formula. For instance, volume is defined as length times length times length, or length^3. Measure a box, put down the width, length and height in meters, multiply the numbers, and boom. You have the volume. Example: 0.250m x 1.200m x 4.350m = 1.305 m^3. Scientists found out correlations, formula's, between measurements, that will predict everything. Just look up 'SI derived Unit', and you will see them all. Lets do 'volume' in imperial, just to see how absurd it is. Volume, off course, is defined in gallon. Why, nobody knows. It is defined as 231 cubed inches. Why 231? nobody knows. Now take these three lengths, and calculate the volume: 1 mile 43 yards 3 feet 5 inches times 34 yards 2 feet 3 inches times 1 feet 4 inches. Remember in metric you could just multiply the lengths in meters? Now you would have to simplify the miles to yards, the yards to feet, the feet to inches. Multiply the lengths in inches. Then divide by 231 (because god knows why). And then you have the result in 'gallon'. Its insane. Force for example is in Newton: Weight (in kilogram) times length (in meter) divided by the time squared (in seconds). Just plug in the SI values, and boom, you get 'force'. Then joule is derived from force: accelerate a 1 kg mass at 1 m/s^2 through a distance of 1 m. Watt (power) is then derived as 1 joule per second. Etc. Everything in physics is connected like that. In the most concise and direct way. And its impossible to do in imperial. THAT is the biggest advantage of metric. You cant do decent physics: in imperial. They tried a bit: like with 'pressure is in pounds per square inch', but they just made it more messy, even harder to calculate. Because both weight and length are a complete mess in imperial. In metric it would be: pressure in Pascal is Newton divided by surface area. Aaaand you are done. Imperial did not even try with the 'harder' SI-units. If americans insist on using imperial as input and output, programmers will translate it all to metric as soon as it is input, and will only translate it back to imperial at the output. All internal calculations will be done: in metric. Always. Real science is ALWAYS done in metric. ALWAYS. I call imperial: 'CLOWN NUMBERS'. As in: "for goodness sake, stop using clown numbers, and start using metric" I have this theory that imperial is making phsyics so hard for americans, that most dont bother, give up, and this results in a large amount of americans not knowing the most basics of stem-science. Imperials: keeps the people unaware. Using imperial: makes you stupid.

Everything is 10 in metric and everything is connected, literally you have a kilo water as a cubic decimeter. It has to be 4°C though. Metric is just simple, and obviously it works.

Well, that's funny.. When chatting with UK friends from belgium I always recalculated kilos, meters to miles and oz... 🤔. They never said a thing. Eye opening they use the metric system. I must be stupid 😂. They could have mentioned it.. Making things a lot easier.

that dude is von braun. and he is the same dude that made the v1 and v2 rockets for the nazis...

Hello from Switzerland, well, actually you unconsciously gave the answer to your question yourself, with the bridge example, you didn't know how many feet there are in a mile (the fact that it has a 5 is a bit inaccurate😛), but that 1 You should be able to remember 1,000 mm in a meter and 1,000 meters in a kilometer quickly and forever. The source of errors when converting from imperial to metric (ocer vice versa) seems to me to be one of the biggest problems here. But, let's be honest, how many students hate arithmetic/mathematics just because of the complicated Imperial system? I'm sure a lot of them; That really shouldn't be the case.

Hello Charlie. I 1975 I was an engineer wit British Telecomm. I had just moved into a planning office. We did short term planning in telephone exchanges. One thing I had to do was to increase the equipment if the telephony traffic increased. The job I was to plan was to increase the equipment in a suburb of Newport, South Wales. This was analogue equipment, all cabling and electromechanical equipment. I had to arrange for some cable to be run in. I got the chart, measured the length of 80 pair cable I needed with my foot rule. Wrote out my first estimate which would allow stores to be drawn and time booked to the job. I ordered 50 yards, (150 ft) of cable , spent all day on it, presented it to the boss for signing and he sent it back. All lengths of cable had to be in metres, the chart about 40 year old was imperial. I had to rewrite the estimate My dad was a shop keeper and he sold fruit & vegetables. This was long before calculators. If a customer wanted 4 bananas, we weighed them in pounds & ounces. We hadn’t yet had decimal coinage, there were 240 pennies in a pound. Try working out 1lb 4oz at 15 pence per pound. Now with decimal coinage and metric weights its so much easier, its in 10’s not 16 oz to a pound!

I do wonder if it will ever be possible to get all Americans to use the metric instead due to many Americans mindset in the matter. Just the other day I ended up in a discussion online with one that thought that people should convert Celsius to Fahrenheit when writing temperature online. I asked why 96% of the Earths population should do that for the 4 % that use F and if it shouldn't be the other way around instead. As a note, I have no issue to quickly converting it into C by just searching it. But I'm a bit mean and notoriously use the metric system, even if the question is written with the imperial, I'm doing my part of easing people into it. 😉

As a Dutch crafter i really don't like the imperial. We also have both on rulers. But i just don't understand why it has to be that difficult with all the quarts, halfs etc. But also the cooking measurement 🤯😱. 😂😂 but i think someone growing up with imperial will have it with metric.😂😂😂❤

I live in South America and here they use whatever they like at the moment it seems 😂

If interested, here are two really good videos explaining the differences and the pros of the metric system for science as well as every day life. METRIC SYSTEM I kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNGljNiD05y6nKc.html METRIC SYSTEM II kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kJ6HoreAzt6Yk2g.html

Define 1 meter Cut the length in 10 equal parts Now you have 1 decimeter, dm Make a cube with sides = 1dm Now you have 1 litre Fill the cube with water Now you have one kilogram Put it in the freezer When there is ice mixed in the water you have 0 degrees Celsius Now put the cube on the stove When the water starts boiling you have 100 degrees Celsius.

The main reason USA doesn't use metric system is because Americans are very stubborn when someone tells them to change their ways. So anytime there was the initiative to switch to metric there were people basicly protesting agaist it so politicians in order to keep support of their voters backed up from this idea.

Left corner, Trappist Rochefort 8 !! My favorite beer with Triple Karmeliet and Chimay Blue, expensive but my Good thats a sweet good tasting beer !

To answer your question about deaths in the Apollo program: the crew of apollo burned inside their capsule because the oxygen levels were so high (about 100 % IIRC) that a spark caused a fire which immediately consumed everything inside. That's why modern spacecraft only have about 0.3 bar of pure oxygen, which is enough for human to breathe normally (as about 78 percent of our normal air is made of useless nitrogen) but not enough for a fire to burn. And I can confirm that Wernher von Braun, the mastermind behind Saturn V, was not really a native from Alabama. A bit more to the east - across the pont - and then a bit further east until you are in a region formerly known as Posen. :D

Metric is easier because we count in a decimal system and conversion between units uses the same decimal system Imperial counts in a decimal system but does not convert that way. it adds complexity which makes it worse. That said, time both is and isn't metric. Time's smallest unit, the second is metric, but minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years are not. We still have relics of measurement invented long before metric that we all use and don't think twice about. Computers are also not fully metric. They count in a binary system, not a decimal one. 1000 bytes are not equal to 1 kilobyte, 1000 kilobytes are not 1 megabyte. Despite this, these are globally accepted units. The most important part is that we all use the same system. Systems that are easely spread globally are those that have as little complexity as possible and/or we can visualize easely. Why do we still use days months and years? Because 1 day = 1 rotation of our planet, 1 month is roughly 1 moon rotation and 1 year is 1 rotation around the sun. It is not diffucult to understand because we can observe it happening around us. Why did we end up with a decimal system? Probably because we all have 10 fingers. Everyone has hands to visualize 10. We can easely teach a decimal system to a human because of it. Because we all can learn the decimal system everyone can get a quick grasp of a decimal conversion between units which is why the french idea of metric caught on in the rest of the world. Simple to understand ideas catch on fast, Complex ideas do not.

why would you want to spend an hour on calculations when you can do it in fifteen minutes... so yes, the video says it all

On the Moonlanding the Problem was not to teach the Astronauts. They were totally able tu use metric. The Problem was that they were used tu Imperial from birth and in most parts of their lifes. So they could not use Metric inuitively. For Mission security it was just bettrer to "waste" computational time and power for conversion and let the Astronauts use where they are intuitively better. You can imagine what that means for International Missions today? There are always people with the risk of falling back to the wrong System in a stress situation.

I love watching you soak up new language! "There's two types of countries, those that use metric and those that put a man on the moon" - Yep, Myanmar, famous for it's successful lunar program. The whole "but it doesn't make sense to me, I don't have an idea what a kilometer is => we can't possibly use it" makes my eyes roll back, and not in a good way. If something making sense was a prerequisite to using it, nobody would use English (you know, that language that's been described as "five languages in a trench coat" ) ! You start using it, and then it slowly starts to 'make sense' .

It is often said that it would cost too much for the US to change to metric. I wonder how much it costs to stay with imperial... And it wouldn't have to be an abrupt change, you could start using kg instead of pounds first, after a year or two starting to use grams instead of ounces, etc

The last part of the video is just the BEST "estimates" with the precision we have at this time as human beings of the constants of the universe, wich are used to define the metric system. Is really not the most important part of the video unless you are really into physics or maths. The key of the video, is that the metric system follow the rule of tenths for convertions between it's units. So much easy than the imperial arbitrary system.

Look up Gimli Glider for the story about them tanking not enough fuel in the airplane.

Dunno about "better". The major difference is: NO conversion factors in the metric system. Just move the decimal point the appropriate quantity of digits to left/right, because everything is based on factors of 10. After all, we have 10 fingers, right? BUT! That can be difficult for those who have no idea that a dollar contains 4 quarters (because they have no idea that "quart(er)" means 1/4). Or that "cent" means 100.

In Australia we changed from the imperial to the metric system in the 1960s, it wasn’t as confusing or difficult as it may seem

The USA , Canada and the UK slowly inch their way to the metric system. Imperial: 22 yards in a chain. 66 feet in a chain. 12 inches in a foot. 80 chains in a mile. 8 furlongs in a mile. 100 links in a chain. 40 rods in a furlong. 1760 yards in a mile. All quite self explanatory right? Now for metric. 10 hectometres in a kilometre. 10 decametres in a hectometre. 10 metres in a decametre. 10 decimetres in a metre. 10 centimetres in a decimetre. 10 millimetres in a centimetre. Phew!

There is actually a movie on that Air Canada flight.

😂 this video is killing it Good question actually wonder indeed how many people died because of this dispute

Seems like the imperial system today is just a conversion layer on top of the metric system. The problem is that in the course of a human life you build an intuitive feel for distances and sizes, so changing it mess with your intuitive understanding of how far you need to walk. Maybe transition can be done by always printing both on sign and documents for a while?

There is a video "Metric Moment" by Jay Godfrey that explains simply the relationship between distance, volume, liquid measurement, weight and mass.

My biggest bugbear is when the Continentals use Litres/100km , while in the UK we use Miles/gallon when calculating vehicle road range. ( don't even mention that the US gallon is SMALLER than the Imperial UK gallon - a rabbit hole best avoided , lol )

3:20 "I feel like some of this is satire" Bro... I wish that statement was a joke...

It's all about conventions, i.e. "agreeing in order to avoid confusion". If you decide to start to call black white and white black as from tomorrow, because of some whacky reason, and you order white shoes without telling the seller about your "new"definition, what will you get? Also, for example, considering weight based on whether a substance is a liquid or a solid is absolutely insane. There are red, yellow and green apples, but in the end, they are all apples. A word of advice: ordering your daily dose from your dealer, do it in grams, not ounces.

The video from Real Engineering didn't really explain why the definitions of units are important. It all boils down to the fact that we keep getting better and better at measuring things. For example, the kilogram was defined by a specific artifact held in a vault in France - meaning: whatever this artifact mass was, it was ALWAYS EXACTLY 1 kg and ALL measurements of mass in kg in the whole world treated this as a common base (if your potatoes mass was 2 kg it meant they are 2x heavier than this, specific artifact). And then our measuring techniques improved and it turned out this artifact's mass wasn't really constant - it shifted by micrograms/nanograms based on temperature, humidity, air pressure, location on Earth were the measurement was performed etc. Even when they tried to control for all the variables, they found that repeating the measurement after some time still gives a slightly different result. While this is not an issue for everyday measurements regular people do, this was a big problem for science - in some fields extreme precision is needed and those micro/nano differences in unit definitions were simply unacceptable and caused a lot of confusion. Sure, scientists could agree on an updated definition, but then measurement techniques would get better again and the problem would reappear (and then again and again) - it would never be truly solved that way. So they flipped this thing around - they said "this scientific constant's value is EXACTLY ". Scientific constants use units as well, so in the end it's a matter of picking the right set of constants and transform the equations to get stuff like "1 kg = ....", "1 second = ...." etc.. The whole point is that scientific constants stay constant. So now if we invent better measuring techniques again, the constants stay EXACTLY the same, no new definition is required, everyone still agrees on what the definition is - no more confusion, even in the areas of science requiring the most extreme precision. The problem is solved once and for all. That's why basic imperial units are now defined in metric ("1 foot = 0.3048 meters" etc.) - so the imperial system can also take advantage of these definitions of basic metric units, which allows it to be used in very precise areas as well and it doesn't need further updates to its definitions.

The "measurement" of importance based on the number of overrun countries actually existed. It is basically how mighty the land was viewed. He only put it in the video as a joke though because it is a very outdated form of "measuring". Wernher von Braun, best known for his involvement of the development of the V2 rocket, build in one of the KZs, was a German. His "german friends from gap year" are german NS officers. Apollo 13 exploded on April 13 1970 after a oxygen tank ruptered and caused a massive explosion in the rocket. The crew came back safe to earth a few hours later.

There's several videos online and texts, that the US doesn't use Imperial at all. It's US customary units, it's a mix of Imperial, metric and something that the US did long ago.

The whole point of units is, that you can use whatever units you want. If your name happens to be Joe, you may define the length of your leg as „1 Joe“ and nobody will stop you from using that. However, you might have a difficult time to communicate your masuerments given in „Joes“ to other poeple. That‘s why stadardized units were invented - because it makes communication easier. The main advantage of metrc units, by the way, isn‘t the absolute value of 1 metre or 1 kilogram, but the fact that their super- and sub-units are related by powers of 10 and that this matches with our number system that is also based on (powers of) 10. Babylonians (whose number system was based on 60) or Celts (whose number system was based on 20), might have found the metric slightly inconvenient 😉

Metric is generally "easier". Generally, everyone's got 10x fingers + 10x toes - so our actors and sports stars can manage it.

And still all the world of cars uses horsepower over kilowatt. That includes Europe. The conversion is 1.36 hp per KW, by the way.

..it is better! He forgot just to mention that that long number at the end, is speed of light, and what plank is, but this gave an idea, even if he complicated for new users.. Water is the essence of metric system.. 1 centimeter (10 mm), is a drop of water width in a non absorbant surface.... ..1 cubic milimeter of water , weights 1 gramm.. ..water frezes at 0ºC elsius, and boils at 100 ºC .. ..is a better way to explain simplicity of metric system..

3:20 yup, that Rocket 🚀 was the V2 from Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun … more to learn in Wikipedia 😂

11:41 fun fact about the video, is that imperial is so useless, that they even made an error with the number of bolts for the railing forgetting the two in the beginning. They should order two more.

Yes we have Km/h so when we drive 100 km/h you wil drive 160 mls/h so to keep that in line you have to drive i think about 80 mls/h and like why are there countries where they drive at te left and also use mls/h?? And yes metric is just in mm and not in 7 and a quater or something. And why are there diverence temperature anouncments while they are all the same? C/F America like England are to stuburn to use Metric!

Love the Irish Sarcasm !!

I'm fluent in Metric 🤣

actually we tried the imperial system in the netherlands because we wanted to follow MURICA, then we realized it was garbo and ditched it for the metric system.

I says this as a person raised on the Metric system. I don't think Americans should feel forced to give up the Imperial system just because everyone else uses something different - its part of the American identity, culture and language. However, I firmly believe that the US education system should do a lot more to educate students in using the metric system so that they are better prepared when they enter the real world. Other countries have no problem in educating their students in speaking English to a high level of proficiency - The US should have no problem in teaching another "language" (the language of the universe, lol) to its students

Kinda ironic how the "land of the freedom" uses a system stablished by an EMPIRE. THE BRITISH EMPIRE of all of them.

make a cube that can exactly hold 3 gallons of a liquid.

Sweden converted from left-hand traffic to right-hand traffic overnight on September 3, 1967. How long will it take to teach US citizens the metric system? Could you switch to left-hand traffic?

I still remember the horrors we went through as students at university when we had to use an American book in physics that was entirely in imperial measures 😱 constantly converting the measures led to a lot of mistakes, I can see why that Mars lander crashed … How do you want to do science with these arbitrary measurements that are based on the length of this once king’s foot and his arm, so totally unrelated? How do you say 1 picometer in imperial? Like this: 1 pm = 3.9370078740157E-11 inch. And is that then a British inch or an American one? As stated in an earlier comment, we still use old medieval names for measures like ounce, pounds and acres, but nowadays they’re just short for 100 grams, 500 grams and 10 000 square meters. And as stated in the video, America has already adopted the metric system; not only by defining the imperial measurements by metric ones but you use it every day: the dollar is metric …

About the tools: That works both ways dude: When you buy an american car, for instance, you've got to buy an emperial tool set (price quarter of a car). The Metric is better is easier and better understood around the world. But what do Americans care, right.

A fractional system actually makes more sense for eg wood working, which is why we in Sweden, having used metric for 100 years or so, still have inches marked on the yard sticks, and refer to the thickness of planks and lengths of nails in inches

Yes

3 grams & 9mm 🤣

"whats`s the most puzzling thing about the USA?" Otto von Bismarck : "from hundreds of native languages, they chose the language of the former colonial power". And their "imperial" system.

While the metric system isn't more precise than the imperial system, it is way easier to understand and work with; that's what makes it better.

Yeah it can get a bit whacky, but I also enjoyed physics in school and play Kerbal space program. And as a Metric native it's fine :). If I would have to nail down why I don't like Imperial: Its just a pain in the ass to do calculation and measurements with. I've worked years as a Systems Developer in the Measurement and Production industry. Converting within the Imperial is total nonsense, no structure and when I had to convert from imperial to metric so I could use SI units drove me mad. I've hunted bugs because of that for 2 weeks. And fractions introduce floating point errors because of technical limitations of the computer so one has to be aware when working with high precision stuff. And Imperial is nothing but fractions after calculations...

I’m all for metric but I grew up with metric

At least in cooking metric is better! Is it is much more precise to use a scale with grams and kilo's than to use cups and spoons. More precise and quicker to note down than eg two one third of a cup🙄

I would love to listen to this clip but this guys S's are such a high whistle, SO sharp, they really hurt my ears! Am I alone in this?

yes

Let's say it like this : if I know the distance of the Earth to the Sun in kilometers, I can calculate in a few seconds, in my mind, how much meters or millimeters that is. Now, tell me how wide my table is, it being 2 feet, 4 inches and fifty seven sixty fourths of an inch wide? And don't get me started on Fahrenheit degrees - that is equally stupid : a guy comes in the middle of winter to a city in (I believe) Poland, cold like he never felt before, and said : That will be zero degrees. What will be 100 ? The temperature of the blood of a horse after a race, of course ! How many degrees ? Divide the span by 10 ? OK, but too big, let's divide by another 8 and we have it ! (maybe some licentia poetica, but it's the gist of it). I understand there were no measures then, you had to invent them, but when somebody came with a better idea (freezing pure water - zero, boiling - 100, works everywhere)(on same altitude etc.), why not adopt it ? CHANGE FOR THE BETTER SYSTEM !

Talking about confusing, when US KZfaqrs make food videos and talk about Farenheit so the rest of the world have to convert into Celsius, it’ so effing irritating that they don’t consider the wast majority. Then again, they might not know, as many north americans are rumered not to know much about the world.

Fellow ad lover, I see. :D

For the imperial guys, we metric guys don’t have trouble with inches. You dig now how powerful metric is? Monitors, drums, you name it, if there’s a standard in inches, we don’t need to think. You guys can’t integrate metric in imperial, because imperial is too complicated. But inches standards in the metric world are and were never a problem. That’s how superior metric is.

We did fractions at school, watching you i had to stop and wonder why. It dawned on me why it was just for numbers. Juring WW2 a famous F-up was in Africa, Brits were going to fight and travel accros the desert, the French used metric. So they put l's in instead of the gallons the Brits asked for, whoops so we ran out of fuel BUT this is part of why the SAS was created. Yep he takes the Piss alot.

The advantage of the metric.system is that there is no conversion factor except 1000. The definition do not really give a advantage to metrix.

8:50 My dude... I'm one of those engineers, And I'm glad I don't have to do "doubles" for my American friends any longer. 😅👌🏼

"Is the metric system better" Yes.

Yes, metric is better. I get that someone using imperial dont believe it is cuz its hard to readjust. But if you started from scratch, knowing neither, metric is infinitely better. Both in usefulness and logic.

Inferial, the US uses Inferial 👌🏻

It's not about "better" but "easier". Using fractions is harder than shifting the place of comas or points. Also confusing is writing numbers. One thousand euros, or dollars, is written as 1,000.00 in the US, but 1.000,00 in Europe. For fractions you need a calculator. Shifting symbols can be done by a three year old. For distance, inches are far too big and you have to resort to fractions. The smallest object you can see without magnification is 0.1 mm. That's 0.0393700787401575 inches, as centi and milli inches don't exist. Maybe those should be "invented" by some smart American. Ahhh, an oxymoron!

"...what is it about the Imperial System that just has America grasping along for dear life?..." Money. Seriously, that's what it comes down to. Switching to metric would cost a lot of money, and the longer it's delayed, the more money it'll cost. Every textbook needs to be updated, every road sign (probably twice), every car, ever label on every product. When other countries switched over, it cost a lot to do, and took _years,_ and _even now_ many countries that are supposedly fully metric use a mix of units. British people still order a pint down at the pub, frequently talk about how many miles something is away, and so on. You get the same in Canada. But you asked if metric is superior. It is. Flat out. In fact, the video you watched didn't even mention several ways that metric was already invading the USA. Ever watch a medical drama and they are deciding how much of a drug to inject someone with? "Get me 14 CCs of thorazine!" What's a CC? It's a 'cubic centimeter'. The medical establishment uses metric, in the USA, _right now._ They just don't spell it out, so most people just thing 'CC' is some strange, drug measuring unit. Most drug busts are measured in kilograms, and you can buy a 2 liter of soda at the market. What the video said is also true. If you've ever worked in metric (no, I don't mean picking the right wrench for a particular nut, I mean designing and building things purely in metric), you'd see how easy it is. At the end there, the video got a bit confusing, because it showed that metric still has magic numbers. Why is a meter defined as the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of second? Where does that number 299,792,458 _come from?_ The answer is that we already had a meter defined elsewhere (by two marks on a bar). That number was chosen to make the answer as close to a meter as possible without resorting to decimal places. The same is true with the other magic numbers in the system. The units of measure they represent already existed, and so magic numbers like that were selected in order to make the eventual answer match up with what we already had in order to keep the units the same instead of making a whole new system. What's _crucial_ here, though, is how much of that you need to remember in order to _use_ the metric system. ... None. You don't need to know _any_ of it, because it doesn't _matter._ The only time it's _at all_ important is if you're calibrating a new measuring device (or checking/recalibrating an old one) and, for whatever reason, don't have an already calibrated device to check it against. That is, if you want to make a meter stick and you don't _have_ a meter stick around to make sure they're the same, _then_ you need that weird number. But you _absolutely don't_ need it, ever, to _use_ meters. Compare that with the various units of measure in Imperial. In order to _use_ inches, feet, yards, and miles, you _do_ have to know the magic numbers. You have to know there are 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 1760 yards in a mile, because _without_ that knowledge, you can't use them. You also need to know there are 16 ounces in a pound, and 2240 pounds in a ton. Unless it's a fluid, then you need to know there's 20 _fluid_ ounces in a pint, two pints in a quart, four quarts in a gallon. So to use the metric system, you need to keep track of ounces vs fluid ounces, and the numbers 12, 3, 1760, 16, 2240, 20, 2, and 4, and _correctly_ associate them with each unit of measure with _no indication_ in the unit itself what the appropriate number to associate with it is, and two units _with the same name_ that measure different things (even excluding pounds-weight vs pounds-force). And it's not like any of those units are never used, and almost all are even _frequently_ used (the pint less so, but it's still out there). You need to keep track of _eight_ separate magic numbers with no help, pure rote memorization. So how many numbers do you need to use metric? Three. 10, 100, 1000. No one measures anything in decimeters or dekameters or hectometers. 10 mm in a cm, 100 cm in a m, 1000 m in a km. No one uses anything other than grams and kilograms, so 1000 there. And milliliters vs liters. Plus, in all cases the units have different names entirely _and_ the conversion is _part of_ the name of the unit, making it transferable from one unit to another. If you know there's 1000 MILLImeters in a meter, it's not hard to work out there's 1000 MILLIliters in a liter, it's right in the name of each sub unit (that is, different measures of the same thing). Add on top of this the ease of conversion between units, just shifting decimal places, and it gets even clearer why metric is superior. How often have you been tired, knowing something has totaled to 213 ounces, and tried to convert that to pounds to see what you should do with it? You can't do that conversion in your head, _especially_ if you're a little off. But 213 milliliters to liters? You can do that one in your head, even when you're tired or feeling off. Mistakes don't _entirely_ go away (you might shift the decimal by two spots instead of three), but they are _drastically_ reduced. Of course, if it were up to me to unilaterally decide, I wouldn't promote either system. I'd start over, right from numbers. I'd invent a new numbering system, with new symbols, in base 16. Why base 16? It's binary, and given our reliance on computers today, being able to read 3E and A84 _directly_ instead of having to try to convert them to their decimal equivalents of 62 and 2692 respectively would be _enormously_ helpful. Then I'd do the same thing the weights and measures people did, base it on things about the universe that don't ever change, but I'd change the magic numbers to something that ends in a bunch of zeros, probably all of them starting with 1, as well. So instead of a meter being the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 seconds, the base unit of length would be the distance light travels in 10,000,000 of a second, with that number 10,000,000 being hexadecimal, meaning it works out to 1/268,435,456 of a second (10,000,000 in hexadecimal = 268,435,456 in decimal). The base unit would be slightly shorter than a meter (it'd be 89.5%, roughly, of its length), but the magic numbers would (kinda) be gone, certainly be easier to _remember_ (which is easier to remember, 10,000,000 or 299,792,458), and still all work. Now we have a system based on science, to be the language of not just _physical_ science but also _computer_ science as well. And, as it should be obvious from the above, I'd use different names for all the units of measure so they wouldn't be confused at all, either with each other _or_ with the units we use now. The one snag with all the above is... time. Right now, there's 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute. Using the above, there's no way the time will work out that neatly. If the base unit of time is called a fempt, and we define it as the transition frequency in Hz of that Cesium 133 atom set to 100,000,000 (in hexadecimal), a 'second' would be about twice the duration it is now, but not precisely. Make a dekafempt be 10 of those, and a hectofempt be 100, kilofempt be 1000, and so on. A dekafempt would be about 21 seconds, a hektofempt would be 2 minutes 34 seconds, a kilofempt would be 35 minutes 40 seconds, and there'd be 40 kilofempts 373.8 fempts in a solar day. I suspect dekafempt and hektofempt would fall out of use, and leave us with fempt and kilofempt. Time would be metered then, though, and I think we'd all just get used to understanding that when the time is 12,000 fempt (which would translate to pretty close to 7 AM), it's time to get up (for... y'know, lots of people... with this 'normal life' thing I keep hearing about), and that the day ends at a weird time of 40,374 fempt. However the one _advantage_ to this going forward is that we'd _expect_ time to be weird like that... which is _very useful_ if we ever colonize other planets. After all, a 'day' being 24 hours is unique to Earth and, moreover, Earth's solar day isn't even constant. It's slowing down. We have to add a second every so often to our clocks (the idea of doing this was put in place in 1972, and we've added extra seconds 27 times since then). If we all got used to the idea that a day could be redefined in terms of fempts, then when we colonized Mars we wouldn't be trying to express the 'clean' system from Earth into a broken 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35 seconds. That messes with our expectations because we're _expecting_ a clean measure right now. But if we were _expecting_ something unruly like 40,374 fempts (which sometimes gets shortened as the Earth's rotation slows), then it being 41,484 on Mars I think would be easier for us to handle and adapt to. You could still have a UTC based on the number of fempts since some arbitrary starting point (probably October 10 at 10:10:10 from the old clock in year 10, so the starting point, under the old system, would be 10:10:10 10/10/10) for a form of absolute measurement anywhere in the universe. Make 'weeks' (using some new name) 10 days, ignore months, and years would be however long that was to get around the star the planet is orbiting (there'd be 36.5 'weeks' in a year on Earth). All these weird numbers being specific to a planet prepares us for living among the stars where planets won't all have the same values for those things anyway _and_ even the planet's we're _on_ are changing over time.

Myanmar and Liberia adopted the SI in 2019 that video IS old .only usa dont use It full

😢😢the baby boomers had the chance to go metric, decades ago. But they quit learning after the 2 liter coke bottle.

only one question, praticaly 200 countrys in this world, how many of them use the imperial system? simplicity is why metric is better...

Just tell them it is an American idea. They don't know History anyway.

I actually measure in wangdoodles. 1 wangdoodle equals 2ft or 0.6096 Meters. I think my system is better!

It is.. End of.

The only reason US americans still use the Imperial system is because of stubbornness. Not to mention that scientists in the USA use the metric system anyway, it's just for normal day use that people cling to Imperial.