Is The Metric System Actually Better?

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Is The Metric System Actually Better?

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@kevinduperret1910 4 жыл бұрын

America is moving towards the metric system, one inch at a time

@menkulinanaldebaran7509 4 жыл бұрын

or better one milimeter in a century

@user-ki9ez8wx7f 4 жыл бұрын

Please show your working.

@neilwilson5785 4 жыл бұрын

The milli-furloung could solve all this.

@Ramzuiv 4 жыл бұрын

* 3 centimeters at a time

@bobbiusshadow6985 4 жыл бұрын

Classic quote

@Eylrid 4 жыл бұрын

Imperial and metric have something in common: They're both incompatible with imperial

@skelet8337 4 жыл бұрын

Gold

@FuriousImp 4 жыл бұрын

This.

@jjdejag2704 4 жыл бұрын

Hilarious 😂

@edgarvilain007 4 жыл бұрын

L O L

@sparky6086 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@raphaelmartin8314 Жыл бұрын

As an engineering student, with the metric system I was able to find formulas I'd forgotten out of nowhere with a simple dimensional analysis, no arbitrary coefficients, everything is elegant.

@evobsm2328 Жыл бұрын

Elegant? Its just easy as easy can be.

@gillsejusbates6938 Жыл бұрын

@@evobsm2328 yes, there is elegance in simplicity but you probably wouldnt know

@bill2438 Жыл бұрын

which is elegant...@@evobsm2328

@TucoBenedicto 11 ай бұрын

@@evobsm2328 THAT is what makes it an elegant system.

@jesseg8298 10 ай бұрын

As a cnc programmer and machinist who works in an R&D machine shop, engineers need some manufacturing experience because they usually dont know how things actually work and we constantly have to correct their designs and show them better ways of doing whay yhey are trying to accomplish.

@interbard Жыл бұрын

There are 2 types of countries - those that use metric, and those whose units are federally defined by metric

@genertec Жыл бұрын

I actually read this comment while he said it in the video. That was a brainfuck

@stacielivinthedream8510 9 ай бұрын

@@genertec😂

@AngraMainiiu 7 ай бұрын

Which is in turn defined by light...

@peterebel7899 7 ай бұрын

So you mean there are Tier1 countries and Tier2 countries?

@mendax2460 6 ай бұрын

@@AngraMainiiu Any unit of length can be defined in terms of the speed of light in a vacuum, this doesn't make the meter special in any way. There's a reason nobody's using plank lengths as their primary unit of measure.

@tolgaekiz7333 4 жыл бұрын

You guys are too harsh towards US. They've been using 9mm in schools for a while now.

@toddavis8151 4 жыл бұрын

Tolga Ekiz I just laughed way too much at that

@sriramn1809 4 жыл бұрын

LOL WHAT

@spacesheep5206 4 жыл бұрын

at least something

@apolloaerospace7773 4 жыл бұрын

I find this gun joke very funny, while knowing that I shouldn´t do that.

@tamaslapsanszki8744 4 жыл бұрын

See you in hell, buddy. You'll be there for writing this joke, I'll be there for shittin' myself laughing

@lukas4866 4 жыл бұрын

I came here to see the imperial system get roasted and I was NOT disappointed

@RodrigoroRex 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the spoiler. I'll definitely watch the video then

@Hyrum_Graff 4 жыл бұрын

Same here

@ruslanart8734 4 жыл бұрын

Yessssss

@lukas4866 4 жыл бұрын

Rodrigo Rex lol

@chrisej5987 4 жыл бұрын

Pew Pew! 😂

@goliath_online824 Жыл бұрын

Hey, fun fact about the temperature in both systems: In Celsius 0°C is the temperature, at which water freezes at sea level. 100°C is the temperature, at which water evaporates. In Fahrenheit 100°F is the body temperature of a sweating horse of a very specific breed, at a very specific time, at a very specific spot in Germany. 0°F is the coldest temperature detected at the winter of 1708/1709 Just saying

@dont.beknown5622 Жыл бұрын

Where in the heck did you dig that up? That's awesome.

@Mis7erSeven Жыл бұрын

And to avoid any confusion with the pressure-dependency that the freezing and boiling point of water have, you can even further simplify this by saying that the triple point of water is exactly 0.01°C or 273.16 Kelvin.

@davidsiretmarques3646 10 ай бұрын

@@Mis7erSeven I think that's how Kelvin and Celsius scales are defined...

@jasondiaz8431 9 ай бұрын

100 degrees is impressive for me meaning in Texas life is going to suck. 30.255334 is worthless to me. I dont care when water boils. Don't bother me with that. 32 is easy for freezing. 0 means death might be imminent. Same goes for speed 100 kmph not far 100 miles per hour fast and dangerous. The average person isn't a scientist no one cares.

@pulverizedpeanuts 8 ай бұрын

that's not true 96F was defined as the human body temperature, and 0F as the temperature of an equal ice-salt mixture at an arbitrary point in time

@jansmejkal8088 Жыл бұрын

"He despised british units so much so he designed a rocket to fly to england to show them how great the metric system was" i'm dying over here 😂

@danielcarson8249 Жыл бұрын

If you're British quite literally...

@Chris-ut6eq Жыл бұрын

Not so bad for a gap year project. I'm sure his friends were happy.

@lordpengz16 Жыл бұрын

I’m confused. Didn’t the British use the metric system?

@matthewmac5787 Жыл бұрын

@@lordpengz16not at the time (and in a few ways we still don't), we invented the imperial system and used it for century's and as such it's taken us a while to shift off from it.

@andrefasching1332 Жыл бұрын

@@matthewmac5787you brits generally do some weird things. But what annoys me the most is that i cant find any new shows with the typical british humor i loved so much during my youth. Heck, you can measure lenghts with your spitting distance if thats what floats your boat, as long as you bring out anything comparable to little britain

@janeisklar3923 3 жыл бұрын

1 foot is legally defined as the distance a 9mm bullet can travel through a monster truck and 3 cheeseburgers inside a complete Vacuum

@Red_Skies 3 жыл бұрын

You mean submerged in Frying oil

@thewizzard9836 3 жыл бұрын

Ovbiusly du'h *

@gintaszukas314 3 жыл бұрын

Super👍😁

@mathiasmunkulrich7370 3 жыл бұрын

9mm? You mean 0,354 inch bullets... How paradoxical - in this case their guns makes the most sense...

@denniscross2515 3 жыл бұрын

over the flat earth

@lumox7 4 жыл бұрын

''I aimed for the stars, but sometimes hit London.'' Wernher Von Braun

@marsuss5325 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty cursed

@marsuss5325 4 жыл бұрын

@brodiebasterfield1923 4 жыл бұрын

Oh that's gotta be one of the best comments I've heard, if only my friends had the same sense of humour to share it with. Well done 😎

@Cervando 4 жыл бұрын

@Simon Read works better if you write 10

@hungryanimal5112 4 жыл бұрын

There are two kinds of people. Those who classify everything in 2 categories and those who don't.

@philhogan5623 Жыл бұрын

It's even more connected than you say. 1 metre was set at 1/10,000,000 the distance from the equator to the poles. (They have since then measured the distance more accurately and it's slightly out.) Also, a cube 10cm x 10cm x 10cm has a volume of 1 litre. 1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogram. At sea level water boils at 100°C and freezes at 0°C.

@georgigeorgiev891 8 ай бұрын

There are a ton of cool definitions of the meter. They also thought about having it defined as the length of a pendulumn that has frequency 1 with a weight of 1 kg attached to it. That's why earths acceleration is roughly π^2

@j.r.r.schulze 7 ай бұрын

Even energy units are defined by metric and even used in us... for example Calories and Joule are based on the metric system (1 calorie needed to heat 1 gramm / 1 millilitre of water 1 degree)...

@Hughahugha361 7 ай бұрын

@@georgigeorgiev891the mass doesn't change the frequency of a pendulum.... T=2π√(l/g) The meter has an old definition as the lenght of a pendulum with T = 2 seconds.

@matthiascerebri3315 7 ай бұрын

Also 1 Metre is a 10000 Part of the distance between Paris and Barcelona

@peterebel7899 7 ай бұрын

It's all the question how to measure all those zeros ....

@raytheron Жыл бұрын

I grew up in South Africa and learned in the Imperial system until I was 12. When we changed to metric everyone in my class cheered! No more adding 33'9 and 3/8" to 21'8 and 25/64"!

@merc340sr Жыл бұрын

Totally agree. I started my life with Imperial and with 3/16 and 8/32 and I still don't have a clue of what they are. Please give me a ratchet set and drill bits in metric!!!

@cyUmbriel Жыл бұрын

to me always metric those number seem like a shitpost compilation lmao

@arnolddavies6734 11 ай бұрын

That’s exactly why the imperial system is crap. Those ridiculous fractions of an inch.

@wjeurs 8 ай бұрын

People that were taught the Imperial system usually are slightly better at multiplying fractions. That's possibly the only positive 😂

@halbronk7133 7 ай бұрын

@@arnolddavies6734 Some fields use tenths of an inch instead of fractions.

@ilghiz 3 жыл бұрын

Every time I come the US I have to get used to inches, miles, ounces, liquid ounces, gallons, Fahrenheit... And every time they ask or mention time, I get surprised that they use hours and minutes!

@jamessheppard4372 3 жыл бұрын

LMFAO

@liamswiderski8978 3 жыл бұрын

You do know most of the world uses the same the time system practically no one uses metric time

@SummerThyme-ye5rd 3 жыл бұрын

@@liamswiderski8978 , am I supposed to add #sarcasm to every sarcastic / ironic comment of mine? 8)) Besides, second _is_ a metric unit, as well as minute, hour etc. Whether you’re in the US, Europe, Asia or on the ISS, you use _metric time._ The meter is defined as the distance covered by light within 1/299792458 of a second in vacuum. Funnily, inches and gallons are metric, too, cuz they’re defined through metric units: one inch is officially defined as 25.4 mm. There’s no other definition of the inch that is absolutely independent from the metric / SI units. Otherwise, international trade and science would be impossible.

@rifqyfadhilahrahman2498 3 жыл бұрын

@@SummerThyme-ye5rd Oof, burns.

@saltzmanweniger 3 жыл бұрын

@@SummerThyme-ye5rd Minutes, hours ect aren't metric. Metric time is measured in seconds, kiloseconds, megaseconds ect. starting from some arbitrary t=0.

@tarunvenigalla 4 жыл бұрын

Alternative title “ Roasting Imperial System for 12 mins straight “

@Z0DI4C 4 жыл бұрын

*complaining about occasionally doing basic math for 12 mins straight

@wut9282 4 жыл бұрын

Skerples yeah but doing basic math IS where the mistakes happen. Not everyone is going to be able to simple math 100% of the time correctly. At some point you will make a simple mistake.

@benedict6897 4 жыл бұрын

@@Z0DI4C you're missing the point, it all about efficiency

@abhigyanverma6542 4 жыл бұрын

@@Z0DI4C the simple math is even simpler while dealing with factors of 10

@stedll 4 жыл бұрын

@@Z0DI4C basic math errors are waaaaaay more frequent than anything else, a good engineer would tell you to triple check a simple sum even if you do it with a calculator

@brutepuvi 7 ай бұрын

There's just a few things you can watch with great satisfaction: Waterfalls, fires, and someone shitting on the imperial system

@Thurgosh_OG 9 күн бұрын

I'm British and the problem with this video is that the US doesn't and has never used the British Imperial system, as that system was established after the founding of the US. USA uses 'United States Customary Units'.

@srbojangals Жыл бұрын

I love a tiny error, the voiceover says "a lb is 0.435 kg" (9:12) which is just a perfect little example of how easy it is to make mistakes in such a silly conversion system.

@freshrockpapa-e7799 6 ай бұрын

but that's correct, a pound is 0.435kg

@jase_llan 6 ай бұрын

@@freshrockpapa-e77990.454kg or so I was taught?

@karldubhe8619 10 күн бұрын

@@jase_llan Yepth, it's 454 grams in Canada.

@crusherbmx 3 жыл бұрын

"He designed a rocket to fly to England to show how great the metric system was." Oh god!

@JohnHughesChampigny 3 жыл бұрын

When the members of the British Rocket Society, sitting in a pub in London, heard the explosion of the first V2 to reach London they cheered, realising that the sudden explosion, with no pre-ceeding engine noise meant that a supersonic rocket had just landed.

@tankart3645 3 жыл бұрын

U Estonian? Your pfp has nature in it and is Blue black white basicly, so it seems so Estonian.

@ParaBellum282 3 жыл бұрын

Well he was German.

@helloWorld-dd2yc 3 жыл бұрын

Was this rocket named V2 ?

@tim.5597 3 жыл бұрын

@@helloWorld-dd2yc jes

@NotNonamelol 3 жыл бұрын

World: *uses metric system* America: Cheeseburgers per freedom eagle with gun

@rogaldorn605 3 жыл бұрын

Football fields per war crimes

@rogaldorn605 3 жыл бұрын

Russia's is bears per corrupted politician

@trent_k 3 жыл бұрын

Charlie day put it best, “Rock, Flag, and Eagle”

@subatenome 3 жыл бұрын

hot dogs per school shooting

@charlesleonitol.iringaniv8320 3 жыл бұрын

War crimes per corporate bailout

@thedubwhisperer2157 Жыл бұрын

What's half of 2322mm? What's half of 7' 7 27/64"? Teacher's waiting...

@GH-oi2jf Жыл бұрын

This is a contrived problem, typical of the sort of thing Metric monotheists use to try to make some obscure point. The first problem with it is that the precision is biased. A mm is only about 1/25 inch. We don’t use 64ths much. The second problem is that we don’t necessarily express fractions as ratios. The third problem is using multiple units to express the length. The number in US units would be better expressed as 91.4 inches, where the precision is .04 inch. One half of that is 45.7 inches, which is as easy to do in your head as half of 2422. Carpenters, who do express fractions of inches as ratios, have other ways of finding the center than arithmetic. The diagonal method is a common way.

@embreis2257 3 ай бұрын

@@GH-oi2jf just stop it. this system is indefensible

@wtflmaa7842 Ай бұрын

@@GH-oi2jf Where do I find a tape measure that's marked for said 91.4 or 45.7 inches? All I could find in any hardware store ore those marked with 1/2, 1/4, 1/8/, 1/16, ....

@StormEnnairo Жыл бұрын

I'm a French engineer. And We tolerate only one none metric measure : the pint of beer !

@GH-oi2jf Жыл бұрын

Rack-mounted instruments around the world use the 19-inch rack.

@josephwodarczyk977 Жыл бұрын

Huh. I never thought of that. Are there any other niche places where imperial carries on?

@TucoBenedicto 11 ай бұрын

Then again, if it's like here in Italy, we use the term without even any clear grasp of what's supposed to be. For how many of us are concerned, a "pint" is just a kind of glass you use for beer rather than an actual unit of measurement.

@GH-oi2jf 10 ай бұрын

There are several things used worldwide which are designed using inches. The ones most commonly used are automobile wheels, Schrader valves to inflate tires, threads to mount cameras to tripods, and square drives for socket wrenches. I have learned that there is a Metric alternative to the 19-inch rack. I think it is a little larger, so any equipment designed to fit in a 19-inch rack would fit in the Euro rack with a suitable face plate. Even the ordinary 19-inch rack was partially Metricized. The original design had threaded mounting holes built in. Current ones can be used with either US or Metric hardware.

@smvwees 8 ай бұрын

@@josephwodarczyk977 Diagonal of tv's.

@gabrielsistonamoca6963 4 жыл бұрын

Metric system mm- millimetre cm- centimetre m- metre km- kilometre Imperial system - Inch - Feet - yard - size of Football field - size of Texas

@brag0001 4 жыл бұрын

Don't worry, "size of ..." is pretty universal. In Germany we like "size of soccer field", "size of Saarland" ...

@captbiptoe 4 жыл бұрын

Since a century is a hundred years a centimeter should be 100 meters? 100x vs. 1/100th ?

@captbiptoe 4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Here in America a football field is common. It's easy to visualize. Trip most people that don't have to deal with it to visualize land area in English or metric and watch the stupid look.

@ShyGuyMafia 4 жыл бұрын

Imperial system: -inch: in -Feet: Ft -Yard: Yd -Mile: mi Metric is great for tiny measurements, because god knows there's a metric tonne of them you can use for that purpose. Imperial is more focused on larger measure, but can be broken down using fractions of a whole inch. Break the cycle. Change the norm. Use the Nautical system.

@aimnotjouk734 4 жыл бұрын

@@captbiptoe 1. the "centi" in centimetre doesn't come from "century", but from the latin "centesimus", wich means a hundredth, 100 meters is called hectometre 2. technically football fields can have different sizes

@spacetomato1020 4 жыл бұрын

“So great, that he designed a rocket to fly to England to show them” shows a picture of a V-2 rocket lmao this had me rolling

@Elesario 4 жыл бұрын

Great at taking off, not so good on the landing ;P

@pizdarus 4 жыл бұрын

@Anant Tiwari e

@arirahikkala 4 жыл бұрын

Wernher von Braun is seriously one of the greatest men of history just in terms of the roasts people make of him. Tom Lehrer's song on him alone is legendary.

@jerry3790 4 жыл бұрын

Ari Rahikkala Any controversial historical figure will have their fair share of roasts

@spacetomato1020 4 жыл бұрын

Jerry Rupprecht calling him controversial would be an understatement lmao

@kenbaird7067 2 ай бұрын

As a graduate Electric Engineer, ALL my studies were in Metric as all electrical units are metric- UN Standard (MkSA). Using the archaic "Imperial " units is quite simply ridiculous.

@GH-oi2jf 2 ай бұрын

Everybody uses the same electrical units, so there is no issue at all, is there?

@thedumbconspirator4956 2 ай бұрын

@@GH-oi2jf yup. Though I remember taking some Mechanical engineering courses. I had such a fun time getting accustomed to imperial units, the difference between lbm and lbf certainly messed with my mind.

@i_am_a_toast_of_french 2 ай бұрын

@@GH-oi2jf no, the cgs system uses different stuff

@obimitt. Ай бұрын

@@GH-oi2jf the thing is: With metric all units are connected to each other. And electrical units like Volt are defined by metric units (1 Volt is 1 (kg*m^2)/(A*s^3). You see the meter and the kilogramm will show up here too. So when analyzing problems you can really play around with the units and use these metric definitions to draw connections from electrical problems to mechanical designs, physical behaviour or chemical requirements using all those metric laws and equations developed by all those clever scientist celebrities in the past. The possibilities are endless.

@schwkrls 6 ай бұрын

I've lived my whole life using the metric system and can't physically comprehend why would someone use Imperial other than for cultural reasons.

@jthoresen 6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately those cultural reasons are stronger than sound logic

@Thurgosh_OG 9 күн бұрын

@Matt-zt7rd 4 жыл бұрын

"He designed a rocket to fly to England to show them how great the metric system was". LOL :-)

@TheGrimPeeper 3 жыл бұрын

Wouldent be the first time a German tried to launch a rocket at England.

@Matt-zt7rd 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGrimPeeper, apparently the English didn't get the message about the metric system being superior - perhaps it was the Alabama accent :-). So the American on his gap year in Germany needed to keep sending them rockets until they understood it. That's why Britain is (mostly) metric now.

@dinojay8410 3 жыл бұрын

Spoken like a true Irishman...

@TheZeroAssassin 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGrimPeeper I see the reference went right over your head.

@PreNeanderthal 3 жыл бұрын

Well it wasn't that great because the bloody things kept crashing.

@kitko33 3 жыл бұрын

Best thing ever in real life: 1 liter of water = 1 kg.

@joiseystud 3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah well 1 fluid ounce of water equals 1 ounce of water.

@alvr3461 3 жыл бұрын

@@joiseystud Both are different measurements. It's about a relation between a volume of water (Liter or cubic decimeter) and an amount of its mass (kg).

@vincentguttmann2231 3 жыл бұрын

@@joiseystud Well, but what about a cubic inch? But maybe it just takes a bit. Decifoot for decifoot, you will fin a way to use another completely weird system.

@DaroriDerEinzige 3 жыл бұрын

@R. Schowiada71 And if we wanna piss everybody off we throw in that the density of water alone varies due to its temperature etc. which would mean even bigger differences :P But yeah, you're completly right though.

@nyosgomboc2392 3 жыл бұрын

Well, that's only true if your water's temperature is 39.2 Fahrenheit :), (just kidding, I meant 277.15 Kelvin or if you insist, 4 degrees Celsius).

@klaasdeboer8106 7 ай бұрын

I only use two non metric units, the nautical mile and the knot. they work well in navigation because they easily convert to angles on our planet.

@rolletroll2338 6 ай бұрын

Yes. This makes sense.

@HughCStevenson1 Жыл бұрын

The biggest advantage of all in SI metric system is that most scientific formulae don't have extraneous constants in them. F = ma just works. F = g m1 m2/r^2 so I don't have to remember a heap of random constants! I tend to do calculations in basic units: m, kg, s etc. that way I don't have factors of 1000 and stuff complicating my calculations. Unfortunately some scientists still hold on to old cgs (not SI) metric units. I wish they would get with the strength and go pure SI but at least they aren't using poundals and slugs... :)

@Satori_kun Жыл бұрын

cgs is the worst "system". When I first learned they even used it for electromagnetic units and even have various cgs systems like esu or emu I went crazy. I had to read a old book with some measurements of ferroelectric transition in TGS and saw the units. I wanted to cry knowing I had to convert these to compare them with my own measurements.

@ingenuity23-yg4ev Жыл бұрын

cgs proves useful when doing calculations especially in physical chemistry. chemists generally deal in masses of grams and not kg. volumetric measurements are also in mL and so it proves useful to have gm and mL instead of the 10^-3 factors everywhere

@matthewzaczeniuk4892 3 жыл бұрын

Omfg the roasts. I started using metric in my chem class and I was shocked by how EASY it was to use, so intuative, no random ass numbers to remember. 5280 feet my ass...

@skywanderer 3 жыл бұрын

That's a lot of feet for an ass

@arthurizando 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the wonders of the metric system

@correiaivan 3 жыл бұрын

YES! like, everything you just have to divide by 10. It's really, really simple.

@matthewirvine1361 3 жыл бұрын

It is all based around water which makes certain things easier, 1L=1kg=1dm³ and 1ml=1g=1cm³ and temperatures are the same, 100° boiling point 0° freezing point, not 32°F or whatever it is

@michi-fv2mf 3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewirvine1361 you got an error there. 1L=dm^3 m^3 would be a ton

@wamsang7818 3 жыл бұрын

Alternate title: "Real Engineering roasts Imperial for 13 minutes"

@alexlandherr 3 жыл бұрын

Minus 8 seconds...

@russedav5 3 жыл бұрын

and fails the common sense test totally, typical for the lunatics of the French Revolution that destroyed each other and gave us the metric system as a result of their failure, a completely impractical system too incompetent to relate to the real world.

@wamsang7818 3 жыл бұрын

@@russedav5 I bet you have never even tried using metric before I had to use it because of a physics class and I love it

@romanplays1 3 жыл бұрын

@@russedav5 *laughs in metric using universal constants*

@Operational117 3 жыл бұрын

Metric Engineering: *The Real Engineering!* Imperial Engineering: _If Donald Trump was a unit system._

@Hazy777 Жыл бұрын

It would be also nice to have similar video about different types of power outlet sockets in different countries.

@Genius_at_Work Жыл бұрын

British are the safest, unless you happen to step onto one at Night. Tom Scott made a good Video explaining why.

@gn4sty731 7 ай бұрын

@@Genius_at_WorkThe Brazilian default is the safest. Half of each pin is plastic, only the tip of it is metal (which is more than enough to make contact), In addition to the connector having a format of a type of hexagon, which is mirrored in the socket so that it is impossible to get shocked unless you stick something in there by purpose. This shape also makes it much more difficult to cause accidents with water, no matter if there is ou isn't anything connected.

@SirHarrisonPhillips 4 ай бұрын

@@gn4sty731I believe the British also follow the semi plastic plug style.

@Thurgosh_OG 9 күн бұрын

@@gn4sty731 That design only came into Brazil in 1998. The UK design was established in 1947.

@SP4CEBAR Жыл бұрын

the mix of units is the absolute best way to guarantee a spectacular failure

@thekingminn 4 жыл бұрын

Me from Myanmar finally figuring out why physics was so hard at school.

@ankeytimestein6423 4 жыл бұрын

Ask the government to make some changes .

@Kriae 4 жыл бұрын

What's your country's reason for not using metric?

@minsithumaung6867 4 жыл бұрын

@@KriaeWe use both metric and imperial and we even have our own burmese measurement system...Too much systems and students get confused

@fischX 4 жыл бұрын

@@ankeytimestein6423 Its still not the kind of goverment you like to ask for something.

@CanonFirefly 4 жыл бұрын

@@ankeytimestein6423 in Myanmar, I think they'd prefer a new government. A change of system of measurement can come later...

@subifcommentisworthy2991 3 жыл бұрын

Whole world: density of gold is 19.3 g/cc America: gold is about 20 times denser than a duck

@ARandomSpace 3 жыл бұрын

I saw that Kurzgesagt meme. I love it!

@infinityxtanishq8712 3 жыл бұрын

Wtf 😂

@strbyq 3 жыл бұрын

I see that you watch kurzgesagt

@good-sofa 2 жыл бұрын

*wheeze*

@elijahclark6093 2 жыл бұрын

And we all know how dense a duck is

@dicyanoacetylene6220 Ай бұрын

The imperial system isn't one system, it's 3 or 4 separate systems that were forcibly bolted together by creating conversion equations. And that's just the system for measuring length, all the other stuff was also just haphazardly applied with zero consideration. Kinda like the English language, it isn't a language, it's several languages in a trench coat that randomly mugs other languages for random parts.

@Solitaire001 Ай бұрын

That's why English spelling is such as mess: English adopts words from other languages without altering the spelling. As an example, the word "colonel" is spelled via one language but spoken via another language.

@wokekkk 8 ай бұрын

The fact that as an european i have to learn the imperial sistem to work in aereonautics angers me on a substomic level

@GH-oi2jf 8 ай бұрын

So seek anger management counseling. Anger is bad for your health.

@Readyplayer11 4 жыл бұрын

Sees title: this is gonna be a fun one.

@thomaspeter1550 4 жыл бұрын

And wasn't disappointed

@isaacdandrea 4 жыл бұрын

Exacly hahahaha

@himanbam 4 жыл бұрын

Sees title: Oh, I know this one!

@keilerbie7469 4 жыл бұрын

"There are 2 kinds of countries -- Those that use the Metric system and those that used the metric system to go to the moon and later crashed a probe into mars because they were confused by metric units" -Scott Manley

@wilhellmllw3608 4 жыл бұрын

Scott Manley here!

@ciarfah 4 жыл бұрын

@@wilhellmllw3608 Fly saf- oh dear

@cicher 4 жыл бұрын

Measure safe! 😁

@CarFreeSegnitz 4 жыл бұрын

They didn’t crash a probe into Mars. They covertly carried out an excavation of the Martian surface. They’ll go back later to look for signs of past Martian civilization. Joke’s on them though... they happened to excavate an area the past civilization had set aside as a nature preserve. There will be no signs of civilization there.

@atish365 4 жыл бұрын

@@CarFreeSegnitz Mission failed succesfully

@strixsnightmares467 Ай бұрын

all hail the metric system!!!!!!!

@EJeremyStern Жыл бұрын

6:21 Not to really bug you but you forgot to add an extra one layer of bolts after the division of intervals to cater for the end of the 1 mile bridge. So that'll be 881 instead. Amounting to 1,762 bolts.

@AnirudhHu 4 жыл бұрын

I'm here to watch "YES" being stretched to 13 minutes.

@elvisdorkenoo 4 жыл бұрын

yes, actually the video could have been one second length...

@thomaskositzki9424 4 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@FriedEgg101 4 жыл бұрын

lol

@theglitch312 4 жыл бұрын

@@elvisdorkenoo Or as we say here, the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom at a temperature of absolute zero.

@noxix7641 4 жыл бұрын

So a channel to avoid then. As that's a simplistic view. Then again, what do you expect from something with "engineering" in the title.

@TripleCZ 4 жыл бұрын

The "so, on his gap year, he built a rocket that flew to the UK to show them how great the metric system is" made me lmao

@gregjewell4356 4 жыл бұрын

Me too, just remember who won that argument!

@TripleCZ 4 жыл бұрын

@@gregjewell4356 Well, the British DID switch to metric so...

@darcyryan9693 4 жыл бұрын

Greg Jewell Russia?

@gregjewell4356 4 жыл бұрын

@@darcyryan9693 Everyone knows the USSR steals the technology from the USA just like China...duh!

@gregjewell4356 4 жыл бұрын

@@TripleCZ so... their mistake! Alfa Romero, Mini's,

@tinycuisine6544 11 ай бұрын

When my friend Miles traveled to Europe, he preferred to be called Kilometers.

@marcogiorgini8566 4 ай бұрын

Short answer - Yes. Long answer - Yes, it is.

@ilotitto 4 жыл бұрын

The metric system is kilometers ahead.

@moncoeur6296 4 жыл бұрын

You can say streets too, it's neither metric nor imperial ;)

@Dood_ 4 жыл бұрын

streets ahead

@adamgonzalez7450 4 жыл бұрын

Imperial is miles ahead. Miles > Kilometers

@PlanesAndGames732 4 жыл бұрын

A Yottameter ahead

@eliyasne9695 4 жыл бұрын

@@adamgonzalez7450 The beauty of the metric system is that i could use arbitrarily humongous prefixes, like megameters, so it could always win. megameters >> miles

@theInternet633 3 жыл бұрын

Short answer: Yes Long answer: Still yes

@randomperson1955 3 жыл бұрын

short answer: yes long answer: y e s longer answer y e s shorter answer ye

@mohammednajl5950 3 жыл бұрын

@@randomperson1955 shorter answer: si

@denifnaf5874 3 жыл бұрын

Usa girl: i only date 6 foot guys! The exchange student from chernobil:😏

@jamessheppard4372 3 жыл бұрын

@@denifnaf5874 lmao underrated

@mikeblatzheim2797 3 жыл бұрын

@@randomperson1955 Short answer: yes Long answer: definitely Longer answer: See the above Most efficient answer: JA!

@selewachm 2 ай бұрын

Excellent. When we were taught the metric system in high school (1969) it shocked me that it was so easy to learn. The difficulty and what they focused on was the conversion from one to another. Don't convert! Just move to metric. It's so easy!

@ramuk1933 Жыл бұрын

I agree. I'm an American, and I don't use mixed units. METRIC ONLY!! I even intentionally use metric units around other people to expose them to it.

@GH-oi2jf Жыл бұрын

I guess you don’t use a socket wrench, because the square drive is inch-based worldwide.

@mrxmry3264 Жыл бұрын

I remember when I was young, back in germany, TVs were measured in inches, and at some point that changed to centimeters.

@Soulleey Жыл бұрын

@@mrxmry3264 actually not... display diagonals are still messured in inches... there are always some exceptions

@zafiroshin Жыл бұрын

Coming from a scientist: thanks for what you are doing.

@Schroeder3000 Жыл бұрын

you are right. how can a species with a brain use the imperial "system"

@eneko6790 3 жыл бұрын

Is the metric system actually better? Us: that building 4.20 football fields tall

@nottsoserious 3 жыл бұрын

That's a good argument. BUT. There are 3 skyscrapers that are about that tall (4.20 football fields). Guess where they are? Russia, Vietnam and China. Two are communist, one is former communist. Opposite of america. Hence, this completely refutes your argument that america is dank because they use the imperial system.

@mohammednajl5950 3 жыл бұрын

@@nottsoserious I cannot argue with that. Indeed, America is dank.

@markusosterle3958 3 жыл бұрын

Sadly they use "fußballfelder" in the metric germany as well. You have morons in every country. At least Fußball is a game where you use your foot to kick a ball unlike american football where you use your body to takle opponents while protecting an EGG.

@vizender 3 жыл бұрын

@@markusosterle3958 oh yeah ? In France, we use the area of paris, Luxembourg, and Belgium. Oh and also we measure liquids in Olympic pools.

@Nhatanh0475 3 жыл бұрын

@@nottsoserious I'm from Vietnam and I can tell that we don't use Football fields as a measurement like at all.

@svenbonne 4 жыл бұрын

The Alabama Rocket man story killed me as a german 🤣

@warphole0369 4 жыл бұрын

DIESER TEIL DES CHATS IST EIGENTUM DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND ALS RECHTSNACHFOLGERIN DES DEUTSCHEN REICHES.

@yourhalfwaygenius8323 4 жыл бұрын

Absolut. Das war einfach heftig

@toshtaggart2510 4 жыл бұрын

Nine, Nein, NEIN! 😂

@hannesbaumann8509 4 жыл бұрын

@@warphole0369 Haben wir ihn schon besetzt?

@Toonioni 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly what your rockets did to Londoners... ahahaha just joking.

@phils_world Жыл бұрын

For me its the ability to do stuff like 'oh i dont have a 1L measure' but i have a scale so i can measure out 1kg of water and thanks to the metric system its 1L of water. I actually had to do that once!!

@nocturn9x 8 ай бұрын

Keep in mind that it's only true for pure water. If there's impurities like ions or calcium (which is likely, unless you're using distilled water), 1L of water won't weigh exactly 1kg, but rather slightly more. Another thing to keep in mind is that 1L of water only weighs 1kg at ambient pressure at sea level (i.e an elevation of roughly 0m), so there's that too. Still, should be pretty accurate for most purposes

@user-eo2wl4ku5v 7 ай бұрын

@@nocturn9x approx.. it works ( way better than trying to fill it up from just the looks of it)

@nocturn9x 7 ай бұрын

@@user-eo2wl4ku5v Yes, which is why I said it works in most cases. Definitely better than eyeballing it

@user-eo2wl4ku5v 7 ай бұрын

@@nocturn9x wai../ wah how did i not read that even tho i read the whole cmnt .sry.

@daniesmar 6 ай бұрын

for real. for every líquid similar to water (roughly same density), say milk or apple juice; I just weight a kilogram of it or any fraction for cooking. slight differences on density and pressure wont make It a 1:1 match but a few mililiters of difference don't matter for most things

@Cadgamm 9 ай бұрын

Is The Metric System Actually Better? Long answear: Yes. Short answear: Ye.

@officialluckyturn 7 ай бұрын

Even shorter answer: Y😂😂😂

@discreet_boson 4 жыл бұрын

Nobody: TV reporters: "A lightyear is 9461000000000 metres" *"That's more than 5 football fields"*

@nabeelshariff6006 4 жыл бұрын

And they call a game football That’s not even football And they call football, Soccer Like, Grow a Brain

@damson4480 4 жыл бұрын

@@nabeelshariff6006 wut

@sofieknive7382 4 жыл бұрын

@Samuel Guo the game where people run around with the "ball" in their hands?

@nomadMik 4 жыл бұрын

@Samuel Guo No, nobody's heard of American football. There's rugby league, rugby union, AFL, soccer, and that weird game they play in the US, where people dress up like oompa loompas and roll over each other with a football, and the 'world series' has one country.

@nabeelshariff6006 4 жыл бұрын

Samuel Guo That’s not football idiot

@det0na904 5 ай бұрын

This is not even a question, but let's whatch the video to learn the obvious answer

@bearcb Жыл бұрын

There’s another point: when converting imperial one hardly use all significant digits, so there’s always some error which can accumulate. That doesn’t happen with metric: 1 km is exactly 1000 m, not only the conversation is easier to make, it is always precise.

@wta1518 Жыл бұрын

Give me a third of a meter.

@bearcb Жыл бұрын

@@wta1518 talking about unit conversions within the same system

@wta1518 Жыл бұрын

@@bearcb Metric doesn't have unit conversions.

@allejandrodavid5222 10 ай бұрын

@@wta15180,3333 m

@wta1518 9 ай бұрын

@binkobinev2248 Why would you need a centimeter?

@phillipphil1615 3 жыл бұрын

You forgot another important unit in the US measurement system: "the football field" but of course not the football game every other country plays 😁😁

@doktordok7517 3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@theblancmange1265 3 жыл бұрын

Size of Texas.

@Kosmologiikka 3 жыл бұрын

At least it follows the Imperial logic. 12 inches in a foot but football is 11 inches long. Is mainly played by holding it in your hands and while you can call prolate spheroid a ball, it's still the weirdo in the family of soccer ball, tennis ball, basketball and the likes.

@samaurel6619 3 жыл бұрын

Are you talking about handegg ?

@alexanderm.635 3 жыл бұрын

The "football" that the Americans play is basically discount Rugby.

@hunterreeves6525 4 жыл бұрын

As an American engineering student, I’m just here for the roast on imperial units lol

@ankitkasi5595 4 жыл бұрын

So do you guys have to calculate in imperial or metric? Thought maybe unis still believe in science...

@silverhusky7993 4 жыл бұрын

@@ankitkasi5595 I think they do their calculations in metric, and give answer in imperial. I could be wrong tho.

@Capeau 4 жыл бұрын

@@silverhusky7993 sounds practical

@kokori3271 4 жыл бұрын

@JohnSmith-wx9wj 4 жыл бұрын

Architecture and civil engineering is still done in Imperial. At my job, sometimes we will get a job in metric. That sucks, because it's usually in CM which means to do every little simple thing requires a calculator.

@lyalld7852 Жыл бұрын

When I was learning to fly it seemed crazy that the (American) planes we were flying measured aircraft, passenger, baggage and fuel weights in pounds, but they measured fuel volume in US gallons (which bizarrely are not even the same as an Imperial gallon!), and we purchased our fuel in litres - lots of room for error there, even in light aircraft! Fortunately some light aircraft owners have been sensible enough to have the aircraft weights converted to kg and the fuel dipsticks to litres, removing most of the potential errors.

@GH-oi2jf Жыл бұрын

We think the Imperial gallon is bizarre. In olden times, “gallon” was not a fixed volume. It was a container for liquids and there were different gallons for different liquids. The US gallon was the British wine gallon. When the British formulated the Imperial System, half a century after the United States had left the Empire, they chose to standardize on a different gallon. Why they didn’t check with the USA first I can’t imagine.

@gavinmcmillan6222 Жыл бұрын

I grew up with metric, and as an engineer i grimace at time… 60seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour, 24hrs per day…. Why??? It’s so painful to have been left out.

@GH-oi2jf Жыл бұрын

I have engineering degrees. Every place in the world uses the same system of timekeeping. If you think it is difficult, imagine the difficulty of having two different systems. Actually, you don’t have to imagine. Try switching to Swatch time and find out directly for yourself.

@PutitinDaramen 4 жыл бұрын

real engineering ur a legend. "he designed a rocket just to show the British how much he despised it" *V2 launches*

@jarediannudalo6074 3 жыл бұрын

I spilled my noodles when you counted "6..7..8 *NEIN* *NEIN* *NEIN* *NEIN* *NEIN* " 😂😂

@Umenemo 3 жыл бұрын

he was so excited during the buildup that he couldn't hold his giggle

@winchesterchua3311 3 жыл бұрын

Timestamp?

@sepg5084 3 жыл бұрын

@@winchesterchua3311 just watch the vid, it's just 12 minutes long. Or are you from the US?

@winchesterchua3311 3 жыл бұрын

@@sepg5084 Nah I found it.

@pattymeegs6 3 жыл бұрын

just gonna let this comment stay at 420 likes... someone's gonna f*ck that up in like 10 minutes :(

@timoakley277 4 ай бұрын

If you do any engineering calculations metric is much easier.

@GH-oi2jf 2 ай бұрын

Not really. Engineers use decimal fractions. The calculations using feet with a decimal fraction are the same as when using meters with a decimal fraction.

@arnodobler1096 2 ай бұрын

Every craftsman does too, when he tries it out and sees how much time he saves.

@samgrattan5465 Жыл бұрын

I remember at the beginning of my chemical engineering curriculum, we’d receive some easy mass and energy balancing problems that would have mismatched units. One pressure in psi, another in kPa, and one in mmHg for good measure. The purpose of this was to ensure we understood dimensional analysis and could deal with any units, but of course this was always frustrating for us students because it was usually unrelated to the course content. Eventually once the classes got a lot harder and the equations got longer, we never strayed from the metric system. However, when I entered industry I realized exactly why my earlier professors gave us those annoying problems… many industries cling to the imperial system for dear life. There are definitely some newer start-ups and facilities now that are being smart about their units because its much easier to keep everyone on the same system if you’re starting fresh. However, basically all the old plants religiously use the imperial system; its deeply engrained and difficult to transition because it certainly does cost a lot of time and manpower to replace all of the necessary instrumentation and train the operators and technicians. The benefit to investing in a complete overhaul of the instrumentation, SOPs, manuals, training, etc. to use the metric system is often going to be negligible for day-to-day operations. It can even be detrimental if it isn’t done properly, leading to the same errors discussed in this video that occur when transitioning between two unit systems. So really, you can’t blame American engineers. It’s just not our fault, we’d prefer to use metric because we’re one of the few demographics that appreciate it’s ease of use. However the people that run the businesses and are down on the ground don’t think that way. They’ve gotten along fine with their imperial units and as such require us to produce products and services that utilize them. In academia and highly scientific and technical industries it is different because a great percentage of the working population in those fields do understand the value to the metric system.

@TheRealMonnie Жыл бұрын

Well said. I'm an engineer and metric does provide easier math, but I don't know what the result means until I convert it to imperial 🙂.

@ArruVision Жыл бұрын

I’d have thought industry would jump on it just as quickly as science, but guess not, and you outlined the reason (cost of change) very well.

@alekz8580 Жыл бұрын

@@ArruVisionif im not mistaken, the US automotive industry once lobbied against changing to metric because the lobbying costs were cheaper than retooling costs.

@LudwigVaanArthans 8 ай бұрын

Ah yes, Murrica the land of the money god. If the money god says it's cheap, the Muricans can do it, if the money god says they won't be able to buy 17 yachts that year but only 16, the smart and intelligent Muricans will not do it. Wouldn't want to make the big money priest unhappy, would be

@samgrattan5465 8 ай бұрын

@@LudwigVaanArthans 🤨

@6darkness6eternal6 4 жыл бұрын

The German friends bit caught me completely off guard. That was amazing.

@gertaewilders9114 4 жыл бұрын

yeh, NEIN NEIN NEIN

@imignap 4 жыл бұрын

Watch the Hunt on Prime. There's a whole episode or two on in it.

@glenkeating7333 4 жыл бұрын

I've known this since I was a young lad. The Americans brought literally hundreds of former Nazis over to the states to work in the rocket/space race. Some unfortunately were captured by the Soviets and were forced to do the same on rockets in the Soviet Union.

@UnipornFrumm 4 жыл бұрын

NEIN friends he had

@yotonking2831 4 жыл бұрын

@Binary Grid I see you watched the video too

@andre7417 3 жыл бұрын

"Nein! Nein! Nein! Nine friends, a popular man!"

@JackClayton123 Жыл бұрын

Canada switch to the metric system in the mid 70’s, when I was a teenager in the sciences, so I am quite familiar with both. However, when it comes to people’s height (and to a lesser extent, weight), I still calculate metric to imperial for comparison. Everything else I prefer metric.

@ieldore Жыл бұрын

The uk also tends to do height using imperial and often weight as well. We also use miles for distance, because why be reasonable

@Peacewind152 Жыл бұрын

I’m a 90s Canadian kid and I use imperial and metric interchangeably… though I can’t convert anything in imperial.

@haselnuss43 Жыл бұрын

Well but I think that will phase out, in Germany we never use imperial units. The only thing I know is my grandma using the German pound (Pfund) from time to time (it's exactly 500g), but if only old people use something it will cease to exist

@ieldore Жыл бұрын

@@haselnuss43 Wow, that's really interesting. I'd never heard of a Pfund and didn't know that metric pounds were a thing. I've only ever encountered imperial pounds, which are approximately 454g

@PersianGato Жыл бұрын

The US is inching towards the metric system.

@AlbertaGeek Жыл бұрын

Good one.

@astrogigio1 3 жыл бұрын

Hex wrenches in millimiters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.... (some set may include 1.5 and 2.5 mm) Hex wrenches in imperial: 0.05", 1/16", 5/64", 3/32", 7/64", 1/8", 9/64", 5/32".... are you fu**ing kidding me?

@Locke99GS 3 жыл бұрын

You never learnt fractions?

@dragonlord1935 3 жыл бұрын

@@Locke99GS Why add complexity when it isn't needed?

@Locke99GS 3 жыл бұрын

@@dragonlord1935 Fractions aren't complex though. Children learn fractions. In elementary school. Because they're easy.

@dragonlord1935 3 жыл бұрын

@@Locke99GS They are certainly more complex than whole numbers, and a bit too unwieldy for day to day mental maths. Also, like I said, why add the needless complexity? if you already have a nice, standardized system which gives you a result in more understandable whole numbers, why would you want to willingly subject yourself to a system which displays the same result but in a more convoluted way? Is it just a matter of pride then?

@Locke99GS 3 жыл бұрын

@@dragonlord1935 1) "They are certainly more complex than whole numbers" In the same way that decimals are more complex than whole numbers. 2) "and a bit too unwieldy for day to day mental maths" They're not. American children do them. Americans in general do mental maths with fractions several times a day, every day, without issue. Because Europeans are uneducated or mentally unexercised in doing those mental maths does not mean that it is in any way difficult or cumbersome for those that are educated and mentally exercised in doing those mental maths. 3) "Also, like I said, why add the needless complexity?" It's not complex. It is _different_ . 4) "if you already have a nice, standardized system which gives you a result in more understandable whole numbers," The imperial system is standardized. The imperial system uses just as many whole number as metric. Decimal is not a whole number. Decimal is a restricted form of fraction. 5) "why would you want to willingly subject yourself to a system which displays the same result but in a more convoluted way?" It is not more convoluted, it is _different_ . The result is, as you mentioned, the same. Because something seems more convoluted to Europeans does not mean that those familiar with it find it convoluted. The same argument could be made with language, religion, law, political system, etc... 6) "Is it just a matter of pride then?" It is a matter of casual practicality. Since Europeans won't listen to Americans telling them why Americans are choosing to continue to use the US customary system, see youtube video v=N0U-XEmKPKg which is presented by a Brit, living in Britain. He explains why.

@eXcalibre_ 4 жыл бұрын

Don’t even get me started on FAHRENHEIT...

@wombat4191 4 жыл бұрын

Actually it's the least flawed of the imperial units. Yeah, Fahrenheit's defining points are really weirdly established, but in the end Celsius is just another arbitrary scale as well (though it is more scientifically defined). Fahrenheit doesn't have any inconsistent relations between several units, unlike all the other Imperial units. Though that probably is just because Imperial system doesn't have multiple units of temperature.

@jclosed2516 4 жыл бұрын

@@wombat4191 Hmm... Celsius is just a practical scale for me. If I hear it's 0 degrees Celsius outside, I know it's freezing, and slippery. If my water boils, I know it's 100 degrees. That are neat rounded values based on practical values. I don't disagree with you about Farenheit being the least flawed of the imperial units, but it feels weird for me that when everything outside is frozen over, the Farenheit scale still gives a positive value.

@wombat4191 4 жыл бұрын

@@jclosed2516 Yeah I agree with you, Celsius at least feels more convenient as I'm used to it. That being said, people who are used to Fahrenheit will say the exacts same, arguing the normal "0 = really cold weather, 100 = really hot weather, and 100 is also the limit of fever". I don't really blame them, because it is a rare imperial unit that is not objectively inferior to its metric counterpart (except for scientific use). It's just a matter of how you view the temperature scale for everyday use. Celsius users see it as the area around 0, while Fahrenheit users see it as a scale between 0 and 100.

@jge456 4 жыл бұрын

Given that Celsius isn't in the IS (the unity for temperature is Kelvin, where 0K is the minimum possible temperature: -273.15°C and +-1°C = +-1K): Fahreneit who was the best at making thermometers at the time and Celsius (whi didn't invent Centigrade: the actual Celsius scale has 0 and 100 swapped) made a scale to measure in a specific range without needing negative temperatures for the field of application (respectively meteorology and medicine)

@davidcruz8667 4 жыл бұрын

Seriously? When you tell a Brit that it's 32 degrees outside, instead of bringing a jacket and earmuffs they get dressed in shorts and flip-flops. Weird people.

@trevorstubbs4675 4 ай бұрын

When I first saw this video 3 years ago I was all for ‘murica and got slightly offended by this video. Now that I’m in my junior year of mechanical engineering when I’m given a problem with imperial units it pisses me off. It’s so much more needlessly difficult

@heavenlyxtacy Жыл бұрын

Yes, I can feel the disappointment when they say as big as an tennis court or Olympic swimming pool. Once did read where a newspaper mentioned a crater formed on a road as big as 4 refrigerator.

@wtflmaa7842 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's truly unbelievable to what length USAsian are going to avoid using the ISO system.

@aryapatel1932 7 күн бұрын

One time I saw mine mention a crater the size of a small crater, and another time they said it was half the size of a giraffe WHICH HALF

@wtflmaa7842 7 күн бұрын

@@aryapatel1932 Hmmmmm, maybe the left half? 🤔😏

@heavenlyxtacy 6 күн бұрын

@@aryapatel1932 lol, they are really funny...

@keithbecaus4430 4 жыл бұрын

I am a very old man I was taught imperial and thought nothing of it. In 1971 Britain started to go over to metric, there was panic. However the metric system is a totally integrated system and is simple to use in fact it is beautiful

@AshleyBlackwater 4 жыл бұрын

You say that but its shadows are still around. Milk and beer still gets sold in pints, and speed, height, and weight is still measured in imperial by many. Pretty sure the speed limits are still in miles to? Its a mess.

@lovice 4 жыл бұрын

@@AshleyBlackwater I agree. In this day of age my kids at school only learn metric (kg, km...), but when asking about their weight with the school matron, she would still use stone! And one day my older boy came home asking how heavy is a stone. And I replied, give me a stone I will weight it for you...

@BiW1nning 4 жыл бұрын

@@AshleyBlackwater Milk isn't actually sold as a pint, the bottles are in litres, just with odd numbers. Pints are measured in mls by trading standard, who will allow a 5% error, which is why you pint is often only 540ml

@keithbecaus4430 4 жыл бұрын

Ashley Blackwater I agree but it is still a beautifully simple, logical and integrated system. And what is left of the imperial system is defined by the metric system

@HerbertTowers 4 жыл бұрын

@@BiW1nning WRONG! Milk is packaged in whole units of pints or in whole units of litres. It's one of the most curious examples of EU legislation. Look here for instance: groceries.asda.com/search/semi-skimmed%20milk I can't though remember the rules: but there are some! Weirder still though, if a unit is packaged as a pint, the cost has to be shown as pence per litre. I think that it was done this way for the grannies of the 1970's buying 'staple' goods. Same with eggs too. Sold in dozens, half dozens but also in say, 10's or 15's. The important thing though is that the units are clearly displayed on the containers. And let's not try to understand Market Traders!

@heomji7216 3 жыл бұрын

The question is : Do you like to convert some units with completely weird definitions or do you prefer to just add or remove some zeros ?

@I-am-EmJay 3 жыл бұрын

Yep. I learned how to do it - commit some things to memory and figure out weird relationships because I had to. I also learned the metric system. I have been waiting for over 50 years for America to just change already... if I learned how many feet are in a mile and how to calculate that back to inches (why???) I think I can adapt to figuring out how many liters I am going to put into my 20 gallon gas tank. :P

@mathijs8537 3 жыл бұрын

@@I-am-EmJay but that would take time

@brag0001 3 жыл бұрын

@@I-am-EmJay Why would you ever want to learn that? You never run your gas tank dry anyways. So you are always topping it off instead of adding a fixed amount. You just wait till the pump stops 😉

@Galm_1 3 жыл бұрын

@@brag0001 Uhm. Maybe some people like to calculate how much fuel they need to put in?

@brag0001 3 жыл бұрын

@@Galm_1 Again, what for? Whatever the result of those calculations might be is irrelevant. The tank is full when it's full, not when some pre-calculated number is reached. You usually don't know exactly how much is actually left in the tank and the pump is measuring how much it puts in until it stops. So you only know for sure how much was missing once you actually filled the tank. For a rough estimate on the other hand I need no calculations. I'm not saying you should never do that. All I'm saying is, that this is a task I never need to perform because filling a tank doesn't work that way. I can certainly see some use when working machines you usually don't drive to a fuel pump. But there again I don't need to calculate nothing. A rough estimate rounded to the closest number of fuel cans will be sufficient. Which is why I'm wondering why he would do that. If you really need that, the gallon->liter conversion is pretty straight forward. As long as you are only doing estimates: multiply by four and you're done ...

@MrJimheeren Ай бұрын

Oh man do I love that Werner von Braun joke

@teracycline 6 ай бұрын

If we want to stick to decimal number system, then the units should be commensurate to 10. That is why metric makes sense, and imperial doesn't.

@bowecl 2 жыл бұрын

My wife (American) and I (Australian) argue about this all the time. After watching this video I heard something I never though I would hear her say: ‘fine, I admit it, metric is better’. I can now die happy (and just may!)

@julianshepherd2038 Жыл бұрын

you sound bigger in metric 😏

@NHJ03 Жыл бұрын

Big W bro

@yootoober2009 Жыл бұрын

you may now Rest In Peace or at least get a good night's sleep...

@DangerB0ne Жыл бұрын

You married a keeper, she told you that you were right. Try to replicate that result in different contexts.

@NapoleonBonaparte-of4sl Жыл бұрын

Ok where's your addres and house

@december241 4 жыл бұрын

The amount of sarcasm when describing Wernher von Braun being an Alabama native and showing off his rockets is the funniest thing ever. Love it!

@th3b0yg 4 жыл бұрын

Or the lamest thing ever. Depending on your sense of humor.

@LawAndBedlum 4 жыл бұрын

"Gap year" lmao 😂

@lol007 4 жыл бұрын

Five, how he said five when counting his friends is magestic

@alexander1485 4 жыл бұрын

Remember the Saturn V is "on loan" to the Smithsonian.

@pippo6582 4 жыл бұрын

svgPhoenix ok karen

@michaeldillon3113 Жыл бұрын

It makes Brunel's achievements even more spectacular when you think how he was encumbered by imperial measurements !

@GH-oi2jf Жыл бұрын

He wasn’t encumbered. Most of his work would have been done in one unit of length - feet with decimal fractions. It is no different in complexity than working in metres. Units are equivalent.

@michaeldillon3113 Жыл бұрын

@@GH-oi2jf I agree . The direction of this video was that imperial measures were ludicrously difficult - which would have made the achievements of our great engineers even more impressive.

@astrayelmgod Ай бұрын

My favorite crazy measurement has to be automobile tires. For example, 235/35ZR19. "235" is the width of the tread, in millimeters. "35" is the height of the tire, as a ratio of the tread width. "Z" is the speed rating where letters of the American alphabet correspond to increasing ranges of speed, except that they aren't in strict alphabetical order. The series ends with "STUHVZWY". "R" means radial, and "19" is the wheel size, in inches.

@hidajetsejdic4270 3 жыл бұрын

“Imperial: invented by people who married their cousins”, i was laughing so hard…

@murica7095 3 жыл бұрын

Not a strong argument since everyone was doing all kinds of questionable stuff back then , they still do , still funny though 😂

@murica7095 3 жыл бұрын

@@Andreschannel_SA confusion of da highest orda

@Andreschannel_SA 3 жыл бұрын

@@murica7095 gut

@mmbleachtasty6121 3 жыл бұрын

You,realize most of Europe used the imperial system

@krixpop 3 жыл бұрын

@@mmbleachtasty6121 people used to eat their children as well; just because they did something doesn't mean it was/is good and helpful.

@mankind8807 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine learning thermodynamics in imperial units, goddamn...

@GH-oi2jf 3 жыл бұрын

Thermodynamics was developed in both English and metric units, because the principles are independent of units. Real scientists know that units are arbitrary.

@user-og1dw7hn1i 3 жыл бұрын

@@GH-oi2jf yeah but there is something called 'engifuckineering"

@niranjanr8075 3 жыл бұрын

Noooo...don’t gimme nightmares pls

@mankind8807 3 жыл бұрын

@@GH-oi2jf I know that principles are independent of units, you are talking to an Engineer buddy. But anybody who has taken thermodynamics courses knows how things can get complicated really quickly when you are dealing with multiple properties or processes, now imagine adding the difficulty of English units to this.

@NightDescendant 3 жыл бұрын

Had to learn compressible fluid flow in both unit systems. Most foolproof option for me was to convert to metric at the start of a problem and convert back at the end. Otherwise I would usually have to include units in my equations with unit conversions, whereas in metric you don't have to if all of your units are the standard ones. (This gets crazy in some of the more complicated equations) Also lb-mass, horsepower, and BTUs are garbage units

@karldubhe8619 10 күн бұрын

I remember being taught imperial to metric conversions as a child in the 70s in Canada. We all told the teachers that we would never use that math, and were right about that. Nobody converts, unless they have to. I use metric, a bas l'imperial.

@cesaralfredom Жыл бұрын

Yes. It is. The us and Myanmar are the only places measuring with primitive units, their feet, their hands and elbows.

@FrodoOne1 11 ай бұрын

AND Liberia, which (supposedly) is "Transitioning"

@NunSuperior 4 жыл бұрын

British and American gallons are different sizes. INSANE!

@Zeromaus 4 жыл бұрын

The British measurement is wrong

@namedjavelin3932 4 жыл бұрын

America is using the original British one lmao

@ghost-jesus 4 жыл бұрын

That's because the British measurements changed after American independence, kind of like how the Frenchies metric system changes its definition of a meter every so often, the meter was originally 1/10,000,000th the distance between the equator and the north pole assuming a perfectly round earth, then redefined as the length of a brass stick in Paris, then the stick was replaced with a platinum stick, which was replaced with a platinum-iridium bar suspended on 2 10mm cylinders spaced 57.1cm apart symmetrically in a 0°C room, then that was replaced by 1650763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red emission line in the electromagnetic spectrum of the krypton-86 atom in a vacuum, which was replaced with the speed of light emitted from a Helium-Neon laser in a vacuum (however it is only practical to use an inert-gas atmosphere and estimate the refractive index to get an approximation of a meter)

@Eduardo_Espinoza 4 жыл бұрын

And Canadian gallons

@hlb979 4 жыл бұрын

I believe that nautical and aviation miles, etc are also slightly different?

@matthewstromberg8272 3 жыл бұрын

As a US engineer, THANK YOU - I cannot stand dealing with Imperial units. After so many years I even think in metric.

@merkurysmerkuries7997 3 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Germany, may i ask you if they teach you the metric system in school like high school or college? or can you kinda decide if you want to be thaught in the metric system (because you choose an engineering branch of education or something)?

@MrSolLeks 3 жыл бұрын

@@merkurysmerkuries7997 yes they do teach both imperial and metric in grade school (younger than high school, think 8 year olds), and have done so since the 70's.

@ChemMJW 3 жыл бұрын

@@merkurysmerkuries7997 Yes, every single person in the United States learns the metric system in school. Science courses at universities are taught in the metric system (I'm a university science faculty member). I have heard heard from time to time that Imperial units are still used in some engineering disciplines, but those are in addition to metric, not instead of metric. To put it shortly, this metric vs imperial debate is entirely pointless, because science in the United States is done in metric just like everywhere else in the world. And as to which system people use in daily life, who cares? It's not worth arguing about. If you buy a pound of beef or 0.45 kg of beef, who cares? It's the same amount of beef. In daily life, people use whichever measurements they feel most comfortable with, and everyone gets along just fine. Schöne Grüsse nach Deutschland.

@Milesco 3 жыл бұрын

@@ChemMJW : Well said, Matthew! 👍 This is the point I've been making for years!

@119beaker 3 жыл бұрын

@@ChemMJW live in a metric country but I still can't visualize people's heights in anything but feet and inches. 6 foot does seem more impressive than 184 cm.

@bankai1763 Жыл бұрын

Short answer: Yes

@bunardisanjaya5432 4 жыл бұрын

" Freedom, 'Murica, Guns, PEW PEW, OOHRAH " bro im ded

@Wuzzup129 4 жыл бұрын

So many people where I live have that exact philosophy. I'm glad I chose Metric over Imperial. I would have suffered the same fate. I'm patriotic, but some just go way overboard.

@michellegoede2258 4 жыл бұрын

Fun fact, I believe that the last photo of that parts where to Dutch marines

@dzonijohnny5718 4 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha

@nate8652 4 жыл бұрын

I’m American and I want the metric system idk how hard it is to convert but I already know people are gonna flip and we’ll see another influx in Karen’s

@dzonijohnny5718 4 жыл бұрын

@@nate8652 may the white lady be weak in you... May the karen have no power over you... And make murica great again...

@ryanm.191 4 жыл бұрын

I love that you can hear him choking back his laughter throughout the whole video

@GabrielShitposting 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure he just wanted to say "Yes, yes it is" and then play elevator music for the rest of the video.

@xGeorge1337x 4 жыл бұрын

I had to watch the video a second time to understand what he was insinuating at 1:37. Oh lord, when I understood it I was in tears - you can definitely hear him holding back his laughter when he finishes that statement.

@pomodorino1766 4 жыл бұрын

@@xGeorge1337x Same here 😂, very dark humor mr Real Engineering!

@11u510n15t 4 жыл бұрын

The shtick about mass and weight, he definitely held back.

@GabrielShitposting 4 жыл бұрын

@@11u510n15t he could have went for hours, lol. Props for making it sweet and concise.

@exonzigma Жыл бұрын

The video: "Is The Metric System Actually Better?" Short answer: "Yes" Long answer: "Yes but in 12 minutes and 52 seconds."

@JorgePetraglia2009 Жыл бұрын

There are two kind of countries : the ones that stubbornly decided to stay in the middle ages and the ones that use logic and common sense.

@chazzkellner200 4 жыл бұрын

I'd like to point out that the "eagle scream" used when making fun of 'merica is acutally a red-tailed hawk. It's a common conversion used in video because actual eagles sounds kind of silly.

@sambishara9300 4 жыл бұрын

Why would you do that? In this case, ignorance is bliss. now I will be forever annoyed.

@eduardoandres7330 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you man of culture, I didn't know that. The eagle really sounds inofensive btw

@gabrielsistonamoca6963 4 жыл бұрын

yeah, bald eagles are just a over rated seagulls you can tell Bald eagles are lip syncing lol

@MrBrelindm 4 жыл бұрын

You obviously haven't been listening to Eagles. I witnessed a young bald eagle on its first successful hunt for sturgeon on the Snake River happen less than 30 feet from me. And as it hoisted is prize into the air it shrieked a piercing cry that echoed throughout the canyon. Then from high above its mother approved.

@dotdankory 4 жыл бұрын

holy crap it is

@JonathanKayne 3 жыл бұрын

Is metric better? Me, who is an american electrical engineer: YES.

@rickyhall1772 3 жыл бұрын

Sure, but 'Better' is subjective. Scientifically, and maybe in your field, metric is better, but for every day use the english system is more intuitive and easier.

@welove2134 3 жыл бұрын

@@rickyhall1772 in the US only, I moved to us 5 years ago and I still don’t understand why there are 12 ounces in a cup and not 10.

@rickyhall1772 3 жыл бұрын

@@welove2134 I believe volume measurements are all simpler in metric. But things such as length, temperature, speed, fuel economy, tire size, rim size, air speed, and nautical distances and speed are all FAR SUPERIOR not in metric. Then there are things which go either way, such as time in 12vs24 hours, wire gauges, things like bolts size or thread pitch and bolt strength, and things such as lubricity measurements. At the end of the day, we have computers that can do these conversions for us, so the conversation of standardizing measurements on a global scale is moot.

@LeinaDZiur 3 жыл бұрын

@@rickyhall1772 what can be easier than multiplying/dividing by 10 to achieve any conversion inside the same measure system? you feel imperial is more intuitive because you are used to it, metric is the easiest to learn and to use. Give it a SERIOUS try.

@IamnotJohnFord 3 жыл бұрын

@@rickyhall1772 Uh....nope. The Metric System is superior. Saying that the imperial system is more intuitive and easier is absurd. You could teach someone the Metric System in a few minutes. Try that with the imperial system. When I build things I use the Metric System. It is so much easier than remember inches, feet, yards and also working with fractions. Just because you are more familiar with one system doesn't make it easier to teach for the masses, or more intuitive to use. There is a reason everyone else uses the Metric System. There are about 195 countries. 190+ countries didn't get it wrong, and the US along with a couple of other countries got it right. We use the Metric System at work-in medicine. We don't do conversions because mistakes can kill people. Some of the most dangerous and expensive medications are usually dosed in milligrams per kilogram. I weight about 172 pounds, and I'm about 5 feet 9 inches tall. That's about 78 kilograms and about 175 centimeters. Once I know that everything else becomes notoriously easy to estimate just like you'd estimate in pounds, feet and inches. BTW, get those units wrong either with relaying a measurement to a third party or converting erroneously and you'll gravely under dose or over dose the patient.

@FearOfTheTrooper Жыл бұрын

there are two types of people - those who use imperial and those who use system that got us on the moon

@trinolopez7809 6 ай бұрын

Would you prefer a doctor to prescribe you medicine in the Imperial or Metric System?

@dereks3581 6 ай бұрын

Imperial

@Lemko-jg3zn 6 ай бұрын

Choosing to use imperial instead of a metric system nowadays just sounds like navigating using a position of the sun while you have a compass in your pocket.

@kib2675 2 жыл бұрын

For me it has allways been helpful to think of one liter of water as one kg, and one cubicmeter as a tonn. For me it brings meter and weight together in a simple way.

@davenoble1207 2 жыл бұрын

Just as 1 pint weighs 20oz. Everyone knows that don't they? Don't assume that just because you don't know something, no-one else does. And I think you'll find that the metric unit is metre. A meter is just something which measures.

@kib2675 2 жыл бұрын

@@davenoble1207 You obviously did not get the point that in metric, measures are connected in a decimal system, easy to understand and remember. How many inches in an oz? But, of course, stick to an antiquated system the rest of the world has left behind. It is good for our competitiveness to leave you behind.

@KVPMD 2 жыл бұрын

@@davenoble1207 I see a difference between 1x = 1y and 1x = 20y. Of course you can know. And 2, 3, 7, 1420 are all conversions in that systems. That's plain broken by design. But I want to add: There are historical values used in modern language still but they are all connected to the metric system today. In Germany a pound is 1/2 kg (or 500g), a dozen is 12, a "zentner" is 50 kg, 1bar is 100 kPa, a "Einfacher", a small pint of liquor is 2cl and so on. Even "Zoll" which equals inch is still used for some specific things but it is on a decline just as PS (horse powers) and kcal (kilo calories). But this is for sales (50 inch TV, 200kcal in 100g cheese, a zentner bag of potatoes ... nobody would use that in production or science apart from bar maybe as it is about air pressure. BTW: If imperial systems are so good do it on money again. GB changed in 1971, before that a pound was 20 shilling and 1 shilling was 12 pence. Now 1 pound is 100 pence. Much better. Have fun.

@zefallafez 2 жыл бұрын

As long as you are on earth.

@KVPMD 2 жыл бұрын

@@zefallafez always. 1kg is the mass and that is constant. What changes is weight which is equal to a force. We measure force in newton. 1kg on earth gets gravity force of about 9.81 N. But in the moon this is less. But it is still 1 kg.

@guilhermeuc 2 жыл бұрын

I am a simple private pilot and one thing that has always intrigued me is that in aviation we use notations that mix the metric and imperial systems. In the same sentence, it is possible to read an indication of visibility in meters, altitude in feet, and speed in knots (nautical miles per hour). No doubt created by some drunk guy.

@leifvejby8023 2 жыл бұрын

The mix is to prevent errors and mistakes. If you hear meters you think visibility, hear feet you should think altitude (or height), hear knots it is speed (airspeed if it is a message from atc). No, I don't fly, not after they nicked my medical.

@henryluebberstedt7819 2 жыл бұрын

Drives my a bit crazy as well. feet/gallons/pounds/pounds per square inch - pure pain (for me) to calculate and "think" in this crude system. But I'doubt ICAO would ever switched to a system the Americans are not familiar with. I'm fine with nautical miles and knots because they are based on the grid system. Although I plan simple VFRs in metric over here.

@10hLoops 2 жыл бұрын

Actually, the ICAO wants to implement the metrical system since a couple of years already. It's just really difficult to do and, quite frankly, absolutely unnecessary in the aviation, so that's why they leave it as it is. Speeds and distances are in nautical miles, height/altitude in feet and visibility/runway length in (kilo)meters (at least in Europe - US uses statue miles for that). However, you don't need to convert these units to each other, so it works out pretty well. I can assure you that, because I'm working in aviation.

@ascant2011 2 жыл бұрын

Right, but it's just information using different types of measurements. But don't you dare make calculations by mixing them up.

@AnotherPointOfView944 2 жыл бұрын

That confusing convention comes from the historic nautical world, ... then there were flying boats who adopted nautical conventions. (including the uniform!) . Altitude is an anomaly in the nautical world, but they did measure depth in feet on occaision.

@mayorc 7 ай бұрын

Short answer: YESSSS!

@RudderBoo Ай бұрын

I love the metric system in everything but temperature. I will always use Fahrenheit because I grew up with it

@FrodoOne1-sv1lr Ай бұрын

So?

@georgedeng8646 3 жыл бұрын

Any video that makes fun of the imperial system is a good video.

@TheSyd19 3 жыл бұрын

The international accepted unit to measure distance and speed of boats in the sea are nautical miles and knots. The international accepted unit to measure elevation of planes are feet.

@sagenberg3918 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheSyd19 more because of tradition than because of ease of use.

@aimilios439 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheSyd19 And that sucks. And also any unit now is based on metric, knots and feet are by definition conversions, I could use the length of my nose for that.

@twotakeoff 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheSyd19 and that's awful.

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheSyd19 If they change it, nothing really happens. Planes ain't gonna fall from the sky, it's just a conversion...lol.

@MasterGeekMX 4 жыл бұрын

"Alabama rocket Man". That's Destin from Smarter Every Day.

@manickn6819 4 жыл бұрын

Destin is smartish, von Braun is a genius. Big difference.

@Kiwjtastic 4 жыл бұрын

@@manickn6819 Destin may be smart-ish, but at least... he is smarter every day! quite literally

@tisjester 4 жыл бұрын

@Khaffit Destin supports facts and truth.. So you can guess if he would support a totalitarian regime. He did work in the defense industry as a full time Missile Flight Test Engineer at Redstone Arsenal, so I guess he did support regimes that would be willing to kill millions if needed.

@manickn6819 4 жыл бұрын

@@Kiwjtastic aren't we all getting smarter every day ..... at least till our memory starts to fail.

@manickn6819 4 жыл бұрын

@Khaffit I think that you should probably question the regime that chose to turn a blind eye and not put him on trial. Instead they relocated him and put him in a top post to get to space. Proud moment for them if I recall correctly built on the backs of the same regime that killed millions.