Metric sucks for eyeballing though. And as for conversions, you can do the EXACT SAME THING in Imperial, as 1.80469 cubic inches = 1 liquid ounce. As long as you have something CONSISTANT you can do a conversion. If you get 1.84 liquid liters you still have to do the math to convert it to grams, AND when you're dealing with LARGE numbers and complex equations and NO ONE is going to do that shit by hand anymore. If you want to convert inches into ounces there are CALCULATORS FOR THAT sweety. Metric only made sense in the pencil and paper days before technology. It's easier for paperwork but it SUCKS for eyeballing things or guestimating. Imperial is still a very easy system to remember. 12 inches in a foot (which is a lot closer to an actual human foot than either centimeters or kilometers which are either too dam big or too dam small), 3 feet in a yard (which I can ACTUALLY WALK OUT when trying to get a rough measurement with tools; unlike a meter), and 1760 yards in a mile. It's no less of a system than time. With its 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 12 hours on a clock representing 12 hours of daylight and nighttime on an even equinox day, 24 hours in a day, with 365 days in a year which can be divided into, 12 months or 52 weeks, and each week being 7 days. Why not make time simpler and make everything based on 10 instead??? BECAUSE USING REAL-LIFE THINGS WE INTERACT WITH ON A DAILY BASIS IS EASIER. We use 365 days in a year because THAT'S ACTUALLY how many days there are in one earth revolution around the sun. We're not going to make it 400 days just to appease the lazy ass metric fanboys who can apparently remember all this other info regarding time but can't remember anything imperial.

@@dab0331 1. Metric is better for eyeballing volume, because easily calculate on the fly, based on size of container. If number are complex, just use calculator. 2. yard is cca meter. 3. I can't say anything.

you clearly haven't lifted a kilogram

The metric system began during the French Revolution. There were over 200,000 different units of measurement In France. Sometimes different between two neighboring towns. So it was mainly to simplify the whole mess. Also, to get rid of religion, they also tried a new calendar with 12 months of 30 fixed days, with weeks of 10 days, hours with 100 minutes, etc... All of this was spread throughout Europe with Napoleon.

@@Dances-st6id Yeah and a religious organazation fixed the leap year problem withing the calendar. here is an interview with Neil explaining this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f5iZp8-G0aqVYIE.html

One of those is mass and the other is weight

Perhaps, but saying I’m nearly 6 feet tall sounds better than saying I’m shy of 2 meters. 😂

God that’s a good one

that's like saying 3 and 4 are incompatible with 12. Oh wait.... they ARE compatible as they both can be divided into 12. Can you divide both an even number and an odd number into 10? NO. Are 52 weeks incompatible with a 365-day year, with 12 months and 7-day weeks? Feet are more useful than centimeters and meters, and unlike meters, I can ACTUALLY WALK OUT yards when I'm trying to get a rough estimate of a backYARD if I forgot my measuring tools.

@@dab0331 in the metric system we rarely use division. i think thats a big difference to.

Seen it.

@@dab0331 I'll surprise you, a longer stride is about a meter.

It’s like a drunk mathematician was drawing random numbers from a hat

Mixing both is not a good idea

say it first pro or con... as a workshopguy u know... tools áre expensive... it is just the holy USA

By mixing both he is saying we tell time by integers of 12 because 12 breaks up more easily. When I'm doing woodworking using the metric would more easily create mistakes. Seriously there are 10 lines in between vs 4 easy to see lines in less than optimal lighting. When I'm looking so mount something I want to evenly space the screws I'm putting in I can more easily visualize and calculate that in fractions vs decimals. And as he pointed out Celsius and Fahrenheit become useless at higher temperatures. We don't measure distances in space with miles and kilometers but in light-years. He's saying use what unit works most efficiently and stop being dumb trying to use a 1 size fits all system because it doesn't exist.

@@gibster9624 about the "12", why its not used? its because we choose to calculate everything in base 10 (calculate, not measuring), not because we have 10 finger (which is valid reason in the past, but no longer). Even in base 12, 10/3 is still 0.3333333...... and if you think using base 12 get rid of "decimal" (decimal actually means base 10, while 0.1, 0.5 and 0.3333 is actually called fraction), you still write 9.5 or a.3333 or b0.2a (a base 12 is 10 in base 10 and b base 12 is 11 for base 10 and b0 base 12 is 12 in base 10). The reason time is still 24 hour and divided by 60 for minutes and second is simply because time is abstract, and you can't make the static non changing physical representation, thats why time is the only one that is defined by equation and never have physical representation (1 sec is equal to how long cessium vibrate x amount of time). The computer used to measure it is not the standard second, the result of measurement is the standard second. The babylonian use base 12, and their measurement of time is accurate enough to be measured with actual object like sun position and hourglass sand with really small margin of error. That is why time is still measured based on 24 hour, 60 min and 60 sec, but smaller than sec, its base 10. About your accuracy, its depend on how trained you are in the system. In my place, the old carpenter i used to work with have no problem with metric tape to nail, screw or drill a hole undee the dim kitchen sink, because thats the system he trained in. There is some tape that use better visual for you that separate by 2 mm and by 1mm to give better accuracy. Its not you fault that you can't do more efficient job using metric because you used to imperial, but its also not metric fault that makes the lines is not clear enough to help you. Its just the manufacturer decission to make your tape in form thats not suitable for you to work in metric.

@@itssilence9998 time is no different than a nail. All mankind has done was develop a way to measure them. The very reasons to use metric are the same reasons to use Kelvin but I don't see anyone making a push to do that. Looking at a measuring tape between metric and imperial you can easily see which side is likely to cause more mistakes.

Stop it I don't think imperial system hold well conversation with volume May be I'm wrong ?🤔

Damn, the imperial system is so shit that I got confused the moment you said 20' 3". WTF is that? 😂 No Offense, I'm just playing. I use Metric System and I find Imperial System pretty confusing.

Okay, let me try to do that in metric. But first I need to convert to metric and I'll round the numbers to an even one, not to have a billion decimals from converting. 12' 4" = 3,7692 ~3,75m 20' 3" = 6,1722 ~ 6,2m 8' 6" = 2,5908 ~ 2,6m The Pool is 3,75 x 6,2 x 2,6m 500 Pounds of water are 226,796Kg of Water. Lets just say 225Kg. Now the calculation: 3,75 * 6,2 * 2,6 = 60,45m³ 60,45m³ (qubik meters, aka 1m * 1 * 1m cube) of water weigh 60,45 Tons. 1 m³ = 1 Ton 1Ton = 1000Kg so 60,25 Tons = 60250Kg I can take 225Kg of water in one trip so 60250:225 = 267,7 ~ 268 Trips to fill the pool. Maybe someone can do the same in imperial? Cause I dont wanna do that xD

@@marcoschwanenberger3127 Actually water is in litres, not KG

@@filmtherapybw Huh? But it says 500 pounds of water? And 1 Liter of Water is 1 Kg anyways sooo :)

If you put one joule of energy into one cubic centimetre/one milliliter of water, it will increase its temperature by exactly one degree Celsius/Kelvin

Kim McKnight I say that we should use kittens or puppies instead, they are much cuter than burgers.

@@chringlanthegreat4556 But are kittens and puppies yummy, burgers are!

But do you use the advertisement Big Mac (ABM) or the real Big Mac (RBM).

WRONG. It's a perfect system because you get CLEAN numbers. 12 inches in a foot (which is a lot closer to an actual human foot than either centimeters or kilometers which are either too dam big or too dam small), 3 feet in a yard (which I can ACTUALLY WALK OUT when trying to get a rough measurement with tools; unlike a meter), and 1760 yards in a mile. It's no less of a system than time. With its 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 12 hours on a clock representing 12 hours of daylight and nighttime on an even equinox day, 24 hours in a day, with 365 days in a year which can be divided into, 12 months or 52 weeks and each weeks being 7 days. Why not make time simpler and make everything based on 10 instead? BECAUSE USING REAL-LIFE THINGS WE INTERACT WITH ON A DAILY BASIS IS EASIER. We use 365 days in a year because THAT'S ACTUALLY how many days there are in one earth revolves around the sun. We're not going to make it 400 days just to appease the lazy ass metric fanboys who can apparently remember all this other info regarding time but can't remember anything imperial.

@@dab0331 notice how the only people defending the imperial system are american?

@@bulletium5163 and?...brainwashing is a hell of a thing. We're the only ones who defend the right to keep and bear arms too. But then again we're the most free country on earth and had to actually FIGHT for our freedoms. The only reason other countries have democracies instead of monarchies is because we led the way. You do know you can use both right? Americans still use both. It's better for your brain; like knowing a second language.

@@dab0331 I know it’s hard to believe, but America is not the centre of the universe

@@bulletium5163 when it comes to freedom, then yes; yes we are. I know it's hard to believe, but America uses both systems because both have pros and cons. Imperial is more practical and easier to eyeball for everyday use. And we do use metric. We have 9mm handguns, 2 liter sodas, and drugs are sold in grams. Derp dee derp

i wouldnt say its their language.

It is indeed but Its pretty low

Thats normal in a sauna

@@finnishboo4192 in Estonia Under 80C in sauna is low

@@Avalonest yeah true but i meant in america

@@Avalonest in finland under 100C sauns is low

I actually think Fahrenheit is the best imperial unit. Coldest you're going to get is most places is 0, hottest is 100. Closer you get to either tells you how hot or cold it is outside. If it's 100 Celsius outside, you're dead.

@@andrewb3234 Your argument doesn't change the fact that the Fahrenheit scale isn't based on anything tangible and is completely arbitrary, There are many places on earth were it gets colder than 0F and many where it gets hotter than 100F. And other places, such as where I where I live, where it will never be as cold as 0F or as hot as 100F. So the scale is still completely arbitrary.

@@SirIdot it's all arbitrary. But when it comes to the human experience of weather, Fahrenheit works best. Places above 100 or below 0 have extreme weather. But for the most part, 0 and 100 is the range for most humans on earth. Saying it's 70 degrees out on a scale of 0 to 100 is more intuitive than saying it's 21.11 degrees out.

@@andrewb3234 It's not more intuitive, it's just that you are used to Fahrenheit. For someone like me that grew up with Celsius I do not have the same sense of what Fahrenheit means as you. You are also making a fallacy because you are converting between the two units. Temperature readings are not that accurate in real life so people where Celsius is used would just say it's 21 degrees. Just as you would not say it's 69.8F when it's exactly 21C. But the argument isn't about which one people feel the most comfortable with, it's that while Celsius is based on the freezing and boiling temperature of water, Fahrenheit is based on nothing.

@@SirIdot in most people's daily life, they don't need to know the freezing or boiling point of water.

So you enjoy being ignorant? You said arguing about which is better is just ignorant tbh. Then you continue on about which one you feel is better. Or do you mean that its ignorant to disagree with you. Even though you make it clear you only understand the one side. Either way its funny

Ye but i think memory is 1024

@@BK-ut3wc It is. 2^10.

@@BK-ut3wc actually a Kilobyte(KB) is 1000 Bytes and a Kibibyte(KiB) is 1024 Bytes

Take off your coats and get out your shorts because today it is a nice and sunny 295000

@@hyperanemoia8842 lol

You could go black body radiation route and use nm or Hz.

Since when is the temperature a million degrees in the morning? xD

That's cuz you can hide your shortness as that's only 5 foot 10 inches here. Girls only want guys above 6 feet tall (182.88cm)

​@@dab0331 so 2 cm is big for girls? Excellent

Nope. It's easy for paperwork that's it. But this isn't the pencil and paper days, we have calculators. Imperial is better because it's based on REAL WORLD things we interact with on a regular basis; just like time. Time is 365 days in a year and not 500 or 1000 because that's ACTUALLY how many day revolutions where in one earth revolves around the sun. Sometimes mathematically accurate is more cumbersome in everyday use. There are actually 365.2422 days in a year but NO ONE is going fucking remember that other than scientists who deal with paperwork. Imperial is better for everyday life when you eyeball something or guestimate.

Do you know how that happened.

I've seen that example or one similar to it. I'm not going to dig to find the example in order to provide you with exact details, but as I recall, the explanation for such a result, not provided to the audience, was that things were twisted to favor the metric system as a result of specifications being biased, and the dimensions of the materials that were supplied being purposely less compatible with the design, which is nothing other than intentional fraud. It's been some time since I've seen the footage, but I do recall seeing very suspect clues that led me to my conclusion that it was a fraudulent presentation. It happens all the time. Concoct a scenario, tell the audience what you want them to hear, get the hell off the stage at the conclusion of your fraudulent presentation, and let the seeds of the misinformation sprout amongst the audience. Stage magicians rely on such tactics to entertain an audience. It's expected of them and is honorable so far as it goes as applied to their trade. It's not honorable when done to fraudulently bamboozle an audience. Take a few moments to think about it.

There used to be 100 second minutes and 100 minute hours. The day was 10 hours long. In my opinion this would have been amazing. The French took it a bit too far though. While a week had 10 days (which I too prefer) and a month had 30 days, so 3 weeks (it's used like that in a lot of banks, so a year has 360 days), people started worrying that they'd have to work more, because they were afraid that the weekends stayed the same but the days you'd have to work increased by 3 days (from 7 days a week to 10). That's the reason why reforming the time measurement has failed.

Yeah, but that's a bit unhandy in daily life

Wait, your weight is in feet or cm?

@@mochardiansah7452 hahaha whoops!

Yh same in the UK. But for some reason we still use miles, apart from that everything is metric

Weird because you can LITERALLY WALK OUT the length of a yard (unlike a meter) OR visualize 3 feet much easier than a meter or centimeters. Not to mention using cups to measure how much flour to use is much easier than going off liters because liters are TOO dam big for cooking usually and EVERYONE has a teacup on hand. And it's a lot easier to divide that teacup of flour in QUARTERS, HALVES, AND THIRDS when reading the instructions because the human brain doesn't usually like to cut things into 10s. YOu cut something in half, then cut that half in half to get quarters and cut those quarters in half to get eight. It's much easier than metric because you can cut 10 in 5 but you can't cut 5 into a clean number because you get 2.5, and then 2.5 turns into 1.25. I'd much rather say it's about an eighth of an inch when eyeballing something instead of o it's about 1.256 cm long

Saw? From where facebook?

@@finnishboo4192 NIST...NASA by itself says it would take over $370,000,000 and they're one of the smaller agencies in the government.

moot point. Canada and Australia have made the change without issue. The system just needs to be phased in over a longer time frame.

@Based Zoomer they tried that in the 70's...it didn't work. Also, fewer people live in Canada than in just California and more people live in just Texas than Australia. The amount of stuff to change over is just insane. A lot of it would also be crtical infrastructure and the tools used to build and maintain it. Switching over to metric sounds great and all until the first time you need to repair a bridge and no one can machine the part properly because all of the tool making machines are configured in metric. America is the world's second largest manufacturer. Comparing it to Canada or Australia is like comparing switching a single lightbulb to switching all of the lightbulbs in Paris.

Yeah... if you do it at once. No need to change anything existing, but you could replace it with the metric system, or mix it for a few years. For example, every street sign that has to be replaced will show you the speed in km/h and in miles/h. Teach children at school both systems and make them use the metric system more often. With time people get used to it and you can fully change to the metric system. No need to rush it and break the entire economy and confuse everyone. Give them time to adapt

Not by much. You're still using the same system but instead of multiplying everything by 10, you multiply it by 2. You still multiply it by the factor of x, it matters little what x is. If you got that, you also get the critique against the imperial system and why your argument is invalid.

@@keepsmiling7645 yes I agree, but that was not a critique, I don't live in a country which uses the imperial system and I don't even know how the imperial system actually is

Because numbers get long fast and it’s hard for people to comprehend. For example 64 is already 11111111.

@@captainhellhound7451 I'm not talking about using the binary system to represent the measure, even imperial sytem of units users, use the decymal system, let's say a moutain has a hight of 10 miles, thats is imperial system, but the number ten is writen using the deciamal system, what I'm talking about is basing our units in powers of 2, lets say, instead of having kilo, mega, giga, etc, being based on 1000, 1000000 and 1000000000, let then be, 2, 4 , 8 and so on, for example, let us define de fundamental unit of time, the second as 2^33 cycles of the radiation produced by the transition between two levels of the cesium-133 atom, similar to the definition on the SI, but using a better base, the binary base instead of the decimal, it would even make the life of those who work with computers much easier

Metric is older as a government-declared system. Measurements related to people's connections to the natural world, call them imperial if you like, have been around way longer than anyone knows.

I'm of the belief that lbs stands for "load of bullshit".

Did you mean kilo? Cause milli is 10^-3 so 0.001.

@@Darkhooper more like 1 megaview

Not sure but anyways welcome to Jar!

Thats way too hot. Antiseptic alcohol boils at around 75

Thats the goal

What the hell? I have 2 american friends, they said that the imperial is stupid, and they only took one look at metric

@@PKMark It's only easier for PAPER WORK. Imperial is easier to eyeball and guestimate with as it's based on REAL LIFE THINGS we interact with on a daily basis. A foot is a lot closer to an average person's foot than cm or meters. And a yard is 3 feet and thus basically 1 pace. You can't pace out in meters because it's too dam big

@@dab0331 well that is kinda a good argument, but even then i have a foot size of 46 (12 in us shoe size) which is 28.6 cm thats still around 2 inch smaller than an imperial foot, and i say i have a pretty big foot, and most people gave smaller, so they would be at least 7-9 inch off measuring a yard with their feet. But besides that, why is a mile 1760 yards? Why is a pound 16 oz? Why is a gallon 128 oz? Why can you measure both mass and fluid with ounces? Why is an acre 43560 square feet (or 4840 square yard)? And i dont think these are numbers you could explain.

@@PKMark why is a year 365 days, cut into 52 7-day weeks, with 12 months and 4 seasons, with a 12 hour clock, and 24 hour days with 60 minutes and hour and 60 seconds a minute? Because they're all spring forth from something or are divided from something based in nature. To arbitrarily cut 12 months to 10's is stupid. It's based on days based on rotations of the earth, moon, and sun; NOT some made up human measurement. Metric is just made up. They took 2 lines, put them as close as humanly possibly and named them millimeters, and started dividing the groups by 10. But why not 12 or 8 or 24? Everything is arbitrary when you think about it. Imperial inches are based off of things like the width of 3 grains of barley, a foot from a foot, a yard from the back of one foot to the tip of the other when taking a step, etc etc. Don't think of miles in terms of feet. It's easier to start with yards and then break it down from there. A miles is 1760 yards, so 1760 x 3 = 5280 feet. A gallon is 8 pints, and a pint you simply double the amount to ounces, so 16 fl oz in a pint. A solid pound of meat is also 16 oz. A mile was originally based on the Roman mile, which meant a thousand paces, and was 5,000 Roman feet, which is a little smaller than a US foot. If you know anything about land navigation, a pace is roughly the distance it takes you to take 2 steps. So basically starting from a stationary position and marching right then left; it begins with the back of your left foot and ends with the tip of your left foot after 2 steps. That's why a navigation pace is 5 feet, and it takes 1000 paces to make a Roman mile The only thing is we stayed with the Roman mile while switch from the Roman foot. We could switch it to be 5,000 modern US feet, but that's an expensive logistical nightmare. Plus you can divide 3 foot yards into a 5280 ft mile in order to get 1760 yards. But you can't divide 3 foot yards into a 5000ft mile; you get an odd number: 1,666.6666666667 yards. As for people having different sized feet, sure they're many who are smaller but once you know you're foot size you can still use it for a ROUGH ESTIMATE. So if you 12 of your feet equals 10 feet you know to always round down a bit. But in metric you have nothing even close to compare it to while get a nice clean number or length that's easier to visualize for said situation. Same with paces. In the military they have a standard length in paces which they make everyone walk out in order to get a rough estimate as to how many of your individual paces equals a standard pace.

1cm = 0.01 m 100cm= 1m

1cm 0.01 mm 100cm = 1m 1000cm = 1km

What's the difficult converting metric to metric? It's more easier than imperial

@@finnishboo4192 1000cm=10m* 1000000cm=Km

@@eliluminado7112 Metric sucks for eyeballing though. And as for conversions, you can do the EXACT SAME THING in Imperial, as 1.80469 cubic inches = 1 liquid ounce. As long as you have something CONSISTANT you can do a conversion. If you get 1.84 liquid liters you still have to do the math to convert it to grams, AND when you're dealing with LARGE numbers and complex equations and NO ONE is going to do that shit by hand anymore. If you want to convert inches into ounces there are CALCULATORS FOR THAT sweety. Metric only made sense in the pencil and paper days before technology. It's easier for paperwork but it SUCKS for eyeballing things or guestimating. Imperial is still a very easy system to remember. 12 inches in a foot (which is a lot closer to an actual human foot than either centimeters or kilometers which are either too dam big or too dam small), 3 feet in a yard (which I can ACTUALLY WALK OUT when trying to get a rough measurement with tools; unlike a meter), and 1760 yards in a mile. It's no less of a system than time. With its 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 12 hours on a clock representing 12 hours of daylight and nighttime on an even equinox day, 24 hours in a day, with 365 days in a year which can be divided into, 12 months or 52 weeks, and each week being 7 days. Why not make time simpler and make everything based on 10 instead??? BECAUSE USING REAL-LIFE THINGS WE INTERACT WITH ON A DAILY BASIS IS EASIER. We use 365 days in a year because THAT'S ACTUALLY how many days there are in one earth revolution around the sun. We're not going to make it 400 days just to appease the lazy ass metric fanboys who can apparently remember all this other info regarding time but can't remember anything imperial.

@The secular humanist But metric system use Kelvin

@The secular humanist Well... there you go... wanting to use metric because people are to dumb nowadays for imperial.

emilio nogueira technically yes, but, since using it during everyday life would be difficult we use Celsius, which is much more useful than kelvin for a normal everyday life

​@@lucabralia5125 Yes, I know. I`m Spaniard so I use Celsius too. But Kelvin is the unit for International Metric System. Use Celsius like example of the benefits of SI is wrong, is proof that even those of us who have adopted SI do not always use it. It seems more a argument against than in favor

@@jonlanier_ "wanting to use metric because people are to dumb nowadays for imperial" But all universities, research labs, NASA etc use metric because is more scientific. Calling them dumb shows how really dumb you really are.

Then start using a base-12 numbering system. So instead of writing 10 you write A, and instead of 11 B. Then b12 10 = decimal 12 And 1A = 22 1B = 23 A0 = 120 B0 =132 A0 = 1200 And so on But we have gotten used to using a base 10 numbering system, so base 10 measurements are the logical thing to use.

@@unkreativity1596 Because I already have feet and inches, keep it simple stupid! Of course your Rube Goldberg solution is exactly what would be used by a europoor who cannot admit that the metric system isnt always the best system of measurement; which is easier to divide by three without a calculator, 77 meters or 77 feet?

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@@finnishboo4192 why cant you britbongs even speak your own English language correctly?

I always used the metric system so I find it hard to use the imperial system anytime I'm in the US or with anyone who uses the Imperial primarily

Bases: Meters, Grams and Litres. Prefix: kilo- (x1000), base, centi-(/100), milli- (/1000)... and thats literally all most people will ever use. Thats it. How is that hard?

@@callumscott953 it is even in the word, so there is no excuse that it is too hard ;D

It's actually simple, they will make it official and future generations will gradually replace imperial with metric.

Continuously having to convert units is an annoyance, but neither system is hard. Dealing with this all day has created a sort of hybrid in my head so i know the imperial decimal equivalent to most common metric dimensions.