Verge Science yup

Being taken over by a country with metric system -_-

Just changing it by law. Everyone is free to use what they like, but you could make it official in schools, the rest will change slowly but automatically.

It will take years, countries, and people.

Being unpatriotic.

2 funny sir - you are a modern day Will Rogers/Groucho Marx rolled into one 😁

currently 31 yards, six and fifteen sixteenths of an inch yet to go

That is fabulous 🤣🤣

Ya gotta watch these people! Give 'em a centimeter and they'll take a kilometer!

Bruh

Aydin Zahedi but china does

Aydin Zahedi and north korea

@@jacobisaacs600 What?!?!?!?!

Oh, but we found a way to dates differently too, cuz we've been fiercely independent, trouble-making freedom fighters since 7/4/1776!

Hush! Don't give them the idea!

Of course measument must be done to some level of precision, but in everyday life we estimate length more than we measure. The foot is a convenient unit for estimation, not because it is close to the size of your foot but because it is a convenient size. The meter is too coarse; the cm is too fine.

@@GH-oi2jf you're clearly not an engineer. I understand it's probably how normal people think but my brain is just not wired like that.

I have a graduate engineering degree. The fact that some people put forward lame reasons for feet and inches does not make me want to stop using them, only to ignore their arguments.

You don't have problems with the metric system! Money is metric: 1 cent = 1 centimeter 1 thousand = 1 kilometer (Kilo is 1000 in ancient greek)

That's about right. ;)

Literally they even said that this channel is science 😂

I agree, random! (I don't say "dude". Ha ha.) Yes, Metric makes *far* more sense.

They are an American channel for mostly American viewers why wouldn’t they use imperial

@@apex_blue Because i'ts a science channel and even US americans do science in metric.

@@DieselsVideos I know me too, but we don’t comprehend it, we only know it, which is why most Americans including me still use the standard (imperial for you) system for everyday use.

It makes shoe shopping easier, they always have the same size

Na the brits had same size feet cuz the foot comes from ye olden kingly days. nice try tho.

-RobloxGodFox - but an inch is one thumb so do all Americans have a thumb that’s one inch wide and do ye line up 6 people to measure a foot?

Most feet are around 10 inches in length. Since this is close enough to a foot, it's still really easy to estimate rather than a meter. I also hope you realize that saying 'all Americans' you're referring to everybody in North America, only one of which (the US) uses the imperial system. I live in the UK, and yet this comment still does not humor me.

It's (ABOUT) the same size as a human's foot.

Na g we buy ounces ova hurr

Take a moment to really think about your comment.

The White Banksters know this as well when they launder the money and stash it overseas with no taxes.

If you want to buy enough yes you do buy a ounce but most people with weed which is what you are referring to is by grams. Other drugs go by ounces if in large enough doses.

In "Gin & Juice", how much were they going to "smoke today"?

You left out 3 barleycorns in an inch, 220 yards in a furlong, and 8 furlongs in a mile! :)

That’s imperial, not US customary, furlongs are only used in horse racing

Systeme métrique >>>>>> système impérial

Because the channel is American and they’re only looking out for themselves. Selfish but that’s America!

Lol ikr

United States customary units, not British Imperial units.

I guess the rest of the world should stop their videos then, only Liberia and Myanmar people are allowed

US Half must be their new Unit. Lol.

WhiTE SupErMacY. Jk.

No, they are just confident you are intelligent enough to apply conversion.

Haha so true

@@freshbbqftw "their nonsensical ways" FTFY

The American half is not totally comfortable with imperial system either.

GUNS PER SCHOOL

@@Iucebowel yo chillll

@@Abztract FURRIES PER WALMART

"Burgers per freedom".. yo why am I still alive right now 💀💀💀

Salty metric plebs per video

A gallon is something you not bout to drink in one sitting so tf you confused about

@@tyrillcelestine7096 he said visiting, you think visiting US is just one sitting and leave to other country?

Nothing absurd about it. It's just a unit of measurement. Yes it's not the same as what you're accustomed to. So what? When you're in Rome, you do as the Romans do.

@@tyrillcelestine7096 Lmaooooo.

It's not absurd if you use it every day.

SI dominates Science.

@@srikrishna2561 Si is basically speciallised metric

Is because “the accident “ that happen in nasa

Too bad one of their suppliers didn't.

don't tell them, because they think there are two types of people: those who use metric, and those who went to the moon

In Aus we use feet and inches for height, but cm are also acceptable

Same in the UK, and we weigh ourselves in stones which even the yanks don't use.

Megan Pinch same in canada

@@helloworld0911 What kind of stones? Lime stone? Granit? Holy cow, did not know that.

It don't matter ya fucking manlet

True

I wouldn't go so far as to say they "should" because their goal audience is not of scients, but I do agree that it would make much sense if they did use metric because they are trying to inform normal people about science and metric is a (important) part of science.

@@frank7411 You've just given a good argument as to why Verge SHOULD use Metric in its videos.

Like, I think some things “should” not be discused like useing metric when talking about science. Beaculse then you can say Hey, why do not we use binary computers use them why should not we. I know it is a little far fetched but you get the point.

Oh No! Temperatures in Kelvin?

5280 what? Potatoes. But i agree with you.

​@@iulius22265280 feet or 1760 yards = 1 mile

​@@iulius2226My teachers:

Which pebbles??

@@AJarOfYams The standard ones... Dumball

@@AJarOfYams the round ones

@@AJarOfYams the ones in his backyard😂

And a gallon of gas is 3.57 shmekels .

Implicitly he said americans are cry babies, while the rest of the world will watch the video anyway

If their country of origin uses imperial why not use it? It's no different then any other cultural influence that may apear in a video.

@People said my Username was Offensive are u really sure? "this channel was meant to Americans"? if this was my channel. than i would prefer worldwide

@@MuhammadNaufalyw americans make up a very big chunk of social media compared to any other audiences

Am not an american and we use the imperial system

Myanmar is changing too.

Liberia is in West Africa.

...

What the fuc-

What's that? Metric please.

oooh, fractions are scary?👻👻👻

Working with fractions I found myself having to convert it to decimal anyway before calculating. So fractional inches are not so much precise as deferring the problem to a later time.

This one just didn't make sense. Yes you can use them, but only as a rough meusurement. The moment it has to mean something you have to get out a tool. This is literally what everyone does and has no connection to what system you use.

Roughly, yes.

@@gabrielclark1425 Yeah, and because it's only a rough estimate and varies, it was decided to switch to metric to get rid of all these variations, worldwide. Well, except for that one kid with special needs ...

@@group555_ That's the point. The U.S. uses metric when it counts... Military, government, businesses, and the scientific community. How often is the average Joe going to need exact measurements in their day-to-day life, not that often.

@@FrozenMod no but my point is that a system being based on body properties is not a valid point for it being a better system. For the average joe metric is better because the increments of powers of 10 lead to way fewer mistakes and an easier time working with it in generall.

What the f?

World: 1 cm=10 mm USA: 1 inch= 3 baby's thumb

Rest of the world: 1km = 1000m USA: WeLl iF yOU wAnT tO rEmEmBeR hOw mAnY feET tHeRe aRe iN a mILe jUsT rEmEmBeR "five tomatoes" bEcAuSe iDk

😂😂😂😂

@@mw-cp4cl metric system has just "centi-", "kilo-" and a lot of others, but you just have to know that centi means 100 times smaller and kilo 1000 times larger. The only thing for you to remember is how many zeros to add, based on the begging of the word. In American the word Inch has nothing to do with Foot when it comes to the name, so it's hard to figure out that it's 12. At least that's my opinion.

Isn’t it just a kilogram?

@@MattWyndham 1 stone = 6.35029318 kg But that depends on which stone you pick. Pebbles, bricks, gemstones, boulders, ... I guess all stones in the US have the same mass, that's the most reasonable explanation. XD

@@McTofuwuerfel Stones as a unit of measure isn't commonly used in the US. It's more used in the UK.

Yes - as of 20 May 2019.

FrodoOne1 When has the last advancement in the imperial system been made?

@@mrjakobt Probably "The Weights and Measures Act 1985", which defined Imperial measures in terms of SI Units.

😅🤣🤣🤣🤣

Don't laugh. Look up the definition if furlong and acre.

Well i did. So

See it makes sense because everybody can relate!

This is basically the US Imperial system.

@@jaredscott3133 could you elaborate on that?

@@jaredscott3133 I'm sorry u are implying it's easier than metric in an everyday setting. As a person who sees measurements in meter, gram and Celsius everyday. What makes imperial better? You can train yourself to look at the metric system without any hassle or difficulty.

Jared Scott For daily use, any units are good since we are so used to it.

You are getting confused with those 2 points. He's saying that back in the 18th century imperial system in USA was more precise and accurate than metric, but for scientists the possibility of making all those units using only a few basics are much more vital feature + nowadays we have much more accuracy in meters and kilos than in the past.

...more sense like trump is a descent human being.

Nightfury Matthew, Americans make jokes about other countries all the time 🙂 don’t make it a double standard.

@Nightfury Matthew you are too wrong I don't know what to say

@Nightfury Matthew r/wooosh

I laughed too hard at this comment. Oh god.

@Nightfury Matthew yeah you can. Everything can be joked about. Absolutely everything. America is no different. In fact, at the current political moment, America is a fucking joke 😂 American makes jokes about everyone else so you have to take it as well.

No country that uses the metric system has put a man on the moon.

Americans learn both.

@@basshead. but are the machine that land on the moon use metric ? Yes.

@@basshead. foolish specious statement.

@@gorkym8864 No, Americans in general learn both. In science class/science in general or engineering, we use metric. For every day life where exact measurements don't really matter we use imperial. Kids learn metric in school. Has been the case for a long time.

But a "foot" *_isn't_* the length of a person's foot. It is a well-defined unit, and has been for centuries. The "consistency" comes from the fact that Europe, up until the mid-19th century, had hundreds of different measurement systems that varied from kingdom to kingdom and even from town to town, while in the United States, we had ONE system that was consistent throughout the entire nation.

​@@Milesco it's defined by the metric system

It's called square feet, in case you didn't know. Also, a house that big would be a mansion. Most people, not even in the US, have houses that big. Justin Beiber and Donald Trump might have houses that big, but most Americans don't.

*☝THIS👆*

English vs US gallons too :)

Also their drink cans are 355 ml instead of 333 or 250 like in Europe

I didnt know

according to the FDA: For purposes of nutrition labelling, 1 cup means 240 mL (21 CFR 101.9(b)(5)(viii)). so the us cup is sometimes 236 and sometimes 240.

Totally agree

There are realy cup units? :D

4 cups of broccoli and 2 cups of carrots... I don’t even know what that sort of measurement means

@@Susedis yes. They use "cups" and "spoons" (a lot of different spoons) to measure for cooking. Which makes no sense as it is a very inaccurate way to measure things.

So, look for european recipes

Because of the "influence" of the USA.

and as a oI'm so confused, I would prefer using the metryc system also for the screen XD

typical US mentality

Sounds like Jean-Luc Dupont's country could use some democracy...

@@MrJosephAnthonySilva Well if you're dissing France, I'm not French, so I have no idea what you're talking about

r/whooosh

@@MrJosephAnthonySilva r/ihavereddit

Yes, but that wasn't Nasa fault because they have more or less always used metric. It was Lockheed Martin that built the probe and took some numbers as imperial instead of metric.

Because messing up basic math wouldn't have any other side effects on a rocket design.

Yes because they tried to use metric. metric is evil. The only country that went to the Moon used Imperial. Americans will never ever use metric. If third world countries want to use it that's fine.

D K Nasa used metric for all apollo missions

@@skippityblippity8656 But America used(uses) Imperial, and that's what really matters.

I don’t understand what they mean by that. It just means the system is not self-contradictory. True, but that’s true of any system of measurement. The various units have to fit together to be useful.

​@@GH-oi2jf my best guess is that he meant that the US/UK had one measurement system, that was enforced by the Monarchy in the beginning, then the state. The metric system started from the French conquest of much of the rest of Europe, where there were a bunch of different measurement systems. Particularly the small states in Germany probably had a variety of different systems that used the same terms. That is certainly inconsistent. But the presenter doesn't bring that across at all, so who knows. Their entire logic is flawed. The real reason they want to stick with their archaic units is because it's what they are used to. Because every US generation is too lazy to switch to a much simpler unit system, every new US Generation has a harder job learning these abstruse systems, and export that annoyance to the rest of the world by insisting on using their stupid measures.

Yep, all the time.

LOL 😂

Never step out of usa?There ya go

The verge science are just a bunch of petty salty people. I bet they won't acknowledge this. I think American are like community who live in a white picket fence and thinks that the world revolve around them.

Bug off

5:40 theres your answer

They literally said that the metric systems were invented by Scientists. That should give them enough reason to switch

@@maganashaker167 our scientists almost EXCLUSIVELY use metric, it's even in the video!

Horsepower, is it a big horse or a small horse? Stone, is it granite or limestone?

Lol

@@kevliong2952 your point??

@@kevliong2952 except the official measure is Kilowatt *instead of HP, what are stones?

@@kevliong2952 are you dump

small dogs? guns are better system

ajajajajjaja Noice Metric system

Instead of saying "the whole nine yards", we would have to say "the whole 8.229600 meters".

😂

johnbenson222 Nah you’d round down because colloquial situation. So just 8m

mann, please don't introduce new units.. they'll adapt that too.. anything but the metric..

Epic

12 inches huh.......

Fabio Teixeira well one foot is really small size

This American would ask what country is it made on ?

Kenneth Luedtke Jr made in China

Better than converting is just to know the units well enough to understand them as given. I only convert when I want a precise equivalent.

I also call a meter taking one large step, because usually, the distance between your feet is 1 meter, so you can call a meter a big step or just a step.

ahhahahhahahahhaahhahaha nice one

It's a common knowledge in my country that one meter is the distance from you shoulder to the tip of your fingers with the arm parallel to the ground. You are welcome :D I once read the forum on this topic and people complained that traditional measures are just used to trick customers. Like, how do you multiply or, god forbid, divide into twelve in your mind?

Oh shieet here we go again

HAHAHAHAHA

And because it's a more consistent system, which is kind of really important when you want to send missiles to a very specific point.

Oh, and because it's better.

Indeed, freedom is delivered in metric

And how many wars, exactly, has the US military actually WON while using the metric system? Zero, is how many.

@@farmalmta actually, we have been using the metric system since 1918 in the military, and won every single war with the metric system (except vietnam, cause ya know, we lost, at least politically)

I wouldn't be surprised if the Verge journalists genuinely don't know this.

Cool cool cool. That has rarely, if ever, be an issue.

*At STP

@@cameraman502 That actually is very useful if you have ever taken basicly any Chemistry or Physics class

@@petrkos164 So it's consistency is of little consequence and is outside the normal experience of people's experience. Hence rarely, if ever, an issue. Put another way, utility in HS chemistry is not a good reason for most things.

To be fair, even other than america, people use Kilograms for weight, not Newtons

@@harishganesan3575 it's killogram force it's a different unit defined as 9.81... Newtons Or the force a 1kg mass would create on Earth G.

@@harishganesan3575 for earth's surface, it could make sense. But volume and weight are not at all interchangeable! Not even while making a goddamn cake!

@@HAWXLEADER yeah. An ounce force will also make sense right ??

@@abhisheksoni2980 the point i was trying to make was mass and weight are universally used interchangeably.. but yeah volume and mass doesnt make much sense.

How far is your house? Let me guess.......4000 to 5000 kilometers from WW3 Ukraine and Russia 🤣....well Europe at non stop war since the Roman Empire 🤦‍♂️

@@BT-qs7id Are you sure about that?

what he is trying to say that they explains science to normal people of US too who dont understand metrics

Wow........

What do you mean? They put examples of both metric and imperial

@@piyushpawar6196 Means most of normal ppl in the US don't understand science as well LOL

@@ornachia2489 because you need the metric system to understand science, wow yes, good point

Also the flawd argument "If you have a body you can understand the imperial system"; well, If you are a giant maybe, cause the length of foot is nowhere close to the average human. And what ounces and miles are suppose to measure and compare to, according to this logic?

Yeah exactly what I think. Even because the video only picked foot and inch. How can a measure a yard with my body, a mile.. measure area, volume... It's just a nightmare. We already had a rocket accident because of this non sense. And also have the tourists, every time I go to eua it's hard to know if my car needs to refuel or not because I don't have idea if 2 gallons per mile it's enough or not.. finally how to measure tiny things, and the measures of tools.. everything it's a fraction..

Ignoring the others in the replies, I actually agree with your conclusion. I’m American and naturally am more accustomed to our system, but as with most of us, I don’t immediately get lost and confused if someone says a measurement in meters or something. Most of us have at least some understanding of both systems so it’s fine by me if a video primarily uses metric, preferably with imperial on screen. Despite the fact that everyone tries to call us the stubborn ones, I see WAY more complaints from Europeans on imperial videos than I see complaints from Americans on metric videos, which makes sense. After all, between the two groups we’re the only ones who were required to learn both systems in school, and the only ones who use both in our daily lives, so I’m in favor of using metric in these settings since it seems it would confuse the fewest people.

No cause America

Indeed, imperial units are still widely used in the UK but I don’t have any natural sense of what they are because I was taught metric in school

i would inject myself with that system if i could... of course measured in ml

1 ounce (mass) of water is also 1 ounce (volume) at atmospheric pressure and just below boiling (US) or at room temperature (UK).

1 cubic meter of water = 1 Metric tonne = 1000 kilograms

1GB=1000MB

@@MrZog-yv3be 1GB = 1000MB 1GiB = 1024MiB

LMAO.

Im a young Architect, I thank God everyday that we use the metric system. Just divide or multiply by 10.

It's not hard, in engineering we typically use decimal inch. *shrugs*

@@kevinmiller8111 So it's just metric system but with human body parts. Macabre, LMAO.

@@azarilh2355 it is metric system, but with the wrong measures.

Not to talk about Americans having holiday in Canada and putting their cruise control on the highway to 100 miles per hour beleving Canada traffic signs are in miles while obviously are in km per hour since a big ticket was waiting for them being 100 km/h 62 miles per hour...😁😁

@@3dvorator I wonder how many Americans have actually done that

exactly! by all means add on screen alternatives, but someone has to be a part of that facade crumbling & it should be channels like this

My thoughts exactly!

Thank you Hunter Hogan, you have single-handedly destroyed the imperial system and now every American uses metric. Thank you for your service

came to the comments to say this

Hunter Hogan Americans are not going to pay more for gasoline by switching from gallons to liters.

It helped that there was no Germany and that in the area where German like languages were spoken a lot of different measures were used. So a "Zoll" (inch) was different almost everywhere but had the same name and that helped in introducing the French metric system when it was there. I think that is what they mean in 2:15 .However that happened centuries ago.

@@mathiaslist6705 The main reason the French introduced the metric system was to standardize. Every town, region, or village of France had some sort of a different measurement. An Inch in Brest was different from an Inch in Nica, and an Inch in Metz was different from the previous two, etc. This was the case all over Europe probably.

@@vedran5582 And then napoleon came forcing a big part of europe into the metric system

@@arnaudgauthier9888 non. Même pas... Le Portugal a été l'un des premiers pays à choisir le système métrique. Et l'a fait librement. Il y a aussi le cas de l'Allemagne qui s'est convertie au système métrique après sa victoire de 1871 sur la France. La France n'était pas en position d'imposer le système métrique à ce moment...et Napoléon était mort depuis bien longtemps... D'ailleurs la période napoléonienne est une periode où le système métrique a régressé en France et les anciennes mesures ont été rétablies. La France n'a pas imposé "son système" au reste du monde. C'est même le premier pays à avoir fait l'effort d'adopter un nouveau système sans aucun rapport avec le(s) précédent(s). C'est en ce sens que le système métrique a été conçu pour être universel. Chaque état avait le même effort à faire. Y compris l'état créateur. Effort que les USA refusent obstinément de faire en inventant toutes les excuses imaginables...

Proof of the consistency of their opinions ; )

Neither does the USA - it used a pre-Imperial system !

Which burgers? McDonalds or Burger King?

caav56 hungry jacks

I laughed too hard at this lol

Not Europe, the whole world

America and sumo wrestlers*:

My best friend moved to Canada for a couple years, where worked at a meat market. He said it was a nightmare with measurements. Shipments came in pounds, then converted to kilograms, then sold in ounces, etc. I remember him telling me all about that. Basically, I got ya bro.

If only most Canadians could afford a couple pounds of butter!

Welcome to the UK lol

corrda1993 Canada is just not yet America

😂😂👌

This is not something most Americans care about. I don't want to be overly hostile towards Americans but there are a lot of them that don't give a damn about science, or even actively oppose it. "Muh traditions" is infinitely more convincing an argument than "it makes science more understandable" to many if not most Americans

@@exantiuse497 Many if not most anericians would be befuddled by telling them watts can be converted into horsepower. Electric cars have no chance here!

@@robertl.fallin7062 only people who don't work in trades or science and medicine say that.

Most Americans, especially those working in medicine, sciences and trades want the metric system - doing any type of scientific work or trade work and medical measurements is so much simpler.

This is the correct answer.

Yep, I've noticed that other US based science channels use metrics and don't even give conversions.

Fran K its just the context of the subject. If they start using metric measurements for the speed of a car. Then they would lose US viewers. If they talk about milk in liters that would turn us off. Escape velocity, use US units, as our culture is ingrained with the use of our measuring system for the space program. If they do a show on construction techniques use our system. Our housing sector, construction/home improvement is done in inches and feet. When we talk about pies or pizza we talk in fractions. Our schooling is design to use our units for measurement. Even scientist us the fractional system in expressing mathematical formulas.

@@frank7411 So right!

Because you either have a mental picture of what the words represent or you don't. I've walked miles, but I can't say how far a kilometer is. That means the metric system is just words. If your bragging about the size of your Johnson, it sounds much larger in millimeters, but size isn't everything. Too bad the french didn't know this .

This is going to turn into a cooking and construction channel?

Which is why a "Quick Conversion" is a "Good Conversion" - and some estimates of the cost of Non-Metrication (Dual Systems) are given in themetricmaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/CostOfNonMetrication.pdf Other countries HAVE done such conversions quickly. For example , all road speed and distance signs were changed in Australia, Sunday, 1 July 1974 - See kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdV1mq2rs8yckmg.html Canada, Labor Day Weekend, September 1977 Ireland, 20 January 2005)

Exactly. Just stop with the nonsense and standardize on metric.

It's not like we actually use our feet to measure things.

Most feet are shorter than 12 inches, anyway. Unless you've got big feet, your measurements are always going to be short.

Must make shoe shopping easy over there, just gonna buy my new born, my wife and 7 foot tall relative the same 12 inch shoe seeing as they all have the same size feet, apparently.

@@P0YAIS 7 foot tall relative? a kid's foot? Michael Jordan's foot?

Temaran but it is though. Because it's close enough. That's the point.

British people still use the Imperial system every day. Ask someone how tall he is or how heavy he is: he'll say something like "I'm six foot two and just over 16 stone." "Where's the Post Office?" "Oh, it's about a hundred yards down the road." "Is the river near here?" "No: it's miles away!"

@@DieFlabbergast .. In 1971 Canada also switched but it takes a while before those who learned only the imperial method eventually began using metric. The older generation still converts to imperial in their heads. A liter of milk is roughly an imperial quart etc. Everyone under around 35 learned the metric system in school so many don't know what a mile or a yard is. Ask them where the river is and they'll say it's 5 kilometers that way, ask in miles and they'll say it's 5 kilometers and make a guess of between 3 and 8 miles. Conversion to metric is an ongoing thing, 20 years from now it will probably be complete.

@@DieFlabbergast I was just starting school when England switched to metric. I have no problem using metric at all. It *is* easier to work with. And while it *is* true that we still use the Imperial system in our everyday vocabulary, *most* British people couldn't work anything out in fractions beyond halves and quarters. Therefore, I would say that these days our use of the Imperial system is *mostly* linguistic.

Reptilians

Why do you care what I use? The USA is bimetral and you are free to use Metric units.

Yeah, what? Controversial? How can a system like that be controversial? It's simple, it's precise, it's easy to learn. What else do people need?

Try getting everyday average Americans to use the metric system and then say it's not controversial. LOL, indeed.

@@thedude4672 Maybe americans are controversal! ;) jk.

neither do I.

Lagger Onesixfour It May be easy to learn, but imperial units are easier. It’s just that imperial units do not convert very well to decimals to do math with them.

Also our (UK) road signs use miles and meters, not kilometers and meters, not yards and miles, but miles and meters, no joke. I've never even thought about how weird that is until now.

@@jakejada1632 because we dont want old people going 90 mph

Insert Name Here Sure pal. America is the only first world country where you won’t be put in front of a human rights tribunal for telling a gay joke, but go ahead and keep thinking how terrible it is.

Insert Name Here oi, you got a loicense for that opinion, mate?

@Insert Name Here You don't need to get political. And anyway, America (my home country) is better than what your country will ever be, period. :)

1/4 of a gallon just nearly 1 liter.

He sucks ass

Welcome to fox news punditry.

pounds? I could just accept pounds and ounces to measure weed.

Wait, isnt it Keelogramme

@@Nico-dt5hu when i was a kid, i use to think it was actually spelt like *Kill a gram* cause thats how we say it here in nz _kids be thinkin measurements murder eachother_

Hi verge science

Pretty much, and that's all that matters. Foreigners really shouldn't get so hung up on American roads being measured in miles.

Everyone in America knows the metric system. It's taught in school. Used in science courses. We use both systems and utilize them for different things.

@@buntings Everyone in America? lol

@total loss Well car makers, planes, copters, Nasa, engineers, doctors, etc all use metric. Check your pill prescription next time.

wtf is that profile picture

It's called a Metric Ton, not a "ton," as that's ambiguous. Also, a cubic of water weights 62.4 lbs, and has a capacity of 7.48 gallons. Quite easy to remember actually.

@@michaeldavis2531 what?

A ft^3 would be something the size of your head. It would reasonably fit in your hand. After feet you go to yards. (There is no decimal-conversion to the next unit. You just go TO the next unit.) A yard is the length from your fingers on one hand, to the fingers on your other hand. If you had a yard^3 you would have a box/space you could sit in. Or, a container you could pick up by yourself, depending on its weight of course. After yards; is miles. It takes about 20 minutes to walk a mile. A reasonable distance/time for travelling on foot; which is why it was chosen as a measurement. The imperial system is based more around milestones than exact measurements. It doesn't measure how much sugar to put in our tea. Our units measure how much sugar makes the tea sweet.

@@bikinibro Also, conveniently, if you were traveling at a highway speed of 60 mph, and your destination was 45 miles away, then it'd take you exactly 45 minutes to travel their at highway speed, since there's 60 minutes in an hour. You don't get this in metric countries, as their highway speed limits are 100 - 110 km/h, and there aren't 100 minutes in an hour, so it makes it far less convenient.

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@YoungD3mon314 I agree! People who don't use metric are outsiders to science. It's foolish to pander to these outsiders

@@StRanGerManY it's a POP science channel. The whole point is introducing laymen to science. As such, they kinda have to use imperial.

@YoungD3mon314 American scientist use metric, it's said right in the vid. It's a science channel, if you want to have some cred as a serious science channel you don't mess about with imperial.

@@andreibratosin And the best way to teach it is to learn them metric.

@@andreibratosin Laymen are being introduced to science in school, when they are 12-14yo. Surely the US viewers of this channel have being introduced to physics and SI units, its not completely foreign concept for them. Actually, I'm very much curious. Does an average american never use metric system? Do they "forget" it after school? What about colledge and univercity? I'm also curious about the imperial system myself. When I was making home renovations, I used meters, santimeters and milimeters extensively. I wonder, are there santi-inches and mili-inches?

That's a legit point. Whole world :Football/Cricket. America :Basketball /American football. Whole world :SI/Metric system. America :Imperial system. They are very egoistic and that's fact.

Yah that's the real reason nothing else, they think they can use whatever they want and whatever they use is the right thing even if the whole world uses something else

@@nafeeahnaf6296 Or maybe it is more just people following tradition, and there is no popular sentiment to change.

Nafee Ahnaf Siraj So if the majority of the world kill themselves that means that you should to because everyone else did it?

Ankit Wawage Or mabey because it’s one of our traditions and the fact of how much it would cost to switch out weighs the benefits as every school in America would have to buy new books and new programs that are metric which would cost millions.

Thank you! Just start using it, and it will be the standard. Nothing will happen if peopel don't do anything. This goes for The Verge too, just start using metric.

I mean,like it said. (most) of us can’t be bothered,including me.

You're awesome, THANK YOU!

Most of us know how to use the metric system. It's just that we don't think in the metric system. It's similar to learning a new language in that you can understand a second language but you still think in your "mother tongue".

@@JohnDavidDunlap Just like language, you'll never fully make the switch to fluency until you immerse. Why the USA wastes billions and risks lives in order to avoid immersion in the 21st century is the 8th wonder of the world.

The bigger the number, the harder it is to visualize Having to describe something as small as a table as 100+ anything seems ridiculous. CM are too small white Meters are too large for most things. Given a choice between Inches, feet, or Yards, most people use feet to measure most things (like height, property, buildings, cars, etc). This proves that the foot is the most natural and intuitive unit of measurement.

@@TheEgg185 ​How are meters too large? I know that a door is 2m high and 200cm at the same time, my bed is 2m long and 1m wide (200cm x 100cm), my desk is 60cm deep and 2m wide... etc. When using metric, you don't just have one unit that's most convinient. You instantly convert between them. 2m + 1.5cm = 201.5cm 3 1/4 ft + 1 1/8 in = ? It gets even more convenient if you consider that the prefix "kilo", "centi", "milli", etc is just a representation of 10^x . This makes maths just soooo much easier. E.g. the speed of sound in an ideal gas is calculated by: c = sqrt {(y * R * T) over M} y (adiabatic index) = 1.4 (for diatomic molecules) R (universal gas constant) = 8.3145 J * mol^−1 * K^−1 T (absolute temperature) = 293.15 K (20°C) M (molar mass) = 0.0289645 kg/mol (for dry air) c = sqrt{(1.4 * 8.3145 J * mol^−1 * K^−1 * 293.15 K) over 0.0289645 kg/mol} c = 343.236937 m/s Notice how that's exactly what we expected for 1 mach = 343m/s in dry air. Also notice how the units are multiplied in with the numbers and cross each other out like variables would K / K = 1 (or K^-1 * K = 1) and mol^-1 * mol = 1 NOW TRY THAT WITH FOOT POUND FORCE AND FARENHEIT!

@@TheEgg185Everything you wrote is just so wrong. First of all if a table is more than 100 cm then you use meters. If cm are too small and meters are too big the you have decimeters, though the name is not used much basically everyone knows what 10 cm look like. There is no “choice given”, most people will use metric units just because most of the people in the world are not American and they grew up with the metric system. Imperial units just seems more intuitive to you because that’s what you’ve always used. When my country changed currency to switch to Euro we were all converting all the time in our heads for a few years but now I don’t even remember what the cost of a can of soda was with the old currency.

The intuitive nature of the imperial system has more to do with common fractions. I imagine someone who grew up with the metric system can just as easily visualize a meter as I can visualize a foot. But show me a third of a meter (3.33333333333333...cm), and I’ll show you a third of a foot at 4in.

@@stephenbenner4353 That's 1/30 meter. And that argument make no sense. Of course a base 12 system makes it easier to compute a 3rd. What's a 10th of a foot though ? 1.2 inches. Less practical than 10cm (or 1dm)

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Because he was sneaky, didn’t see hamilton yet?

someone from Fox News probably ridiculed it

@@diva1675 Nah...because you're obstinate.