Sorry I failed to clarify. I meant infrastructure where imo is where it needs to start which forces industry to follow

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Apr 1, 2023
3:49:24pm

DJROSS Truly Addicted User

Sorry I failed to clarify. I meant infrastructure where imo is where it needs to start which forces industry to follow

Suit. Back when i was a teen efforts to bring it up were met with the same arguments you pose, however since manufacturing over the following decades left the US, use of metric system increased dramatically. This imo means your argument today is much weaker than it was back when I was a teenager.

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NCAA swimming might transition to meters

Squeegee

4/1/23 3:24pm

I wouldn't be sad if the US finally stopped being so stubborn and go completely metric. So much easier to count.

DJROSS

4/1/23 3:26pm

Some things about it would suck.

eysikal

4/1/23 3:27pm

Yeah? Like what?

DJROSS

4/1/23 3:28pm

Manufacturing changes, tooling changes, and can you imagine how hard it would be to fix old SAE things

CSoul

4/1/23 3:30pm

Hmmm, I might disagree that it's as rough today as it was when I was a teenager in the 80s.

DJROSS

4/1/23 3:33pm

Huh? This isn't about personal ability to transition in your brain.

CSoul

4/1/23 3:40pm

Sorry I failed to clarify. I meant infrastructure where imo is where it needs to start which forces industry to follow

DJROSS

4/1/23 3:49pm

We manufacture way more in terms of $s today than we do in the 80s, our share worldwide just fell. It's

CSoul

4/1/23 3:54pm

There is literally a world of resources to ease the transition

ABCoug

4/1/23 3:35pm

What do you even mean by that? I was just looking for fun, and just the highway signs would cost a half billion!

CSoul

4/1/23 3:39pm

RE: Yeah? Like what?

4/1/23 3:34pm

I think Fahrenheit is a nicer system than Celsius. Too big of a change in temp

eysikal

4/1/23 3:35pm

Nothing about this, though.

Squeegee

4/1/23 3:29pm

It’s April fools

1984coug

4/1/23 4:49pm

They got me. Wow.

Squeegee

4/1/23 9:17pm

A guy I know who coaches told me the usa would never drop yards because

1984coug

4/1/23 9:38pm

You take that back!

shimmy

4/1/23 3:29pm

12 based numeric systems > than 10 based

boyblue

4/1/23 3:30pm

If God wanted us on the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 Apostles.

WDaddy

4/1/23 3:32pm

But with 12, one betrayed him. Sounds like 11 would have been safer.

4/1/23 3:33pm

I need another POD nomination. Brilliant.

Cheap Seats

4/1/23 9:31pm

It WOULD be really nice if halves, 3rds, 4ths and 6ths terminated after only one

4/1/23 3:44pm

It would be a nightmare for many industries. Manufacturing and construction

WDaddy

4/1/23 3:31pm

It would need to be a decades long transition as things age and phase out. There are way too many prefab

CSoul

4/1/23 3:32pm

Many already have migrated

Nat Gas Man

4/1/23 3:33pm

And even more have not

WDaddy

4/1/23 3:34pm

Nearly all (if not all) autos are already metric. Medical is already metric.

Corn Pop

4/1/23 3:39pm

Lol. So you’ve mentioned a few industries and assume every other industry

WDaddy

4/1/23 3:45pm

Apparently NASA is almost all in SAE. It alone would take between 250-500 million and well over a decade.

CSoul

4/1/23 3:48pm

I hope all these metric commies are willing to pay more taxes and go deeper in

WDaddy

4/1/23 3:51pm

LOL, so you mention 1 industry and you assume that applies to all.

Corn Pop

4/1/23 3:48pm

I didn’t expect you to go away from logical thought so quickly to strawmen

WDaddy

4/1/23 3:50pm

NASA, highway administration, US manufactured firearms, manufacturing in the U.S., plastic fabrication for

CSoul

4/1/23 3:52pm

You mentioned food. That actually has been multi values for at least 15 years. So while other areas might be more

DJROSS

4/1/23 5:53pm

Commies can take Fahrenheit from my cold dead fingers. It is a significantly better system for reporting temperature as

4/1/23 3:38pm

The commies won’t stop at the metric system. Your guns are next.

WDaddy

4/1/23 3:40pm

I would trade metric for universal left hand drive.

panacablue

4/1/23 3:40pm

I’m Canadian and I hate the metric system

4/1/23 3:52pm

George Washington fought a war so we don’t have to count with that crap.

UNLVcougar

4/1/23 4:17pm

That makes BYU’s 25 meter decision a big oops

Nat Gas Man

4/1/23 3:29pm

Short Course Meters is a distinct possibility.

Squeegee

4/1/23 3:32pm

Probably after a new fieldhouse, outdoor track and volleyball facility

Nat Gas Man

4/1/23 3:34pm

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