American reacts to 'Is The Metric System Actually Better?' 

There’s beauty in its simplicity and consistency. And yes: frozen up to 0°, then fluid up to 100°, then gas. Perfect 😘

Also a cm is 1/100 of a metre and a metre was defined as a distance of 1/10,000,000 from the equator to the North Pole, which says the distance from equator to the North Pole is 10 million metres, defined by the French in 1793.

Calorie is not metric. Joules are.

@@udavster I don't know. I know the system switched to joule, but I don't know whether that excludes calorie from metric because I don't know the exact definition of metric.

it will boil at sea level at 100 degree. Up high in Himalaya its more like 97-98 degree

😂

dude lol

Now this is what I call: Shots fired.

You killed it bruh

Lol

It was ‘74-‘76. For a while after that the government banned duel measuring tapes which was probably a good thing. We also stuck metric lables over our car’s speed o meters. 😎🦘

Dicks are still measured in inches. Weed is still bought in ounces. Americans usually buy cocaine in kilos.... or grams perhaps unless you can afford an 8- ball.

So you and 2 other people are being paid 10 dollars between you what will you do with the pennies left over? Do the same thing in imperial system and everyone gets their money.

Bit weird how the US didn't go metric after the French helped win the war!

@@bloozee metric system was instaured in France later than the US independance.

Too dumb, lazy or stubborn to adjust. The American way.

Ikr, they should have embraced it with open arms.

I was just about to text same thing. Hate Britain soo much but keep their measure. But made their own gallon measure( 3.9 litres compared to 4.5 litres. Even as a kid in 70s I thought it weird

They didnt rebel against a monarch. You dont understand, because youre ignorant of the facts. the British colonists that rebelled didnt rebel because they hated a monarch.

@@deanblaze-h5e they didn't hate Britain. The vast majority were British. George Washington fought for the British military. They didnt make their own gallon, they simply chose which British gallon to use. They varied depending upon what you measured. Why as a kid in the 70s didn't you find the answer out for yourself?

You mean 1,609344 kilometers away. (2.54 * 12 * 3 * 1760 / 100000 = 1,609344 kilometers = exactly 1 statute mile)

@@wimahlers I am guessing you are single too :)

@@bartermens8219 Yes ... and I actually am European ;-)

@@wimahlers Me too, but never married. I just copied the joke from someone :) I was just joking around, I didn't mean anything by it.

@@bartermens8219 I know. It is funny. My response was just teasing sarcasm, amplifying the ridiculous imperial (or US customary units) system.

The shifty powers of 2 rock! Gallon

Well, humans have 10 fingers, and we do math based on 10s, so yes, it's only easy because it's natural (and better).

Sir you are not an Ex Engineer, you are an engineer as far as you live!! is a way of thinking !!

@dimitrios lianos I did my apprenticeship in sheet metal work. You can now do 95% of that trade with the push of a button. Got out of industry years ago when the credit crunch let to 2 redundancies in 6 months. Don't miss it.

you are not an engeeener.. you pretend to be, by used ANY non SI mesurements...

1 acre = 4840 sq. yards (22 x 220), not 4848 sq. yards ... and I understand the frustration, many times we make errors in converting between different imperial units.

@@nathanoyeght The "8" was a typo. Thank you for noticing! So, at least 1 person read what I wrote.

I just tried to calculate the force of pressure of 3 gallons of water in a 3 square foot barrel. In PSI (pounds per inch)

@@mina_en_suiza Also, if you notice ... hectare is a compound word - hect(o) + are. 1 hectare = 100 ares. 1 are = 100 sq. meter. Hectare is so commonly used, than people overlook that 'are' is the root word, and follows metric nomenclature.

​@@nathanoyeght I knew, but didn't mention it because nobody really uses the are (except in crossword puzzles: "measurement unit for areas with two letters". In German it's "Ar", also "Hektar" ).

made my day, thank you!

Huh, km/h is not metric! The metric velocity unit is m/s. 😂

@@dmitrykazakov2829 nah, that's base SI units 😂

@@dmitrykazakov2829 . Km/h is metric, just not in base SI units.

@@rebecca4680 Non-base SI units of duration are such as ms, ns, i.e. second multiplied by some power of ten. Hour is not a SI unit.

Weird they should definitely be able to since the only thing they way still use the imperial system widescale is for measuring distance and speed on roads. And schools definitely just use metric whenever it comes to physics or maths.

metric is taught in the UK in every school - we use imperial for some everyday things like milk, beer, and (perhaps the most annoyingly) roads but we generally get the best of both because a pint of beer is the correct amount of beer - i don't think your colleagues not being able to divide by 10 is so much to do with the fact that they're British (you never know though), anyone who can't divide by 10 probably has a learning disability so you should go easy on them lol

@@landmimes (as you wrote you use the Imperial for liquid measures) how much is 5 fl. oz + 5 fl. oz in gill? Well... according to the the Imperial system the answer to that question is BOTH 2 gill AND 2.5 gill (or 2 gill and 2 fl. oz). It depends if you're in one (UK) or another (USA) country 😜

To be fair, in America, we use metric for physics anyway (mostly).

Here in Mexico we deal with a lot of American machinery and related stuff, so we do have to use inches and feet if we're studying engineering. I've learned to understand their use as a tool to force you to understand the relation between natural units (m) and constructed ones (N) because the imperial system is not made for science, so there's not a lot of the latter and you have to deal with the raw lbf*s/(hotdog*eagle)

I already wanted to throw hands whenever I had to calorie-Joule and Celsius-Kelvin conversions I would've DIED

I'm studying physics and if I had to use imperial units, I would just straight up not study physics, I'd be studying math and idk ethics or something like that

​@@justarandomgothamite5466as a metric user i must say - calorie isn't bad one. Others but calorie

Didn't the frensch also lost against these Vietnam farmers 🙂

@@DSP16569 yea but france sucks

@@DSP16569 Yep, they caught a dose of "Dien Bien Flu". . . . . . . . . . . . . .

@@DSP16569 By an American betrayal in Dien Dien Phu. Frenchs was promised a nassive air shelling if the gathered the Viets....(What they ve done).

@@DSP16569 "didn't" and "lost", you must be French and English is your second language. Right?

I was a union carpenter foreman at that time - it brings back memories with the first set of metric prints I ever built from. I had a gang of about 20 men and after the first couple of days I had enough with the costly mistakes, wasted time, and wasted lumber. That night I bought 20 metric only tapes and as the men came in the next morning asked for their old tapes as I was "gifting" them with a brand new one. Tool box meeting - laid down the law, end of mistakes. There was a lot of bitching but they were all Steady-Eddys' and didn't want to quit or get laid off. They eventually got used to it and eventually like it.

Canada is everything but metric in the trades. Good luck finding any metric nuts and bolts in hardware stores. It's such a pita.

To be fair, unless you're in Quebec or an immigrant to Canada, you'll have generally used feet/inches and pounds when referring to your own bodily measurements , so we're not quite as 'metric' as some people seem to think we are. While the majority of the other use cases tend to be metric, we're still actually a mixed system in a number of ways. P.S. Forgot about Canadian (gridiron) football, which is a sport very closely related to the American version (both deriving from rugby), and both use yards for distance (though a Canadian field is 150 yards long [110 yards plus 2 end zones of 20 yards each] x 65 yards wide, thus midfield is the 55 yard line).

@@CanuckGod I am absolutely in favour metric (UK, and been in favour since 1972). But I am happy to refer to my weight in stones and lbs, simply because I know from experience what they equate to in general terms. The same with mph, because in general terms, I am familiar with my speed when I see it happening. But if I want to calculate the precise length of something from the angle it makes with a vertical surface, using Imperial is absolutely insane. With metric, it is easy. This is the issue. The people who are comfortable with Imperial usually don't need to have to do any maths with it. They just know approximations (or rote additions if buying groceries). Like a pound of carrots or potatoes at the grocery store. In that sense, units don't matter too much. But when you're dealing cross border with the world, or trying to do very accurate calculations, they matter a lot. Especially when US Imperial is different to UK Imperial in some cases.

@@CanuckGod We also tend to measure distance in time rather than kilometers. A modern phenomena.

Imperial rulers usually go down to a 16th of an inch, so pretty close to a millimeter. IN the end both systems are arbitrary because they were both made up by someone who said "yep, this is how I'll measure a meter" or kilogram or whatever. Then science has had to go back and find some constant that aligns with that measurement. The "genius" of the metric system is everything works in tens and most people can do that maths, so long as everything COMES in tens. The issue is when you have 36 spans of 15.36 meters and you need to do the maths. Now everything isn't in tens, so you use a calculator. Funny enough we can program calculators to count in anything we want, tens are just easier...

I hope you’re not building rockets with that inches to centimetres conversion factor. You might want to edit it 😊 Cheers.

@@Bellas1717 Lol, no I'm not. I didn't remember correctly the conversion of inch to cm. So correction - one inch is 2.54 cm. IF I ever were to build a rocket, I would do so in the metric system only. ;-)

Well how do Americans measure small things like the grooves on a screw? The use thou, which are thousandths of an inch.

In the UK in the 60s, I was using a centre grinder to grind to a tolerance of plus or minus half a thousandth of an inch.

YES imagine China used traffic signs the American way and there was a single American visiting China, it would be a desaster, but in the US it’s fine because.

So true!

An interesting fact : European signs are this way because they were designed to be understandable by illiterate people (it was the 1930's after all) Even today most signs are just pictograms. So you only need to learn a few words in the language of the country to understand the eventual written addition. And even then most additions are very simple, giving weights or distances.

In the 1970s Germany changed from a „Halt“ to the „Stop“ sign.

@@maxbarko8717 Those changes were mostly to make it easier to drive around Europe. It's also the reason why we have this one yellow/white sign, a compromise with out neighbors.

As far as we know the human brain has no bias towards a particular base. The preference for base 10 is societal/cultural and something that children have to acquire. This particular choice of base was probably influenced by having 10 fingers. But there have also been many cultures and there still are those that use a different base.

​@@YellowBunny yup some culture had 12 as base if I remember correctly ancient Egyptians used 12, amd probably that's why we have 24h and 60 minutes, 360 degrees

@@einkar4219 360 is a very neat number - can be divided by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, etc :) there's also a system where a circle has 400 degrees, which can be divided by 2, 4, 8, 16 (or 2 to the power of 1, 2, 3, 4^^)

@@YellowBunny Celts made 20 their base. Remnants of this can be seen today in french numerals and galician-portuguese traditional measures.

@@YellowBunny True, in a binary system it would be best to use units that are double or half the amount of another unit, but since we already use a decimal system to count it just makes sense to use metric units.

The french contribution to the metric system could have been huge, but they couldn't decide for words for the numbers 70-99

You guys have a decent histroy of how to deal with the rich/powerful too, don't forget that.

I'm French too and I know one of the reasons why metrics appeared... There were hundreds of measurement systems in the little French kingdom before our revolution - we could not manage with such a mess :D

Now can you please stop assigning gender to everyday objects?

@@MegaGandalf12This is the French language. Also in German (not the same :D ), Russian, Italian, etc. etc. You have a mess of a quest, kid, so sad for you.

even worse, they use the outdated French system, the Americans can be said to be more "French" than the French. Tabernac!

40% of english words come from the french, and another 20% also have french roots but more ancient and obscure.

@@math9172 Yes of course, you are right. The Norman invasion was no small picnic and the damage to the English language is still very visible even today. French people usually think of English as an easy language, but the main reason is basically that it is pretty easy to come up with words in English. You take a French word, you modify its pronunciation to suit English ears and voilà, you are basically never out of words. Actually, it is also true for English speakers. Beware of faux-amis still...

​d "easy" is because of the proximity with french. I agree it does help, but in my opinion the very simplistic grammar and rather freeform syntax is what truely makes english a rather simple language. The only real difficulty of english is its thoroughly inconsistant pronounciation, which is a consequence of the many influences of the english language (french, german, latin).

@@math9172 English is actually a pretty complicated language. The tense system is the most complicated of all European languages and is quite confusing for most foreigners. I have been speaking English in a professional context for 30 years. I even lived in England for a year. I still have some issues to understand the distinction between preterit and present perfect. One of my colleague was working on a project that was financed by the American side of our company. He said in.a meeting: "We worked on this project for two months" and the project was stopped. It took several days to explain the confusion out. I'm actually a computational linguist by trade and I have implemented grammars for many languages such as French, Italian, English or Japanese (see Xerox Incremental Parser for papers on these grammars). English has a very strict word order compared to most European languages, which is due to its lack of gender and case. Furthermore, English is a highly lexicalised language. The grammar of English was four times larger than the one of French or of Spanish to account to all its specificities. It is very easy to speak broken English, but it is also quite easy to speak broken Spanish.

what else to expect? They had the first rocket program...

@@ft6637 indeed, but surprisingly few people below 30 are aware of it

It’s a strange and dangerous place we’re living in

@@JamesThomas-zl9er You mean over 30? The older generations were given nationalistic propaganda.

Nasa works in metric

I totally messed up my Mongolian beef tonight because everything was in pounds and ounces and I just tried to wing it rather than googling the conversion. It was a disaster and the kids ended up having ham and cheese toasted 😂

"A cup? What kind of cup!?" 😅

​@@sandyakabatteriehuhn D cup??

@@b.v.nielsen8714 it‘s you, Brigitte?

That's how the portions come out far too big.

I guess you do not watch much American TV

True, we should have adopted the decimal system of weights and measures that came with our decimal money, the Jefferson decimal system. Coinage Weights and Measures Plan of 1790, look it over.

Impressive they havent done the same with coins. "56 cents in 1 dollar" or something completely impossible.

@Frosty an even more impressive thing would be: 1$=56cents but 2$=87.849cents )))

Not to mention gigabytes, kilobytes and so on....

@@Mr1SaS ROFL

A Danish Tønde=Tonne, is a messurement for area. So 1 tønde land = 14.000 kvadratalen = 0,55 hektar = 8 skæpper = 32 fjerdingkar = 96 album = 5.523,14 m² (1835: 5.516,10 m²). Glad we went metric to.

Similar in Sweden, a barrel is a "tunna". In Swedish "regentonne" is called "regntunna". "Tunnland" (which would be like "barrelland") is a measurement for area, which was basically how big area you could sow with one barrel of grain.

In Portuguese it happens as well. We have a word for "barrel", which is "tonel", and "tonelada" literally comes from "tonel". However that's actually a more archaic and ancient word - nowadays "barril" is used more. Which is even more interesting is that "barril" is actually a Celtic word of origin, coming from "barr" (a piece of metal), which was then imported to Western Romance and also English. "Tonel" comes from Ancient French "tonel" (nowadays "tonneaux"), which is a Germanic cognate.

The British still use "tun" and "tundish" , barrel and funnel.

In french we used "Tonneaux" for ship displacement before the general use of Short(metric) and Long(imperial) tons. As you might have guess "Tonneau" means Barrel. That at one time a standard "Tonneau" (of wine of course) was equivalent to 1000 liters is any one guess :). I mean it was most likely a multiple of a set number of bootles :))!

I’ve noticed more and more guys weigh themselves in KG (including me). At least in my experience, women love Stone Age measurements still.

I've heard of inches, feet, miles, ounce (even though i am confused between the 2 types) and stuff but stones are killing me. That just seems so funny as a measurement. I live in continental Europe.

@@bencze465 it’s yet another national embarrassment!

Haha I'm German and my dad is English. I have no clue of stones etc. So when his Wii asked me what my hight is I decided on a small number. Well.. the balance board did my weight so my mii ended up being a huge tiny blob and it kept saying how well I'm doing the exercises and I couldn't stop laughing

Living in NI currently and the stone thing is so damn confusing 😅

Remember you're speaking of a country that needs to be told that coffee is hot and you don't put your dog in a microwave to dry it... So yeah they have to write things down

apart from miles , yards and chainage used on the UK railway , hands and furlongs in horse racing , carpenters / cabinet makers use feet and inches , knots in shipping , farmers use acres , pints in brewing / pubs , stones and pounds in weighing each other .....

@@moonshineboy A large part of which is why Britain made the insane decision known as Brexit.

Every friend of mine uses stone for weight, however, my grandson is weighed in kgs at the hospital.

The USA has never used Imperial. It uses US Customary Measures, which are basically the measures used before the British Empire redefined their weights and measures in 1824 and called it the Imperial System. Gallons and tons are quite different in the two systems.

Poppyseeds? That's a weight unit, isn't it? Not a length unit. Unless I'm mistaken.

Football Fields ?

Yeah. I'm using metric. But lets see, in USA, a foot is how many inches, a dozen? Silly. And 4 dozens is what, 38? Crazy math! 52??? Crazy muricans.

The metric system has been used in STEM since forever but the average American still uses imperial units 🤷‍♂️

@@_blank-_ strange. That is not an argument, that a foot in length is about as big as my own foot. Then what is next? A mile is how long? Do i hear it? As long as what? As nothing! And you still talk about doing 90 mph on a highway haha. And why in the world you would say a dozen??? And 3 dozens is 42 pieces, heh, that is really silly. Counter intuitive as f.

You are correct that it is rough estimate, but that rough estimate is really precise. For starters, it just takes your fuel input and knows how much is in tank, averages it over 15minutes and presumes that you have same tempo. it iterates around that number every 1minute cycle. It is damn precise and self correcting system.

They use a lots of credit/debit card, the do not know even ho to count to 10

Understanding isn't the problem. We learn both in school anyways, since decades ago. Nowadays you can just put "32 cm in in" in search engines and get an answer (without even looking at the search results, even on the big non-google ones). Apparently in Germany (according to a video) they take the kitchen stuff when they move. If you're the only one not doing it, sucks for you. Same for measurements. If a certain application is using one type of measurements, and you want to be weird and use something less compatible, you just made it more difficult and you're the odd one out.

Look at any website for a USA grocery store and it shows the composition of the food on sale. The composition (fat, carbohydrate, sugar, etc.) is shown in grams and sometimes the percentage (of the metric weight) but the package size is ounces! That really is screwed up.

You only have to deal with metric, because the Imperial units are based on PSI metric units anyway

On a standard "Zollstock" you have both, as shown in the video

@@sirhenryvonvandings You are right, one with only Meters is called "Metermaß"

Gliedermaßstab

Well, it's not like Germany invented the metric system or never had anything else. Here where i live, every other city had a different definition of what a mile is. You will also find definitions of length (like foot, knot, ellbow) ingraved into stones of minsters and churches of medieval cities, as markets were held around them - it was for people to have something to measure what the length definition is in that specific city, to prevent folks killing eacht other at the market for miscalculations and stuff. The metric system ist the one thing that the whole world should thank France for.

@@olgahein4384 Otto the great standardized German units in 942, that's the main reason he is remembered as "the great". He was judging in a court case about breed weight fraud, and almost had a baker executed for defrauding his costumers. Then he realized that the baker had just used his own weights from his neighboring hometown. Since Otto, at least the pound was standardized in the Holy Roman Empire.

there's still nautical mile, and knot in sailing which is weird to me as they seem to be the only weird units that so many countries use... at least the only somewhat 'mainstream' ones i heard about

so sic scandinavian miles would be 60 km?

@@bencze465 and the nautical mile is (or better was originally) defined as 1/60th of a degree of latitude, later then defined to be exactly 1852 meters

We call it "en dansk mil" because you know, the rest of you used to belong to us ;) 😅

@@sirhenryvonvandings Yeah, 6 Scandinavian miles are 60 kilometres.

All cause of the dirty bugger, Reagan.

It's because of Reagan right? It's always because of Reagan 😑

That was over 40 years ago, you had plenty of time to convert since then but you didn't.

Uk is an absolute measurement mess

If you order a pint of beer in France you'll get half a pint by UK standards, I've always found that funny

The US took all things English and changed them. Take "color" as an example. Same thing but different 😉

@@Pointillax really? I never knew that. I've been to France a LOT, but I don't drink beer so that's probably why I never realised? 😁

@@101steel4 yes, and no. Did you know in fact that the American accent is closer to Olde English than any of our accents are? For the size of America, they have surprisingly few "accents" really. You could probably say a handful, West coast, New Yorker, Southern....Redneck 🤣 Compared to our 40+ and rising! Also, it's us who've modified our English more over the years. A lot of our words reflect the French way of spelling, in fact up until around 500 years ish ago, French was England's national language! During medieval times, spelling was not as important as it is to us today. I must admit I'm a stickler for things like spelling and I know for a fact I was reading and writing better at age 5-6 than a lot of kids leaving school at 16-18 can manage! 🙄 Right!? But back to a few hundred years back, spelling wasn't so strictly enforced as we do now. The main priority was that it was readable. If it read phonetically then it was considered correct. So colour, color, or even say, culler, would have been acceptable. You'd interpret the meaning of the word by the way it was written within the sentence. In time of course, with more invention and description came the need for more words. The language has tons more words now than it ever had back then and new words are added to the dictionary all the time. It's more important these days to be specific, for an example, there, their, and they're - or - to, too or two. The spelling of words these days is much more important because each spelling indicates something different. Remember also that back then, only a fraction of people could actually read and write, and of those who could, very few were women. Most scholars were men, and the types of women who would be educated were extremely wealthy, nobles, or even royalty. A good example is Anne Boleyn. Very highly educated and exceptionally intelligent. She had been sent to the royal court in Austria for a time, and spent many years as a lady in waiting in the French court too. Living abroad from around aged 8 in fact. She was skilled in social skills, riding, needlework, singing, lute playing, philosophy, theology, etiquette, diplomacy, dancing, and all academic subjects. Her reading and writing was excellent and her articulation was matched only by men. When she spoke, all eyes were on her. She spoke English and French fluently and could flip flop between the two effortlessly. She also knew some Latin. Her head was frequently stuck in a book, she was a sponge and had a thirst for knowledge. We still have a number of original documents written about her, to her, and from her. For example all the love letters between her and Henry VIII, but also notes added to Bible pages and poems that she wrote. She's a perfect example of my point, her spelling. There are letters sent home to her parents at Hever Castle from when she was at court in France, letters to friends or her letters to Henry. She would sign off as Anne Bullen, Anna Bolen, Anne Boleyn etc etc... So as you see, as long as it made phonetical sense to read, it was correct. This was around the 1500's period, around the same time Christopher Columbus discovered The New World. He wasn't the first of course. Vikings had gone there a good 500 years prior, but had stayed. Because they settled there, no one knew it HAD been discovered, so it was a new discovery as far as Europe was concerned at the time. Over the years more ships were sent to and from, obviously not a simple task, nor speedy. The first English settlement in America came around 100 years later, in Jamestown, Virginia. Remember that only a fraction of those people could read and write. Most of their knowledge was in practical skills, like farming, cooking, animal care, saddle making, boot making etc etc. They weren't stupid, but their weren't academic either. The English that they did know went with them, and the accent went with them too. They lost regular contact with England, and so their understanding of English, their spelling and grammar wasn't changing as quickly as it did in England, and it branched off there, as ours did here. So really, America hasn't changed our language anywhere near as much as we have since 400-500 years ago! Plus their language is influenced by Native American words, I mean we named places Jamestown, New York, Boston etc, all very boring. BUT Witchita, Oklahoma and Tennessee are Native American in origin. Then there's the Spanish and Portuguese flavour coming from South America, with place names such as Alhambra, Bonita Springs, Encinitas or Las Vegas etc. So in answer to your point....yes they have changed the English that they took with them, just as we changed that same English here, the difference is ours was influenced with German, French and Dutch. In conclusion, no, they haven't changed what we HAVE.... They changed what we HAD, as did we, in response to different influences from other languages. 😁

An M14 screw fits into a 5/8", but 5/8" is 15.875 mm, which is closer to 16mm. But the metric and imperial also have different standard spacings, with the metric being 1mm and imperial, well... larger. So to mix the 2, you have to think about how long will the screwing be to have a tight fix. If you need just a few turns, an M16 can be used in a 5/8", but if you need to go deeper, a rarer M15 is needed, or a common M14. If you need a very deep screwing, then you need to import the exact match. It's so frustrating to work with anything that has been touched by US manufacturing.

i see someone doesn't know some languages dont have base 10.

Freaking French has something to do with base 20 and they were the pioneers on this thing

even the folk that create the standard units of measure for the Imperial system base it off of metric PSI units of measure, so..

@@echinas0908 nobody likes the french so yeah

And cups. Which cup?

XXL Super Jumbo Cups, if you take a look at how skinny they are.

All packages food in supermarkets in US have labels with both metric and imperial measurements. The metric units on products is required by law.

People would riot.

1 mile = 1,609344 kilometre. Be precise :P

You mean the DIN norm that was then blatantly copied into the international ISO norm. Not the metric system itself, which was practically invented by the french.

It's said that the English conception that Napoleon was a short guy is based on that the English and French used a different definition of the inch

In Sweden we still use "mil", but because the original was so arbitrary we just defined it as 10 kilometers. 😁

Yeah, it's often fun when creators leave in the little human touches. That was one seriously tall baby though.

Aye nice to see another kiwi in the comments! And yeah most people know their height in both metric and imperial, for example Im 180cm or 5ft 11in

So basically they wanted to send the freed slaves back to Africa.

Few years is a lot of time though

@@VoidCosmonaut It's really not as bad as it sounds. And I'm usually a person that's averse to change.

The co pilot was a former royal canadian Air force pilot who landed at Gimli Air Force base back in his military career who remembered where it was located And yes it was a converted drag track at the time The captain was an expirenced glider pilot who knew how to land an aircraft with no power in fact he used a known glider landing tactic known as a side slip to slow the plane enough to land... A crazy coiendence that saved everyone on board.... everybody got crazy lucky that day

If big things fail spectacularly a lot of small things didn't work before and a lot of people made decisions which in summ lead to the result.

That's on Air Canada for not following procedure and for the pilots for making a very irresponsible decision. It's a set rule within aviation that if a main computer fault is present the plane does NOT fly. Only minor computer faults like a confirmed incorrect message being stuck on screen for example is okay to fly with if checked. But if the computer isn't getting the fuel readout from the tanks and the FMC/MCDU didn't flag up an issue with the FLTPLN length and TRIP FUEL amount then that plane was not airworthy.

yeah, the Gimli Glider incident (Air Canada flight 143)

​@@lewismackay9533​The A320 in the video was illustration material. The incident happened in 1983, so not an A320 but a 767-200. Check the wikipedia article of the "Gimli Glider", the technical problem was a sensor, not the computer. The FMC only worked with entered data as the sensor was inop.

And boiling water is 212°F instead of 100°C...

Yep, you got us. Everyone in America is stupid because our temperatures have different numbers.

The USA uses US Customary Measures, not Imperial. Due to their histories, I suspect Liberia also uses US Customary Measures, but Myanmar would actually use Imperial.

Ok but where are you from?

Weight is the result of a force applied to a mass.

Mish mash to say the least, road works 200 yards ahead etc, do young drivers even know the imperial system anymore, probably to some point l guess?

You still have cousin marrying family as the head of the state. That's why.

@@glennlingard7851 I mean, yard = meter for me. Not exactly but for daily life mostly good enough.

@@Londronable Yes, I use them interchangeably for general use.

Money as well.

When other people whine about the Imperial system, I ask, so how do you count your time?

The Act that gave us our decimal money also had decimal weights and measures as well, written by Thomas Jefferson himself. True Freedom Units! Jefferson's foot is pretty close to 1 light-nanosecond, meaning a quantum version of the Jefferson decimal system could just define the speed of light to be 1 billion Jefferson feet per second, then build the system up from there.

The USA has never used Imperial measures anyway.

@@hypsyzygy506 So the Day America was change from UK to it's Own Government the new Government threw out all Measures being used & implemented a whole new system ???

imperial=outdated and gey

Don't you use US Customary Measures?

When you're cooking, remember that the Imperial pint is 1¼ US pints if you're following a UK recipe.

@@hypsyzygy506yes, I cook using US measurements, thanks for the info, I didn't know there was a difference between US pints and UK pints.