The biggest problem is that we use a mixture of both systems for different things.
As already mentioned. We measure small drinks in fluid ounces, but large bottles of soda in liters.
Those of us with 3D printers set nozzle and bed temps in Celsius, but we set our ovens to cook with in Fahrenheit.
We use metric to describe the length of runs, 5k, 10k, until you get to marathons which are 26.22 miles.
We use feet and inches for construction and woodworking for the most part, but often use millimeters for designing small parts. (at least I do. Fractions of inches are dumb.)
Most science is in the USA is done in metric. But the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost due to software reporting miles as kilometers.
Even the meme about bullets is inconsistent. Some are measured in mm some are measured in fractions or decimals of an inch. like .223 or .30-06
I really wish we could have just powered through and more strictly enforced the metrication process.
Yep, 42.195km technically. But here in the USA people put these 5k, 10k, etc stickers on their cars to show what runs they’ve done. But switch to 26.22 for marathons stickers.
Every field of engineering in America either switched to metric after an expensive disaster caused by conversion or is waiting on the expensive disaster to switch
The biggest problem is that we use a mixture of both systems for different things.
As already mentioned. We measure small drinks in fluid ounces, but large bottles of soda in liters.
Those of us with 3D printers set nozzle and bed temps in Celsius, but we set our ovens to cook with in Fahrenheit.
We use metric to describe the length of runs, 5k, 10k, until you get to marathons which are 26.22 miles.
We use feet and inches for construction and woodworking for the most part, but often use millimeters for designing small parts. (at least I do. Fractions of inches are dumb.)
Most science is in the USA is done in metric. But the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost due to software reporting miles as kilometers.
Even the meme about bullets is inconsistent. Some are measured in mm some are measured in fractions or decimals of an inch. like .223 or .30-06
I really wish we could have just powered through and more strictly enforced the metrication process.
Marathons are (supposed to be) 42km, the distance from Marathon to Athens.
Yep, 42.195km technically. But here in the USA people put these 5k, 10k, etc stickers on their cars to show what runs they’ve done. But switch to 26.22 for marathons stickers.
Sockets used to be called marathon in the UK, although they weren’t quite that long.
Every field of engineering in America either switched to metric after an expensive disaster caused by conversion or is waiting on the expensive disaster to switch