And also engines’ volumes.
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.
Drugs, too.
And giant bottles of soda
Giant bottles of soda are the drug of choice for most Americans
Not true! We also use it for drugs
And electricity too I guess.
Thank god there aren’t imperial units for electronics. That would be insanely cursed.
Still plenty of imperial sized bullets, ask Charlie.
Doubt he’ll answer, heard he’s got a sore throat
Lil Bobo🩸
I wish I could sticky comments
not true. all us yankers have lost a 10mm socket wrench
False. I have lost MANY 10mm sockets!
10mm >9mm
A 9mm is 1/12192 of an imperial football field.
(or so my very basic search told me for the sake of a joke, if someone wants to do the math, feel free to prove ddgAI wrong lol)
If you use the entire length of an American football field endzone to endzone that is accurate. However, most people would use the length excluding the endzones which is 100 yards. Which would make it
100 yards = 91440 mm 91440 mm / 9 mm = 1/10160 of a football fieldExcellent, thank you. When people use a football field as a unit of measurement, I wasn’t sure if that included the end zones or not, but I figured they’d use the larger of the two, because America
Classic mistake, you only use the larger “Endzone-to-Endzone” number in Texas. Everywhere else in the US you go with the standard 100 yards.
We also use it to measure big soda bottles.
But only big ones. Big ones, 2 liter. Smaller ones, 20 ounce, 12 ounce.
Two liter soda
Liter Cola
🤯
We still go back and forth on how we measure engine displacement, although only boomers still refer to cubic inches. “Yeah it’s a SBC 350ci”
Don’t worry, they’ll start measuring things in bullets in no time. Oh wait. 😶
School shooting per football field is a classic measurement tho.
Washing Machines Per Browning Hi-Power
Bananas, stadiums, even giraffes. Anything but logic, it seems. I’m surrounded by assholes.
Incredibly topical use of that classic gif.
Maybe, just maybe they’ll hit the real targets responsible for the absolute bullshit these days. Meh.
Best part is that the measurement is only tangentially related to the actual diameter of the bullet; FN 5.7×28mm, 5.56 NATO, and the soviet 5.6×39mm are all 5.7mm across.
Unlike gauge, which is always 1 over the cube root of the barrel diameter divided by the cube root of the density of lead.
Off the top of my head the only American developed round that’s designated in metric is the 10mm. But I think it’s only called that because it was supposed to replace 9mm for the FBI, but 9mm was developed by Germans. Nearly every round designated in millimeters was developed in Europe.
Edit: I just remembered 6.5 Creedmore and 6.5 grendel exist, but those draw their lineage back to a Russian parent case (5.6x39mm). So my point still stands I guess
millimeters for the plugs in my earlobes too
