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Plane.
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It works perfectly, you just don't know the full story. In the beginning, the year was 360 days long. It came to pass that Nut, goddess of the heavens, fell in love with Geb, the earth. When Ra, the sun, heard of this love, he flew into a jealous rage and decreed that Nut could not bear children on any day that he lit the sky. Nut sat by a stream and wept. By and by, her misery was observed by the wizard Thoth and it broke his heart. Thoth devised a scheme. He played a game of dice with the moon, which in those days rivaled the sun in brightness. Each time he won, he took a little of the moon's light. When the game was over, he had taken 1/72 of the moon's light. With this, he added five new days for Nut to bear her children: Osiris, Isis, Set, Horus and Nepthys. And ever since, the moon has been dimmer than the sun, and the year has had 365 days. Any other questions? |
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I keep metric and us around all the time. Most of my vehicles have both. Given the choice i'd stick with Metric. No big deal though.
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I happen to prefer american standard when reaching for a tool. Just look at it, 3/8 or 7/16 etc. When using metric look at it looks like 3/4" head which is 25% short of 1" which 1"=25.4 so 18-19-or 20mm. I am more used to old GM and Ford wrenching than modern stuff.
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The picture is amusing but wrong, since Britian does not use the metric system. Or rather it does for some things and not others. Mostly not, and will likely backslide now since they are leaving the Uro...
As for the US. Still amazes me that the country remains so backward. Should have left the middle ages decades ago. I grew up with both in South Africa. My parents were Imperial, we were taught metric, so I am familiar with both but the Metric system is infinitely superior. - Peter.
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Before SAE established the parameters of the so-called inch/SAE system, saying "the bolt measures" 3/4 of an inch" could mean over 20 different things.
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This certainly explains why Europeans sell eggs in cartons of ten.
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Can't count to twelve. Sad. |
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The old inch foot pounds measuring is slowly constantly eroding. Not much doubt about it. A few things will persist of the old in north America of course. Yet overall it continues to decline.
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I haven't heard anyone mention it yet, but the US government runs on metric as well.
The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 made the metric system the preferred system for the United States but allowed for the continued use of customary units for all activities. You can thank Reagan for the bullheaded move of stopping the metrication of the US.
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My '84 Blazer w/ 6.2 L, 379 or 381 ci, whether using bore & stroke or inc. combustion chamber, diesel is about 50 50 metric & sae.
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Perhaps you didn't bother reading that the act of Congress allowed for customary units to continue to be used.
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What happened between 1992 and 2016 in that regard? Other than Joe in the Senate and as VP for fourteen of those years.
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North America had a much larger manufacturing base in the 1970s. Retooling totally for metric would have been too costly. Also they perhaps thought in error. Remaining non metric may have favored north America.
I consider the real tangible decline of north America got really rolling starting in about 1980. I could see it at the time but most really did not. This was also about the time to retain the image of decent living standards. Started to require steadily increasing debt loading as a constant band aid. Or enabler. The trend has continues unabated so far. The accumulating debt at all levels of government and at the consumer level. Becoming really atrocious. Few want to do a real balance sheet. We seem to have systematically been building a financial house of cards in the process. Common sense and a sense of balance have gone out the window. |
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