American currency is metric and has always been. You probably know that even in countries that keep some old measures during the changeover--The imperial gallon is of a diffferent size to U.S. Canadian liquid ounce is not the same as U.S. There was a time during the changeovers in some countries (Australia comes to mind) that non-metric shipments of U.S. tooling were refused at their borders. To make it work, the U.S. industry had to go metric.
2006-07-09 12:56:36 · 9 answers · asked by gshewman 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
because our population is lazy and refuses to learn something new. our country is full of overpaid idiots that have no idea how to learn and no motivation to do so.
2006-07-09 13:35:06 · answer #1 · answered by fpaulk1 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
right that's why. i understand what a pound appears like because I grew up measuring weight in kilos. i understand what a kilogram appears like because that's 2.2 kilos. Now contained in the laboratory i take advantage of metrics each and each and every of the time. i'm a lot extra perfect estimating small a lot with grams extremely than oz. (or drams or what ever the hell the smaller English unit is). yet when I wasn't a scientist it ought to all be Greek to me. that is a twin of conversing in a overseas language, you imagine on your community tongue, and translate to the hot language. Given the alternative, you ought to talk your community tongue. I believe you that calculations are a million circumstances a lot less complicated in metric. possibly the nicest element about that is the way it deals with volume and length. ! milliliter = a million cubic centimeter, and as an extra bonus a million ml of water weighs precisely a million gram. i will allow you to recognize the precise mass of a a million meter by employing 1meter by employing 1meter dice of water with relative ease. strong success doing that with a cubic backyard.
2016-11-06 02:57:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The US (civilian type) is slowly converting to the metric system. The military is there already. So far the medical industries seem to be taking the lead and others are not far behind. Not being "metric" is costing us millions in lost business. Converting over across the board now will cost us billions. You do the math. That is why
2006-07-09 14:27:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ultimately retooling every factory and teaching every mildly intelligent factory worker a new way to do things would cost trillions of dollars, and in the short term be very detrimental to the economy.
2006-07-09 13:00:46 · answer #4 · answered by Black Sabbath 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we started in the begining and never stopped?
2006-07-11 18:09:13 · answer #5 · answered by Eric X 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the US had tried several times to change, but ppl just bitched about it..I think it would bring this country to its knees...that's why we can never change out TV to PAL like in Europe
2006-07-09 13:10:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was supposed to happen. They never got around to it.
2006-07-09 13:05:56 · answer #7 · answered by Irish 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If everyone jumped off a cliff, would you?
2006-07-09 13:03:05 · answer #8 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If our ancestors were confomists ,then we would not be here.
2006-07-09 13:02:15 · answer #9 · answered by purplegremlin2 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋