In a good system One cubic meter of water (densisty 1) whould equel one liter, whitch whould also equel one gram (based on earth gravity). I whould also make newton the same or a multiple of gram.
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Anonymous2006-04-29 14:32
do i win the internet for my discovery?
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Anonymous2006-04-29 14:36
You think we'll ever come to that? Try convincing America to change every road sign, every textbook, every day to day mention of British measurements into metric. Any President who vows to do this will get my vote.
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Anonymous2006-04-29 14:37
That's still arbitrary.
Obviously, we should all just switch to Planck units.
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Anonymous2006-04-29 14:41
but you guys aggree that water on earth is a good base rite?
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Anonymous2006-04-29 15:04
>>3
Try convincing America of not doing everything the fag way just to be different.
America deserves their lbs's. It'll only harm them since everyone else uses metric and America will be destroyed in the future.
China and EU will rule the world. America will become a wasteland of enslaved fat people.
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Anonymous2006-04-29 17:20
Europe is about to make America its bitch
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Anonymous2006-04-29 18:07
LOL, stupid Europeans. America does use metric it's just not pushed upon the public. Go grab any food product and look at the label.
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Anonymous2006-04-29 18:41
I believe NASA lost a multimillion-dollar probe because they messed up with units. If they had been European, this wouldn't have happened.
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Anonymous2006-04-30 3:10
>1
NEVER POST AGAIN
The beauty of the system is for converting units in the same thing, like grams to kilograms, etc. Designing a system where everything works out to one like that is stupid, and probably not possible once you start factoring in other things than what you listed.
You are hung up on the fact that one cubic meter doesn't equal a liter, but 1 liter of water at 4 degrees equals a kilogram. One problem you have to deal with is that water changes density with temperature as well. and check this out, there are a 1000 g/cm what you can't handle some extra zeros? You have to have everything equal to one, that really isn't even possible
dumbass
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Anonymous2006-04-30 3:13
>>10
>The world is about to make America its bitch
Fixed.
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Anonymous2006-04-30 3:27
OP is Canadian.
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Anonymous2006-04-30 22:38
>>13 lies. Forget about water, just say density 1. Its still better to have a system that is based on something and not on nothing. if only for the benefit of litres
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Anonymous2006-04-30 22:46
>>13 you havent given any evidence to suggest that it whouldnt better despite water changeing densisty
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Anonymous2006-05-01 2:45
I'm gonna change my density
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Anonymous2006-05-01 6:13
>>18
I already did it and Oprah was the result. :(
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rape-kun2006-05-02 3:04
In middle school and high school we did all our calculations in chemistry, physics whatever using Metric : |
Perhaps this generation will convert
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Anonymous2006-05-02 15:47
>>1
1. Get your spelling right.
2. Post.
3. ???
4. PROFIT
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Anonymous2006-05-02 16:34
>>1
1. Get your spelling right.
2. Post.
3. Still lose.
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Anonymous2006-05-02 16:45
Nothing ever happens when you get your spelling right
1. Get your spelling right
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Q.E.D.
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Anonymous2006-05-06 22:22
Part of the beauty of the metric system is that, with the exception of the kilogram, every fundamental unit is defined with respect to some physical constant (as best we know — the oscillations of cesium atoms, the speed of light, etc). None of this, "I'm the king, and my foot is this long, so now we measure in feet" bullshit.
Also, base 10 prefixes are hot.
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Anonymous2006-05-08 9:18
>>22
true that.
pounds and inches suck. >>20
convert to what exactly? no other easier system to understand than metric. everything in base 10. even idiots can divide into that.
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Isen Ikari2006-05-08 14:21
No kidding! Everyone knows that the Metric System is dead-sexy. (turned me on). Besides, something kinda makes you wonder about America's unquestionable superiority when we are the only idiots still using the Imperial System.
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Anonymous2006-05-08 18:38
>>25
I just wonder why would somebody not use base 10. Do Americans have 8 fingers?
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Anonymous2006-05-08 19:46
>>27
They probably can't fit more than 4 of their fat fingers on each hand
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Anonymous2006-05-09 21:00
I don't get why we American's don't use metric more :( .
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Anonymous2006-05-09 23:56
U S A USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
ALL; THE WAY
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Anonymous2006-05-10 0:14
they teach everyone how to do metric in schools. in anything important we use metric. only times we dont are things like buildings and heights, and a lot of recipes, but msot of our measuring cups and such have metric on them too.
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Anonymous2006-05-10 16:57
>>31
Why not use the decent system for everything then?
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Anonymous2006-05-11 4:34
>>32
....And now we come back to the idiocy of the American system. There's no reason not to use metric for everything. They just don't.
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Anonymous2006-05-11 10:37
Which is easier to answer:
2054 inches is equal to how many feet?
or
2054 mm is equal to how many meters?
Not sure why anyone would use a system in base 12 when our counting system is in base 10. Change one or the other.
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Anonymous2006-05-11 14:30
On top of that, you're measuring in "feet". How retarded could that be?
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Anonymous2006-05-12 0:56
IT'S BRITAIN'S FAULT FUCKERS
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Anonymous2006-05-12 14:54
I like feet and inches, personally i think they should change yards to = meters and change feet and inches accordingly, as an alternative measurement.
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Anonymous2006-05-12 14:54
why are we always hung up on 12. I got 3 dozen lol
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Anonymous2006-05-12 20:44
>>33
because conversion takes time and school systems are retarded, no half-intelligent american can't use metric, and a lot of americans dont know the standard conversions (cups -> pints -> quarts -> gallons). a lot of products we buy are in metric.
2 liter bottles of soda, smaller bottles are usually 20 oz but list the 591ml, engines are in liters or cc, nutritional info is given in g, mg. we buy gas, milk, and water in gallons, but what the hell difference does it really make? anyone whos actually doing measurements (except for housing) is doing them in metric.
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Anonymous2006-05-13 12:48
I DONT CARE ABOUT THIS DEBATE. Although i think they could tighten up the metric system to make more sense.
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Anonymous2006-05-13 17:02
>>36
No, it used to be, but you know a better system, so if you don't use it it's entirely your stupid Amerikkkan freedom defending Big Mac sized route 66 driving NASCAR watching fault.
You are an idiot - "Based on Earth gravity" - the whole point of mass is that it's independent of the gravitational force. What you're thinking of is WEIGHT, and seriously, you can't divide by 10? Metric is so easy oh my god, you fail at life.
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Anonymous2006-05-15 6:31
English motherfuckers
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Anonymous2006-05-16 15:35
I remember last year in my science class, we were reviewing the metric system at the beginning of the year.
I actually heard a couple people go "God this is so stupid, metric is dumb, why can't we just uses inches?"
I wanted to stab her in the ovaries :(
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Anonymous2006-05-16 15:40
You can't define mass in terms of the force it applies because gravity is not constant across the surface of earth to any appreciable precision.
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Anonymous2006-05-16 19:46
9.81m/s/s is appreciably precise enough across the surface of the earth, but no ,you can't define mass in terms of force it applies.