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Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House
fsterman writes "Without any prompting from the U.S. Metric Association, a We The People petition to standardize the U.S. on the metric system has received 13,000 signatures in six days. That's half the number needed for an official response from the White House. It looks like ending the U.S.'s anti-metric alliance with Liberia and Burma (the only other countries NOT on the metric system) might rank up there with building a death star."
I think the major impediment to the US adopting the metric system for 'everything'...is most of us wonder how this would benefit us at all in the every day life of the common citizen?
At this point...it would be more of a PITA than it would be something that would enhance our daily lives.
It isn't like most US citizens interact with someone outside the country in a manner in which measurements are a problem.
Everyone here has the concepts of how much a gallon of gas is....miles per hour, and how you should dress if it is 40F outside.
I have no fucking clue what I need to dress like if it is 40C out....and it would be very inconvenient for quite a long time if I had to do that conversion in my head every day after watching or listening to the morning weather reports.
How would changing be anything but an inconvenience for me?
And most everything done scientifically is in metric already, and in that area, it is cool and already there...but most ordinary citizens don't have any interactions in that manner.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........