Advantages to Imperial units
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How do you express the rule of thirds in metric? Personally, I prefer fractions and the Imperial system for many reasons, including the aesthetic factor. As a general rule, whichever system provides instantaneous contextual understanding is the system that diver should use.
Actually, they used a weird combination of SI and imperial, and the flight computer was programmed in SI but accepted Imperial inputs. Here's a good read on it: Apollo 11 and Other Screw-Ups
And the shuttle used primarily imperial units. It's super weird the way they did things back then.
And the proper response is, "Liberia went to the moon?!"
It's even worse than that.mwahahaha...so our cunning plan worked then.
No wonder the evil characters in Hollywood are always Brits, it all stems from this
Here is a typical recipe I pulled from a BBC site: Herby toad in the hole
I wasn't aware that teaspoons and tablespoons were metric
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It's even worse than that.
Here is a typical recipe I pulled from a BBC site: Herby toad in the hole
I wasn't aware that teaspoons and tablespoons were metric
Erm yeah, 10 tsp = 1 tbsp
As I said in my earlier post, things are pretty messed up here, we use imperial and SI which can get confusing ... personally I prefer both!!
....that toad in the hole pic's just made me friggin hungry! Gotta love a giant Yorkie with bangers in it!
I was going to post that too. Turns out that was JPL in metric and Lockheed in imperial.
Here in the USA we are a bilingual society speaking both. Some people may think they don't but their medications are almost always in metric. The size of their vehicle engines is in metric most of the time. Their tires are mixed. They are buying 2 liter bottles of pop and 12 oz. cans. In the mechanic business we deal with both all day long. Anybody who thinks metric is simpler should try o-rings in metric. I stock every size of Buna-n o-ring up to fairly large. If I tried that in metric o-rings I wouldn't have enough space in my shop. I have Chinese lathes that are copies of American lathes and some parts are in inches and some in metric and some in metric equivalent of inch measurements.
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British units are bilingual.
3ft +/- 5mm
Joking aside, we still sell timber in imperial units - except they are all converted to metric 3x3" timber (75x75), etc. Carpenters basically still work in imperial.
We measure distance, in miles, we quote miles per gallon, even though we buy petrol (gas) in litres.
It is very age dependent, for years I struggled with metric weight. I only thought in imperial weight. Measure small dimensions in mm, use feet and meters without thinking, dependent on the relative size of the dimension.
In truth, metric is a far easier system to use than imperial.
Remember the huddle telescope had a problem because one group of engineers where working in imperial, and another in metric - they had to fit it with glasses after it was in orbit!.
3ft +/- 5mm
Joking aside, we still sell timber in imperial units - except they are all converted to metric 3x3" timber (75x75), etc. Carpenters basically still work in imperial.
We measure distance, in miles, we quote miles per gallon, even though we buy petrol (gas) in litres.
It is very age dependent, for years I struggled with metric weight. I only thought in imperial weight. Measure small dimensions in mm, use feet and meters without thinking, dependent on the relative size of the dimension.
In truth, metric is a far easier system to use than imperial.
Remember the huddle telescope had a problem because one group of engineers where working in imperial, and another in metric - they had to fit it with glasses after it was in orbit!.
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