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Why doesn't the USA adopt officially the metric unit?
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Kayla
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Probably, for lack of a better reason, cause we don't wanna do it! 
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scubabeachboy
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OH,and,......
My last research paper as part of my degree was assigned by the professor.
My assignment was: which system is better, metric or NAS (North American Standards).
Only USA and Congo still use NAS.
I went to the library and found all sorts of books on metrics, metrics today, metric revolution, ect.
All the books were from the 1970's.
Metrics flopped and bad here.
besides try telling your girlfriend that her waist line has went from a size 12 to 196.7 overnight, and all she had was one peice of cheese cake last night bedfore bed!
hahhaahhahahahah!!!!!!!
Party-on!
: Ron.
My last research paper as part of my degree was assigned by the professor.
My assignment was: which system is better, metric or NAS (North American Standards).
Only USA and Congo still use NAS.
I went to the library and found all sorts of books on metrics, metrics today, metric revolution, ect.
All the books were from the 1970's.
Metrics flopped and bad here.
besides try telling your girlfriend that her waist line has went from a size 12 to 196.7 overnight, and all she had was one peice of cheese cake last night bedfore bed!
hahhaahhahahahah!!!!!!!
Party-on!
: Ron.
scubabeachboy
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Damn,...............I'm funny!!!!!
hahahahhahahahaha!!!!!
hahahahhahahahaha!!!!!
scubabeachboy
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the original distance of the meter was 1/10,000,000 (one ten millionth) of a quarter arc of the earth,
in english: north pole to equator, then cut that distance into ten m illion eeven sized peices.
Thew new standard is how far light travels in a vacuum in some odd time.
in english: north pole to equator, then cut that distance into ten m illion eeven sized peices.
Thew new standard is how far light travels in a vacuum in some odd time.
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The 2 liter soda bottle is an artifact of a push to go metric in the late 70's. At the time the plastic bottle for Coke was developed, it looked like going to metric was a sure thing.
The plan was to convert to metric in stages, particularly in labels on consumer items such as food.
At first keep the container sizes as they are, but have small metric lablels.
then equal sized metric and imperial labels, and any new containers are to be in "even metric units". i.e. a soda can would be 350ml/11.xx ounces, rather than 12.0 ounces/354 ml.
Then big metric labels with labels for content size in imperial units. Continue to move to container sizes that are rounded units in metric system.
We only made it to the first step before congress was overwhelmed with complaints and they revised the laws.
Pretty much all we have left over from the effort is the metric equivalent contents label, AND THE 2 LITER COKE BOTTLE.
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