The Imperial System - It's truly universal!

[SoulReaver]

There are three countries in the world that don't use the metric system:
Birma (Myanmar), Liberia and the USA. I think you have great company

a new axis of evil ! the americans are non-aligned™ !!!

[Actionhank]

a new axis of evil ! the americans are non-aligned™ !!!

Either you're with us or you're with the bad measurenists

You have spent your time ignorant to the truth, stumbling aimlessly through the darkness cast upon your world by the trappings of the past.
But now, the path to fulfillment stands revealed, and the time has come to embrace a new faith.
Let the light of the metric system show you the way!

[SoulReaver]

Either you're with us or you're with the bad measurenists

yes ! and if you're not with us, then we will have to take all necessary measures !

[Mitchell82]

I didn't see it as a big deal that they used 7 feet in that episode, most people knew the meaning was Ronan was very tall

Same here this thread is confusing.

[DocumentN]

Ah Farscape. Great show!

Assertion: It was great in *spite* of its habit of randomly replacing ordinary words with silly cutesy made-up ones for no adequate reason.

[Mister Oragahn]

If you could only start to use dates like everybody else: year, month, day, hour, minute, second.

[freyr's mother]

I personally prefer the metric system. I hate our American system or whatever its called. The conversions suck.

[jds1982]

I personally prefer the metric system. I hate our American system or whatever its called. The conversions suck.

Oh come on, where's the fun in easily converting things?

[SoulReaver]

I hate our American system or whatever its called. The conversions suck.

yeah but it's patriotic

[idlewild202]

Haha... see, I'm a horse person, and it's funny... I use both systems, to a degree.
Like, if you were to tell me the dimensions of a riding area in FEET I wouldn't have a single clue what you were talking about... now, mention it to me in METERS and I'd know exactly how big of an area you mean.

But then, tell me the height of a jump in feet/inches and I'll totaly understand... tell it to me in meters and I'll be back to square one. lol.

I dunno... I think it's outright unfair to the masses having two systems of measurement in the world...

And for that matter, in the entire universe

[SoulReaver]

Like, if you were to tell me the dimensions of a riding area in FEET I wouldn't have a single clue what you were talking about... now, mention it to me in METERS and I'd know exactly how big of an area you mean.

But then, tell me the height of a jump in feet/inches and I'll totaly understand... tell it to me in meters and I'll be back to square one. lol.

then how would you measure the length of a jump ?

[idlewild202]

then how would you measure the length of a jump ?

lol, same as height. I know, it totaly doesn't make sense... we set our distances between jumps in feet too, but always in an arena measured by meters

[SoulReaver]

lol, same as height. I know, it totaly doesn't make sense... we set our distances between jumps in feet too, but always in an arena measured by meters

k

now suppose a (really good) horse jumped the full length of the arena -
how would you then measure the jump ?

[idlewild202]

k

now suppose a (really good) horse jumped the full length of the arena -
how would you then measure the jump ?

In $$... send me the horse that can do that and I'll pay your way to the moon

hehe... we are taking this waaaay OT. lol

[SoulReaver]

hehe... we are taking this waaaay OT. lol

you're right...how far in meters did we go off topic ?