But the americans are suposedly not making an empire, ironicly empirisists use the metric while the Imperial is used by the Non Impiricists. The Imperial system was taken al over the world by the british empire, its irony, why did i just post this?!
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As for feet, well, humans have feet, so it's not as if they couldn't put two and two together and determine that the approx distance is the length of seven of their feet.Comment
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We do not use (or have ever used) the Imperial system we use U.S. customary units.
It's an American show, the people in it use the American system of measurement. Whopeedoo. If he would've said 2.2 meters (or whatever 7 feet is), you wouldn't have complained.
Your post is just another failed attempt at making fun of America.We're whalers on the moon,
We carry a harpoon.
But there ain't no whales
So we tell tall tales
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C'mon now, this thread is meant to be a fun thread, nothing more. The OP was just having fun with TPTB's decision not to have aliens speak foreign language, use a totally different set of phrases, weights, measures, ala 'Farscape' for instance, it just kinda drifted from there.
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and the men wear suits with ties. jonas's people use the imperial system alsoOriginally posted by Jackie View PostDaniel: Their whole world is in flames, and we're offering gasoline.
Teal'c: We are, in fact, offering water.
Daniel: I was speaking metaphorically.
Jack: Well don't, it's not fair to Teal'c.Comment
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btw why not revert back to the Roman numeral system ? basic operations such as adding & multiplying are far more complex with this system, surely it would be a much more logical choice for yall than the decimal system wouldn't it ?Originally posted by rarocks24 View PostComment
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Originally posted by Mandysg1
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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
But go ahead and keep on wrecking $125 million dollar mars orbiters using your beloved measurement system.
Welcome to the zone where normal things don't happen...
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As for the Mars Orbiter, for someone to use Newtons is so obsurd it's just hilarious.The U.S. system of units is similar to the Imperial system which was used officially in the United Kingdom until 1995 (and which still has official usage there for a few purposes, and unofficial usage for many others). Both systems derive from the evolution of local units over the centuries, as a result of standardization efforts in England; the local units themselves mostly trace back to Roman and Anglo-Saxon units. Today, these units are defined in terms of SI units.
In the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, the United States government designated the metric system of measurement as "the preferred system of weights and measures for U.S. trade and commerce". The legislation states that the Federal Government has a responsibility to assist industry, especially small business, as it voluntarily converts to the metric system of measurement. This process of legislation and conversion is known as metrication, and in the U.S. is most evident in labeling requirements on food products, where SI units are almost always presented alongside customary units.
However, metrication in the United States has been less forcefully imposed than in other countries,[2] and has encountered more resistance from industrial and consumer market forces, so customary units are still widely used on consumer products and in industrial manufacturing; only in military, medical, and scientific contexts are SI units generally the norm. (Mars Climate Orbiter crashed on Mars because one team used newtons and the other used pounds-force.) Since everyday weights and measures are mostly non-SI, children in U.S. public schools are generally taught customary units before SI, although many schools are now attempting to teach SI units at an earlier age.
There are anecdotal objections to the use of metric units in carpentry and the building trades, on the basis that it is easier to remember an integer number of inches plus a fraction than a measurement in millimeters[3] , or that inch measurements are more suitable when distances are frequently divided by two.[2]
Other countries had (or still have, unofficially), customary units of their own, sometimes very similar in name and measure to the U.S. customary units, since they often shared the same Germanic or Roman origins. Frequently, however, these units designated quite different sizes. For example, in different countries, the mile ranged from one half to five US miles, and even foot and pound had varying definitions. Even within the USA, at least through the 19th century, the customary units of measure were sometimes just as variable. Eventually, most countries, including the United States, redefined their customary units in terms of SI units like kilogram and meter. Often, though, unlike English units, they were rounded to "nice" SI values, leading to their use in colloquial speech, alongside SI terms, into the present day.
Historically, a wide range of non-SI units have been used in the United States, and on the British Isles before that, but many of these have fallen into disuse. This article only deals with the units commonly used or officially defined in the United States.
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...but the real question is; why is this thread here 
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