I live in the US, but I believe that the metric system sounds more reasonable. Here's why. 1 kilometer=1000 meters 1 kilogram=1000 grams 1 centimeter=10 millimeters and so on If you compare to the English system it can sometimes a bit confusing. 1 kilo= 2.2 lbs. 1 mile= 1.61 kilometers 1 gallon= 3.7 liters and so on. By comparing the math skills, there is a never ending number on comparing the English System and the Metric System. Yet I'm suprised that scientists use the Metric system all over the world, even us too.

The US already have adopted it... All the old units are now *defined* in terms of the metric ones. So for instance, one inch, now just means 25.4 millimeters. If you mean why don't Americans use metric for day to day measures? Probably because the old measures are better for ordinary human beings - they use smaller numbers which are more easily divisible. It would be pointless and expensive to change. Converting between different units doesn't really become common until you start talking physics. No wonder the physics teachers call for metric. Retailers know better.

I am going to disagree with Quirkie on this. It is not just the physics teachers that want a switch to the metric system. Anybody who regularly does math with lengths, volumes, weights, etc. would probably want to shift to the metric system. The metric system is so much better for this than the English system because it is a strictly base ten system. There is no need to remember the conversions from one unit to the next. For example, with the metric system you don't have to remember that there are 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, or 1760 yards to a mile. With the metric system you simply start with a base unit and then add standard prefixes to it based on powers of ten. It's consistent, easy to remember, and very easy to work with. The main reason the US has not really switched the the metric system is because the vast majority of Americans don't think in the metric system and don't want to be bothered to learn to think in it. I'll admit it. As much as I would like to see this country switch, I don't think in terms of the metric system either. This is because it is not used in every-day life in this country. So, we have a catch 22 here. The people don't want to switch to the metric system because they don't think in metric. However, they don't think in metric because we don't use metric. We don't use metric because we don't want to switch. So we keep perpetuating the old system that is not as good. Oh well.

ASAP, I live in a country that is too ignorant as it is.

i think the USA should go ahead and convert just to be able to participate in the world market. There have been numerous attempts to convert, the one in 1902 was nearly successful, failing by only 1 vote. The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 was signed with much fanfare, but was unsuccessful. At about this time, gasoline was sold by the liter, then over $1/gallon for the first time, which the price dials could not accommodate. There were metric conversion tables, metric rulers, etc everywhere.

No. The UK, not the US, defines them that way, and it is in no way easier. Anyone who says it is has no knowledge of measurement. Q:How many Inches to the moon. A:Who Cares? Except, say a guy who wanted to waste time by doing it which our system would work better! Not to mention 16,12,231,20, etc. all have twice the factors that 10 does. Only 2 & 3 have fewer. Let's divide a foot and meter by 3 shall we? 4 Inches or 33|1/3 Centimeters, what's easier to remember? Why should we abandon our culture? What England did to the currency already made countless Dickens novels impossible to understand!

It needed to adopt that system decades ago.The only 2 countries left in the world that use the British system of measurement is Great Britain and the USA.The metric system is much easier in the end and not that hard to learn.