Should America go to the metric system?
by 
Payton Parker
ANSWERS: 13
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We tried to once a few years ago and even started doing all our work in metric. I don't know what happened tho, we suddenly just switched back. Metric makes more sense tho once you get the hang of it.
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No thanks. I have no use for it.
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What? And make us learn something new? Actually... yeah, we probably should... but we would have to change all of our idioms "I could see that coming from a Kilometer away" just doesn't have the same ring to it... And it's also almost half the distance!
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As long as its out of our Solar System then yes
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They tried that years ago and it just didn't take. America couldn't make the change. Or didn't want to. As were one of the only nations using our measuring system, we should probably convert. But none of that driving on the opposite side of the road...
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There should be unification of some sort, there have been a lot of costly mistakes caused by confusion surrounding units
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They beat Britain to a decimal system of currency by a couple of hundred years, so I'm sure they could do it if they tried. I could be wrong, but haven't they gone over to litres from cubic inches for engine sizes. I like the irony that the USA uses the IMPERIAL system of measurement.
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Yes. There are only 3 countries in the world that do not use the metric system---Burma(Myanmar), Liberia, and the U.S. It is odd because the US already uses the metric system for its monetary system. There have been some potentially deadly errors made in the aircraft industry when the conversion was done incorrectly or done twice...I can remember an aircraft landing in a city that couldn't get its nose wheel down because the cargo had been loaded incorrectly because the calculation was based on the wrong weight. I am familiar with the airline industry so I use that as my example...Also because Boeing is built in the US it does not use the metric system (it may now) and that caused conversion problems all the time. The errors occur in every industry because the values are confusing --especially to people who do not understand the systems.... It is a relatively easy system to learn and once you have it learned it makes much more sense than the older system...In metric everything is based on the number 10.......
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Not if there's widespread resistance to it. But I would highly reccomend it- it's a hell of a lot easier counting in tens than it is counting in twelves and sixteens.
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I think the metric system is better because distance, weight and volume are all based in tenths' and there is a correlation between them. For example, our system of distance is not compatible with our numerical system. Yards are divisible by 3, feet are divisible by 12 and inches are divisible by '2,4,8,16,32 and so on. Because a foot is divided into 12, you have to first convert 12th's into 10th's, so to multiply by 1 inch, you dont use .10, you have to use .082. Confusing aint it?
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There should be a transitional period where we get eased into the system and once when we get comfortable, then we will drop the old system.
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Yes. It makes more sense. Eventually, the detractors will be dead and everybody else will be left with a more sensible system.
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We should to stay competitive with the rest of the world.
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