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The internet wouldn't allow this
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People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
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As someone who's all about science and all the things that use metric as it's standard, I understand why us Americans argue for imperial measurements.
We know them.
I can general look at something and relatively tell how big it is based on my experience with the imperial system.
I'm not saying metric isn't better but there's also different languages with some of them being able to express certain emotions or features better than others. Yet you don't see people demanding we all adapt a singular language.
You should start by adopting metric in anything remotely scientific. Like
Pa
orbar
, notmmHg
orPSI
PSI
is a dumpster fire of an abbreviation, the correct one islbf/in²
lb
/lbf
confusion is not worth it when we have newtonsBTU
which nobody can really comprehend, or gasoline-gallon-equivalents that nobody knows how to translate to anything elsecm³
orml
, notcc
FFS)Lb-Ft
which is wrong on so many levelsMB/s
orkb/s
, notkbps
,Kb/s
,kbit/s
orMbit
Can you imagine having different units across the world for voltage or data? Like a 2¾-lemon battery or a 2 million floppy hard drive. That would be absolutely insane.
There is an awful lot of inconsistency in the imperial system too, like pound being abbreviated
lb
,P
(inPSI
) or even£
, or miles beingmi
orM
inMPH
About torque though: If my memory doesn't betray me, one Newtonmeter is 100 grams hooked to a one meter long lever. Is that really different from one pound hanging off a one foot lever? I might be wrong, since I was born metric and have no clue in general.
That's an approximate rule of thumb. The definition of a newton is the force required to accelerate 1 kg by 1 m/s². The ocean level gravity of earth just happens to be around 9.82 ≈ 10 m/s², thus a 100g weight feels approx 1N of gravitational force.