Metric is for people who don't actually do things.
Who used to do things, past tense
>The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant that is important in many areas of physics. Its exact value is defined as 299792458 metres per second (approximately 300000 km/s or 186000 mi/s).[Note 3] It is exact because, by international agreement, a metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1⁄299792458 second.[Note 4][3] According to special relativity, c is the upper limit for the speed at which conventional matter, energy or any signal carrying information can travel through space. A light-year is a distance unit, defined as the distance travelled by light in one Julian year. The speed of light is sometimes referred to as lightspeed, especially in science fiction. ... >The speed of light in imperial units and US units is based on an inch of exactly 2.54 cm... is approximately 186282 miles, 698 yards, 2 feet, and 5 inches per second.
Your shit's lame and outdated end of story. The only reason the US still uses it is because it's a former british colony
>In the twelfth century, Henry I of England decreed that a yard would be the distance from his nose to the thumb of his outstretched arm.
lol
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This, is order
1 centimeter = 10 millimeters 1 decimeter = 10 centimeters 1 meter = 10 decimeters 1 dekameter = 10 meters 1 hectometer = 10 dekameters 1 kilometer = 10 hectometers
This, is a glorified mess
1 foot = 12 inches 1 yard = 3 feet 1 chain = 22 yards 1 furlong = 10 chains 1 mile = 8 furlongs 1 league = 3 miles
Clown world units, literally
And it gets better:
The British Imperial fluid ounce is equal to 28.413 milliliters, while in the U.S. Customary System it is equivalent to 29.573 ml.
A pint in the British Imperial System is 568.261 milliliters (or 20 fluid ounces), while a U.S. pint is just 473.176 ml (or 16 fluid ounces).
A British Imperial quart is equal to 1.13 liters (or 40 fluid ounces), whereas a quart in the U.S. Customary System is 0.94 l (or 32 fluid ounces).
A gallon in the British Imperial System is equal is 4.54 liters (or 160 fluid ounces) while a U.S. gallon is equal to 3.78 liters (or 128 fluid ounces).
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Yes, everything is fake in america, even the imperial system
Welcome to clownworld
Actually, it was all based roughly on available middle ages measuring units for markets. Like you'd use your hands to measure the height of a horse rather than "feet" but you'd "measure" a distance with the length of feet to get an approximate measurement.
Imagine if we measured time like the metric system: 1 seconds in 1 Earth rotation, 10 deci-seconds in a second, 10 centi-seconds in a deci-second, 10 milli-seconds in a centi-second.
Why not do that?
Metric is based on 1 meter, which is based on 1 second of a half pendulum swing. A second is based on 1⁄86400 of a day. There are 60 seconds to 1 minute, 60 min to 1 hour, 24 hours in a day. We should change that mess to a better order.
Why stop there, let's change a circle from 360 degrees to 1 degree in a circle and divide it into tens.
Don't start me on the "am pm" thing, that's yet another stupid anglo hack that hopefully, is on the way out now
At this point maybe you should move to Europe. Use your metric and 2400 time measurement.
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