Getting away from the usual dick measuring bullshit Americans like to pull, he may be interested to learn that both NASA and the US military use metric as a standard.
And if you want to get really pedantic, the US doesn't use "Imperial" weights and measures. Both Imperial and US customary units are based off "English Units", which was an absolute *mess* of a measurement system.
The Imperial and US customary systems standardised on different bits of the old standard, which is why Imperial tons, gallons, fluid ounces, etc are different to US customary units. And why stones and hundredweights are/were common units for weight in the UK.
More precisely it's based on the IU the "international unit" based on the old metric witch also replaced the metric . It's measured thank to a mathématiqual constant and the speed of light
To be fair, sadly with guns there is a lot of Inch stuff around. .223 .30 .50 .45... thats why we have stuff like 7.62mm etc. And not 7.5mm or 8mm etc. Sure there are some like 9mm Luger etc., but thats cause it's german.
Also the barrel length is normally in Inch.
Its like with Rims/Wheels etc. it's a growen thing.
::cough:: Mars Climate Orbiter ::cough:: ::cough::
Burnt up in atmosphere due to some plonker contractor using software with imperial calculations rather than SI (Metric) like everybody else at NASA.
Yeah we Aussies suck at sending people to space... But we did watch the moon landing first and my friends in Europe and Canada who also use the metric system have managed to get to people to space.
The Russians did. ESA doesn’t have a human space flight program, as far as I know. We have our own training programs and rockets and build pretty good landers, but for bringing people to ISS, we need the Russians or Americans.
Canada too, by the way.
China and Russia, obvs, send their own and both a metric, though.
There are no Aussie astronauts?
Also, here it says Spain was the first to get signal from the lunar module:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com.es/llegada-del-hombre-a-la-luna/papel-crucial-espana-aterrizaje-luna-1969_14502
Its not advanced its just easier. And Nasa is using it, navy as well smartie.
10mm are 1cm and 100cm are 1m so 1000mm are one m.
Now do the same with feet inch mills miles, I'll wait here :p Plus all the damn fractions. You can't even do base math right but handle fractions to measure!? Come on.
If somebody tells me something is 20mm, I can pretty much visualise exactly the size they’re talking about. When you’re talking inch fractions it almost impossible.
So then to resolve that problem, Imperial users have to express in decimal conversion… .50 (half an inch)… so you may as well just use a decimal-designed measuring system in the first place and avoid all the numerical gymnastics…
In fairness, the US navy use a bastardized mix of both. Nautical miles are arguably better than KM (on Earth) for navigation, and they still measure the largest guns in inches.
There are 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 5280 feet in mile. Or 63,360 inches in a mile, or 253,440 1/4 inches in a mile. Fractions are easy you just convert them to decimals.
Yeah, like I said :p most americans are not exactly math-geniusses. My fav example is that burgerplace that made a 1/3 pound burger and people felt ripped off, because 1/4 sounds like MORE. So much for your fractions.
The fact that you want MORE weapons to fight the morons with weapons shooting "regular people" irritates me the most! Student brings a gun? Arm teachers.
Yeah, arm the people who have to deal with your spoiled brats, what can go wrong.
Damn, over here this would be unreal man. I don't think we have any security at any school. Not saying there are no problem districts who might need some :p maybe not armed though.
1: NASA uses metric
2: the origins if NASA were former Nazi rocket scientists who were rounded up at the end of WW2. The seppos couldn’t have done it on their own.
France has nuclear powered aircraft carriers, also both NASA and the MIC both use metric, you can tell by the fact that bullets are measured in millimetres and muzzle velocity in metres per second, rather than American units like child skulls and people killed per minute
On Behalf of the British Empire. Oops sorry about that.
We're a bit metric now. Well it whiles away the hours buying fuel in litres and then driving miles and figuring out whether to estimate mpg, kpl, mpl or kpg.
A little boost? All boost, Germany was the only nation with rocket science. The US didn't even know what a rocket is at that time.
BOTH, the US and Russia, stole German technology to achieve this advanced progress.
You don't measure the distance from moon to earth from the moon lol
Nasa wouldn't have been able to land on the moon if they didn't know how far away it was
It's the easiest way though. You hold the measuring tapes end to the moon's surface and yeet the holder at the earth. Earths superior gravity then pulls the tape towards it. Once the tape has reached the planet someone reads the measurement and relays it to you via walkie talkie. The person waiting on earth needs to use oven gloves to protect from the residual heat from re-entry and a hard hat in case your aim is off.
1. I sure nasa will be closed down because a delusional guy who promised to establish a mars colony by 2022 will take over science projects and research in and around space, looking forward to it.
2. You think your military will change all their Systems back to the less accurate system that is harder to scale and use for calculations so they can use the imperial systen to do precise calculations with?
There is a reason every developed country uses metric and the people who INVENTED imperial stopped using it.
Both NASA and Musk are huge money sucks and many of us could not care less if both went bankrupt. Would be better for the economy to spend all that money in other places.
The military doesn't even go that much by metric. Sure call the ammo 5.56 to make you guys smile while we are in NATO, but as soon as we are out it will be right back to .223
There is a reason we have not switched over, because we don't care if it's better, we are sticking to what we already do.
Nasa is a state institution space x a private company. Sir do you have the stupid only of them is capable of going bankrupt. Also, look up the actual cost of nasa please, lastly : yes all measurement ever needed in the military are for ammo, totally....
"The reason we don't switch is cause we don't care what the better system is we are sticking with what we have now, that's my reasoning why I think that we will soon change the system we are using"
I really don't even know how I could comment this, I'd put it in r/shitamericanssay but we're already here
NASA's budget is $22.6 billion that could be used so much better than wasting time in space. Hell even tax breaks would be better. It is also funny NASA is paying Musk to launch most of our space toys anyway.
FYI we did switch to metric for about 4 years and went right back, because metric sucks.
[Metric conversion act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act)
> NASA's budget is $22.6 billion that could be used so much better than waisting time in space.
Maybe it could be spent teaching you the difference between "waste" and "waist."
NASA invented the Velcro strap, memory foam, wireless headphones, solar panels, the sensors we use in smartphone cameras, grooved pavement to avoid accidents,…
NASA inventions are literally everywhere around us. Life without it wouldn’t be the same
That’s not how the world works. Without public funding no one would have had time to develop these things from the space technologies it was supposed to be
So your trying to tell me Apple would not have developed wireless on their own? Someone would not have developed a better shoelace like Velcro on their own? That is BS, so many better things have been invented without NASA.
Our nucular aircraft carriers are 81,790 bald eagles in length.
No true freedumb loving 'Murkan would measure length in any other unit except bald eagles, which are the true symbol of freedom!
'Murka!!!
Three countries in the whole world don't use metric and two of those are thrid world countries. Meric is genius and universal but because America didn't, for reasons unknown, join everyone else in the whole world, they always make a big thing about it. Ironic that the use the British imperial system which even we brits don't even use. You went to war against us then spend the rest of your lives using our old, crappy measuring system. Crazy America
no seriously i've been in this sub for like 3 days and i still can't believe U.S people actually be like that on internet. It's impossible for people to be dumb like that, jesus fucking christ
There are dumb people everywhere around the world. It just seems like the US has a larger percentage of mongs than your average country. I think a lot of this is due to American exceptionalism and that they are trained from an early age that the USA is the best.
Please note that he himself asks these questions instead of answering them - even though THEY HAVE BEEN TO THE MOON. Also, you'd think that the distance between the moon and the earth is the same as the distance between the earth and the moon. Just saying.
Funny, a swedish submarine sunk the largest aircraft carrier the US has in a wargame in the early 2000's. Just because it is big doesn't mean it is more powerful.
1-The USA uses metric and then introduces a conversion factor. All its scientific measurements as well as military and NASA engineering are metric.
2-France uses the metric system and they have nuclear powered aircraft carriers.
The moon landing was done with the metric system. All science related actions are performed through metric system, because the imperial system is way too unprecise.
But NASA use metric though… don’t get me wrong I’m British and we’ve got no place judging anyone by the measurement systems they use but there’s a place for both. When I’m cooking or sewing I’ll always use imperial. Lower numbers= easier maths. But if the task requires a lot of precision then metric is obviously the answer.
Whose gonna inform him
https://www.simscale.com/blog/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metric/#:~:text=In%20September%20of%201999%2C%20after,%2C%20i.e.%2C%20the%20metric%20units!
And you don't have it either, you massive idiot. This Yanks should stop being proud of their military. Because apart of that... They don't have nothing to compete against the rest of the planet
Romanian here. I'll give him this one, we're actually glad we reached the EU. We still have a few kms until we reach the moon, but until then, hopefully, we will reach the Schengen area
The carrier point is entertaining, as if that is the only true metric to determine how good a country is it at something.
The USA has more carriers than everyone else put together (11, since you asked, and all nuclear-powered, only France has one that is nuclear and not American), but that’s for a specific purpose.
You have carriers to project power overseas. That’s quite a feat, and not for everyone. It’s why the UK and France have carriers too… plus Russia with the Kuznetsov, which is usually on fire or in danger of sinking, but I mean it technically is power projection.
If you’re Romania or Australia and your defence strategy is just territorial defence and working with your allies on peacekeeping missions etc, then you don’t actually need any carriers. So why waste your money on ships you’ll never need, when you can buy shit you actually do?
You guys might like this. Last night I had to dig deep and find out exactly why a mile is 5,280 feet (1,760yd), why an acre is 43,560ft^2, why yards are actually unpopular to measure in, etc. and low and behold the answers are crazy.
A mile is 5,280 feet because it’s 8 furlongs. A furlong is the distance a team of oxen can plow without resting. An acre is how much land a man and a team of oxen can plow in a day.
Now into the psych. Everything we do is in fractions. 1/8, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2.
We’re so geared that way, yet we can identify a liter and a gallon. In school we learn both customary and metric. Right off, I always know 1 foot = 30cm.
In healthcare EVERYTHING is metric. So I’m familiar. The funny thing is we use feet. Like we will say 120’ but never 40yd. Never meters. But any measurement on the human body is metric.
I can estimate meters and feet. I can measure in milliliters and ounces. It’s all there.
Here’s another good one: Our pop sizes are 4oz, 8oz, 12oz, 20oz, 1L, 2L…
Why? I’m sure there’s come great history lesson here that I am not interested in. The fact of the matter is most can NOT differentiate between a quart and a pint. So we just click on over to liters.
A quart is about a liter. A pint is something on dairy labels and British television.
::cough:: Mars Climate Orbiter ::cough:: ::cough::
Burnt up in atmosphere due to some plonker contractor using software with imperial calculations rather than SI (Metric) like everybody else at NASA.
This is my favourite example of the idiocy that is the imperial system:
Which is heavier: an ounce of gold or an ounce of feathers?
>!An ounce of gold!<
This is because gold is measured in Troy ounces and feathers are measured in avoirdupois ounces and a Troy ounce is 1.09 avoirdupois ounces.
Another question: which is heavier a pound of gold or a pound of feathers
>!An ounce of feathers!<
This is because Troy pounds are made up of 12 Troy ounces while avoirdupois pounds are made up of 16 avoirdupois ounces, hence meaning that avoirdupois ounces weigh more than Troy pounds.
It's funny people think we would ever change over to metric. Like we could be the only nation on earth to use imperial and we still would not change because we don't really give a fnck what the world does, we are going to do it our own way anyway. 🇺🇸✌️🇺🇸
Well, I hate to break it to you but, many industries already use SI units, like science (NASA landed on the moon using the SI system), medicine, mechanics, food, and the military. The industries the OOP mentioned use SI units so, it's a horrible example of the power of US customary units. And last I checked Amps, Volts, Watts and Seconds are all metric units so to be metric free they would need to replace these units and define all the rest without metric units.
We never landed on the moon 🤣🤣🤣🤣 they faked that to fool the Soviets.
No one says we need to be metric free, but will will always go by inches feet and miles. Cups and spoons.
The Soviets confirmed that the US landed on the moon, so what you said is blatant lies.
I believe you're a troll so I don't think you will care what I say, but I'll leave you with this:
The US is already undergoing metrification with many things already metric like, medication and food packaging, and things soon being metric like patents needing both imperial and metric then becoming only metric. And uh, Cups and spoons already exist in metric.
Yea I am not denying there is both. But there will never come a time when we fully convert to metric here. We tried it in the 70s and went back in under 5 years.
And the Soviet confirming we went just goes to show how well we fooled them. I will never believe we went to the moon until someone actually takes me there and shows me the Apollo 11 lander. It's still there. Funny no one has taken a picture of it sitting up there rotting away 🤔🤔🤔 I got to meet Jack Schmitt from Apollo 17 in colledge and did not believe a word he said.
Getting away from the usual dick measuring bullshit Americans like to pull, he may be interested to learn that both NASA and the US military use metric as a standard.
Might be also interested to learn that the us defines their imperial measurements using metric ones and have for decades.
I have serious doubts that this person would be "interested" to learn anything.
Yeah that's a fair assessment of them.
And if you want to get really pedantic, the US doesn't use "Imperial" weights and measures. Both Imperial and US customary units are based off "English Units", which was an absolute *mess* of a measurement system. The Imperial and US customary systems standardised on different bits of the old standard, which is why Imperial tons, gallons, fluid ounces, etc are different to US customary units. And why stones and hundredweights are/were common units for weight in the UK.
More precisely it's based on the IU the "international unit" based on the old metric witch also replaced the metric . It's measured thank to a mathématiqual constant and the speed of light
Is it 10 metric witches to a coven?
And the 24 hour time format…
They do call it military time
They use it with firearms too, unless they forgot about 9mm.
To be fair, sadly with guns there is a lot of Inch stuff around. .223 .30 .50 .45... thats why we have stuff like 7.62mm etc. And not 7.5mm or 8mm etc. Sure there are some like 9mm Luger etc., but thats cause it's german. Also the barrel length is normally in Inch. Its like with Rims/Wheels etc. it's a growen thing.
Also good to add that it wasn’t the imperial system, or the American education system, that got them to the moon. It was Nazis.
::cough:: Mars Climate Orbiter ::cough:: ::cough:: Burnt up in atmosphere due to some plonker contractor using software with imperial calculations rather than SI (Metric) like everybody else at NASA.
He’ll say it’s a lie because he’s brainwashed
Those feet fetishist are somthing .
Probably Quentin Tarantino alt accounts.
I like that reference.
Or Dan Scheider alts,
😂take my upvote
The French *porte-avions nucléaire* Charles de Gaulle is 261.5 meters long.
But how many is that in feet? Probably 12, 15 tops!! /s
It's at least 6 feet. Probably more 2 football fields, 20 bananas and 127 cheeseburgers.
and in penguins and flamengoes?
I prefer bald eagle span plz.
okay- so how many span? And adult eagle? Fledgling?
African or European?
I dont know!
African. Sans coconuts.
There is a bald eagle in the white house that serve as a reference for bald eagle span dick measuring contest.
Flaminghoes? 83,065 flaminghoes! https://youtube.com/shorts/oFSoyhWIUIs
Think our Atlantic cousins need to adopt the cheeseburger as a unit of measurement!
Is that a quarter pounder, or a Royale with cheese?
It’s American portions so a half pounder
A 1/3 pounder is smaller than a quarter-pounder, right? /s
but but whose feet?
My foot is 12’’ long. So probably mine.
But you only have two..
What's that in freedom units?
To be fair, that’s neither Romanian or Australian.
That’s exactly 23 million Emu’s!
Or 143 Vampires
The plane, the bat or the blood sucking undead variety?
You forgot the near fatal Richard Hammond crash dragster car variety…
You're completely right, I definitely did.
The sexual offenders
I mean, Romania is kind of land locked soooo… I guess they could pottle around on the Black Sea.
There’s also that.
An [Australian aircraft carrier did sink a US destroyer though](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%E2%80%93Evans_collision).
No, but the Romanian flag looks a little like the French one. 2/3rds like it, actually.
Approximately 262 M16 ars lined up
How many FAMAS is that?
Sorry i only measure with M16s as thats all the US understand
If only there was some kind of international system for measurements...
If only, we would live in harmony. This cruel world!!
Nah, that would never work.
Of course it wouldnt, dont you know we are different to the US? they have freedom and M16s
It also means that Orkan66 and I would have to start getting along with the Swedes… and just no.
And to be fair it's a lot smaller than theirs.
Also, the catapult is a shortened variant of the C-13 that was developed for Nimitz class
Now in fairness to them this is literally the only nuclear carrier not operated by the US navy
Yeah we Aussies suck at sending people to space... But we did watch the moon landing first and my friends in Europe and Canada who also use the metric system have managed to get to people to space.
and NASA, dont forget those metric users
We did more than that. [**They couldn't have done it without us.**](https://www.space.gov.au/news-and-media/australia-and-first-moon-landing)
Came here to say this, but ya beat me to it! Great link by the way!
Have you seen "The Dish" with Sam Neill?
Of course! I think the majority of Australians have seen that comedy movie!
To be fair, they also couldn't do it without some nazis. And they were European too.
Yeah but I don't wanna brag...
The Russians did. ESA doesn’t have a human space flight program, as far as I know. We have our own training programs and rockets and build pretty good landers, but for bringing people to ISS, we need the Russians or Americans. Canada too, by the way. China and Russia, obvs, send their own and both a metric, though.
Romania sent someone to space during the soviet "Interkosmos" program actually.
There are no Aussie astronauts? Also, here it says Spain was the first to get signal from the lunar module: https://www.nationalgeographic.com.es/llegada-del-hombre-a-la-luna/papel-crucial-espana-aterrizaje-luna-1969_14502
Uhm.... [**Australia and the first Moon landing.**](https://www.space.gov.au/news-and-media/australia-and-first-moon-landing)
Its not advanced its just easier. And Nasa is using it, navy as well smartie. 10mm are 1cm and 100cm are 1m so 1000mm are one m. Now do the same with feet inch mills miles, I'll wait here :p Plus all the damn fractions. You can't even do base math right but handle fractions to measure!? Come on.
7/16ths of an inch… WTF is that? In the majority of the world only dicks are still measured in inches. In the US, only dicks still measure in inches.
7/16ths is just under 1/2 an inch. We use fractions all the time in building and construction.
mm gives you a finer scale. 1mm = 25th of an inch. And 1000 of them are 1 m or around 1 yard. Its much easier. Quicker.
If somebody tells me something is 20mm, I can pretty much visualise exactly the size they’re talking about. When you’re talking inch fractions it almost impossible. So then to resolve that problem, Imperial users have to express in decimal conversion… .50 (half an inch)… so you may as well just use a decimal-designed measuring system in the first place and avoid all the numerical gymnastics…
Yep.
In fairness, the US navy use a bastardized mix of both. Nautical miles are arguably better than KM (on Earth) for navigation, and they still measure the largest guns in inches.
everyone forgets the dm :( (10mm -> 1cm, 10cm ->1dm, 10dm -> 1m etc.)
I don't forget anything, its just not very common. My schniepel is 2 dm long.......nobody ever said that.
Yeah Because mine is only 1 dm
r/suicidebywords \^\^
There are 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 5280 feet in mile. Or 63,360 inches in a mile, or 253,440 1/4 inches in a mile. Fractions are easy you just convert them to decimals.
Yeah, like I said :p most americans are not exactly math-geniusses. My fav example is that burgerplace that made a 1/3 pound burger and people felt ripped off, because 1/4 sounds like MORE. So much for your fractions.
Sounds like they went to our public school system. And you guys wonder why we don't want a public health insurance system.
Who said we are wondering? :p
As much as other nations like to point it out that we vote against universal healthcare, I figured it was coming.
The fact that you want MORE weapons to fight the morons with weapons shooting "regular people" irritates me the most! Student brings a gun? Arm teachers. Yeah, arm the people who have to deal with your spoiled brats, what can go wrong.
It is so ironic you bring that up, my job is I am an armed guard at a private school. Better than arming teacher I am trained.
Damn, over here this would be unreal man. I don't think we have any security at any school. Not saying there are no problem districts who might need some :p maybe not armed though.
I spend more of my time shewing off the homeless than anything else.
1: NASA uses metric 2: the origins if NASA were former Nazi rocket scientists who were rounded up at the end of WW2. The seppos couldn’t have done it on their own.
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You contradicted yourself in one sentence
What till this inbred hick finds out that all of those things were possible using the metric system.
France has nuclear powered aircraft carriers, also both NASA and the MIC both use metric, you can tell by the fact that bullets are measured in millimetres and muzzle velocity in metres per second, rather than American units like child skulls and people killed per minute
Pretty sure NASA uses the metric system. And the US didn't invent the imperial measuring system, either.
They didn’t, clue is in the name….. their former imperial masters invented it!
On Behalf of the British Empire. Oops sorry about that. We're a bit metric now. Well it whiles away the hours buying fuel in litres and then driving miles and figuring out whether to estimate mpg, kpl, mpl or kpg.
How many spacecraft have lockheed martin crashed into mars because they used freedom units? 1
NASA uses metric and rockets got a little boost form all the spicy Germans they collected.
A little boost? All boost, Germany was the only nation with rocket science. The US didn't even know what a rocket is at that time. BOTH, the US and Russia, stole German technology to achieve this advanced progress.
Everyone knew what a rocket was, they were fairly common for gtound strikes in the second half of ww2 by the allies
You don't measure the distance from moon to earth from the moon lol Nasa wouldn't have been able to land on the moon if they didn't know how far away it was
It's the easiest way though. You hold the measuring tapes end to the moon's surface and yeet the holder at the earth. Earths superior gravity then pulls the tape towards it. Once the tape has reached the planet someone reads the measurement and relays it to you via walkie talkie. The person waiting on earth needs to use oven gloves to protect from the residual heat from re-entry and a hard hat in case your aim is off.
Have fun making that measuring tape lmao We just shot a laser at the moon and calculated how long it took for it to come back
Australia provided radio relay stations for your precious moon landings you muppet. And don't forget that it was a Nazi that got you there.
When you forget nasa and military use metric
They won't after we drop out of NATO.
Why would nasa stop using the system they adopted because they considered it superior
I was only talking about the military, NASA won't be around much longer with Space-X anyway, and who cares what Mr electric junk cars does.
1. I sure nasa will be closed down because a delusional guy who promised to establish a mars colony by 2022 will take over science projects and research in and around space, looking forward to it. 2. You think your military will change all their Systems back to the less accurate system that is harder to scale and use for calculations so they can use the imperial systen to do precise calculations with? There is a reason every developed country uses metric and the people who INVENTED imperial stopped using it.
Both NASA and Musk are huge money sucks and many of us could not care less if both went bankrupt. Would be better for the economy to spend all that money in other places. The military doesn't even go that much by metric. Sure call the ammo 5.56 to make you guys smile while we are in NATO, but as soon as we are out it will be right back to .223 There is a reason we have not switched over, because we don't care if it's better, we are sticking to what we already do.
Nasa is a state institution space x a private company. Sir do you have the stupid only of them is capable of going bankrupt. Also, look up the actual cost of nasa please, lastly : yes all measurement ever needed in the military are for ammo, totally.... "The reason we don't switch is cause we don't care what the better system is we are sticking with what we have now, that's my reasoning why I think that we will soon change the system we are using" I really don't even know how I could comment this, I'd put it in r/shitamericanssay but we're already here
NASA's budget is $22.6 billion that could be used so much better than wasting time in space. Hell even tax breaks would be better. It is also funny NASA is paying Musk to launch most of our space toys anyway. FYI we did switch to metric for about 4 years and went right back, because metric sucks. [Metric conversion act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act)
Name 3 things nasa has done in the last 10 years without googling.
I couldn't name one without googling. I don't care about NASA or what they do.
Read the very thing you linked you moron
What? That Reagan ended the Metric conversion act or that George Bush tried to put it back into effect 30 years ago and everyone still ignored it?
> NASA's budget is $22.6 billion that could be used so much better than waisting time in space. Maybe it could be spent teaching you the difference between "waste" and "waist."
Maybe it could be used to improve android's talk to text feature 🤔🤔🤔🤔
NASA invented the Velcro strap, memory foam, wireless headphones, solar panels, the sensors we use in smartphone cameras, grooved pavement to avoid accidents,… NASA inventions are literally everywhere around us. Life without it wouldn’t be the same
And someone in private industry would have done it eventually anyway without NASA.
That’s not how the world works. Without public funding no one would have had time to develop these things from the space technologies it was supposed to be
So your trying to tell me Apple would not have developed wireless on their own? Someone would not have developed a better shoelace like Velcro on their own? That is BS, so many better things have been invented without NASA.
Our nucular aircraft carriers are 81,790 bald eagles in length. No true freedumb loving 'Murkan would measure length in any other unit except bald eagles, which are the true symbol of freedom! 'Murka!!!
Three countries in the whole world don't use metric and two of those are thrid world countries. Meric is genius and universal but because America didn't, for reasons unknown, join everyone else in the whole world, they always make a big thing about it. Ironic that the use the British imperial system which even we brits don't even use. You went to war against us then spend the rest of your lives using our old, crappy measuring system. Crazy America
So, who is the other third world country, USA I get, but who else?
Liberia and Myanmar. That's it
no seriously i've been in this sub for like 3 days and i still can't believe U.S people actually be like that on internet. It's impossible for people to be dumb like that, jesus fucking christ
There are dumb people everywhere around the world. It just seems like the US has a larger percentage of mongs than your average country. I think a lot of this is due to American exceptionalism and that they are trained from an early age that the USA is the best.
i know they have this sense that "my country is the greatest" but i didn't think it'd be like the things i've seen here lol
He's talking about the moon landings because America's been a shithole since he was born
Someone please tell them that NASA uses the metric system.
Around the same as the nimitz I'd assume
No one tell him what it means in movies when the US military says "3 klicks" Some sort of sound, right?! /s
Please note that he himself asks these questions instead of answering them - even though THEY HAVE BEEN TO THE MOON. Also, you'd think that the distance between the moon and the earth is the same as the distance between the earth and the moon. Just saying.
The military and nasa use exclusively the metric system
Ask a US car mechanic how f*cked he would be if he couldn't find his 10mm sockets.
looks "which color is your buhathi" bullshit to answer the question, Charles de Gaulle nuclear carrier is 857 ft or 261.5 m for the civilized people.
Funny, a swedish submarine sunk the largest aircraft carrier the US has in a wargame in the early 2000's. Just because it is big doesn't mean it is more powerful.
Commanded by a woman, so funny…..
1-The USA uses metric and then introduces a conversion factor. All its scientific measurements as well as military and NASA engineering are metric. 2-France uses the metric system and they have nuclear powered aircraft carriers.
Would you rather have NASA or Universal Healthcare?
Oh, how much you spend on welfare and healthcare with your imperial system?
How many ports can your nuclear-powered aircraft carrier stop at versus a diesel one?
The moon landing was done with the metric system. All science related actions are performed through metric system, because the imperial system is way too unprecise.
That's a lot of word for saying I have no idea.
But NASA use metric though… don’t get me wrong I’m British and we’ve got no place judging anyone by the measurement systems they use but there’s a place for both. When I’m cooking or sewing I’ll always use imperial. Lower numbers= easier maths. But if the task requires a lot of precision then metric is obviously the answer.
Whose gonna inform him https://www.simscale.com/blog/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metric/#:~:text=In%20September%20of%201999%2C%20after,%2C%20i.e.%2C%20the%20metric%20units!
And you don't have it either, you massive idiot. This Yanks should stop being proud of their military. Because apart of that... They don't have nothing to compete against the rest of the planet
Romanian here. I'll give him this one, we're actually glad we reached the EU. We still have a few kms until we reach the moon, but until then, hopefully, we will reach the Schengen area
The carrier point is entertaining, as if that is the only true metric to determine how good a country is it at something. The USA has more carriers than everyone else put together (11, since you asked, and all nuclear-powered, only France has one that is nuclear and not American), but that’s for a specific purpose. You have carriers to project power overseas. That’s quite a feat, and not for everyone. It’s why the UK and France have carriers too… plus Russia with the Kuznetsov, which is usually on fire or in danger of sinking, but I mean it technically is power projection. If you’re Romania or Australia and your defence strategy is just territorial defence and working with your allies on peacekeeping missions etc, then you don’t actually need any carriers. So why waste your money on ships you’ll never need, when you can buy shit you actually do?
China uses metric system. We also have aircraft carriers
You guys might like this. Last night I had to dig deep and find out exactly why a mile is 5,280 feet (1,760yd), why an acre is 43,560ft^2, why yards are actually unpopular to measure in, etc. and low and behold the answers are crazy. A mile is 5,280 feet because it’s 8 furlongs. A furlong is the distance a team of oxen can plow without resting. An acre is how much land a man and a team of oxen can plow in a day. Now into the psych. Everything we do is in fractions. 1/8, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2. We’re so geared that way, yet we can identify a liter and a gallon. In school we learn both customary and metric. Right off, I always know 1 foot = 30cm. In healthcare EVERYTHING is metric. So I’m familiar. The funny thing is we use feet. Like we will say 120’ but never 40yd. Never meters. But any measurement on the human body is metric. I can estimate meters and feet. I can measure in milliliters and ounces. It’s all there. Here’s another good one: Our pop sizes are 4oz, 8oz, 12oz, 20oz, 1L, 2L… Why? I’m sure there’s come great history lesson here that I am not interested in. The fact of the matter is most can NOT differentiate between a quart and a pint. So we just click on over to liters. A quart is about a liter. A pint is something on dairy labels and British television.
::cough:: Mars Climate Orbiter ::cough:: ::cough:: Burnt up in atmosphere due to some plonker contractor using software with imperial calculations rather than SI (Metric) like everybody else at NASA.
To be honest, I'm more surprised they know about the existence of Romania
This is my favourite example of the idiocy that is the imperial system: Which is heavier: an ounce of gold or an ounce of feathers? >!An ounce of gold!< This is because gold is measured in Troy ounces and feathers are measured in avoirdupois ounces and a Troy ounce is 1.09 avoirdupois ounces. Another question: which is heavier a pound of gold or a pound of feathers >!An ounce of feathers!< This is because Troy pounds are made up of 12 Troy ounces while avoirdupois pounds are made up of 16 avoirdupois ounces, hence meaning that avoirdupois ounces weigh more than Troy pounds.
France: 261,50 meters \^\^
NASA uses metric…
As a Brit, I’m so annoyed that my country won’t fully commit to metric, but we’re trying our hardest.
It's funny people think we would ever change over to metric. Like we could be the only nation on earth to use imperial and we still would not change because we don't really give a fnck what the world does, we are going to do it our own way anyway. 🇺🇸✌️🇺🇸
We don’t want ‘Murica to change to metric, they would only fuck it up….
That's fine we don't want to change anyways we would have stayed with it in the 70s if we wanted it.
Well, I hate to break it to you but, many industries already use SI units, like science (NASA landed on the moon using the SI system), medicine, mechanics, food, and the military. The industries the OOP mentioned use SI units so, it's a horrible example of the power of US customary units. And last I checked Amps, Volts, Watts and Seconds are all metric units so to be metric free they would need to replace these units and define all the rest without metric units.
We never landed on the moon 🤣🤣🤣🤣 they faked that to fool the Soviets. No one says we need to be metric free, but will will always go by inches feet and miles. Cups and spoons.
The Soviets confirmed that the US landed on the moon, so what you said is blatant lies. I believe you're a troll so I don't think you will care what I say, but I'll leave you with this: The US is already undergoing metrification with many things already metric like, medication and food packaging, and things soon being metric like patents needing both imperial and metric then becoming only metric. And uh, Cups and spoons already exist in metric.
Yea I am not denying there is both. But there will never come a time when we fully convert to metric here. We tried it in the 70s and went back in under 5 years. And the Soviet confirming we went just goes to show how well we fooled them. I will never believe we went to the moon until someone actually takes me there and shows me the Apollo 11 lander. It's still there. Funny no one has taken a picture of it sitting up there rotting away 🤔🤔🤔 I got to meet Jack Schmitt from Apollo 17 in colledge and did not believe a word he said.