Hypersensing questions

Clive S wrote: Ah but us Brits teach our children metric and then when they get to 17 and learn to drive they have to learn braking distances in miles per hour as all the road signs are in mile per hour. Then also on gradients some are in % and others in 1:20 etc.

I often wonder if other planets civilizations have these kinds of problems :lol:

No wonder aliens don’t visit us.

snowgoer540 wrote: Maybe as a start, I'll put the temperature in my car to °C. Baby steps :laugh:

Nah, Temperature and acres were the last imperial units to be recalibrated in my brain. It just wasn't cool to stop saying you no longer lived on a 100,000 acre ranch where it was often 110 in the shade becasue it suddenly was only 40,000 Ha and we barely got past 43 degrees in summer!!

Then somebody told me he lived on a 64 square mile property. The poor old conversion cogs were working overtime until I realised he only had 64,000 acres (or about 26,000 Ha)!

What people fail to realise is that its the logic behind the metric system that substantially simplifies engineering calculations which have been known to loose spaceships! Fortunately I built mine in metric! Most US based engineers work in metric for the simplicity of it.

Australia is held out to be a model of how to convert. we did it in the 70's and after 30 years, I banned any imperial unit from my life which released a lot of brain cells that I could kill with alcohol to celebrate the occasion!

Well now we need to metrify time so instead of hours we have decidays

PCW wrote: Well now we need to metrify time so instead of hours we have decidays

If that makes it go slower, I'm all for it!

rodw wrote:

snowgoer540 wrote: Maybe as a start, I'll put the temperature in my car to °C. Baby steps :laugh:

Nah, Temperature and acres were the last imperial units to be recalibrated in my brain. It just wasn't cool to stop saying you no longer lived on a 100,000 acre ranch where it was often 110 in the shade becasue it suddenly was only 40,000 Ha and we barely got past 43 degrees in summer!!

Then somebody told me he lived on a 64 square mile property. The poor old conversion cogs were working overtime until I realised he only had 64,000 acres (or about 26,000 Ha)!

What people fail to realise is that its the logic behind the metric system that substantially simplifies engineering calculations which have been known to loose spaceships! Fortunately I built mine in metric! Most US based engineers work in metric for the simplicity of it.

Australia is held out to be a model of how to convert. we did it in the 70's and after 30 years, I banned any imperial unit from my life which released a lot of brain cells that I could kill with alcohol to celebrate the occasion!

I'm reminded of cords of firewood for some reason. I guess if you give me 30 years, maybe I'll adopt it. We dont use it at work, except for very few contracts, and all of the machine programming, etc is in IPS. I wish I grew up learning it, I recognize that fundamentally it is much easier. But like I said, cognitively, a millimeter means nothing to me. 0.040 thousandths of a dinosaur does. :silly:

PCW wrote: Well now we need to metrify time so instead of hours we have decidays

Thats it!.

BTW, did I detect metric dimensions with hole positions on a THCAD?