Why One Road in the US Uses Metric (Because of Pirates)
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He's finally lost it.
*AMPHETAMINES*
This isn't even his final form
Yeah but it was funny !! He gets points for amusing us.
Most extravagant segue ever
I think he didn't know what to tell anymore and didn't know how to end it
The entire island of Puerto Rico uses the metric system on their highways.
That is wild
Because Spain
Matty Bruno Lucas Zenere Salas yes we do. Distance is measured in KM and Speed in Miles per hour. Next time you drive look at the signage.
And speeds in MPH ... and gas in cents per liter... but we sell our milk in gallons... it’s tough...
Lol and so does Delaware state Route 1
1:15 "That time that plane ran out of fuel over the Atlantic" I wasn't aware the Atlantic was between Ottawa and Edmonton, smack-dab in the middle of Canada.
There was also Air Transat Flight 236, where an Airbus A330 started leaking fuel.
I am glad you mentioned that. I was thinking that the research missed a beat there. th-cam.com/video/GlkCofOyxUA/w-d-xo.html
Didn't that plane run out of fuel twice due to a conversion error, on the same flight?
Andy Madden. That was leaking fuel not some dumb conversion error.
thx for letting me know that i am not the only one who noticed this
damn the pacing is on fire in this one 😁
Ranton I absolutely love your videos man .
Kimberly Thompson no thanks go away
How else is he going to sneak all the bullshit past you if he allows you time to think?
The pacing is so high due to a conversion error.
I'm impressed by this ability of Yanks to do this. Not so common in the UK.
Converting to and from metric isn't that hard actually. Since we're (not technically) on Wendover, let's use the follwing example:
A Boeing 737-800 is 39.5 meters long, or 129'6'' and has a wingspan of 34.4 meters or 122'7''.
It can take off at up to 79,01 tonnes or 174187,23 lbs, burning 3200 liters or 850 gallons of fuel.
It can seat some 185 passengers, or 100 American passengers.
Ahahaha, got me at the passengers capacity hahaha
Lmao 100 murican.
But seriously you should look the Air Crash Investigation. Cool shit, looks like the pilot learned from Takumi
In aviation the standard for altitude (unless in Russia and a few other places) is feet. Also, knots/nautical miles is used.
Mikosch2 I feel like there was a fat joke in there
Planes can easily convert between the two measurement systems but what's keeping airplanes using feet is the flight level system used around the world. What's keeping them using pounds is because most ATC around the world communicate in pounds. That being said, France is special in this regard... for reasons... (they "invented" the kilogramme)
The problem isn't conversion though, the US system is currently defined by the metric system. If the metric system changes so does the US system.
The problem is communication and expectations. Since everyone expects feet and pounds, using a different measurement can easily be lost in communication, transmission and/or tracking.
"...and England is at least... 50 kilometers away."
...
*Well, you're not wrong*
Are those nautical kilometers?
We call it kilometers in America
I don't like this.
Lucky cat 777 lmao ok but i don’t remember asking
Kenza Madhi not specifically your comment, more so that he said it in that way, it just has a chaos energy that I could never with. Lmao
How many drugs are there in your tea? Mine has two
69
Umm 0, I guess?
Are you feeling okay?
Bahaha
5 ounces.
That is the smoothest transition to a sponsor I have ever seen. I want to congratulate you.
Kuick I get confused seeing imperial systems/units 😵😵😵
2:06 worst dad joke of the century
Nah, my dad has made much more horrible dad jokes.
@Jimbo Kimbo Oh boy you don't want to know
@Jimbo Kimbo He told me this one like three months back.
He asked me, "Did you know archaeologists in Egypt found a pharoh that was buried with a lot of chocolate?" I said, "I didn't know." He said, "They named it Pharoh Rocher"
@Jimbo Kimbo Let me think of another one he told a few days ago
0:14 Forgot the Toyota Corolla?
Samuel Chen ikr
Wrong channel.
대만 dude guy Lol no, the Toyota Corolla is a universal unit
wronh channel
How about banana scale?
I like how each episode it becomes less and less serious
Ann Onymus soon it will hit the "history of japan" seriousness
I find this trend deeply disturbing.
I’m from the future. I have news
@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music try watching him now
>Plane loses fuel over the Atlantic
>Shows article of Air Canada flight losing fuel over Manitoba
>Same plane used in an Initial D drift meme.
Gimli glider baby
It sounds better if it's over the Atlantic. It's all fiction anyway. The metric system doesn't exist. ;)
@@mikeburns6603 No, you don't exist.
@@tcg1_qc Actually, he does have a point.
The metric system is now entirely based on quantum physics.
Which can NOT be explained in reality, but only in mathematical abstractions.
@@fliteshare are you joking? What do you mean by "can not be explained in reality"? Also wtf are you talking about? Metric system was created in the late 1700s and is based on the meter...
that's probably the most far-fetched segue to a sponsor I've ever seen.
Roarbit Hahaha your profile picture is great!
Thank you for not spelling that "segway". I had lost all hope.
Peēn This is the most aggressive comment about grammar that I've ever read.
Peēn it may sound for phonetic but it's not the correct. It's like the same if someone wanted to describe the character in shining armour as a 'nite' instead of 'Knight'. I mean yeah it's more phonetic but it's not actually correct.
He is going meta, though I prefer the beta approach to topics.
I prefer a healthy combination.
ignorant here, what does meta or beta mean? (couldn't understand much from Google). Also, I usually enjoy the topics, but the way he presented it felt weir to me, not sure if thats going meta.
Beta cucks, the AlphAlpha male is here to show you all up.
I like the comedy
Yeah. It's in his tea.
You could add that in Puerto Rico the highway speed limits are in miles per hour, while distances are in kilometers! 😊
(I think this is because the cars there are US mfg. types, and the speedometers show speeds better in MPH.)
Canada, though have the same cars as the US but kilometres appears bigger. It is really just a small change
Just a small correction, the Gimli Glider did not run out of fuel file flying over the Atlantic. It lost fuel while flying over central Canada.
I mean, what's the difference?
Canada is part of the atlantic ocean idiot. It’s where it rightfully belongs.
@@TheSonicsean I mean it really doesn’t matter that much, but having accurate facts is always better than not
>China
>Communist
>Plays the anthem that is not Chinese
that’s the ussr anthem
like
the soviet union
*communism*
sir, are you aware of the fact that you are an idiot?
whoosh a roony, plus another 73 whooshes for eveyrone liking this comment
@@mickmickymick6927 seriously. Stupidity may not be a disease but is sure spreading like one
Doc Brown
You know Chinese takeout is very much not Chinese, right?
When pirates made an entire country be special and screwed up space missions
Top kek
All according to plan
Was that an ISO standardized cup of tea?
Tom Scott made a video about it.
@@JonasDAtlas Pretty sure the joke is that hai made a video about it
@@booxwee3804 I was tired and misread, thought it said "what is...".
@@JonasDAtlas tired and emotional?
@@MajesticSkywhale I am now, but I think I was just tired when I wrote that.
1:33 dear France,
Kilogram pls
Xoxo,
T-Jeffy
"Kilogram of what, Jefferson?"
"No, I want *a* kilogram."
Erwin Schrödinger I think you're right
Only at 4 degrees Celsius. Water's density is maximum at this temperature.
+Erwin Schrödinger unfortunately only with extremely insufficient precision (and one liter is 10 cm *cubed* of course). Back in those times, most units were unfortunately only available in term of prototypes (even the meter that was *based* on the 10 millionth part of the Paris meridian quadrant, was distributed and defined in terms of meter prototypes, which is - strictly speaking - not better than using some king's foot as prototype). They have repeatedly been adjusted in order to get rid of prototypes, e.g., the meter first in terms of a specific wavelength, nowadays in terms of the speed of light and the second). We are soon to be witnessing the removal of prototypes for the kilogram as well. All transport risks thus being removed, the US could maybe take that as an incentive to complete Jefferson's plan
Pete Smyth No, I want *the* kilogram
"Not a single American knows what a kilogram is"
American scientists: Are we a joke to you?
EDIT: WHY WAS THE SWEARING CENSORED IN THE LAST PART UGGHH maybe because YT again?
Did he really say that? The US Federal government adopted the metric system for government purposes in 1978, the US military uses metric (apart from a small number of Navy measurements), NASA uses metric, US Customs measures drug seizures in kilogrammes, the American automotive industry has been metric since the 1960s. In fact, the only US industry consistently using US customary units is the construction industry. Apart from the American general public who measure, cook, heat, travel in their domestic lives, America uses metric when it matters. Like American manufacturing who produces Imperial stuff for internal consumption but manufactures in metric everything for export. Because no countries would buy American stuff otherwise. And, of course, countries exporting to the US build stuff in Imperial - because they can. It's not a big deal.
This is a complete nothing burger. If the US wants to use its eccentric, kranky, customary units in America, why would the rest of the world care? It doesn't.
@@alastairbarkley6572 well, if the Americans would finally switch totally, than no one would speak in videos in one of the crap units and would think, everyone knows, what they mean. I think in the metric system and only in it
What is a kilogram tho
@@tutszumi maybe the most used unit of measuring weight in the world? And place two and three goes probably to metric tons and grams
Hendricus Maximus Bro, I’m pretty sure he knows what a kilogram is.
You quit halfway? Guess that makes it..
..half as interesting..
darkhayou quarter* 1/4
The way you broke the 4th wall was very funny
LucarioAura Kitty there is no fourth wall, its not fiction, he's not playing a character
Yes I found that funny as well. This guy cracks me up and in fact I have to watch multiple times and slow it down or stop it to appreciate it fully.
Very immature, to my ears. Disliked.
almightyhydra someone needs to lighten up. Seriousness has no place here
fourth wall? this is the internet, it goes through walls!
00:26 it's asterisk, Asterix is a French comic book character.
The Air Canada plane that ran out of fuel was not over the Atlantic, that was over Gimli Manitoba (hmm, aka "Little Iceland"). It was Air Transat 236 that ran out of fuel over the Atlantic due to a fuel leak and landed in the Azores.
This is what I was thinking.
And the Mars climate orbiter crash was Lockheed Martin's fault, not NASA's.
He didn't say it was NASA's fault, he just said "NASA lost an orbiter due to a conversion error," which is true.
The Gimli Glider was definitely not over the Atlantic, though (heck of a cool aviation story, all the same).
Air Transat didn't run out of gas due to a fuel leak, it ran out of gas because the flight crew cross fed fuel from the good fuel tank to the tank with a fuel leak.
Also the Gimli Glider wasn't due to a imperial to metric conversion error, but due to a metric volume to metric weight conversion error. At the time metric was new to Canada, and the Gimli Glider was the first Air Canada aircraft that operated in metric.
0:14 The Imperial system is actually number 6. Toyota Corollas are number 5.
Wrong channel.
Me, passing through Tucson:
Tucson: *kilometers*
Me, sweating:
How would you not be sweating anyway?
@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music yes, but on that road he is sweating in millilitres.
my dad grew up in Nogales and used this interstate a lot and he said "if you're going through there, you're already VERY Mexican and probably an immigrant, so it's fine"
Sir Toasty Castro that’s about the half of it. I19 is used more by hispanics traveling from nogales to tucson and back. even though green valley/sahuarita is on I19, its use is more to and from the boarder, and being that mexico uses the metric system, i doubt it will ever change
This video covered a *tonne* of stuff, I am glad you took the *weight* off your shoulders, by publishing this, viewers are *pouring* in and the video wasnt *long* .
The Astro Gamer those jokes were *gross*
The Astro Gamer i see what u did there 🤔
Those jokes were *imperial.* Quit *pound*ing on the guy.
These jokes are forced and utter shit. Go back to plebbit and don't ever come back to the comment section you unfunny lund
Admiral Have a Pint and chill out man!
It's actually the number 6 unit system after Toyota Corollas.
DysnomiaFilms this dude is not RealLifeLore 😂
I didn't say he was. Doesn't mean Toyota Corollas are used as a system of measurement any less frequently than the Imperial system!
Would've been a nice shout out if he put them in there
Are we going to get into Nissan's engine naming conventions?
came here to say this
Joke Count:
Top Five Unit Systems 0:13
It Just Makes Sense 0:20
International=China=Communist 0:40
Columbus Conversion Error 1:20
Not a kill-o-gram 1:35
Secretary of State Detail 1:45
Pirate's Favorite Unit 2:00
etc. etc. etc. BAM! 2:29
Murder is Democratic 2:50
Government Never Lies 3:10
Great Metric Revolution 3:20
Nothing in the Script 3:42
10 seconds after that
The Tea is Drugged 4:09
According to... Scientists 4:17
uhh.... Ok?......
And none of them are that funny?
And that's not Chinese national anthem
MonoPalisa ...are you talking about 0:43? that’s the USSR anthem. no one said it was the chinese anthem lol
you forgot the one between 0:13 and 0:20 where he got the US customary unit conversions wrong on purpose
Commie?
COMMMIEEEEEE!! REEEEEEEEE
Oh shit you actually did it.
Rizky Aiman hi there Eizenhower.
Rizky Aiman logan prod. Fan eh??
Rizky Aiman Sam O'Nella reference ?
th-cam.com/video/QgydTdThoeA/w-d-xo.htmlm37s
The best part about using metric as a pirate is that all the units can easily be converted into wordplay. Kilometarrrs, Metarrrs, Centimetarrrs. You can even have Decimetarrrs as your favourite, even though literally no one knows what Decimeters are (arrr).
well, decimetre is 10 centimetre. But I've never seen anyone actually using them in real life :)
they are one hundredth of a dekameter, of course.
Faux! Les règles d'écoliers par ex, sont des double décimètres (20 centimètres), et il y a beaucoup d'écoliers !!!
jur4x Scania uses dm to denote the cab's length
@@jur4x We chemists use cubic decimetres quite a lot actually!
2:33 The blurred label says "retarded rollercoaster", for what ever reason he censored it...
Because it uses some outdated language that people tend to avoid these days.
Maybe it's from Deadbug's site and some thievin' fuck stole it. Hehehe
How do you know
@@coeurdechoeur The only correct answer
Brilliant transition
The Student Official Brilliant pun.
AdrianAtGaming brilliant.org is blue which is blue apron. Coincidence?
i think not
1:15 "That time a plane ran out of fuel due to a conversion error"
From article shown: "The pilots of the Ottawa to Edmonton flight came in over the end of the runway at Gimly, Manitoba..." If that plane was over the Atlantic, those pilots had some serious navigational errors.
If you head east enough, eventually you'd be in Edmonton Canada.
He made a conversion error, calm down.
Like anyone knows where Manitoba is.
KEEP CALM and PLAY SOCCER IN YOUR PAJAMAS ppl in Canada: am I a joke to u
They sometimes introduce errors on purpose to get people to correct them... And sometimes they just make errors
The question should be why are all the other roads not metric.
I’d imagine it would be because the exit signs are also labeled off of miles away from the nearest state border, so even if America switches, it’s still be a huge pain in the ass and you’d end up with “Exit 10.5” or something like that.
They tried. Delaware 1 was signed in metric when it first opened in the 1990s. Within 2 years people complained so loudly that they had to switch or politicians would have lost their jobs. The exit numbers, however, are still based on the number of kilometers to the Maryland state line.
Because America
Because America is too sophisticated for tiresome metric
@@squidgrill if it's 10.5 then will be "Exit 11" and under 10.49 "Exit 10"
Not everywhere outside of America, Liberia, and Myanmar/Burma only use metric, the UK uses imperial for roads, milk, and beer, and most people use stone & feet for measuring people's weight/height Most rulers/tapes and scales/balances here have both metric and imperial.
Erwin Rommel
Sorry mate but your info about the Philippines is dead wrong. Filipinos use the metric system.
@Lensy6; More than 95% of the world population use metric. Imperial units are impractical relics. Imperial units lasting legacy is to make math and physics education more difficult that it has to be.
@rif42 Let's look at time for an example. Metric time does exist, but most people never use it. That's because what most people need is to be able to easily divide periods of time. 12 can be divided into integer halfs, thirds, quarters, and sixths, many useful divisions. 10 on the other hand can only be divided into halves and fifths and remain integers. This makes metric time much more difficult to work with on a day to day basis. Like I say, metric time does exist but is only used in specific scientific applications because they're the only ones who need it. The same applies to all units.
And as for making education more difficult, as someone who grew up using both it really doesn't cause any problems at all. If anything it made it easier to understand the concept of counting in systems other than base 10, which is very useful when it comes to dealing with binary and hexadecimal (which is something I have to do).
@Lensy6; ???. The US has signed the Metre Convention and that is what US should use. It does not concern that you tell the clock in slices of 24 hours and 60 minutes.
@rif42 So I assume you have no objection to the principles I mentioned on non-metric time, which we currently use, and apply to most imperial measures, are good principles, and that you also have no objection to my argument that knowing both imperial and metric is useful in understanding non-base 10 counting such as binary and hexadecimal.
I only assume this because your reply doesn't mention anything I said in my earlier reply.
Wait, because there are two half-as-interesting facts in this video (The main one, and the one about tea,) does that mean that this video was actually, completely interesting??
3:46 _We are currently experiencing technical difficulties_
Here in Australia we are metric and started converting in 1970s and its so much easier than imperial. If we can do it the US can do it.
I am beaming with pride to know Australia is volunteering to pay for our conversion. You guys are fair dinkum
You have LITERALLY ONE HIGHWAY
In awe at the size of this lad
absolute unit
He's a joke
1:17 You said an Air Canada flight ran out of fuel over the Atlantic when clearly there is no ocean between Edmonton and Ottawa.
If only DHL was around back then. Actually, it still probably wouldn't have made it.
maybe. I he had chosen UPS he couldn't have afforded it ;-)
brainthesizeofplanet if they used USPS we’d just be getting it now.
Is DHL even still in business?
If DHL was around back then they would've dropped the Kg off in Canada and not told us about it.
There is a company now doing business as DHL but I think it is actually Deutsche Bahn trying to sneak in. Fuck Krauts.
In England we use metric but instead of km/h, we still use mph.
Y’all are weird in England, and, in all honesty, I am fine with that. Stay weird UK, stay weird.
That being said, the driving on the left side of the road is still weird to me, but if it works for y’all, then it works for y’all.
England is so fucked up. I'm glad they are being kicked out of europe.
Well ain't you clever? We getting "kicked out" cause the EU don't want our 110 million per week anymore.
The Motorway distance marker signs are kilometres but, as it stands, the government rules do not allow the text “km” to be displayed on a road sign.
Catherine we use both. For example you got B&Q you can buy pipes and tubes by inches. Men measure waist sizes and suit sizes using inches. Shirt sizes by inches. The UK doesn’t just use metric it uses so much imperial. We say pint of milk. We measure height in feet and inches mostly. So don’t say in England we use metric. We use both. Our rulers have both inches and cm and so does our measuring tapes. We do distances by miles, measure material in yards. WE USE BOTH
The Air Canada flight did not lose fuel over the Atlantic, it lost fuel over Canada in an Ottawa to Edmonton flight
Where your theory breaks down is that I don't know where Edmonton is.
"Hello, officer, the signs clearly say SPEED LIMIT 120.... "
The speed limit signs are still in MPH
@@codymamon2004 So you have to convert to figure out how long it will take to get somewhere? Fun!
The speed limit signs are in Mph.
Imagine all the people driving slowly on this road. Thinking that the speed limits are in metrics
@@marvnuts oh my god
As an (reluctant) American who grew up in a Commonwealth country, went back of fourth for years these are my observations.
- Places like Canada are 'pretty' metric. Loads of things here are still in a state of limbo, mainly consumer goods, particularly when the imperial units appear to provide a greater value proposition compared to the metric expression. Officially Metric and civilly Metric, but in practice still a mish-mash.
- The UK and some EU countries do weird stuff with temperatures.
- The US Armed Forces, DoD are, essentially Metric both in operationally and technically. For NATO and international interoperability, has been for sometime. Loads of hold overs and nomenclature anomolies.
- The vast majority of manufacturing, machining, and aerospace is still in imperial, but as the old geezers die off more metric is starting to seep in particularly when doing business internationally as most aerospace does.
I personally don't find it a problem, more of an inconvenience that could be solved with a huge expenditure to make everything consistent (which will not happen in the US, ever). Joe Shmoe USA will never want to convert due to high cost, low reward, and to the fact no one wants to be told to change the way to do anything.
The United States of America is a silly place, but it's the best damn silly place on the planet (for being stubbornly silly and completely unable or willing to change to better itself). 'Murica? (lol)
I think it's unrealistic to expect people to completely stop using the Imperial system in informal situations anytime soon; that takes two generations at the least. What is achievable, and would solve 99% of the problem, is to have the economy switch over. Let people talk in feet and pounds if they want to, maybe even mention feet and pounds as supplementary measurements on your packaging if you feel it'll help things sell, but develop your products or services in metric, and sell them in metric as well. Maybe even more importantly, gradually get rid of all the old standards that were based on the Imperial system and for which there are very good and widely used ISO alternatives: no need to screw something down with a 6/32 screw when there's a perfectly good M3 screw available.
Indeed. The problem is there is a lack of coordinated willingness on the individual and any industry that deals with the individual to change this.
(I am of the opinion the US needs to actually officially adopt the Metric system as it will only make it harder for business to compete abroad the longer this standards isolation continues)
The resistance to change in regards to this issue is part of a much larger cultural issue. It feels, in my own experience of course, that much of the the US just isn't interested in change for the better. "Change is foreign, foreign is bad" as the world zooms past.
Ugh, don't get me started on fractional measurements when trying to communicate...
"Good sir, would one prefer another drachm with his 20 tower ounces of Steak?"
I've forgotten to mention: Agriculture in Canada is overwhelmingly Imperial. Almost across the nation, from small family producers to massive operations they just said, "F*ck you" to the Liberal Government in the 1970s when they enacted Metric conversion.
Didn't help matters that agriculture is typically undergone by conservative folk.
Going to elementary school in the 80's, as anyone else here that did will probably remember, we were all told that by the time we grow up the US will be on the metric system, so we learned both. I knew even then it was unlikely to ever happen, because even as a young kid I thought about how big this country is and how difficult it would be to change every piece of road signage in the country, and I wasn't even thinking about the cost. That's the main reason why. But also, if you haven't figured it out yet, Americans also aren't big fans of doing things like everyone else...we always have to be different. And you know what, I kind of like that it actually bothers people in other countries that we do things like this our own way.
we stall have to learn metric in school, its a requirement for maths and sciences in middle school through college
“We’re excited to not be British”
O o f
That was a... smooth.. transaction into ads.
Chuck Grassley, a fool even in his younger years
The US technically has gone metric as all imperial units are now defined in metric
Came to the comments to see if anyone also noticed it was the same obstructionist
1:17 This flight did not run out of fuel over the Atlantic. AC143 was flying from Ottawa to Edmonton, no part of this route goes over or even approaches the Atlantic.
It headed *AWAY* from the Atlantic
Gimli Glider wasn't flying over the Atlantic.
isaacfrancois yup
Don't tell the elf!
DE-1 in Delaware and parts of I-265 in Louisville are in metric as well.
This video left out the US attempting to convert to metric in the late 19th century. Also, many cities in the US are laid out using the Spanish vara. The centerlines of the streets of downtown Houston are a whole number of varas apart. There are even official conversion factors as part state law defining the vara in both feet and meters. This is still relevant today because lots of old property records use varas exclusively.
0:22 I was so confused, since when have 2 quarts made a gallon.
There are eight fluid ounces in a cup. Up here in Canada, two and a half cups make a pint, but in the U.S., two cups make a pint. Two pints make a quart, and four quarts make a gallon. Your fluid ounce is slightly bigger than ours, so our quart is still slightly bigger than yours, but not by 25%. Since our quart is bigger than a litre, and your quart is smaller than a litre, we almost could consider metric liquid measure.
Have you checked out the traditional Chinese system of measurements? It's pretty extensive, and I daresay a bit more in use today than than areas the size of Wales.
Nonsense. They use the metric system in China. The only non-metric unit that you will commonly see, is that they display vegetables for sale by the 500 grams, for which they use the traditional name ( but not the actual amount ) of their old unit similar to an American or English pound ( weight, not money ).
Ironically, customary units in the USA are now *defined* in terms of metric units. The US just makes broader use of the customary units than many countries.
Yes, but we don't use Chinese unit system in scientific researches and official purposes
Imperial dominates international shipping and aviation.
Mariners had their own metric system: 1 nautical mile = 10 cables or 1000 fathoms, 1 cable =100 fathoms. Anyway most maritime charts have their depths in metres and done so at least since the 1970's. The nautical mile is useful for navigation because it relates to the circumference of the Earth (one minute of arc on the equator = 1 nautical mile).
An absolute unit.
lilkhalim The only true measurement system.
For the record Canadians still use the imperial system too ...ALL meat for example is still sold by the pound in EVERY Grocery store across the entire country ... EVERYONE says gas milage in Mileage per gallon (although the larger imperial gallon) ... ALL plywood and drywall is sold in 4 foot X 8 Foot sheets we use 2X4's and 2X6's same as the US .... all house construction has 8 foot high ceilings etc etc etc
If I recall correctly, when the United States promised to convert everything to metric (since most of our imports were built under the metric system), Knoxville, TN. and County, jumped the gun and changed all the speed limits and distance signs to metric.
Why? Because Knoxville was the home of the every-four-years World’s Fair, and they wanted to showcase what the U.S. was doing to “go metric” and join the world!
Years later, on I-40 heading for Virginia through Knoxville, the highway signs were still in metric. Maybe just a revenue opportunity for the cops: ticketing folks for going 100 mph in a 100 kmh zone. 🤪🤪🤪😁😭😭
They had signs on I-40 east of Memphis with a speed limit of 89 Kilometers per hour (55 mph) and people were beating traffic tickets in court stating that they thought it meant 89 mph. The signs were changed back.
am i the only one lost right now?
*DUE TO A CONVERSION ERROR*
LOL so we would have not only gone metric but been one of the first countries to do so if pirates hadn't stolen our kilogram? Also, nice to know that Chuck Grassley has always been nuts.
Don’t all good stories involve pirates?
Asterisk, NOT ASTERIX
*asterix* is the metric spelling for *asterisk*
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Who axed you?
No, it's an Obelix!
Noticed that too.
0:22 had me so confused. I learned that shit in second grade, cant fool me!
Whatever you smoked before you made this video...
2:36 what was blurred out? Something rude?
It said "Arbitrary Retarded Rollercoaster"
I kind of wonder why he didn't just open the image in Paint and edit it out by drawing a white box over it.
@@numberM4 nobody would have asked about it then
Actually there are tons of places that use metric units. Louisville, KY has a few places on their highways that have them.
I remember driving on that road when I was like 5 years old while on vacation and wondering why none of the signs said miles lol
But you weren't wondering why a 5 year old would be driving a Winnebago?
It's OK American bros, here in UK we still use imperial miles on our road system and car speed. Don't ask why the fuck why! I really have no idea. Everything else is metric I think, yes even our measurement. You know how it goes millimeters, centimeters, meters... miles...
What about milk and beer?
When Britain still attempts to resist anything French because long live Britannia
It's probably because the government didn't want to change all the exit numbers from miles to Km since it would be expensive and you'd end up with decimal exits.
Zanzubaa1 - Lord Poohbah's 1933 Rolls-Royce has a speedometer and odometer graduated in miles and he refuses to change his car to use the French systeme. Since Concorde had an "e" added to a perfectly good English word to please the d--- Frogs we ought to be consistent and add a superfluous "e" after every ending "d." And spell every word French style when an ending "e" is the difference between an English and French word that is otherwise identical.
Adam Smith - "Decimal exits?" Why?
The metric system is easier to use from day to day because it has base ten. Why does that make it easier though? What is base ten and what does it allow you to do?
The feature allows you to do every conversion in your head pretty easily, watch this:
1meter = 10decimeter = 100centimeter = 1000millimeter And no one needs anything smaller than millimeters.
Then (we do skip some here, just because the difference would be to small to create an entirely new unit for them)
1meter = 0.001kilometer --> 1 kilometer = 1000meter And kilometers is the biggest metric unit used.
So let's try an example exercise now:
The circumference of the earth is about 40,000,000 meters. How many kilometers is that? That's easy, just divide by 1000 --> 40,000,000meters : 1000 m/km = 40,000kilometers
The easy thing is that you can divide by 1000 in your head by simply taking away three zeros of the first dividend (also called numerator). That's it.
The same problem with other units would look like this:
The circumference of the earth is about 43,824,000yards. How many miles is that?
That's easy, just divide by... How many yards are in mile?
1760 yards per mile --> 43,824,000yards : 1760yards/mile = ..?
Well, I guess without a calculator it isn't that easy. That's the point, you could never simply convert miles into yards because who knows how many yards are in a mile and who can do that kind of division in their head?
Why does it in any way matter if you can convert the units? Who gives a damn, when was the last time I converted yards into miles for gods sake?
It matters in exactly two places:
It matters in the scientific community and in the economy.
The work of scientist would be simplified immensely by using the easy conversion system.
Economy:
If we build a walkway and it is half a mile long, but the pave stone supplier sells in yards. How many yards do you need to order? ...?
If we build a walkway and it's 0.805 kilometers long (=about half a mile), but the pave stone supplier sells in meters, how many meters do we need to order?
Easy, just multiply by 1000 --> 0.805km * 1000m/km = 805meters.
You can do this type of unit conversion in your head by either adding zeros or, if there was a comma, by just simply moving the comma.
These would simplify many processes immensely and allow businesses to save time, which at first doesn't seem like much but added up over a year does make a difference.
The circumference of the earth in miles is 24900. And you would have to order 889yards to build the walkway.
The imperial system works, no doubt about it. For gods sake 320million Americans use it everyday of course it works. But the other system is better and this is why. You're welcome.
"And kilometers is the biggest metric unit used. "
isn't there megameter, gigameter, terameter, etc.? that's logical in the metric system
by the way also note that in the metric system a frame is 20 milliseconds, in the imperial system it's 16.6833333333. that's because of 50Hz and 60Hz difference
No thanks bud. Miles all the way.
Everyone takes the piss out of America for them being overly excited about the whole freedom thing but as someone from a country where free speech and expression is under attack, I think Americans should be thankful of the 1st amendment and the whole freedom thing.
Jezza uk?
shawtyintheface69 Yep, everything from fining a guy £800 for making a video about his pug doing a nazi salute, to a girl being found guilty of a "hate crime" for posting lyrics to tribute someone because the lyrics contained the word "nigga". Not to mention the hundreds found guilty of posting "offensive" things on facebook or twitter, instead of maybe putting more police resources to deal with rape gangs or anything. This country is a fucking joke.
Dont worry. Its under attack here also. Take a look at that samantha bee and roseanne barr. Both made racist comments. 1 lost her show for stating the truth, the other became sensored for false comments. Its pathetic. I have landed myself in hot water a few times for stating simple facts. When racist or other comments are made, we must whisper to close friends. If we dont, world war 3 will start.
Snipe Stud00, Well the thing is that most "racist" comments aren't racist and are just stuff that the extreme-left disagree with. At least that's what I've seen/experienced. For example openly supporting Brexit over here no matter your reason can get you ostracized or even jeopardize your education or employment, despite the fact that slightly more than half of people supported it.
Jezza Yes, i know. But either way. I use to be able to tell a cop fuck you and flip the bird. Now i can get a road rage ticket despite not having it. But i do realise its not as bad as over there. Just seems to be getting to that point.
I use the metric system and when I watch videos about Fahrenheit, miles, miles per hour, Feet, inches, yards and pounds I really get confused 😵😵🌠🌠
Try getting an Engineering degree and being asked on an exam to convert ft-lbs of force into torque in a zero gravity environment.
I just stop watching. Not interested in that crap.
Sometime around 1980, all of the "mile markers" on US 431 by my home were changed to kilometer markers. This cost a lot of money. A few years later those were removed and replaced with mile markers, which again cost a lot of money. I am pretty sure that rural Alabama was not the only place affected in this way.
Its asterisk, asterix is a french cartoon character
Given the context of the type of jokes on this channel, it was probably intentional
In order from least to greatest crimes:
Jaywalking -> Assault -> Murder -> Using imperial units
The plane that ran out of fuel was over Manitoba. It’s the Gimli Glider incident.
There was a Canadian plan that ran out of fuel in the middle of the ocean but it was due to a fuel leak. That flight was Transat 236.
I’ve driven that road multiple times and never noticed... lol
Ben N pay more attention to the road next time i guess
don't text while driving xD
Lmao it’s pretty much a straight line from Tucson to Nogales. Not much need to pay attention to the signs.
guess you arrived a little earlier then when you drove 100mpgh instead of 65 ;-)
Columbus didn't discover the Americas, he explored them.
Not the only one. I-265 in Louisville KY (where i live) has metric units on road signs near the Kentucky Truck Plant, where they make the Ford Super Duty and Lincoln Navigator. A lot of semis come in from Mexico and Canada so there is about 2 miles where the metric untis are first and Imperial in parentheses.
Chuck Grassley- always making Iowa proud 🙄
Unfortunately
3:56 *CHRIST*
Three things -- 1. the UK still uses imperial units on their roadways. Distances are measured in miles and car speedos are in MPH. They have no issues using a hybrid system. 2. Aviation worldwide still uses imperial measurements -- altitude in feet, distance in miles and speed in MPH. 3. The US is far metricised than most folks realize. Manufacturing, science, healthcare, technology and the military switched to metric units a long time ago.
Someone should teach him how clickbait works
Canada roads have been in metric since 1977. I wouldn't want to go back to imperial.
Whenever you said “this teas laced wi-“ my phone died and it scared the crap out of me
Because 'merica
we need less 'merica, more 'metrica
Why does everyone who isn't British ALWAYS FORGET that _we use Imperial too!_
Nobody forgot your stupid monarch. It just doesn't matter to anyone :)
+Douglas I'm not sure what your problem is, but can you perhaps explain what you mean about "your stupid monarch"? I don't think I mentioned HRH Queen Elizabeth II.
Maybe because we want to leave the weird tea drinking Bronies alone.
+Ealdy I'm not sure what the point is you're trying to make. . ?
You invented it!
I didn’t go through the work of reading all the comments here but, this is not the only place in the US where roads are marked using the metric system. In Puerto Rico, which the United States owns, since 1898, our road signage uses KM for distance units and MPH for speed units. You would see a sign that says “Next Exit 3 km, Max Speed 35 mph”. Roads and the laws related to roads were created during the Spanish occupation but cars and the laws related to cars were created under the current US occupation. This has resulted in a bi-unit system.
About the Mars Climate Orbiter: The craft crashed because some engineer put the wrong unit as a parameter, not because of a conversion error. He/she put pound-force seconds instead of newton seconds.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
The same could’ve happened if he put kilogram-force seconds, or some other unit. There was no conversion error because there was no conversion. Actually read the article you screen shotted before you put it on the video.(1:15)
In the end, it wasn’t conversion errors that did the Orbiter in, but the lack of communication. As important as units are, communication is much more important in the Engineering world.
Way to miss the point by getting hung up the details.
It was a she.
Woah that was some good shit is this show now meta?
2:38. The date format I've always used is what I was taught in grade school in Canada in the late seventies: Year-month-day. Logically following biggest to smallest unit, and if the time is included it fits right in after the date. Formal metric time includes 4 digit year and 24 hour time for complete unambiguity. Right now it's 2020-05-24 17:08:26 UTC -4
I do all my dates and times in the same format. SQL databases natively store dates in that format for fairly obvious reasons of sorting efficiency. I have no idea when I see 4-5-2020 whether it is the 5th of April or the 4th of May. I got out of a parking ticket once because of that!
"Half as interesting?" More like "Half as long, Twice as Interesting".
Yes
I wish we all used metric, after spending a lot of time in a metric country it’s so much easier
I've never actually noticed that riding down to the Sahuarita Walmart (there's too many tweakers in the Tucson Walmarts).
I think measurements of distance should be the first to convert. 3m is roughly 5k. 1" is roughly 2.5cm. 1 yard is roughly 1 meter. And AR500 steel starts to pit at about 2800fps or 850 m/s.
Metric system is the most widely used system in the world.
FOOL!... 'MERICA IS THE WORLDS'S DADDY! FREEDOM!! USA USA USA!!
That’s a logical fallacy
K S Varun omg, really?? I had no idea! Thanks for the insight
joe will help you Your welcome
MagenticArcanine What are you talking? English? I just stated a fact.
Even the comments are measured in the metric system. That's what the K is. K : Kilo = 1 thousand.
*Why one road in America isn't weird
Mr. Dr. Genius I bet your country drives on the left side of the road like idiots
Wal Nutz Nope. I wouldn't make fun of people useing the wrong system of units of measurement if I was driving on the wrong side of the road.
TWL evolved to HAI