Can the US just ban Celsius from the world please?

How about the Newton thermal measurement system? 0 frozen 33 boiling (33 because that's the age Jesus died... and because Newton was a dirty stinking Mason/Templar)

Evernothing_sl said:

It's funny up here. We use Imperial measurements in the construction industry in the field always, and on most designs and drawings. However, some engineering firms and planners will use metric, which is really fucking annoying. Especially when you are working with something like 1-1/4" pipe and they draw it up as 32mm. I can visualize 1-1/4" pipe, pretty hard to picture what 32mm is in your head.

We talk about our weight in pounds and height in feet. But on Government documents it's in kilograms and centimeters...

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That's cause most construction materials are made in the US, or will be exported to the US. So we're stuck using imperial or bastardized metric until the US gets it's shit together. It's annoying as fuck. Pipe sizes and stuff are permanently fucked though, no matter what system of measurement you use, because some are OD, some are ID, and some are nominal depending on what material or system you're talking about. It's a total shit show.

Araysar_sl said:

Kelvin is even more precise. Why not use that?

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The Kelvin scale has the exact same precision as the Celsius scale

Metric is best for the really small and really large.

I like Imperial for anything on the scale of a person. It's just easier to visualize and the measurements match up better.

Evernothing_sl said:

It's funny up here. We use Imperial measurements in the construction industry in the field always, and on most designs and drawings. However, some engineering firms and planners will use metric, which is really fucking annoying. Especially when you are working with something like 1-1/4" pipe and they draw it up as 32mm. I can visualize 1-1/4" pipe, pretty hard to picture what 32mm is in your head.

We talk about our weight in pounds and height in feet. But on Government documents it's in kilograms and centimeters...

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What kind of ass backwards shitty company do you work for in Canada that uses imperial on your engineered drawings? Even on the field you don't ever see imperial on lims, isos p and ids ect. It's even becoming rare to catch a trades man using a duel measuring tape.

Eomer_sl said:

That's cause most construction materials are made in the US, or will be exported to the US. So we're stuck using imperial or bastardized metric until the US gets it's shit together. It's annoying as fuck. Pipe sizes and stuff are permanently fucked though, no matter what system of measurement you use, because some are OD, some are ID, and some are nominal depending on what material or system you're talking about. It's a total shit show.

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OD of pipe is always standard till 12" and above. Metric pipe follows the same OD sizes

I've been working in the steel industry here in Australia for 15ish years.

We had tube supplied that was made in Japan ( some was Singapore ) Made for sale in the Australian market and yet everything was a metric equiv of the imperial version.

ie: 25.4mm : 38.1mm : 50.8mm - just stuck in the old ways I guess.

Nuts and bolts = always imperial. The only time a metric bolt might be needed would be to mount some electrical component with it's existing mounting points.

Conversations about a build can include dimensions in 'true' millimeters, then mil equiv of imperial and then just true imperial. You get used to it though, mentally switch back and forth.

All of our date systems are retarded. Try sorting timestamps with either the day or the month first.

The best part about engineering (and any science) school in America is everything we learn and work on is in metric. Literally never use imperial unless we have to explain it to some moron who doesn't understand what a meter is or whatever. Even voltage and current uses milli-, kilo-, Mega-, etc. It's like we know using imperial is retarded, but probably because the blacks and rednecks can't handle the change so we have to stay with it.

Araysar_sl said:

Kelvin is even more precise. Why not use that?

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THAT I would actually accept. But Celsius is stupid and shitty.

Noodleface_sl said:

The best part about engineering (and any science) school in America is everything we learn and work on is in metric. Literally never use imperial unless we have to explain it to some moron who doesn't understand what a meter is or whatever. Even voltage and current uses milli-, kilo-, Mega-, etc. It's like we know using imperial is retarded, but probably because the blacks and rednecks can't handle the change so we have to stay with it.

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Engineering is precise and mechanical based on math. No shit you use metric.

Real world day to day applications however are not based on laboratory measurements. They are based on human elements of perception.

The day the imperial system dies and every single printer defaults to A4 instead of letter will be the best day, ever.

Imperial is pretty tight when you get used to it.