Not to worry, range and penetration is still measured in football fields o7
AND WE USE IT FOR DRUGS. GIVE US A LITTLE CREDIT! 😡
America:
The country where you hate metric but have the pleasure to get shot in 9mm on your next mass shooting.
I wish we would switch to meters and kilograms and all that stuff. Conversion is easy and it just makes more sense.
That being said, I will never measure the weather in Celsius.
Celsius is good for science, but Fahrenheit works better for human application IMO.
I agree, although I'm sure someone here who was raised with Celsius will tell us we only think that because we were raised with Fahrenheit.
Yep, I don't understand how you guys use Fahrenheit, it makes as little sense as using feets, ounces and all that crap.
Feet and inches are really useful for carpentry and any other case where you're doing a lot of both multiplication and addition to the same number because of how composite 12 is and fractions.
We could have the best of both worlds by adopting the metric system, but changing the number system to base 12.
And if we switched to base 12, we could still count on our hands.
Each of the four non-thumb fingers has three segments. That's 12. Use your thumb to mark the number you're on.
It's elegant in a way if you know it. The 0 to 100 range is like a spectrum between unbearably cold at 0 and unbearably hot at 100. 50 Fahrenheit is exactly 10 Celsius, which is more cold than it is warm, but it's still a decent midpoint. The only real downside for weather reporting is that freezing isn't zero, and I can see why that would seem extremely weird if you're used to a system where 0 is freezing. But everyone here knows that 32 is freezing, no one needs to be reminded what the freezing point is.
This is 100% true. To me, the Fahrenheit system makes no sense at all, even for weather. Celsius is easy, below 0 C everything will be frozen (frost, ice on roads, etc), 20 C is nice pleasant temperature, over 30C is a hot summer day, and anything over 40C is completely unbearable
Like I said in another reply, It’s elegant in a way if you're used to it. The 0 to 100 range is like a spectrum between unbearably cold at 0 and unbearably hot at 100. 50 Fahrenheit is exactly 10 Celsius, which is more cold than it is warm, but it’s still a decent midpoint. The only real downside for weather reporting is that freezing isn’t zero, and I can see why that would seem extremely weird if you’re used to a system where 0 is freezing. But everyone here knows that 32 is freezing, no one needs to be reminded what the freezing point is.
isn't 100 like 37C? Like it's hot, but we get entire weeks over 40C here sometimes, and it rarely drops below 0C which cuts out 30 degrees of the scale.
Farenheit seems to be more suited to cold climates.
Possibly. My attempt at justifying it is that it works in groups of 10. 60s-70s are average, 50s are cool, 80s are warm, etc. 100 also makes a nice barrier for like "unbearably hot" (for most anyway). It helps that our body temperature is ~100.
100 Fahrenheit was originally defined as human body temperature, but it drifted due to inaccurate thermometers
i would literally rather die than have to use the dumb american system
no not really no like maybe you guys should just do the metric system because i am just assuming that when you guys say you are 5 3 you guys mean 53 cm and everyone in america is just real tiny
enjoying my not being american by not even being able to grasp what this mean
no fuck that the answer is just do the metric system like no concession are to be made on this.
Why, it's such a messy and nonsense unit system.
...this definition was retained for data derived from NAD27, but renamed the US survey foot to distinguish it from the international foot.[3] For most applications, the difference between the two definitions is insignificant – one international foot is exactly 0.999998 of a US survey foot, for a difference of about 1/8 inch (3 mm) per mile – but it affects the definition of the State Plane Coordinate Systems (SPCSs), which can stretch over hundreds of miles.[11]
What the fuck...
I'm convinced the only reason America keeps using such shitty imperial conversions is because it makes money for the cartographic lobby or something.
An international big is equal to 1.000003 domestic bigs and bigs and a small is 1/2943.55609 of a big(international).
It just sounds cooler to say 50 caliber than 12.7mm or whatever.
But .3008 or whatever the fuck can piss off. Max of 3 numbers in my bullet please.
Caliber is just the width of the round, and it’s also used to measure gun barrels. For example, a 20mm Oerlikon with a barrel length of 70 calibers has a shorter barrel than a Mark 7 16 inch gun that has a barrel length of 50 calibers
imagining an artillery piece with no barrel, just a shell sticking out of the breech, resting on just a half inch of brass
caliber is just what percentage of an inch it is. 12.7mm (.50 cal) is exactly have of an inch.
It's funny because I spent my entire academic life using the metric system in the US only to then take a woodshop/wood construction class only for everything to be in imperial units.
