Base 12 is way more logical than base 10, I bet aliens would think we’re stupid for counting in base 10 just because we have 10 fingers, my opinion on this is infallible fight me

It’s easy to talk about converting over but I imagine the great majority of those calling for absolute conversion towards metric is completely ignorant about the immense scale of imperial hardware (fasteners nuts and bolts) used globally because of aerospace. It’s easy to change the numbers on a piece of paper. It’s not so easy to respec a commercial/military aircraft from inch to metric. Not only is the final component changed but almost every legacy tooling that has existed to manufacturer and assemble such goods. And trust me the world isn’t all CNC machining as you might think it is.

I’d like to phase out of inches eventually but somethings are prohibitively expensive to convert without starting fresh from the ground up. Hard to justify such a “backwards” step to shareholders.

Tl;Dr inches is here to stay whether you like it or not.

There are so many baseless radixals in the comments.

how about we all agree that the best system is american units with metric prefixes. After all it is obvious that it takes an hours to drive 318 kilofeet

When my American friends insist that feet and inches is just easier for them, I just nod in agreement and give them measurements using rods, chains and furlongs as well. If you’re going to go Imperial, you have to know 'em all. An acre is a chain by a furlong, totally logical as that would be 4x40 rods which is of course 43560 square feet. I guess it makes complete sense when your world is only a few furlongs across.

When I’m doing things that require precision: grams and °C

When I’m telling how the room or the temp outside is, °F

Why? Because 0°F to 100°F is way more reasonable for telling comfort than -17.78°C to 37.78°C

It’s not that hard to use both and anyone incapable of doing so is an idiot.

Ah nice, this should be a constructive dialogue between open minded and empathetic individuals.

grabs popcorn

Everyone focuses on why learning metric would be better in the first place, and they’re right. No one has come up with a good argument for me to throw away all of my measuring tools, convert all my recipes and relearn an entirely new system when the system and stuff I have works for me now.

Could Always Use both it’s not confusing at all

I can’t wait to see their new TV show that’s airing in September ^(a few days), I hope it’s gonna be good 😄🍿

“Why do they use the much more complicated system?” “Nobody actually knows.”

There are some places that do use a base 12 number system.

Again, I wasn’t defending it, just explaining it.

When I find a wood working video on YouTube from the states it blows my mind how anyone can not just adopt metric “This is 5” 4/57 and we need to cut it to 5” 5/45 and a half” bzzzzzzz.

I use imperial everyday at work building stuff I don’t really need complex math at all in my life, and barely measurements outside of what is easily done in my head or by eye. Temperature I rarely use in a meaningful way.The two aren’t mutually exclusive in practice in your lives apparently. This is a non issue altogether. More people using metric is the best argument, but it’s probably more about how dumb Americans are more than anything.

Those aliens have 3 fingers. A decimal system to them is like a system based on 14, 196, 2744, 38416, … would be like to us - probably worse than US Customary