re: #110 Nyet

The imperial system just makes no sense as a whole (it may have some good points locally, but those are a few exceptions).

I used to be really gung-ho on switching to metric when I was younger. Now, all scientific measurement is SI, the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter woke everybody up to the problems in engineering… I think we’re OK as we are.

I don’t really want to see “Kilometers/hour” on speed limit signs—not because it’s metric, but because it’s not metric. It should be meters/second. If you’re going to allow one weird-ass unit (1 hour = 3600 seconds), why not another (1 mile = 1609.344 meters)?

For cooking, I think English measures are actually better—except for that strange transition where 1 Tablespoon = 3 teaspoons. Everything else is binary—much easier to subdivide.