It's so refreshing to see 600 kph instead of those crappy mph. I'd rather the US replace imperial metrics with the metric system before seeing a high-speed rail. I mean, how many people suffered in their STEM class for not having intuition on metric units?
It's certainly annoying. I wonder how many anti-metric-system types would change their minds if they realized how much easier the metric system is to learn and work with - everything is just a power 10. So much easier for grade school children to learn.
This is exactly why I anticipate every grade school teaching kids Esperanto any day now
As someone who uses both but mostly metric, neither one is difficult to use. Metric relationships between volume and energy and heat are cool - but they are linked to the present day earth at sea level, which in the future might be just as archaic as Fahrenheit being linked to an erroneous human body temperature measurement
Are you saying we shouldn't continuously improve our scientific systems just because one day we might need to rebase it on Martian or some other physical constants?
There are two aspects to the metric system - the physical constants that the base measurements are derived from, and the mathematical relationships between different measurement scales, from microscopic to macroscopic.
The latter aspect will remain useful and sensible even if we need to rebase the former on something more appropriate one day. But that day is a long way off, realistically a century or more. Not a great reason.
