Metric > Imperial System
The Mars Orbiter was a $125 million scientific piece of art work.
Lockheed Marting helped build the orbiter along with NASA, only to lose
it in September of 1999 because of a measurement because their
engineering team used the English system of measurement instead of the
conventional and standardized metric system of measurement.
The US government passed a bill in the 70's that was supposed to enforce slowly yet surely, the gradual transfering from the english imperial system, over to metric. This obviously never happened. Nothing was done at all, in order to actually achieve this goal. I havn't seen any speed limit signs changes, and the last time I looked MPH was much larger on my speedometer than KM/H. Yes, metric is taught in schools, but unless people actually get to use it in life they are just going to forget it.
Anyways, the lesson learned in this story is this. If you have something very valuable in your life, don't lose it because your too stupid to switch to use the correct system of measurement. 20 of something may not seem like much, until you some day realize that the 20 of something is actually the same as 100 of something else.
The US government passed a bill in the 70's that was supposed to enforce slowly yet surely, the gradual transfering from the english imperial system, over to metric. This obviously never happened. Nothing was done at all, in order to actually achieve this goal. I havn't seen any speed limit signs changes, and the last time I looked MPH was much larger on my speedometer than KM/H. Yes, metric is taught in schools, but unless people actually get to use it in life they are just going to forget it.
Anyways, the lesson learned in this story is this. If you have something very valuable in your life, don't lose it because your too stupid to switch to use the correct system of measurement. 20 of something may not seem like much, until you some day realize that the 20 of something is actually the same as 100 of something else.