Education moves really slow. That's where the problem lies. I was taught both the Metric and Imperial ways to measure units during my time at school. It is mandatory, at least for anything Biology, Chemistry, or Physics related, to become a wizard (so much cooler than whiz) of the metric system. So someday when the old generation is dead and gone we will see an America that embraces the Metric system as the primary was to measure things. We might even see it in our lifetime, at the least the front end of the movement! Right now you have a bunch of old farts clashing with a new wave, and as nice as it would be to put all the old people on an island where they can use the Imperial system and we can use the Metric system...it is inhumane and cruel. Although isn't Florida like an island for old people?
What is really a mind fuck is when you throw non-Metric, non-Imperial units into the mix: Kelvin for temperature, Cubic Meters for volume, and Joules instead of Calories for energy.
So actually, the Metric System is outdated and the current science field uses the updated
International System of Units. Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...ystem_of_Units
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