How is it possible that we STILL haven't converted to the Metric System?

[PlatinumGold]

What would life be like if the English standard system didn't exist?

The Indy 500 would be the Indy 804.67; there would also be the Daytona 804.67

A football field would be 91.44 meters long

Jules Verne would never have written 96561 kilometers under the sea

A 9 pound hammer would be known as a 4.0823 kilogram hammer

Peter Piper would have had to pick 7570.8 cubic centimeters of pickled peppers

14515 kilograms and what do your get? Another day older and a deeper in debt.

Top fuel drag racers would be doing the 0.40234 kilometer in under 5 seconds

Give him 2.54 centimeters, he'll take 1.6093 Kilometers

You'd have to order 236.58 milliliters of coffee

LOL.

Most of you can't get that right, and yet you want us to spend millions and millions of dollars to convert. Isn't that reason enough not to switch?

has this taken into consideration the millions it costs us every day because we make these conversions for the sake of international trade?
the fact that most mechanic shops have BOTH SAE and Metric tools?
etc. etc. (i'm too lazy to look up more examples)

 

[desy]

Again you spend millions and millions every year converting for international trade.
I went throught the conversion in the 70's and like all the chicken littles on this board heard how it was going to cause the sky to fall.
Seniors would be ripped off cause they couldn't understand what a liter is blah blah blah.
It changed, no big deal I can think in both metric and imperial cause I learned both, my brother who is 7 years younger does not.
We still manage to carry a conversation with each other.

 

[b0mbrman]

BTW, the US military does distances in metric...same with heights of hills and whatnot