It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by president
13mm, 14mm, 15mm, 16mm, is much easier than 1/2in, 9/16in, 5/8in, 11/16in, 3/4in. Don't you agree?
My point is that the metric system is measured in multiples of ten and based on an actual equasion in reference to the size of the earth. yet we Americans continue to use a system of measurement thas is substantially more difficult and based on the length of some guys foot.
Originally posted by Portugoal
A) WHY IS THIS IN THE 2012 FORUM?
I don't know. I thought the mods would put it where it fit best. somewhere in bts. Like I said, "I ain't smart."
I am concerned about taking our football games overseas and not converting the field to meters. I know it is called a football because it is a foot long and decimeter ball dosen't quite sound right.
it just feels rude.
I also know that we can't have one language, but there are so many differences like height and weight and race and gender and age, that we could try harder to at least count the same.
Originally posted by sir_chancealot
Originally posted by president
13mm, 14mm, 15mm, 16mm, is much easier than 1/2in, 9/16in, 5/8in, 11/16in, 3/4in. Don't you agree?
What is the diff between the mm sizes and 8/16, 9/16, 10/16, 11/16, and 12/16? The fact that there is an extra / and two numbers after it?
that is fine if you use the same denominator every time, but 8/16 is the same as 1/2 and 4/8 where-as 5mm is 5mm no mater how you look at it.
I am all about less thinking.
Originally posted by president
Originally posted by Portugoal
I am concerned about taking our football games overseas and not converting the field to meters. I know it is called a football because it is a foot long and decimeter ball dosen't quite sound right.
it just feels rude.
I also know that we can't have one language, but there are so many differences like height and weight and race and gender and age, that we could try harder to at least count the same.
I wondered why you guys called football soccer - if the American football is called so due to it being a foot long than that makes sense - did you always call football soccer? When was American football invented, did that bring about the name change to soccer to not confuse the too, soccer being called football in UK as controlling the ball with the foot
I have been brought up using both meteric an imperial, metric by the school system but i had to learn imperial anway as a child as it was and is still so widely used by people.
[edit on 21-1-2009 by MCoG1980]