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jbz<p>🍁 Why did Canada switch to metric? </p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=B5zCyUGW9-0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=B5zCyUGW9-</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/metricsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metricsystem</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a></p>
Karen Keiller<p>Canada switched to the metric system in the 1970s. I was in Grade 4ish and they bussed us to Sanford for “metric lessons”. Kilometres, centimetres. How tall am I? How much do I weigh? Feet, inches and pounds. What temperature do I bake bread? Fahrenheit. What temperature is it outside? Celsius. My point? I’m going to try to switch completely. 160 cm. 73 kilograms. 190 degrees C. <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/metricsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metricsystem</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a></p>
chris actual<p>Right now is the best time for real <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/american" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>american</span></a> patriots to embrace the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metricsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metricsystem</span></a>. Make it a guerilla thing. Let <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> stew in their archaic non-base10 ways while we enlightened Americans stack up all that spare time thanks to easy computations</p>
Eugene Glover<p>Ever write a script or an essay where you’re explaining something and all you really wanna say is, “Fuck you, crybabies, deal with it“?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MetricSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MetricSystem</span></a></p>
John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺<p>Growing up, I watched reruns of the 1965 series <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LostInSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LostInSpace</span></a> .</p><p>I&#39;ve started watching the Netflix 2018 reboot.</p><p>It seemed futuristic until they mentioned needing a 11/16&quot; torque wrench.</p><p>I&#39;m pretty sure that even the US space program adopted the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MetricSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MetricSystem</span></a> a long time ago.</p>
Zen Zero ☯️ ◯<p>I figured out the following:</p><p>Earth&#39;s rotation is at 11.57 μHz. (microhertz)<br />Earth&#39;s orbit is at roughly 31.69 nHz. (nanohertz)</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FunWithScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FunWithScience</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MetricSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MetricSystem</span></a></p>
John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺<p>Lately I&#39;ve been replacing old <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/lightbulbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lightbulbs</span></a> with LED models.</p><p>I was pleased to see that there&#39;s now some reasonable standardization to describe their bases: the Edison screw bases common in North America are called candelabra, intermediate, medium, and mogul, with diameters of roughly 0.5-, 0.75-, 1.0-, and 1.5-inch (respectively), and new identifiers E12, E17, E26, and E39 (respectively) based on their diameters in millimeters. Hooray, score one for the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MetricSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MetricSystem</span></a> !</p><p>Then there&#39;s the parameter for the bulb shape and size. I&#39;ve been taught that the &quot;A&quot; stands for &quot;arbitrary&quot;, which is the shape of light bulb that was efficient to produce and I was raised with. Europeans follow the letter with the widest diameter in mm, so their most common bulb style would be A60.</p><p>But here in the good ol&#39; US of A, we call that an A19. Why? because that&#39;s the diameter in eighths of an inch.</p><p>Yes, in the USA, that common light bulb is an E26 A19, mixing metric with cursed fractional Imperial units.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-series_light_bulb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-series</span><span class="invisible">_light_bulb</span></a></p>
Alex Hung<p>To those who claim Fahrenheit has finer scale than Celsius, you do know a mathematical concept called “decimal” exists, right? 🤦🏻‍♂️ <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Temperature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Temperature</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Scale" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Scale</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Decimals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Decimals</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MetricSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MetricSystem</span></a></p>
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