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Originally Posted by GeePeeS'r
Yes, I agree metric is better for the most part. Industially, the US tried in the 80's to convert to a metric system
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I don't remember any attempt to convert Americans to metric in the 1980s, but I damn sure remember the big push towards metric in the mid seventies. It was a failure for two reasons:
1) Other countries coverted to metric abruptly. The US tried to make the conversion gradually. Other countries told their people 'Look, on this certain day, the speed limit signs will be in KpH instead of MPH so you better get on the stick and learn it'. The US tried to make the conversion by teaching elementary school kids (like me) both systems at once.
2) The other reason is that adult Americans at that time were resistant to it for irrational reasons. 'It's un-American'
We already us the metric system, or something like it, in our monetary system. A cent is 1/100th of a dollar and we have ten and hundred dollar bills.
I use both systems at my job and I am pretty fluent in them.