Metrication

[kalvado]

UK should fully metricate.

Might be confusing for the rest of the SEC for only one school to do that.

I meant that United Kingdom should fully metricate. And United States too.

You're a little bit behind the curve here. USA is no longer a part of His Majesty possessions, been that way for quite some time...

[kphoger]

UK should fully metricate.

Are you EVER going to give any reason for your assertions?

Troll.

[kphoger]

UK should fully metricate.

UK should fully revert to imperial.

[hotdogPi]

Just because a troll is advocating for metrication doesn't mean you must automatically oppose him for being a troll. I support metrication.

[kalvado]

UK should fully metricate.

UK should fully revert to imperial.

Poiponen13 should metricate - as in adjusted to be exactly 1 meter. Prokrustes approach should apply if necessary.

[kphoger]

Just because a troll is advocating for metrication doesn't mean you must automatically oppose him for being a troll. I support metrication.

That's not why.  I oppose him because he never gives any reason for his support of metrication — other than . . .

I would like that to happen.

In contrast, I'm confident that you, |1|, are actually prepared to give a halfway decent defense of your support for metrication when asked for one.  This troll never does.  Instead, every week or two, he just drops a troll-dookie into one of these threads to make everyone rattle their sabers—these days never even more than four or five words, not even showing the level of thought he once put into his posts in the early days.  He's just trolling.

Both of you support metrication.  He is a troll.  You are not.

[GaryV]

UK should fully metricate.

Might be confusing for the rest of the SEC for only one school to do that.

I meant that United Kingdom should fully metricate. And United States too.

Really???? Damn. I never would have guessed that you meant that if you hadn't explained it for me. Who woulda thunk it.

Poiponen got whooshed.

I suspect P13 is used to that, it being a regular occurrence.

[algorerhythms]

UK should fully metricate.

UK should fully revert to imperial.

Well, they already use Fred Flintstone units for measuring people's weights.

[mgk920]

UK should fully metricate.

I suspect at least a few of the British members here wouldn't entirely disagree, given the fact that it'd bring 'em in line with the rest of Europe and one could argue a half-assed job of metrification is probably worse than barely even starting like the US, given that it'd be much more confusing...

A few years ago (and I remember posting about this here in AARoads at the time), several major police agencies in the UK sent a message to the road ministries strongly insisting that they sign dimensional restrictions (bridge clearances, etc) in meters due to lorry (big rig truck, for the non-Brits in here) drivers from the 'continent' having no idea what inches and yards were.

Mike

[kalvado]

UK should fully metricate.

I suspect at least a few of the British members here wouldn't entirely disagree, given the fact that it'd bring 'em in line with the rest of Europe and one could argue a half-assed job of metrification is probably worse than barely even starting like the US, given that it'd be much more confusing...

A few years ago (and I remember posting about this here in AARoads at the time), several major police agencies in the UK sent a message to the road ministries strongly insisting that they sign dimensional restrictions (bridge clearances, etc) in meters due to lorry (big rig truck, for the non-Brits in here) drivers from the 'continent' having no idea what inches and yards were.

Mike

One of ideas floating around regarding weekly bridge hits over here is to double those clearance signs in meters.

[Scott5114]

UK should fully metricate.

UK should fully revert to imperial.

UK should convert to lRc.

[kphoger]

UK should fully metricate.

UK should fully revert to imperial.

UK should convert to lRc.

Poiponen13 should convert to mIRC.

[Poiponen13]

The new survey grids should be built with exactly one square kilometer in size. The number of sides of square which has passed is the number of kilometers passed, and there is a distance marker every one hectometer (100 m / 0.1 km), a total of ten markers per one square. The markers tell distance in hectometers. House numbers in rural areas are based on meters from rural road's starting point, with a house 25,110 meters from start is numbered 25110.


This would be logical. And I wuld like to use hecto- deci- and decameters a lot, since these units are not commonly used in areas that use metric.

[kurumi]

Next, do NFL passer rating :-)

Having a perfect score be 158.3 is really Fahrenheity. (Not to mention, you can still achieve that with some incomplete passes.)

[Big John]

Next, do NFL passer rating :-)

Having a perfect score be 158.3 is really Fahrenheity. (Not to mention, you can still achieve that with some incomplete passes.)

ESPN does that with their proprietary system.

[davewiecking]

The new survey grids should be built with exactly one square kilometer in size. The number of sides of square which has passed is the number of kilometers passed, and there is a distance marker every one hectometer (100 m / 0.1 km), a total of ten markers per one square. The markers tell distance in hectometers. House numbers in rural areas are based on meters from rural road's starting point, with a house 25,110 meters from start is numbered 25110.


This would be logical. And I wuld like to use hecto- deci- and decameters a lot, since these units are not commonly used in areas that use metric.

Are you aware that the Earth is not flat?

[kalvado]

The new survey grids should be built with exactly one square kilometer in size. The number of sides of square which has passed is the number of kilometers passed, and there is a distance marker every one hectometer (100 m / 0.1 km), a total of ten markers per one square. The markers tell distance in hectometers. House numbers in rural areas are based on meters from rural road's starting point, with a house 25,110 meters from start is numbered 25110.


This would be logical. And I wuld like to use hecto- deci- and decameters a lot, since these units are not commonly used in areas that use metric.

Are you aware that the Earth is not flat?

Earth should convert to flat.

[Big John]

The new survey grids should be built with exactly one square kilometer in size. The number of sides of square which has passed is the number of kilometers passed, and there is a distance marker every one hectometer (100 m / 0.1 km), a total of ten markers per one square. The markers tell distance in hectometers. House numbers in rural areas are based on meters from rural road's starting point, with a house 25,110 meters from start is numbered 25110.


This would be logical. And I wuld like to use hecto- deci- and decameters a lot, since these units are not commonly used in areas that use metric.

Are you aware that the Earth is not flat?

Earth should convert to flat.

I don't want flat notes.

[Max Rockatansky]

The new survey grids should be built with exactly one square kilometer in size. The number of sides of square which has passed is the number of kilometers passed, and there is a distance marker every one hectometer (100 m / 0.1 km), a total of ten markers per one square. The markers tell distance in hectometers. House numbers in rural areas are based on meters from rural road's starting point, with a house 25,110 meters from start is numbered 25110.


This would be logical. And I wuld like to use hecto- deci- and decameters a lot, since these units are not commonly used in areas that use metric.

Are you aware that the Earth is not flat?

Earth should convert to Illinois .

FIFY

[vdeane]

The new survey grids should be built with exactly one square kilometer in size. The number of sides of square which has passed is the number of kilometers passed, and there is a distance marker every one hectometer (100 m / 0.1 km), a total of ten markers per one square. The markers tell distance in hectometers. House numbers in rural areas are based on meters from rural road's starting point, with a house 25,110 meters from start is numbered 25110.


This would be logical. And I wuld like to use hecto- deci- and decameters a lot, since these units are not commonly used in areas that use metric.

Are you aware that the Earth is not flat?

This is what happens when schools cut science funding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1VsKBPC6oA

[kalvado]

The new survey grids should be built with exactly one square kilometer in size. The number of sides of square which has passed is the number of kilometers passed, and there is a distance marker every one hectometer (100 m / 0.1 km), a total of ten markers per one square. The markers tell distance in hectometers. House numbers in rural areas are based on meters from rural road's starting point, with a house 25,110 meters from start is numbered 25110.


This would be logical. And I wuld like to use hecto- deci- and decameters a lot, since these units are not commonly used in areas that use metric.

Are you aware that the Earth is not flat?

This is what happens when schools cut science funding.

It's not about funding. Just nobody wants to work anymore.
People should take shovels and convert earth to flat.

[Scott5114]

The new survey grids should be built with exactly one square kilometer in size. The number of sides of square which has passed is the number of kilometers passed, and there is a distance marker every one hectometer (100 m / 0.1 km), a total of ten markers per one square. The markers tell distance in hectometers. House numbers in rural areas are based on meters from rural road's starting point, with a house 25,110 meters from start is numbered 25110.


This would be logical. And I wuld like to use hecto- deci- and decameters a lot, since these units are not commonly used in areas that use metric.

So...you want to tear up every road in the state of Oklahoma and move them to be 63% closer? And then what if the new survey grid line goes right through someone's house?

[hotdogPi]

The new survey grids should be built with exactly one square kilometer in size. The number of sides of square which has passed is the number of kilometers passed, and there is a distance marker every one hectometer (100 m / 0.1 km), a total of ten markers per one square. The markers tell distance in hectometers. House numbers in rural areas are based on meters from rural road's starting point, with a house 25,110 meters from start is numbered 25110.


This would be logical. And I wuld like to use hecto- deci- and decameters a lot, since these units are not commonly used in areas that use metric.

So...you want to tear up every road in the state of Oklahoma and move them to be 63% closer? And then what if the new survey grid line goes right through someone's house?

It's called New Urbanism. Get everyone closer together to make the cities more walkable.

[US 89]

Sacrifice them in the name of the Poiponetric System.

[Poiponen13]

The new survey grids should be built with exactly one square kilometer in size. The number of sides of square which has passed is the number of kilometers passed, and there is a distance marker every one hectometer (100 m / 0.1 km), a total of ten markers per one square. The markers tell distance in hectometers. House numbers in rural areas are based on meters from rural road's starting point, with a house 25,110 meters from start is numbered 25110.


This would be logical. And I wuld like to use hecto- deci- and decameters a lot, since these units are not commonly used in areas that use metric.

So...you want to tear up every road in the state of Oklahoma and move them to be 63% closer? And then what if the new survey grid line goes right through someone's house?

No, existing mile-based roads remain all over US, but any new grids are based on kilometers.