Metrication

[Poiponen13]

Question: do most Americans know what e.g. their height is in metric units? Most Americans have studied common metric units and Celsius at school, so do they know?

[Max Rockatansky]

Question: do most Americans know what e.g. their height is in metric units? Most Americans have studied common metric units and Celsius at school, so do they know?

Do Fins know height in cubit units? 

[Big John]

Or your weight in stones?

[GaryV]

Question: do most Americans know what e.g. their height is in metric units? Most Americans have studied common metric units and Celsius at school, so do they know?

No. (There, that's out of my system.)

But seriously, the answer is no. Those that have some knowledge of the metric system have a rough idea. For example, I know I'm not 2m tall, and more than 1.5m, but the exact measure? No, I'd have to look it up on a conversion chart.

[1995hoo]

Question: do most Americans know what e.g. their height is in metric units? Most Americans have studied common metric units and Celsius at school, so do they know?

Why would anyone know that? I, for one, was a lot shorter when I learned about metric units as a little kid than I am now, and I doubt that's unusual.

[kkt]

Question: do most Americans know what e.g. their height is in metric units? Most Americans have studied common metric units and Celsius at school, so do they know?

No, I would have to convert and I think most people here would.  Common use and official use here all measure height in feet and inches.

[Scott5114]

Question: do most Americans know what e.g. their height is in metric units? Most Americans have studied common metric units and Celsius at school, so do they know?

Nope. The only education we had about metric units in Oklahoma was how to convert between metric units (e.g. grams to kilograms or meters to metres). At no point were we taught how to convert between metric and burger units.

I'm 5 feet, 11 inches (or, as commonly written, 5'11") which for all I know might be 1200 mL.

[J N Winkler]

Google is an alternative these days--a search on {5ft 11in in cm} returns 180 cm.

[algorerhythms]

Question: do most Americans know what e.g. their height is in metric units? Most Americans have studied common metric units and Celsius at school, so do they know?

Nope. The only education we had about metric units in Oklahoma was how to convert between metric units (e.g. grams to kilograms or meters to metres). At no point were we taught how to convert between metric and burger units.

I'm 5 feet, 11 inches (or, as commonly written, 5'11") which for all I know might be 1200 mL.

I once was asked, in all seriousness by a student at OU, whether millimeters and centimeters were the same unit.

[Scott5114]

Question: do most Americans know what e.g. their height is in metric units? Most Americans have studied common metric units and Celsius at school, so do they know?

Nope. The only education we had about metric units in Oklahoma was how to convert between metric units (e.g. grams to kilograms or meters to metres). At no point were we taught how to convert between metric and burger units.

I'm 5 feet, 11 inches (or, as commonly written, 5'11") which for all I know might be 1200 mL.

I once was asked, in all seriousness by a student at OU, whether millimeters and centimeters were the same unit.

That's Okie education in action, all right.

Google is an alternative these days--a search on {5ft 11in in cm} returns 180 cm.

On Linux with KDE you can also press ALT+F2 and type a unit expression such as this in the run dialog that appears, although it seems to not recognize feet and inches as part of the same expression.

[Max Rockatansky]

I now hate the Metric System because of Poiponen.  I have no other reason, Poiponen is solely to blame for my acquired hatred.

[kalvado]

I now hate the Metric System because of Poiponen.  I have no other reason, Poiponen is solely to blame for my acquired hatred.

If everyone developed a hate to whiskey because of hangover...

[Max Rockatansky]

I now hate the Metric System because of Poiponen.  I have no other reason, Poiponen is solely to blame for my acquired hatred.

If everyone developed a hate to whiskey because of hangover...

Problem is that this is some bottom shelf brand whiskey.

[kkt]

C'mon.  It's not the metric system's fault it has the worst possible advocate.

[Max Rockatansky]

Tis collateral damage.  The taint wrought by P13 is real and pervasive. 

[MikeTheActuary]

Google is an alternative these days--a search on {5ft 11in in cm} returns 180 cm.

I think the Finns should change to using Smoots as the base unit of measurement.

1.80m = 1.06 Smoots.

[Max Rockatansky]

Google is an alternative these days--a search on {5ft 11in in cm} returns 180 cm.

I think the Finns should change to using Smoots as the base unit of measurement.

1.80m = 1.06 Smoots.

I think this is needed. 

[kkt]

Google is an alternative these days--a search on {5ft 11in in cm} returns 180 cm.

I think the Finns should change to using Smoots as the base unit of measurement.

1.80m = 1.06 Smoots.

Harvard Smoots at 5'7", or MIT Smoots at 5' 5 3/4"?

[freebrickproductions]

Google is an alternative these days--a search on {5ft 11in in cm} returns 180 cm.

I think the Finns should change to using Smoots as the base unit of measurement.

1.80m = 1.06 Smoots.

Harvard Smoots at 5'7", or MIT Smoots at 5' 5 3/4"?

Yes.

[1995hoo]

I dare you to lower your body temperature to absolute zero.

I promise you'll be 0K.

[kalvado]

I dare you to lower your body temperature to absolute zero.

I promise you'll be 0K.

.... liquid nitrogen storage of bodies for possible future resurrection....

[kkt]

I dare you to lower your body temperature to absolute zero.

I promise you'll be 0K.

.... liquid nitrogen storage of bodies for possible future resurrection....

Liquid nitrogen only gets you down to 77 K.

[kalvado]

I dare you to lower your body temperature to absolute zero.

I promise you'll be 0K.

.... liquid nitrogen storage of bodies for possible future resurrection....

Liquid nitrogen only gets you down to 77 K.

That's the closest I can think of anyone getting to 0K, though.

[Big John]

38 picokelvin: https://www.techradar.com/news/scientists-achieve-the-coldest-temperature-ever-recorded

[kalvado]

38 picokelvin: https://www.techradar.com/news/scientists-achieve-the-coldest-temperature-ever-recorded

Something, not someone.