Pros and cons of america converting to the metric system?



Answer:
there are no pros.
I'm reminded of that Canadian flight in which they underfilled the tanks by 70% because they didn't understand the concepts.

You face the fact that the American driver will still want to go 65, bit it miles or kilometers! It's not manly to drive 30 all the time!
Back in the mid-70s we were being taught the metric system because by the end of the 70's everything was going to be metric. I am still waiting.
Well, the metric system somewhat makes more sense. It all in relations of 10s. It's also used in all technical and scientific areas. The US should at least start using both systems as a slow transition. (To be honnest, in Canada we still use both systems, my parents speak in inches and feet, I use both depending on the topic, and I know that he generation that follows is mostly metric.)
Pros, the complete, exhaustive list: it will be easier to say "meter" than to say "1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second"

Cons: [List is too long to be compacted into 36,743 Los Angeles sized telephone books (in metric, the would be 62,453.345 Los Angeles sized telephone books)]
Well the rest of the world is on the metric system so it would be a huge pro to not have to convert weights and measurements just so they can feel more familiar to only one country. We wouldn't have to adapt labels, guidebooks, consumer reports etc to or out of the American system. The US is part of a global economy and we should behave as such. I think the government should handle it the same way that you get a kid into the first day of kindergarten. You have no choice but to do it so adapt.

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