Is it time for the US to adopt the metric system?

**lars573** · 11-22-2008, 16:51

Originally Posted by drone

Science is already done in metric, so no real big problem there.

But for everyday use, metric units are kind of crap. Meters are too big, liters too small. And until we have fully electric cars as the majority, I don't want to see vehicles rated in kilowatts instead of horsepower. A car is not a light bulb. How can I even attempt to guess the 0-60 time (oh, sorry, 0-96kph) of a 175 kW automobile?

Watts and Horsepower are equivalent units. They were both created by the same Englishman in the 18th century.

1 hp=768 Watts.

**Mangudai** · 11-23-2008, 03:32

O Fahrenheit is the temperature at which sea ice forms.

1 Horsepower is based on an average of how much work horses at a coal mine did in one day. A real horse could generate far more than that in a sprint. A teenage boy sprinting up a staircase can generate 1 horsepower.

**Papewaio** · 11-24-2008, 21:27

If drug users can handle grams and kilos I'm sure the rest of the population can figure it out...

**Lemur** · 11-24-2008, 21:36

Originally Posted by Papewaio

If drug users can handle grams and kilos I'm sure the rest of the population can figure it out...

Yeah, um, see, they're motivated. If they can't figure out the metric system, it's cramps, shakes and a long night of psychic bugs crawling out of their pores and telling them that Jim Morrison wants them to kill the President.

The rest of us can be lazy. Not so the average dope-head.