Volume area and distance are much simpler in metric...all are based on multiples of ten. You don't have trouble with our pennies, dimes, dollars, tens, twenties, fifties and hundreds do you? Metric money...imagine that.
Temperature...in Centigrade, water freezes at zero...boils at 100 degrees...is that complicated?
I'm good with the current system.
The whole rest of the world is metric...except maybe Bahrain.
However, I might be with you on MPH speed.
Sorry, it isn’t “Metric” money, just decimal currency.
Temperature...in Centigrade, water freezes at zero...boils at 100 degrees...is that complicated?
They cant even decide what to call that one. I believe it’s back to being called celsius. That one flip flopped a couple of times since I was in school. Centigrade makes more sense as a name. As far as what the temp outside goes, the rest of the world can have it for themselves
In Fahrenheit, 100 was supposed to represent human body temperature, and 0 the freezing point of brine. The problem was, the instruments of the era were too imprecise to hit those numbers square on, and the system drifted over time.
Metric might be more convenient for SI units and scales in manufacturing of widgets smaller than breadboxes, but for land and real estate and most Civil Engineering projects, even if shown in metric or soft metric, most US projects are still designed in English/Imperial units.
While Metric allows for easy base 10 mathematical operations, the English system has a penchant for multiples of 3 and 4, allowing easier intuitive trade transactions.
Other elements of the Imperial/English system were based upon agricultural and commonly used hydraulic basis of design. HVAC is based upon ‘tonnes’ of ice cooling. Miles, although originally equivalent to 5000 ped (feet) from the Roman Army, became associated with 8 furlongs in the days of Queen Elizabeth (5280 ped/feet) allowing real estate to be composed of sections and townships and ranges, distinguishing local areas of governance manageable by horseback and footraffic.
There are advantages to units of weights and measures divisible by thirds and quarters. Areas may be subdivided rather than simply bisected. Divided parcels tend to fall more orderly for municipal planning functions for utility networks.
Even today, US pipelines tend to be designed in inch diameters, even if measured in centimeters or meters. 2.54cm = 1 in, and one will find 4” diameter lines and 10.16cm dia lines, but rarely 10 cm dia lines.
Ergonometrics tends to favor the Imperial/English systems of measures.
For myself, I still favor the Imperial/English system of measures for construction, though if engaged in nanotechnology or interplanetary travel, the metric system has its advantages.
I'm good with klicks, it's just mass that really drive me to metric (though I'm a Francophobe).