American reacts to: Is the Meter System actually BETTER?

For Europeans, the American system makes no sense at all and is just too grotesque unnecessarily complicated.

Not a single European would say that anything like the metric system was made by god 😂 This was such a USAmerican sentence!

I'm a physicist and have been working in the USA. The universal rule for solving physics problem there was: convert to metric, work the problem, get a result, convert the metric result back to imperial. Trying to solve any form pf physics problem in imperial is prone to fail.

Only a american would say the metric system isnt perfect.

Metric system is so easy to work with. 1kg of water = 1 litre. 1 cubic metre = 1000 litres. Imagine calculating the amout of rain water you would get off a rooftop given a 1mm of rainfall.

The US customary system is definded by metric in US law..

It doesn't matter how long the is, what magters is that the metrik system is logic: 1meter =100 cm=1000mm. A cube 10x10x10 cm (100x100x100 mm) = 1 liter (water freeze at 0° and boils at 100°) = 1kilogram= 1000 grams. All connected, login and very easy to work with.

Doing it at the end of the 18th century by measuring triangles using only a small part of the total stretch and then be off by 0.02% is hella impressive imo.

Americans think they understand Imperial measurements, yet have no concept of stones and have their own measurements for pints, ounces etc.

1 metre = 100cm, 1 yard = 91.44cm, he was definitely holding a metre stick, not a yard stick! 😂

Weird video. I don't think anybody argues that the choice of whatever basic unit you use us ultimately arbitrary. The advantage of the metric system is that once you've chosen that unit, the rest builds on that basic unit in a systematic way. Using metrics that don't neatly build on each other makes life unnecessarily difficult and leads to unnecessary imprecision. When doing renovation projects in the US, our contractors have been half-assing measurements because ultimately stuff never stacks up if you have to work with feet, inches and fraction of inches. I've never seen that in Europe.

The old measurement errors propagating in SI units isn't an oversight or an error, it's a feature specifically chosen to exist. All the newer definitions fit inside the error bars of the old ones. That makes them backwards compatible. Technically they aren't actually different, they are simply more precise.

What is stupid about the imperial system is not the size of the unit, it is the weakness of the conversion systems. The metric system has been adopted by all but three countries in the world because it is based on decimal and the ratio of 10 between larger or smaller units. It's so much simpler...

With the USA jumping up and down "WE WILL NOT GO METRIC" stupid when the USA was the FIRST to go METRIC with money.

The real issue with the imperial system is the insistent use of fractions, when the average american apparently believe the "one-third pound burger" to be smaller than the "quarter pounder".

It's funny how everyone in the world except the United States can do something the same way and yet we're still the ones who have it wrong.

Working when you are so sick is a very stereotypical American thing. Thanks for the content but don't forget to rest 🎆

The important thing with the metric system is : whatever arbitrary reference was taken to define the basic unit (meter / mètre), ALL the other units would be defined as decimal variations of the base, so it makes calculations extremely easy even between different fields of measure (volumes to distance, or weight), and much less error prone than conversions even within the Imperial system ;)

It doesn't matter what the exact length is as long as everyone uses the same !

Fun thing is that the foot is defined as equal to exactly 0.3048 meters and a yard as exactly 0.9144 meters. So by using imperial units you are indirectly using si (metric) units