View Poll Results: Should the US go to the metric system?

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  • Yes, we aren't Lord and Master of the world anymore.

    47 43.93%

  • No, the rest of the planet will see the light and come around.

    37 34.58%

  • I've given up fixing stuff, I don't care.

    11 10.28%

  • You first, there's a Craftsman sale at Sears on metric stuff.

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Thread: Should we go to the metric system?

  1. 08-05-2010, 10:11 AM #76
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    Quote Originally Posted by John Coloccia View Post
    Maybe, but which would you rather loose: 1" of your finger or 1mm of your finger, hmmm? I think I've made my point.


    Good point John, glad I went metric.............Rod.
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  2. 08-05-2010, 2:54 PM #77
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mitchell Andrus View Post
    OK, Ill bite.

    How is it a stone cold fact that Metrics are inherently more dangerous even lethal than the inch standard?
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    The statistics are easily googelable.
    More people are injured in the work place even killed using the metric system every single day than are harmed or killed when using the inch standard.
    The numbers don't lie. Inch standard is far far safer.
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  3. 08-05-2010, 2:58 PM #78
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Koepke View Post
    Congress adopted the metric system early in our history. The reason it didn't catch on was that contracts were not specified using the metric system.
    Congress does not have the authority to impose a system of measurement on the people.
    Who do they think is the sovereign in this republic?
    It ain't them. They are servants.
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  4. 08-05-2010, 3:00 PM #79
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cliff Rohrabacher View Post
    The statistics are easily googelable.
    More people are injured in the work place even killed using the metric system every single day than are harmed or killed when using the inch standard.
    The numbers don't lie. Inch standard is far far safer.
    I'd rather have sharper tools so if that means switching to the metric versions that are sharper and more dangerous, maybe even more deadly, so be it.
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  5. 08-05-2010, 3:08 PM #80
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cliff Rohrabacher View Post
    The statistics are easily googelable.
    More people are injured in the work place even killed using the metric system every single day than are harmed or killed when using the inch standard.
    The numbers don't lie. Inch standard is far far safer.
    Huh?

    Cliff,

    How is the inch standard safer?

    BTW...the medical and scientific communities have been using metric for decades.

    And....numbers do lie! I can generate a poll and if I word the question or questions correctly it will allow me a lot of latitude in the conclusion.

    I want to see the poll......the records......and I want to know who did the poll or study and what their pre-event opinion was.
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  6. 08-05-2010, 8:08 PM #81
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    You want to know what messed is? Try the tire industry... 3 forms of measure in one tire size.

    205/55R16

    205 = 205mm wide... Metric

    55 = sidewall profile is 55% of the width which = 112.75mm... percentage calculation

    16 = 16 inch rim... Imperial

    Same with a rim... The diameter and width are written as imperial but the offset is written as metric

    Go figure
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  7. 08-05-2010, 8:32 PM #82
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cliff Rohrabacher View Post
    Congress does not have the authority to impose a system of measurement on the people.
    Who do they think is the sovereign in this republic?
    It ain't them. They are servants.
    At the risk of this becoming political (please don't!) Try and convince THEM of that.
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  8. 08-05-2010, 11:13 PM #83
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Hintz View Post
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  9. 08-06-2010, 8:42 AM #84
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    My opinion is that I would go to metric or would like to go to metric because it is easier figureing measures on a base of 10 instead of 12.

    Just my opinion and has nothing to do with America not being what it used to etc.
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