“Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimetre bullet.”
- Dave Barry
i once asked a mate why the metric system didn’t take off in the US, and his answer was that in the kingdom of capitalism, it was purely about the money, not about logic. just to change the road signs alone would cost billions, so he figured that the economics killed it, regardless of the eccentricities of the imperial system. funny enough, though, NASA uses metric…
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Only three countries in the world have not adopted the metric system – the US has the august company of Liberia and Burma (a country which also drives right hand drive cars on the right side of the road!)