Will the U.S. Adopt the Metric System?

From an engineering perspective, the math is just so much easier using metric units. Was a great show. 👌

I'm 55 years old, and growing up in Australia in the 1970s, I can remember Dad buying stickers for the speedometer and road signs having numbers changed. It didn't take long for everyone to start talking metric. All the children were already taught only metric at school, most people were intelligent enough to see the benefits.

How'd this Explainer measure up?

Curious fact: In Puerto Rico (USA territory), we fill our vehicle tanks using liters instead of gallons, drive in miles per hour, and the roads are measured in kilometers.

Fun fact the today inch is "Swedish" not even American. It was metric guy Carl Edvard Johansson from Sweden who defined the inch to its actual size of exact 25.4 mm back in 1912 with his gauge blocks aka "Jo blocks". Before it was 25.4000508 mm. The reason behind was to make British and US inch equal in size in his Swedish gauge block production company. Both Britain and USA adopted this size as standard many years later. In the end imperial tape measures are just odd metric tape measures with lines every 25.4 mm and counting up to 12 every feet.

Neil and Chuck are an amazing combo. Love learning and laughing

Chuck and his many personalities he impersonates cracks me up every time.. and sometimes even Neil encourages him to pull a voice out of his many hats for the galactic gumbo and the cosmos grab bag.. 😂😂❤

Aussie here. We have the metric system and have had for my entire life (I'm 48). However, because I grew up in an era not long after the conversion, I learned imperial weights and measures from older people around me. I think of certain things in imperial weights and measures, and others in metric. I think of fuels and beverages in metric, but when cooking, everything is in cups and teaspoons (or tablespoons). I think of structures and objects in metric ("that table is about 180cm"), but the height of people in feet and inches ("he looks about 5' 10"). Then we get to tools. I know exactly what a 5/8th spanner is but would have no idea what it is in metric. As for temperature, I have absolutely no idea where to start with Fahrenheit. What I do know is that on hot days my parents often used to say "wow, it's 100 degrees outside", which to me means the ambient temperature has reached the boiling point of water 🤣

Chuck French impersonation is 🔥 lol

Changed my GPS apps to metric several years ago. Already so used to it, it’s like I grew up with it! :)