21st February 2004, 11:06 AM
Fittisize Wrote:See, that's much too complicated to figure out how many feet are in long distances. How many feet in 27 miles? I could figure it out, but I'd first have to grab a calulator and do a calculation...and by that time too much time will have passed.
See, in 27 km, there is 2,700 meters. Much easier to convert.
And yet another reason why the metric system kicks ass. :p
But who the hell ever needs to know how many feet are in a mile, anyway?
If you grow up with it all your life, it's natural for you. And, there are many things in America that are metric, or at least dual. For instance, many dry measurements are done in grams, almost all cars display KMH, and there is, of course, the ubiquitous 2-Liter bottle.
And as The Onion once said, metric is very well-known in the inner cities. Anyone there knows that gun bores are measured in millimeters, cocaine is measured in grams, and heroin is measured in cubic centimeters.
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