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[Bluerobin]

There's something neat and tidy about metric. I mean, the fact that 1 centimeter cubed of water is 1 milliliter is 1 gram? That's just awesome.

Favorite unit though? Angstroms are pretty neat, largely because of the funny little circle on the A for its symbol.

[ein]

Aangstroem would be more correct.
Ångström.

[rhesusmacabre]

As a person under the Imperial unit of measurement system I'll agree that Metric is probably better and I would love to have a base 10 system of measurement. Make everything simple and whatnot.

 However, you must also agree that to change our system of measurement would be absurdly costly and to accuse us of being inferior for keeping with such a system is childish.

Not nearly as costly as total global conversion to duodecimal metric, but when I'm King of the World...

[Pandarsenic]

Despite being American, I find the Metric system just seems to be more useful and relevant.

My favorite unit is the Hellameter (10^27 meters).

[Virex]

Favorite non-real measurements: The Urist & the Arbitrary Unit (don't ask how I use this one.)
Favorite real measurement: Probably watts, just for the lame jokes that I get to say in the middle of physics lecture. They're even funnier because the professor is a huge stickler for units. "I'm sorry, but that's 64 whats?" "Yes."

I once had a teacher that, if someone forgot the units, started to talk about cubic crowbars.

[Darvi]

Of course everybody agrees that Base 10 is the best. Of course, in what base has that 10 been written...

[Enzo]

So, what is your favorite unit of measurement

Picokelvin.

and your favorite thing to measure?

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[ein]

and your favorite thing to measure?

Somehow missed this one. :b
I like to measure weaponry.
Heft, length, et cetera.

[Siquo]

Hmm, I like the Tesla.

Mostly because Tesla rocks, but also because one unit of Tesla is huge, it's like the Metric Fuckton in real units. MRI machines that produce enormous magnetic fields are only 9ish T, and the absolute manmade record in 2009 was a whopping 45T.

And it's cool to say "Tesla".

[scriver]

As a person under the Imperial unit of measurement system I'll agree that Metric is probably better and I would love to have a base 10 system of measurement. Make everything simple and whatnot.

 However, you must also agree that to change our system of measurement would be absurdly costly and to accuse us of being inferior for keeping with such a system is childish.

Don't have to change it all abruptly, do you? Have both systems for a while, start teaching Metric in school and sooner or later you'll be bi-systemal. Then you can stop using Imperial all together.

There's something neat and tidy about metric. I mean, the fact that 1 centimeter cubed of water is 1 milliliter is 1 gram? That's just awesome.

Favorite unit though? Angstroms are pretty neat, largely because of the funny little circle on the A for its symbol.

It's not funny!

On a serious note, though: My favourite unit would be either Celsius, Joule, or Curie, all because I like how they sound. And also Kelvin because of how ridiculously great and impractical it is at the same time. And Rankine because of it's creators absurdly awesome beard.

I don't see any fun in measuring stuff though.
And while I have a lot of bad jokes about measuring "stuff" bubbling inside me at the moment, I think I'll abstain from posting any of them as I do not want to push this thread further into what I believe Vector has called "boy's locker room humour" territory.

[ein]

My adventure earlier today.
I guess I exaggerated the total distance and understated the distance walked.
I said three miles by foot as a hyperbole, and it was 3.5. :b

Also, nearest game store (Gamestop) is about 25 miles away.

[Strife26]

Eh, the school systems already teach dual measurement systems pretty much completely, especially any sort of science class. It doesn't change the fact that redoing every sign in the country is kinda pointless and wasteful.

[Duke 2.0]

Don't have to change it all abruptly, do you? Have both systems for a while, start teaching Metric in school and sooner or later you'll be bi-systemal. Then you can stop using Imperial all together.

Yeah, that's what we do. Granted we could do a better job ob being equal about it but I'm not gonna deal with the public educational system problems in this thread.

[Simmura McCrea]

Eh, the school systems already teach dual measurement systems pretty much completely, especially any sort of science class. It doesn't change the fact that redoing every sign in the country is kinda pointless and wasteful.

You mean like in the UK where all the signs are in kilometres? Oh wait.

[Blargityblarg]

My favourite unit is the Deni (Equal to one Kgms^-1, named for a friend of mine when we realised Momentum didn't have a fancy unit name.)

My favourite thing to measure? Well, I'm going to plunge past all those folk saying they don't want to be immature and come right out with it.

Girth.