FAILURE, OF THE USA, TO ACCEPT THE METRIC STANDARD OF MEASUREMENTS

Why are we still using units of measurements standardize in 1832?
Almost every country in the world is using the metric system, now known as the International System of Units (SI). The U.S. National Institute of Standards (NIST) prefers the metric system. High Schools and Universities prefer and teach the metric system.

It would be very difficult to solve problems in Physics and Chemistry using U.S. Customary Units (i.e. inches, feet, yards, miles, pints, gallons,..etc). And in microscopy, we only use the metric system (micrometers and nanometers) to measure microscopic things. For example, a Covid-19 virus is 120 nanometers, try converting that to U.S. Customary Units (a little sarcasm).

In the 1950s and 1960s, the US auto industries lobbied against adopting the metric system, saying that it would cost them too much money to retool. But I believe that the tool makers wanted to have two measuring systems, that way, professional mechanics and most persons who like to do some mechanical work (on their cars, trucks, motorcycles, lawnmowers, etc) would have to buy two sets of tools, one metric and one US customary.

In electronics and computers we use metric prefixes all the time. (e.i. Megahertz, Gigahertz, Megabytes, Gigabytes, Kilowatts, etc).

Here is a table showing how "decimal oriented" the metric prefixes are:



So, government officials and politicians, what are you waiting for?
Make the metric system our official measuring system of the United States.

REFERENCE LINKS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_system_of_measurement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Standards_and_Technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Temperature_Scale_of_1990

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