Registered Member #727 Joined: [ 10:25 ] [ 12 Nov 2004 ]
Brings me to my rant topic. Imperial units. Seriously, what's wrong with you? A yard is 13 feet which is pi inch or whatever, and a horse power is speed times pull times some random factor pulled out of a horses arse. It's not just that I always have to be like "Okay, I have to multiply that by 1.6 to find out how fast it's really going". It's also that the relations of the units to each other make no sense at all. How do you get any calculation done at all? Special mention goes out to Fahrenheit, with a scale from a completely random point to another completely random point.
So drop that shit, and use the scientific alternatives. Sure, it'll takes time to get used to it, but it's worth it because it is superior. That's a fact.
And while we're at it, what idiot decided that an hour had to contain 3600 seconds? Yes, it's what we're all used to, but let's be honest: It's completely useless once you want to calculate anything.