Metric & Standard Measurement Systems

[bloom4428]

to all one worlder metric morons; THE POLES MIGRATE!

[samjezard]

metric? whose flag is on the moon?

[wybo2]

@samjezard Sorry to disappoint, but NASA uses the metric system as well.

Well, it's not exactly Metric, it’s the SI-system, the only difference is that they use Kelvin instead of Celsius to measure temperature.

[TheRedLuigi]

@samjezard whos dick is in your ass?

[Broodzak15]

@samjezard the army also uses metric bro

[birdwatcherlj]

keep pressing 0:50. middle finger point.

[natcocomama]

awsome vid

[TheEdmond4]

lol bob saget

[ConnorTheDevil]

keep pressing 3:23

[ConnorTheDevil]

connor devlin was here

[icemankillerdragon]

Christian did not write this

[icemankillerdragon]

Matthew did this

[icemankillerdragon]

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[MrSoulfal868]

the only reason we have the damn US system is because the US wanted to feel special and have its own system. Would have just been easier to use metric.

[scooterkid021]

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[twigthemoogli]

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[twigthemoogli]

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[twigthemoogli]

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[Basketballfan226]

In america we use the metric system. Our water bottles are mostly half a liter, we use liters to measure our soda bottles, our military is completely metric, we use grams to measure things like carbohydrates. and we use centimeters to measure things like the spinal chord, and they say the USA doesn't use the metric system.

[DANIELBTJARAMILLOBT]

can u al fuking guys sht up! and stop figthing

[DerPurpurLoeffel]

Is the "ARMS!" kid Trevor Moore from Whitest Kids??? I saw this in class and went into fangirl shock...

[zyzzyva57]

This video tries too hard to be cute

[dgruetter]

@2:12 Her eyes are so buggy.. But I likey!

[symmylynn]

I use both. Sometimes (especially with smaller objects) its just so much easier to use say, centimeters than inches.

[inesis]

I don't care using Fahrenheit or Celsius as long as the temperature remains at -40...

[oJKBo]

METRIC SYSTEM IS FOR RETARDS THAT SUCK AT MATH. WHAT? CAN'T MULTIPLY 5280 WITH 3 TO TELL 3 MILES IS 15840 FEET? METRIC SYSTEM SUCKS!

[CaptainFluffy6644]

@oJKBo the metric system is to science, industry and everyday life what the sewing machine is to tailors or what the printing press is to newspapers.

if you can do without it, great!! you're really pro!! but not using it means you're retarded, not the other way round.

[oJKBo]

@CaptainFluffy6644 false, the metric system is for retards who want to take the way out.  Not using it means youre good at math and fractions

[eucalyptu5]

@oJKBo Why don't you just use SI system like every civilized nations do

[oJKBo]

@eucalyptu5 because we have culture...unlike canada who want to do everything europe does--model themselves off europe. We don't need it, we don't want it, we've gone to the moon using our system so stfu

[evrekoa]

@oJKBo and the rocket scientists behind that trip were using the metric system.

[oJKBo]

@evrekoa mmmm yeah the problem with that statement is that all the modules designed and created were done so using our system. Even the flight controllers at 'houston' talked and did stuff in our system. Nasa didnt start using metric until the 90's when it did so rarely and didnt officially change until 07--and because of it they lost a $125,000,000 spacecraft back in 99. So stfu retard

[oJKBo]

@evrekoa whats swedens space program done? throw up a bunch of satellites??

[evrekoa]

@oJKBo you're drifting away from the subject kid... am I supposed to go "well atleast we had the brains not to nuke japan" now?

[oJKBo]

@evrekoa actually you said they used metric....which was wrong...and i pointed that out....

[evrekoa]

@oJKBo no you didn't and it's not wrong. if you did point that out, quote yourself plz...

[Nanobagongo1]

@oJKBo IS is for ex commonwealth nations. The end.

[oJKBo]

@Nanobagongo1 what? lol

[Nanobagongo1]

@oJKBo The metric system isn't made for thise who are bad at fractions (lol), but for quicker measurements and transformations. IS is old and used only by ex commonwealth nations. English is not my language so i'm sorry (not so much but...) if is not very clear.

[oJKBo]

@Nanobagongo1 yes, exactly, it's for idiots who can't do simple math quickly enough.

[Nanobagongo1]

@oJKBo You are ignoring the fact that metric system is FASTER, when i need to do measurements is PERFECT. At this point i can say that you are blind, blinded by your stupid IS and nationalism.

[Nanobagongo1]

@oJKBo Well, good night.

[DaSolidAce]

this is b.s Egyptians were one of the smartest civilization on earth I'm pretty sure they didn't go to that extent to measure stuff

[CaptainFluffy6644]

@DaSolidAce they would've had measuring sticks that were the equivalent of the pharaoh's arm

[symmylynn]

@DaSolidAce no really, they used their body parts. this shows how smart they were, they came up wih a freakin measurement system!

[TheSlevinCalevra]

Whoever animated the characters in this video should set themselves on fire.

[IstvanN1961]

The standard system is really quite practical in day to day life. Ever watch "This Old House" and the way carpenters can do math on a tape measure or yard stick, in fractions, very easily.

The foot and inch ae actually quite usuable compared to the centimeter and meter, which are so far a part in size.

[kkyt543]

@IstvanN1961 A centimetre and a metre are not really further apart than inches and yards. Which is exactly why in 'standard' you use a foot rather than a yard. In the metric system we have a decimetre, which is 10cm or 1/10th of a metre. Which quite frankly we do not use very often, because saying "that's about 7decimetre" is no different from saying "that's 70centimetre".

Just like many who use 'standard' would sooner say something is 300feet than 100yard.

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[coachjones22]

This video sucks



[chabi3000]

This video is so fucking Retro . The People , The Sound Effects , The music , The animations , the people . This fucking video has Retro all over it .

[Illyria23alyssa]

@chabi3000 true

[Keichwoud357]

@chabi3000 But the information is good.

[toweronepower]

so dummed down

[monkey98able]

How you  measurement the temperature with integer Number for example -52 to go 0 or 0 to -52 and F and C

[freethinker0901]

The video says "In the world today 2 different units of measurement is used" It is important top note that Liberia, Burma and the USA are the only countries that use the Standard System. It is very difficult to advance if you do not know the Metric system.

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[CamiloSanchez1979]

Customary units suck

[eloquentfear]

i wish they made learning less... retarded

[naveslaikss]

THE GAP BETWEEN THE GEEKY KIDS TEETH!

[Ian74263]

Well, the Metric System is a relatively new, normal and easy system. The Imperial System is a relatively outdated, stupid, harder to convert between internal measurements. We should convert to the Metric System, we spend Billions of Dollars converting our Imperial Measurements to Metric Measurements, and the whole world uses it, except 3 countries, including ours.

[SnoweyMan111]

@Ian74263 It's easy to phase. Just make new products use metric. Most do already anyway. They use both. So just make a law that forces mesuerements for products use metric, optional to use both. Teach both systems. People will sway to metric. Done. Full conversion in 1 generation, practicly free. (25 years)

[Basketballfan226]

@Ian74263 Metric nerd!!!!

[rogermwilcox]

They should have checked their own arithmetic.  431 miles is NOT 27,308,169 inches -- it's 27,308,160 inches.

No wonder the Mars Climate Orbiter crashed and burned!

[mainchow10]

You guys do know that America did NOT invent the imperial system. The British did.

[v4lkyr]

3:10 you can't be serious... how can they NOT use the metric system, 431 miles are 694 kilometers... and 694 kilometers are 694000 meters it's that easy. How can anyone build a house or anything without the metric system i dont get it

[gogetareeljob]

What is really annoying is that so many people think that americans don't use the metric system. We use both. Mathematically and Scientifically we normally use the metric system, but in every day life we use the imperial system. However, the metric system is never used in one form of measurement no matter where you are in the world, and that measurement is time. So if anyone tries to argue that they only use the Metric system and nothing else they are wrong.

[NicolaiResch]

wtf! didn't no there was something else than meters n stuff. you're kinda stupid over there

[jbvlover12559]

WOW this is helpful!

[Kafe420]

The american system is really really retarded

[silencedidgood]

Oofus...You are right to a point but incorrect to a fault. If one goes back to the "set" definition of division than 1 mile divided by 5280 feet is one since there is one "set" of 5280 feet in 1 mile. A less robust description of "anything divided by itself" equals one also works. The wonders of Wolfram Alpha and its "incompatible units" error message aside...when we give up on teaching the "one way" to convert we head down a slippery slope. Slope of course is a ratio.

[OofusTwillip]

It kind of makes you wonder just why the USA, Burma, and Liberia are the only 3 countries (out of the 203 in the world) who do not use the metric system.

But even in countries which use the metric system, there are many measurements that are still largely done in the old system. In Canada, most of us don't know our height & weight in metric, and most of the cookbooks we use are from USA, so don't use metric measures. And we still often buy food by the pound.

[Deadman1709]

Well, NASA did their homework for once.

Remember that Mars probe they do in conjunction with the Europeans? It crashed because the US used inches and feet. The Europeans used meters.

[Darusdei]

@Deadman1709 Nasa Uses the metric system like everyone in the u.s. who works in a scientific or in a medical field, the u.s. military uses the metric system.

the problem with the probe was that a american subcontractor for nasa who used american measurement system instead of metric and no one noticed the error...

[silencedidgood]

Great video BUT we convert by multiplying by ONE or using the "identity property".

To convert from miles to feet we mulitiply by one one being 5280 feet/1 mile.

[OofusTwillip]

@silencedidgood - You are not multiplying by "one". If you multiplied 1 mile by "one", you'd get 1. What you are actually doing is multiplying that 1 mile by an obscure numerical value which must be looked up on a conversion chart and/or memorized. You know that value because you learned it in school and have always used it. But if you had never learned it, you'd wonder why the system used such a weird number. And what if you were converting 23.65 miles to feet? That gets way harder to do!

[dabomb9990jr1]

teachers made me watch this for homework

[SolarizeYourLife]

@cartooner2008 Dear Friend, may I ask how old you are? Metric only make sense, if you understood that every country had their own standard of measurement, and not one was compatible to each other, from a 'cup' of sugar to a 'ton' of steel. Even the British cup and pint was not the same as an American cup and pint.

[SolarizeYourLife]

NASA is a joke and embarrassment, all Federal Agency are suppose to use only Metric, and that was since 1975, what a crock of BS, they are.

[swat715]

Well I'm American and I know the Metric system and the American system... but then again both my parents aren't from America.

[ahmedo83dll]

Do you know that even the metric system is applied in Egypt in daily life ,the Egyptians sometimes in the day use span and feet measures that came across 5.000 years..

[punchthedog]

In Ireland, we use the metric system but with a few exceptions. Human height would still be in feet an inches but human weight is not. If you look at the player profiles before a rugby match, for example, the on-screen graphic might say:

Height: 6'3"

Weight: 115kg

Other mixed use examples include:

A pint of beer, but a litre of whiskey.

A kilo of cocaine, but an ounce of hash/grass.

Not too long ago (>6 years), distances on road signs were in kilometers but the speed limit signs were in MPH

[ballm0use]

@punchthedog which is pretty ridiculous. just complete the change god damnit!

peace!

[Gabumon54321]

It's called a keel-oh-meet-er... Kilo means one thousand. What the hell is a kilaw? Or a "meht-er?

[HarterFall]

Only two 3rd world countries (myanmar and liberia) and the USA dont use the metric system!

[sicoticosandro]

yanks are wasting brain with their stupidity.. they are doing everything wrong... playing sports that they only play... measuring things in idiotic and complicated ways.. invading countries from overseas... they really are looking for another 9/11...sad advice.. change your stupid way of life.

[EBanonymous]

01:30

You say that "it's not an accurate measurement" to use an arm to measure - true

The pyramid blocks are accurate to 1/1000th of an inch and YET you expect us to believe that the Egyptians measured the pyramids w/ their arms? That's inpossible & wrong!

Metric system is great; it's also using Greek root words & there is a lot of racism saying the Greeks invented math & medicine when examples like the pyramids & papyri on family planning etc like Ebus Papyrus 1550 BCE, long befor Hypocratis

[EBanonymous]

I'm not saying the Egyptians invented those things; I'm saying that they used highly sophisticated maths & science & medicine more than 1000 yrs before Homer was even imagined to exist, when Greece was nothing special.

Martin Bernal & many other well respected Phd's write about the racism that presents Greece as the mother of all learning. Where did Pythagoras even admit he studied? Egypt. They MUST have had Pie & the Pythagorum Theorum to construct those pyramids. What a piffle this is.

[DanielSahne]

holy shit that woman does some stupid facial expressions, her eyes are nearly falling out... i know its supposed to look interesting to children but to be honest i think theyre probably scared of her.

[mainchow10]

I started learning about the metric system when I was 8, started using it when I was 9, made metrication when I was 10, and completely abandoned the imperial system when I was 14.

[Aleowiciuos]

......hmmmm, i agree that any measuring system other than metric is retarded, however; how the heck did the Egyptians build pyramids to such precision without standardizing a system of measurement?

[jboweruk]

How did they build them without any kind of crane, most people would agree that we can't replicate the feat with one?

[Buntrabe]

Smile. I remember when I did a Divemaster course in Hawaii in the nineties one of the exams was about diving physics. We could choose to do the calculations either in metric or in the US system - the result was that Europeans and the Asians were finished before the Americans even had sharpened their pencils (calculators were not allowed). That's not because we were geniuses but because we are using a system that - in this case - hardly required any thinking.

[xdir]

Excellant video, but before you start teaching kids, why not teach NASA engineers first?

Mars Climate Orbiter anyone... :p

[MullenThomas1507]

@xdir Mars Climate Orbiter got out of trajectory because one of the teams worked on english miles and later converted to metric miles for the final results, remember that NASA (like the rest of the world and space agencies) uses the decimal metric system, you have just proved one of the typical errors in the imperial system.

[monkeyman9rg]

Mr Chesbro's class anyone?

[rutgerslover513]

lol yes who is monkeyman9rg

[monkeyman9rg]

ryan gorman

[rutgerslover513]

o haha its danny j

[bjoernaldo]

When I travel to the us I have to use the converter on my mobile for everything. Its a challenge. We should have the same system all over the world. It would be easier. Metric system is easier to learn as well and it makes more sense.

[larpmaster64]

Wow, NASA. You've started a flame war by trying to teach children. This says not so much about you, and more about the people who visit youtube.

[MrNiceFella1980]

lol yeah its a real suffering. listen if u dont wanna use it cuz its awkward for u thats really ure problem man. and just because u dont use metric in ure town or within ure family doesnt mean the rest of the canadians dont use it.

[77tubuck]

I did not intend for you too take the suffering comment that seriously. Got you. I prefer the imperial system but there are places were metric works better.

[MrNiceFella1980]

lol who got to the moon first rly roflmao turkeysandwich. FYI NASA uses a metric system u dweeb. the same as US military and doctors in american hospitals. what do u think 20 klicks in american war movies mean, to klick 20 times and theyre there lol. its short for kilometers. and doctors use cc ( cubic centimeter ) and mg (milligrams) for medicine and treating patients. the average american joe that doesnt know how to use a metric system are the problem cuz theyre too dumb.

[Jeshikun]

They aren't forced to use Metric, Doctors and Scientists Chose to use Metric because it's easier. Many Doctors complain "I wish I could just tell my Patient that their Tumor is 15 centimeters and have them understand, instead I have to tell them they have a grapefruit in their head"

[77tubuck]

Actually in England they arrested people for selling buy the pound. Eventually the charges were doped when the government realized how stupid the law was.

[Jeshikun]

That's in England, And that's Merchants. I was talking about DOCTORS in the US. There is no law requiring them to use Metric, they chose to because it's easier.

[chabi3000]

@Jeshikun hilarious ... grapefruit in their head ..hahaha i couldnt stop to laugh .. thanks for your funny comment ..

[rudeawakeningxxx]

these kids are gay

[Jeshikun]

Even if they are, they're 1000x smarter then you. Which would make them a Kilo-rudeawakeningxxx

[TurkeySandwich75]

The decimal user, bold and overconfident in his point-sliding, can easily make a tenfold mistake and not notice it.

The English/Standard/American/Impe­rial/Etc system encourages you to actually use that grey stuff in your skull instead of just moving a period around; ergo, we're smarter. Who got to the moon first? Not France!

[vastolfi]

von braun was european, like so many others who contributed to space & nuclear programs ... america just had the money to finance them. this is, by the way, one of the stupiest arguments i saw... you can use your brain better rather than doing silly multiplications.

[MalkavianMadness]

Oh smarter are you now.. Then how is it that over 40% of all americans can even point out America on a map? *assuming you are American* The decimal system is perfect. As a european its what I grew up with. Your standard system of inches, feet.. pounds..Is what we used in the dark ages. So.. you could ask..who of the two of us got stuck back in time? Arent you Americans supposed to be the new world hmm? FYI..you might have gone to the moon but you guys still cant produce a decent car.

[rudeawakeningxxx]

what a colossal tard. "encourages you to use ur head" are you high? why waste time multiplying all that shit. it's time consuming and unnecessary. you americans are NOT smarter. all the top scientist in the world including american ones use metric. it's better for science. who cares who got to the moon first. the point is that man got to the moon at all.

[larpmaster64]

You are the retard. DON'T lump us together like that. Some of us ARE smarter. I for one, like the metric system. I want it in America. Stop lumping people together because they come from the same country, get off your high horse, and PISS OFF! Same goes to the rest of you America haters.

[rudeawakeningxxx]

lmao. I live in america. i've experienced the idiocy of you so called "civilized people" so you're the one who needs to shut his mouth. you're all stupid.

[formaset]

The american measurement is not too different from this. it is also ancient. The only country in the world that still adopts such pre-historic measurements... feet, yard,etc was based on some king's body. It's so funny... food, for example goes like... whatever POUNDS of this particular food has 4 GRAMS (METRIC) of fat! LOL! Do you even know what the fuck a Gram is in volume or weight? Additionally, how would you divide 1 inch by 1 trillion? metric you can.

[formaset]

All labs, the army, pharmacy, etc in U.S. use metric as they know it is the only EXACT measure. ADAPT TO IT! It will only costs U.S. BILLIONS of Dollars to convert that bin schools until people learn it.

[NJRocks281]

relax jackass we have been using both the metric system and our system for like 4 decades now.

[formaset]

Reeeally? WHERE? School? NO! Picture size? NO! Distance? NO! Height? NO! Weight? NO! Only scientists and the U.S army.

[NJRocks281]

ahh yeah schools you idiot. They teach the metric system more than our native system.

[formaset]

I did school here just llike everyone else. They teach metric A LITTLE and the metric subject STAYS in school. NO ONE TAKES THAT SHIT INTO PRACTICE!!Dude. Piss off!

[NJRocks281]

Well then you school sucks ass. Who gives a shit if we dont use it? As long as people know how who gives a fuck honestly?

[formaset]

Vai pra puta que ti pariu.

[8GrolschMan8]

Ignore 77tubuck's comment - Its a lie. Canadian's dont leave the metric system in school. Its prevelant in nearly all facets of Canadian life save for a few marketing ploys used to make meat sound cheaper (pounds vs kg) and to make residetial spaces seem larger (sq feet vs sq meters) Wiki "Metrication in Canada"

[77tubuck]

Come back and tell me that when you have asked every single Canadian in Canada what system they use. Can you say know it all.

[8GrolschMan8]

clearly. after my fact finding ... can you?

[8GrolschMan8]

You see, viewers.. in the world of 77tubuck's world, knowing something is some weird and strange occurance that makes you a 'know it all'.  Lol.

[hanmaenen]

In most cases you won't have to convert miles to inches or km to cm, but when you are working with maps and scales then it becomes necessary. And by the way, the US standard system is in fact a crooked metric system. Just find out about the Mendenhall Order 1893 and how it standardized US units. For instance, the definition of the inch has been exactly 25.4 mm from that time.

[77tubuck]

No you don't have to convert miles to inches when working with maps. If you want to know how far apart to cities are you look at the scale. If the scale is 1 inch to 2 mile and the cities are two inches apart the the cities are 4 miles apart. 2*2=4.

[Nefus2]

So why can´t the us introduce the metric system? It makes more sense. It´s easier to measure length. Imperial system is old fashioned.

[77tubuck]

Well according to Wikepedia and Encarta the US did adopt the metric system. It's just a few industries refused to use it. I also read that in Sweden the Swedish inch is still used to buy wood. I don't like the metric system and the conversion factor does bot come up for everyday life so why should I be forced to use it?

[2canines]

i think your confusing it with the Swedish "thumb log" = "tum stock" which i think in English is "carpenters' rule". "tum" is the old Swedish equivalence of imperial inch and "stock" means "wooden log". tum stock is basically a folding wooden measure stick. and to day everyone of them measures in metric system

[TasnuArakun]

"Today our world operates according to two different systems of measurement." Makes it sound as if they are both equally widespread. Wrong! There's only one international system, used all around the world. Then there's the americans who for some reason have to have a system of their own and expect everyone else to know it as well.

[BayAreaBiker2001]

The USA has the highest GNP, thus making us feel like we control the world. The USA has only 5% of the world's populataion, but nearly half the world's currency, giving it a lot of clout.

[2canines]

if that is true then Europe must have more then half of the worlds currency.

[lordvivec87]

Half of the world's currency?

EU has more than USA, so if USA and Europe have around 90% of the world's currency, then 7% is for Russia, 2% china and 0.9% for Australia. Rest of the 0.1% is for rest of the world! Fuck yeah intelligence?

[Jackaldoublenine]

your forgetting that USA doesnt own that currency. They owe trillions of dollars to the World bank. Technically they are not the most powerful nation since they owe so much. Its like saying I go out and buy a rolls royce and a mansion and saying im rich, but im not since i would owe x amount of money i borrowed.

[falloutgodTeutonicL]

@TasnuArakun Dude we don't expect everyone else to use our system you fucking prick.If anything we tried to convert to metric a few times.Also almost very state teaches basic metric system.So do real research rather than you own raciest opinions

[ballm0use]

@falloutgodTeutonicL it's not your system, it came from europe like all the white people in your country.

[falloutgodTeutonicL]

@ballm0use What I mean is our system we are the main one that uses it so it is ours

[DNYLNY]

@TasnuArakun The english use the imperial system too...not just americans

[Chriseycarlyeah324]

@DNYLNY no we don't we got rid of it 40 years ago we are completly metric

[Napoleon501ste]

@Chriseycarlyeah324 Oh, that's why they keep using Mph in stead of km/h

[onfireforthelordGod]

@TasnuArakun lol i know and they keep saying oh we'll change we'll change haha

[willham95]

@TasnuArakun Actually the "American system" isn't American at all. It is 100% ENGLISH.

[drschizo]

DEATH to the american system of measurement, it is totally retarded! metric is the "standard" one used by the whole world except... USA

[marty177]

The blonde woman looks like a deer in the headlights!

[SC1089]

Most of this is a total lie. There IS a relationship in the Standard units, the numbers are chosen based on what makes a clean fraction. In real life applications, clean fractions are easier to use. DEATH TO THE METRIC SYSTEM!

[lordvivec87]

Hey, there is 344 miles from one town to another, calculate it in inches without calculator. Simple?

Metric: There is 2389 km between two towns, that makes it 2 389 000 metres, 238 900 000 cm and this is 2 389 000 000 mm. Is this harder?

You say it.

[SC1089]

Like most over-zealous metric fools, you cite a worthless argument. Why should I need to convert that?

[jadawin10]

Wake-up ! The U.S., the Liberia (Africa) and the Myanmar (Burmah) are the latest countries that did not use the metric system ...

[AhmadRadhi]

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[psarmstr]

Cool video. Be nicer to see US customary system used instead of "standard" as it's anything but standard outside this country (or inside it for things like science).