dannekrose, 4 months ago

@mikey I understand your question. While this doesn't answer the question, in a way, it also does answer the question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmSJXC6_qQ8

tl;dr The US measurements are actually legally defined in terms of the metric system.

moondog548, 4 months ago

@mikey pretty sure it was the french inventing metric and everyone else deciding to adopt it over time, and the US just said nah because we were building all our railroads and shit.

And then as time went on we kept doing it as a meme. 😒

mikey, 4 months ago

@moondog548 lol @ "as a meme" 😂😂

jrm4, 4 months ago

@mikey

The world was a bunch of nerds who decided that everything should scale over the number of hand nubbins

and Americans decided to keep the old thing thats much better for actually CREATING SHIT

fight meeeeeeeeee

mikey, 4 months ago

@jrm4 lol sounds about right!

mikey, 4 months ago

And yes... I require all my answers to questions in the form of YouTube documentaries.