>a pound is 16 ounces
>an ounce is also a measure of volume
>a pint is 20 ounces
>a gallon is 160 ounces
>a foot is 12 inches
>a mile is 5280 feet
>sub-inches are not counted as decimal numbers but as arbitrary fractions
When will this shitty imperial meme end?
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When a President passes an Executive Order switching to the metric system over a period of years. The only reason we haven't switched already is that it's prohibitively expensive to re-work an infrastructure as large as the US. The cost of doing so far outweighs the potential (non monetary) benefits of an easy-to-use measuring system.
But if a President were able to do it by executive order, he'd only need control of half of ONE House to make it stick. And once everything is changed, the next president probably wouldn't care enough to try to change it back.
But Russia also went to the moon and were also the first in space my friend of larger proportions.
Carter tried to do this exact thing, it didn't pan out.
Russia didn't go to the moon, it sent equipment to the moon. No cosmonauts had ever set foot on the moon.
>united States of space
You don't have to take it personally Cletus, I'm just criticizing your shitty system of measurement.
are we not going to talk about the fucking picture
>he thinks NASA uses the fuck retarded imperial system
I think it's part of the new CORE curriculum, or whatever it's called. For arithmetic operations the kids are taught to break the numbers down into manageable components, add those to a rounded number like 10, then add the remainder. It looks counter-intuitive to those that didn't learn it growing up, but I think it gives the kids a better sense of what addition is, and that the other operations are really just different forms of addition.