I’ve been taking some physics classes at school and we pretty much always use the metric system. Now, I’m a big fan of the metric system. It makes sense to me. It counts in 10s instead of in whatevers like they crazy system we use here does. Water boils at 100 degrees and freezes at 0 degrees. I mean, what is this 212 and 32 anyway? This lead me to start thinking about what it would take to change the US over to the metrics system. Most scientific studies already use the metric system so those wouldn’t have to change much. It would be quite an undertaking to change all the street signs, but if we did it in phases it wouldn’t be so bad. I honestly think that the hardest thing about changing to the metric system completely would be changing heights and lengths of various sporting things. I could hear the school kids now, “Hey, can you dunk on a 3.048 meter rim?” or “That was a 91.44 meter touchdown run.” Okay, so those are direct conversions to the metric system from the British system, but would we really want to change the height of a rim .048 meters or add 8.56 meters to a football field to even them out. I guess that wouldn’t be so bad for football, but saying that you could dunk a 3 meter rim just doesn’t have the same effect. I’m willing to make the change, but I don’t know if others are. Since the title of this post has the words “presidential candidates” in it, I have just this to say: If a presidential candidate proposed that we change completely over to the metric system, I would vote for him/her.

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 at 11:49 am and is filed under Random. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.