According to Google, 1 cubic cubit = 95.5693572 litres
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Us pint 473ml half a litre 500ml real pint 568ml.
Heās making a really big omlette.
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Iām glad you agree.
Ammunition is measured in metric. Youād think that alone would be enough to convince Americans.
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Bingo! Another cry for attention: āLook at me! Look! Iām special!ā
(pun intended)
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because US football
100 yard football field
1st and 10
I donāt see it changing to 1st and 9.1 metersā¦
even though baseball is international, basepaths are still 90ā, and pitcherās mound - home plate is 60ā6".
Every year could just end in a half-week.
or extra 6/10s of a week every 4th year. 
Also the earths rotation is slowing down, just not such that we would notice it so it would need to be redone eventually, well if humans stick around that long.
A 750ml is a 750ml because itās 1/5 of a gallon, after all. (Like a āmetric poundā, itās been rounded). 7.62mm, common round as it is, is .30 cal
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Canada is (mostly) on metric and our football still uses yards. Our field is larger, but itās 110 yards, and itās still actually measured as 110 yards, not 100 meters - mid-field is five yards away from each of the two fifty-yard lines.
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Iāve found myself doing this anyway, somehow remembering over the years that 1 tsp = 5 ml, 1 tbsp = 15 ml and 1/2 cup is fairly close to 100ml. Makes it easier to scale up a recipe thatās measured in tsp or tbsp.
I managed to make the switch; I now use āmetric ass tonsā instead of āus ass tons.ā
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A mile is a thousand paces, and āpaceā certainly has a more intuitive meaning than āmeter.ā If only the Romans had had better diets then a pace would be a nice round 6 feet and the math would be easy.
Well, unless the better diets also made their feet bigger, in which case theyād have to be taller still because a āfootā would be biggerā¦ Look, all Iām saying is: first we have to standardize body proportions, and then everything else will fall into place. Plus it would be way cooler if the IEEE had to maintain a āstandard skeletonā instead of those boring cylinders.
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What, grains? Thatās not metric.
Now that I am a city mouse, I can see changing to metricā¦
Previously, there is just something not quite right about heading out to the back 16.2.
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Maybe. But this is cnn weāre talking aboutā¦
Sorry, but no. The definition given in the article was somewhat abbreviated. The classic definition of an acre is the amount of land one man with one horse could plow in one day. That, of course, refers to a horse-draw plow, and so that hasnāt really changed a whole lot in the last few hundred years.
If you count using the negative spaces between (non-thumb) fingers, you get to six.
A mile is a neat 880 fathoms.
