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Imperials vs Metrics: Asked and Answered

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Apr 13, 2021
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Somebody asked questions about why America.. whoa here we go.. was too stupid to adapt the metric system like Europe. Well the obvious conventional wisdom is that we're stupid and have bad habits. But let's think about that for a moment.

Let's start with a yard. Not your yard, a yardstick. But your yard could be measured with a yardstick just as easily a…

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