Latest posts tagged with #MetricSystem on Bluesky
The GAO’s 1978 deep dive into the metric system proved how complicated "going metric" really is. 📏🇺🇸
The 768-page report detailed the massive costs and logistical hurdles of a nationwide shift. Decades later, we’re still a hybrid nation of miles and meters. 📉⚖️ #History #MetricSystem #GAO #Science
John Frewen-Lord tells us about his experiences of living in Cyprus, and how they completed #metrication successfully, unlike the UK.
#metricsystem
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Australia, Scott #541–544
MNH set promoting metric conversion through humorous cartoon designs.
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#Stamps #StampCollecting #Philately #Australia #MetricSystem
Yes! It is a joke, including showing price for a US imperial unit of petrol. 😁 (Sorry I had to.)
#MetricSystem #wtf
Since I'm going to Japan later this year I'm trying to teach myself some Japanese language and some basic metric system math too. Starting with Fahrenheit vs Celsius. I figured with 98% of the planet using the metric system this will be a good skill to know in the future. #metricsystem
Two weeks for family, and here we are with more context for a 32k limit,
If you felt that the tool isn't "tooling", give a read:
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#Agent #AI #Bash #Blog #Bubble #Claude #China #DnD #Git #MetricSystem #OpenCode #Security #Skepticism #Technology
In the early years of the Metrication Programme, which began in 1965, the press was not hostile to #metrication ...
Our latest blog article: "Media blast from the past"
#metricsystem #metric
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Bye-bye metric hello inches
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#dentaloffice #metricsystem #dentalhygienist #Trump
𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮'𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗹
In -75, President Ford had a vision; America should adopt the metric system
Interstate 19 in Arizona as the test case, with new green signs
Reagan killed it in -82. But somehow, everyone just... forgot about I-19
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#SaturdAI #Interstate19 #MonradRuzt #MetricSystem
Always Use Metric Units
Always Use Metric Units
#Metricsystem #Siunits #Chemistry #Yoctomole #Scientificnotation
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ICYMI: Why not Metric?? #MetricSystem #USMeasurement #MeasurementDebate #SwitchToMetric #MetricVsImperial
A painting of a man and woman sitting on a big park bench. The scene is 1700’s. He has his hands on his lap and she is crying hands held to face. He says, “But my dear, we use the metric system. Why'd you ever think that I was 12 inches?" She answers, "Im American."
#MetricSystem #ImperialSystem #memes #science #conversions #math #inches #centimeters
A “tiny” relationship misunderstanding for sure. Read below about the $125 million dollar mistake in 1999 and other stupid mistakes because the #USA refuses to be #rational
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Sad. Just another indication of collective stupidity.
#metricsystem
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The metric system shines with A-series paper. A0's area is exactly 1 sq meter, and its weight (80gsm) directly relates to its area. This integrated design is a testament to the metric system's inherent efficiency. #MetricSystem 💡 4/7
A Robertson's Christmas Pudding in its box 400 g METRIC PACK circa 1980
🎄 🎅 Merry Christmas 🎁 🎄
A metric-size Robertson's Christmas Pudding 🥳
400 g METRIC PACK - circa 1980
#ChristmasPudding #metricpack #metrication #metric #metricsystem #Christmas
A switch to #metric speed limits would allow all speed limits to be reviewed at no extra cost.
#metricsystem #metrication #speedlimit
lol, the thought of a cop every 10 metres on a multiple kilometre beach....
#Monsterdon #MetricSystem
DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT PRESS NOTICE 9 December 1970 NO SPEED LIMIT METRICATION Speed limits on Britain's roads are not to be metricated in 1973, as had been planned by the previous administration, and the Government has no alternative date in mind. This was announced today by Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, answering a Question in the House of Commons. Mr Kenneth Warren MP asked for an estimate of the cost involved in alterations to vehicles and road signs of all kinds if metric distances and speed measurements were introduced in this country. Mr Peyton replied: "Nearly £2m for speed limit signs: the Government have, however, decided that speed limits will not be made metric in 1973 and have no alternative date in mind." In March 1969, Mr Richard Marsh, then Minister of Transport, in a statement on speed limit policy in Parliament, announced that, subject to further consultation, speed limits would be metricated in 1973. This was in the context of the former administration's intention to metricate the economy by 1975. Following this announcement, planning took place with local authorities on the best way to implement the change; but no new speed limit signs in metric terms have yet been put up. The metrication of other road signs to show distances, dimensions etc in metric terms had not yet reached the planning stage. The question of speeds and distances being expressed in metric terms will be considered again when it is seen to what extent metrication as a whole is accepted by the public, but this will not be for some years.
#OTD On this day 55 years ago, the Government postponed the introduction of #metric speed limits 🚗, previously scheduled for 1973.
#metrication #metricsystem
Our latest blog article: Metric speed limits – 55 years of dilly-dallying
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The I-19 highway in Arizona is the only Interstate that predominately uses the Metric System. Most signs on this road reference Kilometers and Meters as part of a 1970's experiment with the Metric System. #RoadTrip #Interstate #Arizona #MetricSystem #SummerTrip #DayTrip #RoadWarrior
A few inches is still a couple of centimeters.
#MetricVsImperial #MeasurementMatters #InchesToCentimeters #LengthConversion #MathIsFun #ScienceFacts #UnitsOfMeasurement #ConvertIt #MetricSystem #ImperialSystem
a cross section diagram of an ISO metric screw thread
On this day 60 years ago, the British standard for screw threads 🔩 went #metric.
On 23 November 1965, major sectors of British industry approved a BSI policy statement urging British firms to make ISO metric threads their first choice for all future designs.
#OTD #metricsystem #metrication #ISO
How is a meteorite called in inches?
#meteorite #imperialsystem #metricsystem
Our latest blog article: A "Quite Interesting" mess
#QI #SI #metricsystem #inches #wavelengths #whalelengths
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Just drank 2 liters of kombucha, can't wait to piss tonight!
#gnome #metricsystem
Screenshots with subtitles from Episode 4 of Series W of QI, first broadcast on 11 November 2025. They show a complete jumble of measurements units being used, with a wavelength in the millimetre-to-metre range being described using using inches.
For a TV show @qi.com in 2025 to be using #inches to measure a wavelength in the millimetre-to-metre range is #QuiteInteresting.
FUN FACT: Since the first UK radio stations began broadcasting in the 1920s, wavelengths have been given in #metres.
#metricsystem #SI #QI
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A 1975 METRIC PACK of Kellogg's Corn Flakes. The back of the pack includes information about the switch to metric pack sizes: "Kellogg's and Metrication You will probably have noticed from the front of this packet that it has a new metric weight. It now contains 500 grammes (1.10 lb) of Corn Flakes in place of the previous 16 oz. Since the Weights and Measures Act, 1963, we have had to pack our flaked breakfast cereals in multiples of 4 ounces. This was the main reason why Corn Flakes were packed in 8 oz, 12 oz and 16 oz packet sizes. But now that Britain is changing to the metric weight system the Law has been amended to permit flaked cereals to be packed and sold in set metric quantities. This Giant pack, which previously held 16 ounces, will now contain 500 grammes (one of the new set quantities). So there are now 10% more Corn Flakes in the packet."
On this day 50 years ago, breakfast cereals went #metric.
On 1 November 1975, METRIC PACK sizes ⚖️ were introduced for flaked breakfast cereals 🌽❄️. Imperial pack sizes were withdrawn on 30 June 1978.
#OTD #metricsystem #metrication
