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[LordKnightFandragon]

Tarl Cabot, on 31 May 2016 - 05:39 PM, said:

53kph = 32.9mph

64kph = 39.8mph

72kph = 44.7mph

85kph = 52.8mph

100kph = 62.1mph

125kph - 77.7mph

hmm, no thank you...

I like simple rounded numbers better.

[Narcissistic Martyr]

No, space 'Murica was destroyed around the time of the fall of the star league.

Also, as an engineer allow my to say that I DESPISE the imperial measurement system.

[orcrist86]

SS4GOGETA, on 31 May 2016 - 02:17 PM, said:

Oh dear Battletech making Miles illegal. That's no fun.

Murican's use the Imperial system because we don't care to fit in and be a sheep like everybody else. And because MERICA that's why.

Dude... just... no....

[DarthHias]

1. Yay people defending a system where everything has weird conversion rates so you have to either memorize all of it or always carry a calculator. Vs a logical system based on decimals.

2. You Muricans don´t know what enjoyment one can get from kph ´cause you only are allowed to move at snails speed. No speed limit on highways!

[Kaeb Odellas]

100 kph is a far scarier number than 60 mph

[dario03]

Kaeb Odellas, on 31 May 2016 - 09:50 PM, said:

100 kph is a far scarier number than 60 mph

62

(62.1371)

[lshtaria]

Typical Murican calling imperial measurements "American". We also still use miles per hour as the official speed measurement you know, although the United Dictatorship of Europe try to force us to use a lot of metric stuff for other things.

Yours,
United Kingdom of Englandlandshire.

[Clownwarlord]

ha funny ...



It is pretty easy to understand for a kilometer you have 1,000 meters. Unlike there being 5280 feet to make a mile. And what is great about metric system is it flows into other units of measurement, example measure of resistance in electronics. 1k Ohms is 1,000 Ohms of resistance. Not sure why you would want to add a feature that would slow down PGI from getting better features out. Especially considering that PGI is already slow in getting good features out to start with. Furthermore don't fix what isn't broken.

[Xetelian]

KPH is way faster than MPH

20 KPH is only 12 MPH

Would you rather go 20? or 12? I'd rather go 20

Even when I go running I run 10 Kilometers, that is only 6 miles, 6 miles isn't much but 10 Kilometers is a TON!


Remember, every day
100 situps 100 pushups 100 Squats and a 10 kilometer run

You must also eat a banana, even when you don't want to, you must. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day


Warning: You do this workout you will gain immense strength but all your hair will fall out

[rolly]

slide, on 31 May 2016 - 05:47 PM, said:

NASA couldn't even get the metric to imperial conversion right. What chance do you think PGI have?




Note for those who live under rock or are to young, NASA crashed a probe into Mars due to confusion over which units of measurement different divisions were using. Massively epic fail that was.

My lord. Have you actually read the report? NASA ordered the specs to be in Newtons per second. The subcontractor wrote the code in Imperial Pounds/second resulting in the million dollar probe disintegrating over Mars. The only one who was confused was the schmoe who wrote that one part (Phase 5) of the entry into Mars orbit. That and the mission controllers who failed to spot the error. Read. It helps.

[Chuck Jager]

SS4GOGETA, on 31 May 2016 - 02:14 PM, said:

The problem is I don't like Kilometers, I'm used to Miles for speed and Feet/Yards for distance. And if boxes of cinnamon toast crunch were used to measure distance in this game it wouldn't work out very well. And surely PGI's finances aren't that terrible. At least I hope not.

Well you have had since 1970 to get used to it. I'm 48 and lived in the Southern US as a kid, and we were taught this in school.

It is easier. Also coke has had 2 liters for how long?

[dario03]

Milocinia, on 31 May 2016 - 09:54 PM, said:

Typical Murican calling imperial measurements "American". We also still use miles per hour as the official speed measurement you know, although the United Dictatorship of Europe try to force us to use a lot of metric stuff for other things.

Yours,
United Kingdom of Englandlandshire.

I keep telling them Murica doesn't use your ol' redcoat system. But they just won't listen...

[slide]

rolly, on 31 May 2016 - 10:32 PM, said:

My lord. Have you actually read the report? NASA ordered the specs to be in Newtons per second. The subcontractor wrote the code in Imperial Pounds/second resulting in the million dollar probe disintegrating over Mars. The only one who was confused was the schmoe who wrote that one part (Phase 5) of the entry into Mars orbit. That and the mission controllers who failed to spot the error. Read. It helps.

Sure I can read. Doesn't make any difference. Someone or a group failed basic comprehension, defaulted to their training in an archaic system and wasted millions of dollars. Who is responsible is largely irrelevant to the point I was trying to make.

Which is. If a organisation as professional as NASA can screw it up, what chance does a company, known to have created multiple issue whilst trying to fix a simple one, got.

[Ace Selin]

OP wants Mexican measurements ?

[William Mountbank]

Milocinia, on 31 May 2016 - 09:54 PM, said:

Typical Murican calling imperial measurements "American". We also still use miles per hour as the official speed measurement you know, although the United Dictatorship of Europe try to force us to use a lot of metric stuff for other things.

Yours,
United Kingdom of Englandlandshire.

One can only do one's best, when it comes to the colonies.

[Random Carnage]

Xetelian, on 31 May 2016 - 10:30 PM, said:

Even when I go running I run 10 Kilometers, that is only 6 miles, 6 miles isn't much but 10 Kilometers is a TON TONNE!

FTFY

[Johnny Z]

Yep the old metric system is way better than the new Imperial system that the United States uses. Anything important they do is metric anyway.

I'm not even sure, but didn't the Romans use metric?

Edited by Johnny Z, 01 June 2016 - 12:25 AM.

[pizzafly]

SS4GOGETA, on 31 May 2016 - 02:14 PM, said:

The problem is I don't like Kilometers, I'm used to Miles for speed and Feet/Yards for distance. And if boxes of cinnamon toast crunch were used to measure distance in this game it wouldn't work out very well. And surely PGI's finances aren't that terrible. At least I hope not.

'cause you are an out-of-the-world murican?

lol

well... you are not the only one....

Edited by pizzafly, 01 June 2016 - 12:27 AM.

[jjm1]

Random Carnage, on 31 May 2016 - 04:34 PM, said:

Doesn't NASA use the metric system?

I think they must half it up just to be confusing. I've seen them use international aviation measurements, which are feet per second etc. Some industries never really converted because of the old guard mentality and safety fears. This of course leads to even more stuff ups.

[STEF_]

"" the French Academy of Sciences charged a commission with determining a single scale for all measures. On 7 October 1790 that commission advised the adoption of a decimal system, and on 19 March 1791 advised the adoption of the term mètre ("measure"), a basic unit of length, which they defined as equal to one ten-millionth of the distance between the North Pole and the Equator"""

So it seems that freaking Muricans are more than 2 centuries late in using a scientific decimal system, and throwing a stone aged one

getgud.