Suggestion on weight scale

[Bryan=0101]

we can choose F or C degrees
We should be able to choose lbs or kgs
Why just becuase I know how heavy one pound is but not so sure how heavy 1 kg is it just provides a better grasp

[Die Zahl]

Originally posted by 101=5, bryan=5:

we can choose F or C degrees
We should be able to choose lbs or kgs
Why just becuase I know how heavy one poind is but not so sure how heavy 1 kg is it just provides a better grasp

1kg = 1 liter of water. Its realy simple.

[jfoytek]

Originally posted by Die Zahl:

Originally posted by 101=5, bryan=5:

we can choose F or C degrees
We should be able to choose lbs or kgs
Why just becuase I know how heavy one poind is but not so sure how heavy 1 kg is it just provides a better grasp

1kg = 1 liter of water. Its realy simple.

Too you maybe!

But 1 Pound is far easier for me to understand then how many Kilograms I or anyone else is!

Just like I am quite aware how fast 65 Miles Per Hour is but I have no idea how many kilometers per hour that is....

Sure I could do the math and attempt to figure it out but one is instinctive and another is not so much....

Its like learning a foreign language... A rock drops on your foot and you swear in your native tongue, in order to swear in the foreign language you actually have to think about it....

[grapplehoeker]

Welcome to the 21st century. I would expect everyone to be able to learn weights and measurement in metric as well as, if not in spite of, imperial.
I would first suggest that you pay more attention to your English and my apologies if it is not your native tongue.

[jfoytek]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Welcome to the 21st century. I would expect everyone to be able to learn weights and measurement in metric as well as, if not in spite of, imperial.
I would first suggest that you pay more attention to your English and my apologies if it is not your native tongue.

That maybe what you would expect but that is not what we learn in the United States...

We Learn Imperial and the Metric System is an after thought....
I think that Metric is now taught in school but that still doesnt fix the basic issue here!

When you grow up driving in Miles Per Hour and Weighing yourself in pounds and reading the temperature in Farenheight, buying Gas in Gallons.... You can't just say he mate your dude is a bit fat he weights like 110 Kilo's (had to google how much that was bye the way) and expect that to even register with me as 110 isnt even remotely a big number when weight is involved, thats smaller then most girls in high school....

So sure in the class back in 8th grade when it was a test question how many pounds is 100 Kilograms I may have actually been able to answer that.... But every time I have gotten on a scale in my life time it has read my weight in pounds!

[Chama]

I live in USA and I don't understand why they still don't use the Metric system... Literally everyone else does.

[jfoytek]

Originally posted by Fear None413:

I live in USA and I don't understand why they still don't use the Metric system... Literally everyone else does.

You don't understand eh??? How many meters are in a football field???

How many meters to get a first down???

How many meters in an acre? How many Hectors in an Acre?

How much is your property tax's on your 40 acres of land? How much should property taxes be on 16 Hectors what do we do with the other .1874 of our property sell it off to make it a round number???

How much money would it take to change all the speed limit signs too Kilometers?

And if we, just up and went cold turkey and made the change how many carpenters would understand how to make a house wall 40.64 Centimeters on Center for each stud?

How many building inspectors would be able to do their job if they had to figure out if the house was build 40 Centimeters on center instead of 40.64 Centimeters on center??? The realm of issues that would arise from attempting to switch over from Imperial to Metric is HUGE....

[Jamaican Castle]

Honestly, the masses of things in-game seem so arbitrary that it doesn't really help you to know how much 1kg "actually" is.

Also the metric system is terrible (or, at least, has more terrible properties than useful ones) but that's irrelevant.

[Slye_Fox]

Just gonna point out that the US does not use Imperial, it uses US Customary Units.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems

[Orpheus]

1kg = 2.2lb (1lb = 0.4kg)
1 mile = 1.6km (1km = 0.625 miles)

[bigsengineer]

Originally posted by Jamaican Castle:

Honestly, the masses of things in-game seem so arbitrary that it doesn't really help you to know how much 1kg "actually" is.

Also the metric system is terrible (or, at least, has more terrible properties than useful ones) but that's irrelevant.

how is the metric system terrible? serious question most of the world uses it and its a much more accurate one.

[Demon of Razgriz]

I am from the US and while I am glad there are things that the US is NOT copying from Europe, I do wish we would copy the metric system. Yes, there would be a lot of growing pains as people got used to metric, but metric is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much easier to understand as everything is based on 10s, unlike what the US and a couple other countries use. I can easily figure out how many centimeters are in a kilometer in a few seconds in my head. I cannot easily figure out how many inches are in a mile in my head.

[electroblood]

I demand we switch to rods, stones and pecks. All other measurement systems are too clear.

[ignis]

Originally posted by electroblood:

I demand we switch to rods, stones and pecks. All other measurement systems are too clear.

You are too specific. All we need is a binary "enough" and "not enough".

[Orpheus]

Binary? But then there's a 50% chance of getting it wrong! I propose that all existing measurement units be replaced with "things", and all traditional numbers with "some".

[Bryan=0101]

I propose all nercos to be used as spare organs