Do you prefer the metric system or the imperial system?

Also tell me your thoughts about the metric and imperial system.
My country uses both of the systems but I prefer the metric system, I just think it's much easier to use. Basically the whole world uses the metric system as the main one, except the 3-4 countries that uses imperial.

Metric system 28
Imperial system 17
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  • BleedingPain

    I prefer the imperial march

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    • LornaMae

      And how do you measure stuff? 1 penguin, half a penguin, etc?

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      • megadriver

        I use duck power to measure engine power. Horses suck and are obsolete.
        Ducks are awesome!

        PS: My 400 "horsepower", or 298 KW E-class makes 52480 duckpower! Imagine the chaos and cacophony of 52 thousand ducks giving it all they've got! That's a lot of power! That's a lot of quacking!

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        • LornaMae

          I'm sure the loud duck game helps a lot hahaha

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      • BleedingPain

        I measure stuff per square evil!

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        • LornaMae

          Lol

          I was thinking this empire
          https://youtu.be/BMLdnBujKJE

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          • BleedingPain

            I have not seen that! Thanks for making my day better :)

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            • LornaMae

              :)

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      • Clunk42

        Don't you know? The Empire uses the metric system.

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  • DADNSCAL

    The Imperial system is so obselete it isn’t funny. It’s hard to remember and to convert or multiply. I hate using it,

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    • Clunk42

      I don't find either hard to remember.

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      • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

        remember 5 to 10 conversion factors and be able to do some simple mental math and its super easy to flip between the two

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    • 1WeirdGuy

      Maybe because you grew up with the metric system? I can look at a distance and know right away how many yards it is. I dont have to convert its just natural.

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  • MonteMetcalfe

    The metric system is communist.

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    • megadriver

      IKR, much better to measure distance in football fields, weight in jumbo jets, pressure in elephants standing on your chest and do fine measurements using tea spoons...

      Freedom! Murica! Fuck yeah!!!!!
      *does burnout in a pickup truck with American flag liveries, blasting Alabama on the stereo, while shooting an AR-15 out the window and an eagle screeches in the distance*

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      • Ummitsstillme

        Teaspoons? It is coffee spoons you nazi...

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    • Ace141_th

      How is the metric system related to communism? (Genuinely curious)

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      • MonteMetcalfe

        Because it just is and the metric system has proven to be the greatest contributing factor in moral decline of it's users.
        It's all very scientific. I couldn't make this stuff up. No never.

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  • wigz

    I like imperial but I'm used to it. People argue that metric makes more sense but I don't see it. Neither one truly makes sense, they're both pulled out of somebody's ass, just because metric is multiples of 10, it somehow makes more sense? What the fuck is a millimeter based on though? Some obscure thing like a horse hair or some shit? It's all made up off of something arbitrary.

    I refer to things by funny or old timey names anyway, like hogsheads, butts, drums, pallets, sacks etc. For instance, a huge jar of peanut butter, I'll call it a drum. People know what I'm saying, and if they don't, then good! It weeds out the idiots. I don't give a fuck!

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    • LloydAsher

      Well the metric system is more accurate when it comes to accurately choosing a measurement. A meter is based on a fraction of the speed of light. Conversions are easier too.

      Imperial is fine. It's more of a human convenience measurement. Metric being a more accurate sciencey measurement.

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      • wigz

        Yeah, it seems great for science, I can't deny that. That's interesting re: the speed of light. I guess my opinion is just pertaining to the everyday average stuff.

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        • LloydAsher

          Metric is the best stand by we have devised. Back in the ye old times you actually had a master weight on stand by to determine what a pound was and then you made copies of said master weight so everyone was on the same page to what weighed what.

          There were several kilo master weights until recently when it was determined that a kilo would just be a cylinder of platnum so a kilogram would officially be like a bazillion platnum atoms. making the measurment of a kilogram just as accurate as a meter.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

    if metric people are so committed to their system how come they still express distances in thousandsa kilometers insteada megameters?

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  • Clunk42

    I prefer imperial, since it commonly uses multiple types of measurements more than metric. What I mean is, people who use metric tend to go straight from centimeters to meters, while people who use imperial go from inches to feet to yards. I suppose that could be fixed by people using decimeters, though

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    • Ace141_th

      It's actually centimeters to meters to kilometers. Pretty similar to what you said. There's also millimeters but I'm trying to match what you said so I won't include it.

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      • Clunk42

        That would be like if I included miles.

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  • Tommythecaty

    Imperial is a relic.

    Get with it yo.

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  • Ummitsstillme

    What is the imperial system? The former British system that they no longer use? Or the current Chinese system that is forced on modern subjugates around the world?

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  • LloydAsher

    I understand metric distances well enough but I cant wrap my head around the temperature measurement. Since farenheit is more accurate. 32-212 being the freezing to boiling point rather than 0-100.

    I feel like the imperial tempeture measurement is a more human experience measurement.

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  • miss_jass06

    I prefer the metric system and I grew up with it. I think it's simpler, but I mostly know the imperial system too, although we don't use it in my country.

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  • GuvnorsOtherWoman

    Imperial. I don't understand the Metric system and don't want to.

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  • JellyBeanBandit

    The imperial system is so needlessly complicated that it's just ridiculous. The metric system is just objectively better.

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  • Metric.

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  • 1WeirdGuy

    I grew up with imperial system so I am just used to it. It would be annoying to switch but USA has seemed to have switched recently to metric wrenches and screws and shit atleast on vehicles. I find it pretty simple. It came from the british empire.

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    • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

      they had metric fasteners on american cars in the 70s

      at least gm had all metric bodies and all inch sized drivetrain bolts

      now its random

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  • LornaMae

    I'm biased I guess but Imperial doesn't even make sense to be honest...

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    • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

      one bar pressure?

      pff yeah maybe on earth

      *scoffs*

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      • LornaMae

        I have no idea what that even means hahaha

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        • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

          its a metric measure of atmospheric pressure

          1 bar = 1 atmosphere = 14.7 psi

          common but arbitrarily linked to earth atmosphere and always changin slightly due to weather

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          • LornaMae

            Sorry I wasted your time. I should've said "I dunno what it means and I do not care" so you didn't bother trying to explain! Haha

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          • dude_Jones

            Whoa there, cowboy. There's more to it than that: Millibar, unit of air pressure in the metric system, commonly used in meteorology, equal to 100 pascals, 1,000 dynes per square cm (about 0.0145 pounds per square inch), or slightly less than one-thousandth of a standard atmosphere).

            One atmosphere is a bit higher. 1 atm = 101.325 kilopascals. So, we get back to the meter and the density of water at last.

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            • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

              not locally presently

              and why dont the metric system take accounta the specific gravitya 96 percenta water on the planet?

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  • olderdude-xx

    The metric system is not truely metric in most of the world.

    Heat Exchanger tubing and pipe sizes are actually the old English sizes established long long ago.

    I laugh every time I look at a European Tubing manufacture catalog and see 12.70mm, 15.88mm, 19.05mm, 25.4mm tubing.

    I don't see 10, 15, 20, 25, etc. mm tubing.

    Pipe is the same worldwide as far as I can tell.

    A couple years ago I did an engineering consulting job for a Chinese Power Plant. All the piping was listed in metric equivalents of standard English pipe sizes and thicknesses.

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    • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

      pipe sizes are standardized

      25mm is roundly one inch pipe but the pipe size has fuckall to do with one inch or 25mm

      and the threads are all npt standards no matter where you go

      if youre figurin water volumes & weights metric is way easier

      1000 liters = 1 cube = 1 ton metric = easy peasy

      but any measure i can blast back & forth in my head with no issues

      and titanium plate heat exchangers are bulletproof why would anyone use tubes anymore?

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      • olderdude-xx

        Tubed heat exchanges work best:

        1) Where you have very dirty water or heavy fouling on one side (which you design to go through the tubes). It's a lot easier to clean the tubes than disassemble and clean the plates.

        2) When dealing with hazardous or radioactive substances on one side. You can clean the tube side without having to deal with the hazardous or radioactive materials.

        3) When dealing with condensation (Condensers, FW Heaters, Distillers, etc.)

        Also:

        A) It's easier to find and plug a leaking tube than find a leaking plate; and titanium does develop leaks.

        B) Tubes can easily be NDE inspected for degradation via eddy current/remote field/UT, while plates cannot be and require the entire HX to be dissembled to eyeball (which will often miss things NDE inspection would find).

        C) Titanium is often galvanically incompatible with system piping and components; and other alloys are in fact a better choice (galvanic corrosion issues with heat exchangers are something I'm an expert at).

        I've retrofitted many plate HXs into older power plants, and yet specified 4 times the value of replacement tubed heat exchanges than I've specified plate HX's (Note I had the Title of Heat Exchanger Engineer in a nuclear power plant with a $million+ inspection and testing budget for 14 years, and have specified at least $50 Million in replacement heat exchangers in a variety of fossil and nuclear power plants, and a few industrial plants).

        Tubed heat exchanges have an important roll, and always will.

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        • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

          well shit youre right

          but

          a pre-strainer / filter and or backflush arrangement clears 90% of cloggin issues

          closed loop chemical cleanin clears the other 10%

          and proper water treatment eliminates most bio fouling issues in closed loop systems anyway

          its still easier to pull a [properly assembled & compressed] plate exchanger apart than unroll tubes but why unroll em when you can plug em

          but i dont get in depth enough to ndt good workin heat exchangers cause why do it outside critical industries like nuke plants

          and of course nobody has plate type condensers

          i still got some fluroscein dye at home awaitin the proper st pats day pool party

          ive tried to git plates welded for pinholes and nobodyd touch em so yeah i get that its very reactive to oxygen when hot

          not only that but first time i walked into the scrapyard with titanium i thought i was carryin gold plated platinum & was shocked by how little its worth

          far as galvanic corrosion who dont have a pipe bondin program or sacrificial anodes or cathotic protection?

          and ive never dealt with radioactivity thank fuck

          the chinese workin with it sounds like a disaster waitin to happen hopefully the management takes safety culture seriously there

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          • olderdude-xx

            To clarify: Plate HX's have a place. So to do Tubed HX' (and spiral tubes, etc., and even direct injection where you mix the fluids).

            When building a new plant where you can specify adequate pre-filters plate HX's win out more often than tubed HX's except for condensation service and certain hazardous chemical environments. These modern plants almost always have closed cooling water systems where only 1 set of HX's are exposed to the base cooling water for the plant.

            However, when dealing with an existing plant that was built with tubed heat exchangers it is often more economical to replace a HX with a tubed HX in a number of applications than change to a plate HX. Especially if they have raw surface water cooling piped all over the plant.

            Tubed heat exchanger materials have evolved to where retubing or bundle replacement was a fairly routine activity (every 5-15 years) to now a rare activity (every 30 years too life of the plant: Admiralty Brass and plain copper has rarely had long life).

            Designing HX's that do not have noticeable galvanic corrosion issues within themselves or on the adjacent piping for 40+ years is not simple: The old classic tube/tubesheet/baffle/shell alloys that worked for 100 years and did not cause galvanic corrosion to the adjacent piping are now rarely used. SS, the superferritic SS's, Titanium can cause the adjacent piping to have galvanic corrosion if not done right (especially if connected to carbon steel piping).

            All HX materials are subject to other degradation factors other than chemical attack and may need NDE inspections for critical or hazardous applications to minimize to the lowest number possibility of leaks. In those cases tubed HX's often win out over plate HXs.

            I wish you the best...

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          • olderdude-xx

            Galvanic corrsion is not just a problem with titanium. Even high alloy SS used to retube HX's with muntz tubesheets develop galvanic corrosion of the tubesheets after 20 years that threaten the life of the HX (and its the tubesheets that go bad).

            Same with SS tube retubes of brass or CuNi tubed condensers with steel tube-sheets.

            Getting the right metals to prevent galvanic or using other methods to control it is a huge deal for long life HXs. Titanium is far worse than other alloys - and you really have to be careful (AL6XN, SeaCure, and other super ferritics are also an issue - and I have a lot of experience using them -and desiging appropriate tubesheet, baffle, and shell materials to set down things in small enough increments to not have galvanic corrosion issues within the HX and in the attached piping system.

            You cannot install sacrificial anodes on a tube-sheet to protect it or the tubes. There have been attempts to use impressed current - and if that is set wrong it destroys the tubes or the tube-sheet (as many plants can attest)

            Plate HX's are fine on closed loop cooling systems. But raw water cooled heat exchangers often cannot be adequately filtered at a reasonable cost. It's quite common to have duplicate HXs and just clean the HX as the most cost effective way (you open them up and run brushes, scrapers, or hydrolance down the tubes).

            We did retrofit large self cleaning rotary baskets on one set of raw water HXs for the bulk fouling that occasionally occured; and then found that at least once a year that even those plugged up and the bypass opened during major fouling events; and we had to clean the HXs anyway. When we replaced the HX's we removed those strainers as they were not helping much (and the new HX was designed to handle a lot of fouling).

            Even a lot of normal industrial and power plants NDE heat exchangers to locate degraded tubes and shells. Its a lot cheaper to preventively plug and repair shells than wait for the failure.

            Where there are hazardous chemicals or safety critical applications... more NDE is done, and done more often. Leaks can be very costly.

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