Originally posted by freelancefool
As soon as you asked that the answer 5280' popped into my head. Somethings may benefit using the metric system, but I have no use for it in my life right now. Aside from using metric wrenches on my car.

hehe cool :thumbsup

most people don't know that one off hand...

but yea for the average person it probably makes no difference but from a technological standpoint it poses a lot of problems. you'd be surprised how many engineering failures were due to improper units being used/assumed. it makes quite a difference when one person is thinking in lbs and the other in newtons... simple mistake on paper but massive structural failure and fatalities in the real world.

sadly the US is very unlikely to ever adopt the metric system like the rest of the world. you'd think americans would like hearing their weight in kilograms instead.. it's such a smaller number! :P