Let's make some more reactionary, xenophobic heads explode: WH Petition for the Metric System

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12. What's interesting is that we already use the metric system

and don't seem to notice. For example:

2-liter drink bottles
Medicine in milligrams
Electricity in kilowatts
Computer drive capacity in gigabytes, and speed in gigahertz
Mechanical parts as for cars and other machinery
Money (all base-10)

There are probably other examples, but that's all I'm remembering.

At the same time, there would be professions and industries that would either be slow to convert or not at all:

Any industrial plant would be stupid to rebuild their operations just to adhere to the metric system, and replacing parts with metric pieces won't work, either. New plants could be designed around the metric system and replace whole systems where feasible.

Land surveyors and land professionals (think of those handling deeds) would be able to convert all those boundaries, but likely only at the request of the land-owners. Otherwise, all those documents will remain in standard measurements.

The key to making the metric system work or not is on just one word: Acceptance.

In other words, don't convert to the metric system in your everyday life. Rather, throw out the old and accept the new. Were people ever converting those two-liter drink bottle volumes in their thoughts to "2-qts, 7.25 oz"?