# The Metric System

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**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [March 24, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-metric-system/188804 "2007-03-24T16:12:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-metric-system/188804/23 "2007-03-28T17:24:39Z")

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> [@Ticket Cost](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ticket-cost/29035/20):
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> We’ve come too far using standard measure to change now.

Look at England. Or India.

It can be done. Easily.

I’m an American who hasn’t been taught anything Metric since middle school. I know that I weigh about 100 kilos, I’m a little under two meters tall, the speed limit is roughly 100 kph, and I’ve been buying soda in liter bottles my entire life. If we’re “the greatest country on earth”, SURELY we have the mental capacity to understand the metric system.

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