Need to condense knowledge
By vanny
@vandana7 (99048)
India
August 26, 2016 12:17pm CST
Seriously...sometimes its kgs, at other times, pounds
Sometimes it is ounces, and at other times grams.
Then there is Fahrenheit and centigrade and celsius
You keep wondering why three ways for them all
The only thing standard is minute hour and second. We talk uniformly there, don't we?
So why not FPS and CGS systems be condensed down...into one, and so also the heat measurement.
It will reduce unnecessary studies for sure...how to convert celsius into fahrehnheit, or how to convert meters into yards..SMH. Is that really necessary?
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@moffittjc (118691)
• Gainesville, Florida
26 Aug 16
Isn't the United States one of the few holdouts in converting everything over to the metric system like the rest of the world uses? We're the dumb ones here, everybody else has converted and uses the same system!
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@CinnamonGrl (7083)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
26 Aug 16
Some of the countries, like my own lol, are stubborn. It takes work and time to change already established systems. Nobody is willing to commit to that. Makes you wish though that people all over the world had been able to consolidate this stuff in the first place. Seems so silly to me, too.
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@vandana7 (99048)
• India
27 Aug 16
@charlie09 .. I meant inbuilt...integrated within android..kinda
@vandana7 (99048)
• India
27 Aug 16
@charlie09 .. No...not really...I said so because again learning new apps would be again you know each app is different..but calculators are same in all phones kinda..lol
@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
26 Aug 16
ISO is international standard... or is it OSI? 
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I think ISO is the English abbreviation, OSI is the French.
Perhaps we should standardize language as well as units of measurement...?
@silvermist (19702)
• India
27 Aug 16
@vandana7 Have you a suggestion as to how they are to be condensed?
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@vandana7 (99048)
• India
27 Aug 16
Yeah.. International standards Organization...youngest person working there writes three chits...in one it is Fahrehheit, in another Celsius, and in third one Centigrade.
Then the oldest person in ISO is blindfolded and asked to pick one of the three chits. That format becomes International standard.
All books to be changed, all net content to be changed accordingly. In schools too. As to those who are beyond college, they may continue to use the method expected of them, till it no longer works. The cell phones to have mandatory add that converts ISO units for heat into the desired units...
Roughly...
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@vandana7 (99048)
• India
28 Aug 16
@silvermist .. Well, it is fair chance..there is no national pride linked to those measures right?
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
28 Aug 16
@vandana7 It all sounds so simple when you put it like that.And do you think every one will agree to deciding this by lot? But then,it is just a rough idea.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
26 Aug 16
I like it the way it is for our country - I'm too old to figure out how everyone else does it.
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@hostessman (11871)
• Tucson, Arizona
27 Aug 16
as long as we are from all over the world nothing is going to be standard except for minutes and hours..
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@Mike197602 (15487)
• United Kingdom
26 Aug 16
It's a big mess in the UK as we used a mixture of imperial and metric.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
27 Aug 16
You are right.I find the F measures strange but now I use the convertor and then find the hot day isn't that hot by Indian standards.
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
27 Aug 16
same with languages - and railway guages, and electrical ampages that mean we need adapters and converters in different hotels or countries
