hey guys welcome back to the channel today we're gonna be checking out a video titled the metric
system explained for Americans uh I've said this before uh the metric system I'm not a hater uh
I think it's a valid system obviously and um I've had my fair share of uh you know situations where
I'm trying to convert you know to the metric and um you know it's it's it's a little bit difficult
I'm not really big on the conversion I think um you know you got to just stick to one of them and
um people said the metric is actually better than Imperial um I know that majority of people think
that so um we're actually going to be checking out this video right now and um let's see uh what
is going to be explained and uh maybe I I get a little better understanding you know what I mean
and um let's see what this video has for us and uh without further Ado guys let's go right into
this video the scientific community and the whole world except for America are certain that the
metric system is better than the freedom system also known as Imperial in the book Wild Thing by
Jos basil wait what the scientific community and the whole world except for America are
certain that the metric system is better than the freedom system also known as Imperial in the book
Wild Thing by Jos bazel he writes in metric one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter
weighs one gram and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree Centigrade
the imperial system on the other hand was invented by a drunk a quarter is about one inch a man's
shoe is about one foot a guitar is about one yard a Runway at a large airport is about one mile
yeah that seems reasonable and the conversions are even worse one mile is 1760 yards one yard
is 36 inches or three feet one foot you know flat out based on this conversion alone uh
metric system wins because I know you guys go by like 10 times 10 if I'm not mistaken so like uh
millimeters uh one 10 millimeters equals one centimeter and then it goes to a hundred so it
goes 10 and then 10 times 10 and then whatever the other thing is I think it is times 10 Again am I
getting a little bit of memory because I actually knew the metric system very well because I had to
study how to make houses and all that type stuff I had to know both measurements so um yeah I think I
might be getting it back I hope so it's 12 inches oh you want to convert from smaller units to
bigger ones no problem one inch is one twelfth of a foot one foot is one third of a yard one yard is
one divided by the Subscribe button it's not that hard guys go on like what a 2799 yards in miles
isn't hard but what are 2799 meters in kilometers I mean the metric system is so bad that you oh
meter that's meter so if it's going to kilometers it's it's supposed to be less
right so if it's 2799 meters to kilometers kilometers would be the thousand I'm gonna say uh
2.7 9 I know I hope oh right you're just at a point it's 2.799 2.799 yeah
yeah thank you Americans that hate on the metric system even though it's without question superior
to the imperial system doesn't realize that Americans also use a ton of metric measurements
oh yeah megapixels kilotons and megatrons when it comes to TNT the nutritional first
of all it's just choosy it's just choosy you know like you're just being choosy like okay
straight up a lot of Americans use metric day and night you just you just don't talk about
it but it is there it's literally there right it's just not official but it's there however
what I will say is I just don't understand why would you hate on the metric system
um I don't even get it like I I think humans have a really big issue when it comes to just accepting
defeat or you know that okay that's actually a better thing than this one like humans are so
screwed mentally bruh food labels with grams or milligrams asymmetric values or the millimeter
you use for the kill of your Firearms big fat that's right your guns are tainted with Europe
now with that out of the way let's look at how the metric system works more specifically we'll
talk about the coherent International System of Units or SI system for short
there are seven base quantities in the SI system time length mass electric current thermodynamic
temperature amount of substance and luminous intensity the first three are the most important
ones for our everyday life measurements each of those quantities gets a basic unit
time is measured in seconds length is measured in meters Mass is measured in kilograms because
someone thought grams aren't as lit current is measured in amperes the amount of substance is
measured in moles and the brightness is measured in Candida the temperatures measured in kelvin
scream why not Celsius and here true Celsius is widely used in our everyday life but Kelvin is
used in science especially physics more often but they are practically the same system anyway and
we'll get to that you can combine those base units to make way fancier units like the unit of force
and Newton or the units electrical capacitance the ferret but what can we do if our units get too big
or too small and we don't want to write out two long numbers introducing prefixes those are one
of the biggest reasons why the metric system is so much better than the Imperial I can't stress
enough how awesome they are seriously you just write something in front of a unit and it changes
the number however you want to if your number is too big try scaling it down using the prefixed
Terror you can even do it with the fancy new units like the Newtons the pre-pick system isn't hard to
learn the basis that moves in steps a thousands except there are some extra at the beginning
going up we have the base with no prefix 10 times larger than this is DECA ten times larger than
this is Hector 10 times larger than this is kilo a thousand times larger than this is Mega a thousand
times larger than this is giga a thousand times larger than this as Terror and so on all the way
up to the newly added Runner and queta listen the max iron I've known was Terror the the the the P
in Arab I recognize some of those holiday fixes from kilometers kilometer Giga and terabytes or
something else entirely going down we have the base with no prefix 10 times smaller than this
is Stacy 10 times smaller than this is the centi nine times smaller than this is Millie
yeah a thousand times yeah and then this is Mike the smallest smallest I know is the Nano
man I ain't no no p quick though wow that's really that's that's really solid I'm not gonna hold you
man like that's really solid because that's making work really easy and let's be honest let's be
honest if you know anything about physics or um important math I'm not talking about day-to-day
math I'm talking about my important math meaning that math that it has to be so freaking precise
right not accurate but precise right um that guess what if you have 0.000 one it's different
from 0.001 if I said the same thing I'm sorry but the whole point is adding an extra zero can make a
measurement off by a lot when you're talking about some important details if you know what I mean a
thousand times smaller than this is nano and so on all the way down to the fresh new prefixes Bronto
and quechto for example one crack two meter is about the length of my whoa why did we cut
at this point again for example the shortest possible distance the plank length is about
0.000016 quick to meters you might recognize some of these prefixes
from centi and millimeters deciliters non-tech or something else entirely
this makes conversions between units incredibly simple you just add zeros
or take them away in order to trade a unit it even works with different units that are
already raised to a power for example one cubic meter is one billion cubic millimeters
and obviously we care about water a lot so one cubic decimeter is one liter of water or one
liter in general and one liter of water weighs one kilogram it also means that you can estimate the
volume of a human pretty quickly by knowing their weight every humans weighs 60 kilograms about the
normal weight the person has a volume of about 60 cubic decimeters since humans are mostly made out
of water so the density of a human is roughly the density of water right you can't make sense
actually like this in the imperial system no you can now let's talk about temperature oh boy under
normal pressure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius and Rises at 0 degrees Celsius right initially it
was the other way around but after the guy who invented the system died we just flipped
it around because we liked it better that it gets hot when the number Rises the absolute
zero the coldest temperature that can never be reached is negative 273.15 degrees Celsius
Kevin thought that it would be better to have the absolute zero as the value zero so we set
up a new scale with the same distance between steps to the Celsius scale just with a different
starting point to get from Celsius to Kelvin you just add 273.15 and the other way around
you just subtract it fairly simple now look at the calculation to get from Fahrenheit to Celsius
it's other chaos the fahrenheit system is the odd one out and not really used in science at all
except to communicate temperatures to the American public it's true really I'm not I'm not gonna hold
you it's not why is Siri popping out it's not a lie it it may it may hurt Americans it may hurt
people's feelings to think that's something that you idolize is so useless in a lot of places but
it really isn't all that the the metric system is literally flat out better and obviously the metric
system came along after obviously it's going to be better so come on think about it in science
this was a short explanation about the basis of the metric system I hope you enjoyed the
video and that you were switching to metric Zoom now it was solid switching to metric
I don't even know if I'm switching to nothing because um aren't we already using metric like
be real I think we're already using metric like things that I think it's not necessary to change
um you know metric to from Imperial to metric or things like gas you know um you don't need that
gallon leader it's not really necessary because you know you're living in a specific Place uses
gallons you that one loses leader it's not a big deal however um when it comes to talking the big
talks metric definitely gets that so um yeah let me know what you guys think about this in the
comment section down below thank you for watching and I'm out of here guys on to next time peace