A fine illustration on the history of defining a meter:
Have a look here. (via)
On top of the fact that there are only three countries that only use the Imperial System, many more countries use metric and imperial side by side making it rather confusing. United Kingsom of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland being one [...]
This is my response to EU’s recent decision not to enforce the metric system.
History has stopped. Today is like tomorrow. This is truly a sad day.
Kristian
PS. Read Imperial Rant 1, if you haven’t already.
Coming from Finland, I’ve been very fortunate of being privileged to live first 21 years of my life in a fully metric environment. Excluding the odd situation when buying a screen or a TV. (Must be noted that some places in Germany sell even screen in metrics.)
The beauty of metric system is in the way [...]