DBWI: The USA didn't adopt the Metric system

The United States currently predominantly uses the Metric system, but this wasn't always the case. What if the USA kept on using customary/imperial units?
 
Trouble with international scientific collaborations, to be sure, since they are operating out of two different systems.
 
Who on earth would use imperial measurements in this day and age? 1764 yards to a mile isn't a system of measurement - it's a trivia question.

Never mind that the US opted for metric out of hostility to Britain.
 
President Jefferson not requiring the War & Navy Depts to use metrics, & not requiring other Federal agencies to convert. Plus having the Louisiana Purchase surveyed and mapped in metric?

There was resistance to conversion & other more definative legislation, but by 1860 the US was 90 percent converted.
 

Driftless

Donor
Just think of all of those US businesses and homeowners with two complete sets of expensive (sized) wrenches! That would a been a hell of a lot of money invested for no logical reason. On that note, compare the common usage (and loss replacement) of 10mm-14mm wrenches and sockets. You'd need to also purchase obscure counterparts, like: 7/16" and 9/16".
 
We get to the Moon later than 1962. We certainly won't have the historic first Mars landing in 1987,nor the Merkur 6 first manned Mercury landing last winter. In OTL,space tourism began in 1981,here it would still be pretty distant. Maybe a few rich people would've gotten into it. Certainly no famous 6/29-Bon Jovi from Mir 2 concert in 1995. :)
 

FBKampfer

Banned
We get to the Moon later than 1962. We certainly won't have the historic first Mars landing in 1987,nor the Merkur 6 first manned Mercury landing last winter. In OTL,space tourism began in 1981,here it would still be pretty distant. Maybe a few rich people would've gotten into it. Certainly no famous 6/29-Bon Jovi from Mir 2 concert in 1995. :)


Ooc: that seems pretty ASB. Maybe better save it for a space science wank.

I mean really, it's kind of just a physics problem, rather than nobody trying/not working together.
 
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