“There is movement in the US to change the system ?”
Well in schools, teachers teach us to use metric rulers and metric scales for any class work that utilizes measurements (though like CC said, there’s conflict of interested between our metric and the international metric system). However, I’m not sure people will totally accept the idea of throwing away the old Imperial System (that us Americans have come to love) in favor of the metric. A change will occur, though not overnight. You’ll have to wait until those raised on the “old system” to die out first before you can completely replace it with that of the new.
“They use the metric system, for distance anyway… And it was a problem because one engineer use the Imperial system, and it cost a lot…”
I think that the engineer should be penalized accordingly. It’s just seems so strange for a NASA scientist (a ROCKET Scientist for cryin’ out loud!) not to use metric. What else can I say, besides, get with the program?
“America do not use the Metric system, and the UK too i think ( i am not sure )… i am sure it will endangers there sovereignty ”
(From what I heard) I don’t think UK still uses the old system any more, and if so, very sparingly. So is UK really that “Must isolate from Europe, let’s stick with America?” Besides, UK isn’t dumb, allying themselves with the world’s most powerful (notice I didn’t say greatest) country is a smart move. I’m sure America would do the same if suddenly another country (unless our interest are so different) were to grab the international spotlight (hint, hint China).