Percentage of countries on the metric system that have put someone on the moon: 0
Percentage of countries on the imperial system that have put someone on the moon:
33
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You think NASA uses the imperial system?
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The Saturn V was designed in metric (Werner von Braun being German and all) and the measurements converted to imperial for construction.
Also you might want to look up how the inch, pound, etc. are defined 
I watch quite a few YouTube channels of American origin and the metric system is either used a lot or the metric equivalents are given: “50lbs or 23kg” type comments.
Note that in countries that have used the metric system for a long time, old, even ancient units are often used. I’ve heard “poid” (pound) being used in France for half a kilogramme for example.
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The imperial measurement system is very logical
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Very useful…if you never count beyond 12.
And lot’s of people don’t. But for those people, the the digital age will be a bit of a struggle so we help out by teaching them the decimal system.
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We use both…badly.
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Watch out. Much more “explosive” topic then imperial system vs. metric system. 
Oh the irony.
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kudo’s for this!!
sometimes it’s not country/location related, but some things are just better (in terms of universal understanding) in 1 system or the other…
over here (the netherlands) everything is metric, but MTB tires are still in inches… it would be just weird to get 57mm MTB tires. but for road tires it in mm.
Anyway cycling distances should be universal in km (even in the US you talk about a 40k TT and stuff like that), also running distances, 5k, 10k etc.
Checked a recent road ride, but Florida indeed seems to just as flat then the notorious flat Netherlands 
0.13 for this ride (75km, 100m)
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Can we have this table normalised by population size? 
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“WOW, the meme thread is lit up, let me have a look!”
“The metric system”
FIFY
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I’m now heading over to the “Stop sending speed data to Strava” thread to request my data gets sent using the Roman mile. The imperial system has been under stating my mph’s 
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Yeah, there’s a section in west central Florida with noticeable hills. People have even Everested on Sugarloaf. (I bet that was a painfully boring 135 laps. Athletes of the Week June 5 | Cape Gazette)
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Lost a contact…
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Percentage of countries that used the metric system to put a person on the moon… 100%
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That’s the highlight of the great Floridian triathlon.
It’s not horrible. But for most people who live in the flat areas is a pain in the butt. I have done it two times during a race. Second time I was surprised that it was not as hard as expected. There some other little hills in the area that are short but very steep.
I mean it’s not strictly true as we use the imperial system for driving/road speeds and so on in the UK. Most people will give their weight in stone and pounds (a stone being 14 lbs, I gather Americans don’t use stone), although I use kilos due to cycling w/kg…
I do all my outdoor sports (inc. cycling) in metric but driving is in miles… Speed limits miles per hour, road signs miles etc., so it’s the only easy option really. But fuel is sold in litres. OS maps (the maps you’d buy for hiking etc) use km grid squares.
On the plus side, I am pretty good at doing unit conversions in my head
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