Why do Americans do everything differently than we do?
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The Minecraft course from GeekSchool for your kids - Feet, inches, gallons, miles - why do the US still use these units of measurement? After all, the convenient metric system has long existed, which is used by almost the entire rest of the world! In this issue, we will figure out why the meter, kilogram and liter are exactly like this? How did the pirates of the Caribbean steal the metric system from the US, what is a leap second, decimal time, and what units of measurement do aliens use? Timestamps 0:00 Gimli's Glider 0:47 Introduction 2:14 Our Non-Metric Units 4:10 Coding in Minecraft 5:43 It's Story Time 6:06 History of the Metric System 8:53 All Other Units 9:25 Decimal Time 10:17 Leap Second 11:55 The Metric System and the US 14:00 Non-Metric Accidents 15:11 When Will the US Switch to the Metric System? 16:06 Units of measurement for galactic communication 18:29 Conclusion I'm on VK: https://vk.com/pobedos I'm on Instagram: / pobedinskiy Useful links: Unusual units of measurement: http://muzey-factov.ru/tag/measurements The birth of the meter (ENG): https://www.maa.org/sites/default/fil... The history of the adoption of the metric standard (ENG): https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0412078... Why the US does not switch to the metric system: https://hi-news.ru/eto-interesno/fakt... The metric system and NASA: https://www.popmech.ru/technologies/9... Incidents due to the non-metric system (everything is checked, everything is true): https://pikabu.ru/story/pyat_seryozny... The 21 cm hydrogen line: http://www.astronet.ru/db/msg/1188602 Producer - Igor Barkalov / barcalovigor Art-director - Vladimir Silkin https://www.behance.net/vsilkin Motion-design: Alexander Udalov http://vimeo.com/alexanderudalov Sound-design https://www.epicroom.ru/
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