Poll of the Day > KPH Spotted In The United States!!!

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Picture taken in Monrovia California:



Run for your lives!!!
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I've literally never seen it called KPH.

I don't think that's a thing, at all.
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I thought this was sort some of terrorist group before I saw the image.
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There's some here in Arizona too.

QUICK BUILD TEH WALL!!!
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Took forever to get that direct image link working…
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Joelypoely posted...

Ya, US measurements are screwed up, and we did not join the rest of the world in the 60 and 70s when they left the old measurement systems behind (just another thing the US is lagging behind in).

Though that chart is a bit off. Celsius is based off the freezing and boiling point of water, nothing more. Fahrenheit has a few conflicting stories on its origin, but they are all pretty silly (one based on recording the hottest and coldest days of the year to mark as 100 and 0, another states is was based on the freezing point of brine compared to the temperature of the human body).

Kelvin master race.

I still don't understand why the US hasn't switched yet.
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Veedrock- posted...

I've literally never seen it called KPH.

I don't think that's a thing, at all.

I have and I live in a country that uses kilometres

KPH and MPH

Signs all say km/hr though
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This is fantastic news. I've been waiting and hoping for this gradual change for a long time.

To add to the chart, I also wish we did 24 hours instead of two 12 hour increments. People get scared by the whole "oh six hundred hours" thing, but that's dumb, people would just say something like "14 o clock". This would lead to so much less confusion.
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faramir77 posted...

I still don't understand why the US hasn't switched yet.

because there's no reason to. our measurements are the best and actually make sense.
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AverageBoss posted...

Joelypoely posted...

Ya, US measurements are screwed up, and we did not join the rest of the world in the 60 and 70s when they left the old measurement systems behind (just another thing the US is lagging behind in).

Though that chart is a bit off. Celsius is based off the freezing and boiling point of water, nothing more. Fahrenheit has a few conflicting stories on its origin, but they are all pretty silly (one based on recording the hottest and coldest days of the year to mark as 100 and 0, another states is was based on the freezing point of brine compared to the temperature of the human body).

Kelvin master race.

We were too busy putting a man on the moon.

faramir77 posted...

I still don't understand why the US hasn't switched yet.

I think we tried in the 70's but it didn't catch on

avatarmight posted...

This is fantastic news. I've been waiting and hoping for this gradual change for a long time.

To add to the chart, I also wish we did 24 hours instead of two 12 hour increments. People get scared by the whole "oh six hundred hours" thing, but that's dumb, people would just say something like "14 o clock". This would lead to so much less confusion.

That's just a racket by the clock conglomerates to get everyone to buy clocks that go up to 14.
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avatarmight posted...

This is fantastic news. I've been waiting and hoping for this gradual change for a long time.

To add to the chart, I also wish we did 24 hours instead of two 12 hour increments. People get scared by the whole "oh six hundred hours" thing, but that's dumb, people would just say something like "14 o clock". This would lead to so much less confusion.

I'm still waiting for the world to recognize that timezones are BULLSHIT and just use one universal time... Because you know that obviously someone born at 1pm in Los Angeles is older than someone born at 2pm in Tokyo... Spoiler: He's not!

But alas, that change won't likely come until we actually colonize another planet and recognize that we need some point of reference to coordinate between them...
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