Arguments Against The Metric System

Almost everyone has heard of the metric system. Many countries have completely switched over to using the metric system. America is not one of these countries. The question is: should America switch? The rest of the world uses it, so why not America? It seems to make more sense than the current system. However, there are costs in converting. Lots of money will be spent by companies trying to switch everything over. Also, is the metric system actually sensible to use? The answer is yes, and America should use the metric system.
There is a multitude of evidence against the metric system. Books have even been written about how wrong it is. The author of one such book, Marciano, asks people if the metric system is actually easier to use. He explained that “in nature we don’t think about dividing things by 10, do we? We think of halves and feet and thirds.” He also mentioned the origin of the acre, which is how much land the average farmer could plow in a day. Another thing that his said is “we are really losing something with metric.” If we were to lose our current standard units and switch to metric, then we are giving up something that has shaped our lives for years.
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According to NASA, it would require $370 million to convert to metric. However, as said by Zack Guzman, in an article on CNBC, “not converting has costs of its own.” NASA lost a Mars orbiter that was worth one hundred twenty-five million dollars due to confusion between units. The orbiter had been traveling for 10 months, and when it finally reached its destination, it passed too close to Mars’s atmosphere and was destroyed. There is a small change that it is still out there, but we have no way to contact it. The reason for its failure: half of the team used metric units, the other half used US standard units. While switching to the metric system will come with a cost, there is also a cost for not