Who enjoys converting miles to feet? Gallons to cups to tablespoons to teaspoons? Tons to pounds to ounces? Speaking of ounces, are you referring to volume or weight? When you say weight, do you really mean mass or weight? In the metric system grams is mass, newtons is force (weight being force due to gravity.)
The word cup can be confusing. Do you mean just a drinking container of an unspecified size, or do you mean 8 ounces?
At least the meter is based on the measurement of the Earth and not some random person's foot! Halfway around the Earth is 20 mega-meters. Even the British abandoned the British system for the French! Feet, miles are in-congruent. Who wants to memorize 5280 in a statute mile? Then you got your 6075 feet per nautical mile to pile onto that. There are 1000 millimeters in 1 meter, there are 1000 meters in 1 kilometer, very simple.
Sure app and search engines will convert, but when you got oil on your hands when cooking do you really want to play with an app on the phone to know how to convert tablespoons to teaspoons? (maybe ask a voice assistant, but if it's loud it probably won't understand you) With metric it's easy to deal with with conversions in your head. 1000ml in a liter, 1000g in a kg, for example. I don't want to remember how many cups in a gallon!
Also the entire Earth should go full metric, km/h isn't much better than mph. You still gotta deal with that unwieldy 3600 second value. Meters per second would be ideal. Say you're travelling at 10 meters/sec (22.3mph) and you have to travel 10 kilometers. Simply divide 10,000 by 10 = 1000 seconds (16.7 minutes). Say you were going 36km/h, how long will it take to travel 10 kilometers? Not readily apparent, gotta do something like 10/36 to get hours, then times that by 60 to get minutes. We should just get rid of hours and minutes and stick with seconds and kilo-seconds to make it even simpler, 86.4 kilo seconds per day.
Related links
http://kilosecond.info/
Related links
http://kilosecond.info/
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