So Tucker was traumatized somewhere in his schooling by failing to understand metric conversions, or perhaps the use of base 10?
So after holding back all these years he uses his platform to strike back! The Tucker Strikes Back will never be entertaining, made into a movie, or have any worth save for grand mocking.
Nah, they are just converting to mm, nobody ever sat down and said âI want to make 7.62 mm caliber gunâ.
Carlson: âTheyâll get my yardstick when they pry my cold, dead fingers off the 3 3/8â mark."
Only in the US, and interestingly not in the US military, which uses the NATO standard for everything except the .50 cal machine gun.
The M4 fires 5.56x45mm NATO standard ammo, our medium machine gun, the 240B fires 7.62x54mm, the Bradley fires 25mm, and the Abrams has a 120mm smoothbore cannon. Standard artillery caliber is 155mm.
Most new rifle ammunitions donât use caliber, they use the metric system, such as the 6.5 creedmore.
âDoctor, Mr. Carlson has gone into B-Fib!â
âGive me 10cc of gyclutine, stat!â
[removing oxygen mask] âDoc, no way⌠no⌠metric⌠in my body⌠Change it to AMERICAN! [cough]â
âUhhh⌠Ok, give me three and a quarter tablespoons of gyclutine, stat!â
âThatâs a lot doctor! Do you mean teaspoons?â
âYou could be right, nurse. Does anyone have a calculator that does conversions?â
âHeâs flatliningâŚâ
Another American, killedâŚ
*âŚby the tyranny of metric.
Thereâs so much that would be thrown into upheaval, so many thought patterns weâd have to change, that I doubt many of us would ever get used to them. No, no, Tuckerâs right on this.
Back in the 70âs some Georgians were having a fit when some highway signs had the speed limit in both the English and the Metric system KM.
This was an emerging issue then, âGoing metricâ. We even had courses on it in junior high science class.
Goobers freaked out thinking it was the âworld governmentâ and the UN taking over and proceeded to shoot up the signs with buckshot.
I think they came down afterwards.
When I would perform mechanical work on my 70âs- 80âs and 90âs American cars you could see that some fasteners, boots, nuts etc. were metric while others were standard.
See my previous reply to @tigersharktoo
Most new rifle ammunitions donât use caliber, they use the metric system, such as the 6.5 creedmore.
Like the .338 Lapua magnum ?
Literally everyone outside the US says that. My friend in Germany has the same M1A that I have and has never heard of .308 winchester⌠It shoot 7.62mm
I think Tucker is trying to be funny. It sounds like something Andy Rooney might have written on a slow day at the typewriter.
Whoops. Learn something new everyday here.
clauscph is being snarky.
I hope.
Too late.
Going Metric Pays Off
A common question is, What are the benefits of going metric? Following are reprints of some articles from Metric Today and other sources with experiences of some companies.
Although some of these stories are not new, they describe metric transitions that paid off. In most cases the short-term costs of metrication were offset by the longer-term benefits of using a single measurement system.
There is a long history in firearms, and some designs are really old, most if not all started out in inches, but we are used to convert (the 0.300 series is tricky, I think (Iâm not a gun onwer or gun nerd), some are more compatible than others, IIRC).
âworld governmentâ, âgoing metricâ. Iâm old enough to recall this horse shit. They still say that about the UN. It helped destroy the League of Nations, too. Ugh.
Decades ago, if you were in a college prep program, you learned metric.
And whatâs up with that âPiâ thing too. All those decimals are just elitist trying to make things seem more complicated than they are. The number 3 is good enough for me!
You meant the 8.6Ă70mm?
The metric system also has the advantage of giving the full cartridge size. .308 winchester and .30 carbine have the same bullet diameter, but they have to add nonsense numbers to the caliber rating to differentiate the cartridges. With the metric system, you donât have that issue.
The AK-47 fires 7.62x39 while the M1A fires 7.62x54. Same âcaliberâ round, different cartridge size.
In more relevant tyranny news, Madonna talks about Harvey Weinstein and an article about her in NYT that was written by a woman, but she though sucked because it followed male driven standards.
When I was in 6th grade and learned about the metric system in science class I was indignant that some dumb system was going to replace the American inches and pounds.
Iâve since changed my mind. I urge Carlson to rethink his attitude beyond the sensibilities of a 6th grader.
âglobal tyrannyâ AKA global standards so things work right and everyone saves time and money. But what can go wrongâŚ
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
âNASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the agencyâs team used the more conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operationâ
