Why you’re still using Freedom Units instead of the Metric system: The original calculation of a gallon was based on kilograms (weight) (atmospheric /barometer pressure of mercury with distilled water.)
It was different geographically and with different liquids (the weight/mercurial pressure didn’t hold up with wine beer gasoline and water consistently) so they switched the measurement to container volume in 1985. This proves that a number of claimed American innovations prior to 1985 and allegedly reproduced “scientifically” elsewhere (“moon” and “space”) straight up would not work. While “close enough” for 19th/20th century technology and carbeurated engine designs.
They probably discovered the discrepancy while attempting to implement electronic fuel injection for 1990s cars.
Fuel consumption/burn calculations and a number of other non terrestrial designs would have been inconsistent on land in the USA, elsewhere, and in “space” before the 1985 redefinition. Thomas Jefferson brought this up and asked the French for sample materials that would have allowed metric adoption here in 1793. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that the English/Canadian traders benefited from this because they would have knowingly sold us goods that “weighed” less in their origin country, than they did here, for almost 200 years.
“common core math” just makes another generation dumber than shit and unable to figure out the discrepancy .
Here I’ll put this in terms todays kids can understand: pretend the UK was sending us cocaine instead of tea, and that someone over here figured out that a “kilo” only weighed 0.9k.
And the British taxed us on it by weight and volume for 200 years , LOL.
No wonder they threw the whole shipment overboard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weights_and_Measures_Acts_(UK)#Weights_and_Measures_Act_1985
This confirms that origin shipments from the UK measured out to more* “volume” in the United States prior to 1985. This is due to differences in atmospheric pressure because the earth is not a unifory sized marble.The UK fucked us on trade for 200 years. But nowhere near as much as NASA and CON-gress did:
A 9th grade dropout can give you a more accurate assessment of the earth’s shape and it’s toroidal , etheric atmosphere – without so much as a telescope, or even contact lenses , and two squiggly lines in ms Paint.
Show me what your super computers, “astronauts,” and “AI” ever came up with for trillions of dollars over sixty years.