It&#39;s Time For the US to Go MetricS  The US has a love affair
with imperial units: height in inches, milk in quarts, weight in
pounds. You name it, and it's measured in imperial. The only
problem? Imperial is dumb. So let's cast of those shackles and
join the rest of the world by embracing units that make sense.
Let's go metric, once and for all.  The US is one of the few
countries left in the world which is yet to convert to metric,
and this petition is lobbying the nation's lawmakers to change
that. It was created on December 31st and is yet to gain much
traction—so it needs your help to give it a push. Why make the
move? A (metric) ton of reasons.  Imperial is archaic and
irrelevant  Let's take a step back. Imperial measurements have
roots which can be traced back—sketchily—though Egyptian and
Persian history, though the first occurrence of a measure we all
know can be found written out in the Magna Carta, signed in
1215, that reads:  "There shall be one measure of wine
throughout our whole realm, and o