[ScalyFreak]

Originally Posted by VydorScope

Context of the comment was discussing the American audience, I know reading is hard, but try to keep up with the thread

I know, I know... but the thread did expand into covering Australia and Europe at some point, didn't it?

And to address the comment about the scientific community, I think you'd probably find that they use the metric system only when talking to each other. When talking to people outside their little group, they still use imperial, since they want to be understood by the people they're talking to.

As an example, with my co-workers and computer-geek friends, I use the Celsius scale for talking about temperatures, particularly the temperatures of computer components while running under heavy load. When I talk to my mother-in-law about cooking or baking, we use Fahrenheit-speak, since if I told her to bake the salmon at 180C she'd have no idea what I was talking about.