Shit, you are right about the tires. I feel kind of stupid now. I ask you now (because of my utter unitrests to start to google anything right now.) How you guys mark the tire sizes? Like we have something like 175/65/14. 175 mm wide, profile is 65% and 14 inch diameter.

Ratchets tough, never once given even a tough about the size. It was just what fit in what ever bullshit hole it needs to fit and hopefully gave enough leverage. Sockets are in mm and those were the ones I usually needed to worry about.

Robbins and Lawrence is familiar name from school, but never really given any tought about them, nor i dont think im going to realistically ever travel to Vermont(?)

Born and raised on a farm, fixing farm equipment, did work on a autoshop and later gig work as welder in larger refineries and paper mills. Got my CNC operator licences too.

Only times i have seen inches in use was when i was moonlighting at the saw mill. We talked about two by fours, but the saw was calibrated with mm (50×100mm/ so it was not even the close to inches). Oh and my friends shitty transam that had the assbackwards lug nuts and was a pain to find right kind of hoops for.

If you want rest of my life too, i decited at some point i dont want travel for work and went to a culinary school where i meadured everything in grams and dl (also met my wife there.) Decited the pay was not worth of the hours and studied programming, but job market kicked my ass. Went in to sales and later found a company where i was able to use my culinary, programming amd sales history and now i have 8to16 job and my own team.

Never seen a lathe that has not used mm. Even the old ones lathes and colum drills from the 50’s i have seen use mm. My home town does every august work shows with old machines like steam engines, tractors and locomotives and as far as i can remember even those have both mm and inches in the levers and knobs. I think the closest i have seen with the old machines using imperial are some cars with mph meters. (Favorite being old marshall tractor with shotgun starter, having very optimistic meter going up to 100 mph.)

So… whats going to happen now?

What does it matter? I could say any one of the +190 countries and the answer would be more or less the same.

Uh? Done. What happens now?

Easy.

Can you quickly calculate how many gallons of water receptacle with dimensions of 5 inch x 3 feet x 1 yard can hold? Extra points if you can also calculate how many pounds it weight when filled.

This is first time i have heard compelling and sensible argument for farenheit.

You clearly dont know enough about how pipeline to make good 3d effects goes.

You cant just toss enough money and time to make good CGI scene. The director needs to understand how the effects work and how design the scene with that in mind. There is huge amount of work to make sure the real parts in the scene work with the CGI parts. It needs just as much planning, story boarding and collaborations between the different groubs than any other special effect shot needs. The lighting needs to match, the eye lines of the actors need to match. Any time when there is contact between real things and 3d modeled things it needs to be planned shot by shot to make it work. Even full CGI scenes need to be planned how they stransit in to ot from the real footage.

If you think special effects are just high speed pursuits or stunt men doing wire work, you really are selling the whole VFX industry short.