As a scientist I have an innate desire to want to use metric measurements. But as an someone born in America I also have a desire to use obscure measurements no other sane person in the civilized world would ever consider using.

As such I have decided that from now on I will use femtoparsecs and attoparsecs for all measurements of length.

I am 57.6 attoparsecs tall

My jeep gets 344 femtoparsecs to the liter

@freemo
I think metric is the clear winner in scientific areas where you have to switch between scales at least a half dozen orders of magnitude apart.

But in engineering, Metric has no clear replacement for:
* Pounds per square inch
* Foot-pounds (torque)
* Foot-pounds (work)

These are intuitive to anyone who knows inch, foot, and pound.

Pascals and Joules are obviously not intuitive, and neither are Newton-meters because meter-long wrenches are exceedingly rare.

@freemo
What's more PSI, ft/lb (torque) are surprisingly well suited to things which a mechanic or machinist encounters in their day-to-day:

* Shop (compressed) air is typically around 100-120 PSI
* Car tires are inflated to about 30 PSI
* Most bolts are torqued to between 10 and 100 ft/lbs
* Natural gas at the main is typically around 10 PSI
* Propane tanks are between 100 and 200 PSI

Metric system = top-down design

Imperial system = bottom-up evolution