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Although fiction set in the present-day United States tends to use imperial units, fiction set in the future is more likely to instead use the metric system. This may be because it makes things seem more futuristic: scientists use SI units (the current and modern incarnation of the metric system), the United States itself uses indirectly the metric system (American customary units are defined by the NIST in terms of metric units), and most other countries, except Myanmar and Liberia, officially use the metric system.note Although it just means Myanmar's and Liberia's governments aren't actively making effort to switch to metric; both countries do use metric a lot. As it is, the U.S. military uses it if only to stay in sync with its allies. While futuristic science fiction embraces this trope, futuristic fantasy often averts it: imperial measurements seem more appropriate for a non-scientific milieu. The metric system is, at least for scientific applications, more useful than the imperial system — most, if not all scientific data is presented in metric units, which are the scientific standard, and they are mathematically easier to work with — there are exactly 1,000 meters in a kilometer, and exactly 1,000 millimeters in a meter. Thus, it's not surprising that the United States actually does use the metric system already, in military, scientific, and engineering endeavors, as well as in medicine, pharmaceuticals, and nutritional information. (For example, soft drinks commonly come in 2- or 3-liter bottles.) In fact, the United States' measurementsnote (not Imperial — that would be British, and there are differences, e.g. 1 Imperial gallon equals 1.20095 U.S. liquid gallons) are defined in metric units in relevant legislation. Further details can be found on That Other Wiki. Overlaps with Unit Confusion. |
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Older versions of RuneQuest used metric for measurements. | |
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Honor Harrington is thoroughly metric (even the Deep South of Grayson), to the point that Honor, while reading Oliver Twist in her spare time, wondered what those "inches" and "pounds" mean and how much would it be. Subverted when the Grayson pastime of baseball is introduced in the books. Despite using metric for everything else, the Graysons stubbornly insist on using American measurements for baseball, because if they attempted to use metric, they'd either end up with crufty measurements (keeping the field the right dimensions) or end up with a field that was slightly off in distances. They refuse to update the game to include modern measurements because baseball is Serious Business. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Bart's Friend Falls in Love", Troy McClure mentions starring in an educational film dating from the early 1970s titled "Here Comes the Metric System!". Also played with in "Homer the Great", in which the Stonecutters (Freemasons parodies) sing a song about all their deeds, which includes keeping the metric system down. Parodied again in "On a Clear Day, I Can't See My Sister": |
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Afterlife Blues. "You didn't recognize the Hero of Athens when you were two meters away from her?" | |
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The X-Universe series measures almost everything in metric. The only aversion is in time, for which the game uses Teladi-derived Standard Time Units (and as of X3: Terran Conflict, this has been scrapped for player convenience). | |
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Fred Saberhagen's Empire of the East and Book of Swords series both use this trope to the fullest. The former was written in the 1970s, when the whole USA was going to convert over to metric any day now, and since the books are set 50,000 years in the future, it made sense at the time. Now it just seems a little quaint. | |
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Freefall often has the characters using metric units with the Imperial equivalents in footnotes. | |
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In one chapter of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress one of the nuts in the Lunar Congress suggests instituting a new system of measurements based on the lunar cycle. Manny thinks that's just making things overcomplicated, and comments that his ancestors must have felt similarly when they had to switch to the metric system. But that was different because they were trying to make things easier, those old Imperial units are so confusing. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: For the most part, the series uses metric in keeping with Star Wars custom. There are, however, two occasions — in episodes "Jedi Crash" and "The Deserter" — when Imperial measurements are used for no discernable reason other than "this show was made by Americans". | |
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The (essentially) culturally American society shown in Schlock Mercenary uses the metric system, even among civilians... but every now and then the (American) author forgets himself. | |
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Star Wars d20: The third edition uses meters when literally all other games based on the d20 System are based on the imperial system. | |
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Subject of an absolutely hilarious bit in an episode of Archer, about how much cocaine they have left. | |
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Halo. Mostly brought up in its Expanded Universe. Whenever a waypoint is placed on your HUD, it always measures distance in either metres or kilometres.note Except, strangely enough, the PC version of Halo: Combat Evolved, which uses feet and miles. |
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The Day After Tomorrow, about a fast-acting new Ice Age, has all its temperatures quoted in Fahrenheit, even by scientists and academics outside the United States, who could be expected to have got with the programme and to use Celsius. Unless the Scottish scientists were hospitably making allowances for America being a little bit behind the times... | |
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Within the Mass Effect franchise, all measurements are given in metric. The series was made in Canada, so this is not a surprise. | |
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Avatar, naturally. ("Klick" is military slang for kilometer, in case you were wondering.) Also normal person slang in Canada. | |
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Traveller, starting with the 1981 second edition, in which the change to metric was by far the largest change from the original 1977 edition. | |
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Champions. As of 6th Edition, all distances are in meters or kilometers. (Previous editions used "inches" as a unit of distance and "hexes" as a unit of area; these were game scale units, both of which were two meters across.) | |
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Although not science fiction, Teen Titans (2003) always uses metric units, even in casual dialogue. It's an interesting choice for an American kids cartoon. Considering it is meant to look like an anime from Japan however, metric might be used since Japan does use the metric system. | |
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BattleTech: All measurements have always been done using the metric system- this is most noticeable with ranges and speeds are given in meters and kilometers per hour and mass done in kilograms and metric tons. | |
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Foundation Series: Galactic civilization still uses metric units, as well as the modern clock, but has no record of how they were originally derived, nor of Earth in general, in a severe case of Future Imperfect. In post-trilogy books, the (correct) suspicion that these units related to the physical and orbital characteristics of humanity's origin world allows them to be used as clues towards locating Earth. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series and its movies were known for using both the metric and imperial systems, sometimes in the same sentence, in a faintly baffling manner... much like the modern scientific community and US military. The novelization for Star Trek IV featured Scotty having to mentally translate from metric to US customary when talking to the factory owner. | |
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Despite the occasional request from modders looking to reenact the Apollo program in as much detail as possible, Kerbal Space Program uses metric for in-game measurements of distance, speed, temperature, mass, and thrust. Resources like electric charge and fuel, on the other hand, are labeled in arbitrary unnamed units… though even those are loosely based on metric measurements. | |
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Escape from Terra, in addition the Martian calendar and system of time measurement is decimalized (1 Martian day = 100 centimes). | |
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The numbers on the clocks in Metropolis only go up to 10, implying decimalized time. | |
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The expected switch to metric provided a lot of fodder for the Peanuts strip during this time, as seen here◊. The 1973 TV special There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown has a Hilarious in Hindsight moment when Peppermint Patty says that, "We're going to have to learn the metric system, Franklin. By the time we grow up, the metric system will probably be official." | |
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There's a curious semi-inversion in the short-lived series of English translations of the Perry Rhodan novels. Because the originals are in German distances are given in metric, but translator Wendayne Ackerman consistently renders meters into yards — not even bothering to multiply by three to get feet. | |
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Used as a joke in Zenon: Girl Of The Twenty First Century. Zenon is from a space station, but when she arrives on Earth, she explodes a test tube because she was thinking in Celsius when all the instructions were in Fahrenheit. This seems to indicate a reversal, though, as these days, physics and chemistry classes in American schools use SI units. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 novels use metric (but the game mechanics use imperial). | |
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Shadowrun and Cyberpunk 2020 both used meters for ranges and kilograms for encumbrance purposes. | |
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Doctor Who: In the first episode, "An Unearthly Child", the title character, Susan Foreman, doesn't know how many shillings there are in a pound: A good guess on the part of the programme's producers, as the UK would indeed decimalize its currency eight years later. It was not, however, all that psychic, as decimalization was already being seriously discussed, and it was fairly obvious it would eventually be adopted. The show often (but not always) uses metric units that are not used in contemporary Britain in its futuristic stories, such as kilometers, even though it almost always sticks to miles for stories set in contemporary Britain. Examples of futuristic stories that use kilometers include "The Moonbase", "Colony in Space", "The Horns of Nimon" and "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship". |
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In The Legend of Total Drama Island, the Storyteller is Canadian and so mainly uses metric units of measure. The few in-story references to imperial units appear in dialogue, as opposed to narrative. | |
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Also averted in Car Wars. Miles, feet, and pounds abound in Autoduel America. | |
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Safehold: The thinking behind this trope may have been why Langhorne and Bédard revived the old Imperial system of measurements to prevent the colony from breaking out of its Medieval Stasis. And then, for good measure, they tossed out Arabic numerals and reverted to Roman numerals to hinder the rise of advanced mathematics as well. | |
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Uglies uses this, to the extent that another system of measurement isn't even mentioned. | |
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F-Zero and WipEout measure (ridiculously high) speed in kilometers per hour. | |
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In Technobabylon, a 2087 news article mentions that the European Federation has converted to decimal time, divide a day into 10 hours, an hour into 100 minutes, and a minute into 100 seconds. Obviously, not everyone is a fan, and other nations have no intention of moving away from the traditional 24-hour clock. | |
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Inverted in Steve Jackson Games' GURPS, which — despite the "Generic Universal" part of its name — has firmly stuck with the imperial system for the past twenty years, even when offering a licensed conversion of the Traveller system. Apparently so much of the player base is American that they can't afford to switch to metric because, like many small RPG makers, SJGames is a margin business. (The Basic Set book does have a metric conversion table near the front.) | |
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Like the rest of its parent franchise, the Serenity RPG averts the trope, and more overtly than its predecessors. Speed is given in feet and miles, and warheads are measured in pounds, to name a few examples. | |
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While Mobile Suit Gundam and its numerous spin-offs list all the Humongous Mecha specifications in metric units, it doesn't really qualify for this trope because the series is made in Japan, where the metric system is widely used. However, the fact that few (if any) American translations bother to convert them is probably due to this trope. All documents stating the sizes of Mobile Suits actually measures the machines in both meters and feet. And they're converted correctly! The problem, however, is their given weight would require them to be made of something lighter than styrofoam... |
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Quantum Vibe: The metric system is still used 900 years in the future, though at least one isolated planet with a totalitarian government has its' own system of measurement. | |
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On Babylon 5, the eponymous station is consistently described as "five miles long". This is, however, the only measurement on the show that does not use the metric system. | |
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Civil Protection implies that Earth's gone metric post-Combine-takeover when Mike gives directions in "Shadow of a Doubt": | |
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Star's Reach Trey and other characters measure distances in "senamees", "meedas", and "kloms". The usual implications of this trope aren't present, however; 25th-century Meriga isn't a bastion of technological progress, but rather a place where "progress", as we think of it, is over forever. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the follow-on series Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, consistently use the metric system, to the point of changing the scriptwriter's wording if necessary. This caused a scientific error at least once: During the production of the ST:TNG episode "The Royale", they "converted" a temperature to Celsius (presumably to make it more "futurey") by simply swapping the unit names. The original temperature was -291 °F (-179.4 °C), but the lowest possible temperature (absolute zero) is -273.15 °C... whoops. The only time anyone on Voyager uses American units is when they're brainwashed to think they're characters in a World War II holoprogram. Chakotay is an American officer, who calls for an artillery strike using yards instead of meters. When the Voyager ends up in The '90s, Paris and Kim befriend a female astronomer. During a car chase, Paris is aiming with his phase and tells the astronomer to give him "one more meter", possibly confusing her. Then again, as a scientist, she's probably familiar with the metric system. |
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