A comparison of the American writer Josh Basel in the novel "Wild creature" of the metric system with the English: "One milliliter of water takes one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and if we spend one calorie of heat, we heat it by one degree - that is, a hundredth of the difference between the temperature of boiling and the temperature of freezing. Now try to calculate the energy needed to boil a gallon of room temperature water. The only possible answer is, “Go to hell.”