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Good luck getting the US to ever change. I'm personally on the side that Fahrenheit is more useful for day-to-day usage, because it has a range calibrated to t
by douche 10y ago
Good luck getting the US to ever change. I'm personally on the side that Fahrenheit is more useful for day-to-day usage, because it has a range calibrated to the temperatures experienced in the part of the world I happen to live in. But it would take a whole generation to get people to change their frame of reference into Celsius, which isn't likely to happen, because the biggest interaction people have with temperature is the daily weather report, and it's primarily older people that watch the news.
I could get on board with kilometers, if I had to, because the conversion factor is simple enough to do in your head (roughly 3/5), but trying to figure out what anything is in Celsius is just a little too complicated.
- posterboy 10y agoSo, 40 or 50 Degree for when it's dangerously hot is too hard to remember, just like 32 for freezing is somewhat easier than 37 for body temperature? Why let's just change the numeral base to 5, or use roman numerals for that matter. Then scientists can finally stop to convert some arcane unit to get to the Standard International Base Unit, ie. Kelvin. At least everyone gets to convert their numbers then and it's only a division by two, too. </rant>