> all scientists and military use it too, That's hardly true. Even if it was it's not a justification for forcing people to change their common parlance. Als

> all scientists and military use it too, That's hardly true. Even if it was it's not a justification for forcing people to change their common parlance. Also, if you really want a temperature scale, you'd have it referenced to absolute zero so it's an actual ratio quantity. So, a lot of "scientists" use Kelvin or in some cases Rankine. > ignoring rest of the world There's a conversion factor. We don't keep it secret. We're not "ignoring" the rest of the world, we're just operating in a mode that most convenient for us.