There was something I read once upon a time that was like:
F is how hot/cold people are C is how hot/cold water is K is how hot/cold matter is
I feel like that's pretty accurate.
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I got used to Celsius while living abroad in Europe and Japan and prefer it to Fahrenheit. The extra granularity of the latter scale doesn't really add much more utility.
However, while 32 F and 212 F are pretty arbitrary, so is calibrating to the freezing and boiling temperatures of water. I'd rather have a scale that's calibrated to humans rather than H2O.
Fun fact Americans do both
I know no one in the U.S. that measures anything in yards outside of football. It's feet/miles. We don't say we are 2y1" tall.
All I'm saying is I am American and use both metric and imperial all the time and they both are good and suck for different reasons.
Yeah sorry, I was trying to expand on what you were saying, not refute it
0 is absolute cold, any other system is wrong.
Ok Kevin
212 warm / 100 warm
warm
Meme was made by a space shuttle tile.
warm
0 C being the temperature water freezes is useful for knowing if there is ice outside, which has practical use. If we keep going the way we are, soon 100 will be an indicator that there is no water outside. Practical if you're a hydrophobe or hydrophile.
Soon it won’t matter anyways. Isn’t AmericaUS like..done now? We can move on with our normal shit and chuckle at it like a museum piece.
Come up with a metric time system then. Also, fix the damn calendar.
The second is the metric time system: A day is 86.4 kiloseconds!
Jokes aside the French did come up with Decimal Time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time), but it didn't catch on.
Also, fix the damn calendar
13 months, 28 days per month = 364 days. New Year's Day can be its own holiday separate from the rest of the year, and every fourth year it can be 2 days long.
Now we just need to get Big Calendar on board.
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