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uieniaAmericans always regurgite the “Fahrenheit is how people feel” nonsense, but it is just that: nonsense. Americans are familiar with fahrenheit so they think that it is more inituitive than other systems, but unsurprisingly people who are used to celsius have no problems using it to measure “how people feel” and will think it is a very inituitive system.
StalinwolfCan confirm. Moved from the US to Canada and a year of using Celcius revealed to me just how fucking stupid and convoluted Fahrenheit is.
Fahrenheit has a fine granularity that is lost in cold climates. It’s why the Bahamas/Belize use it as well.
Well you know that you can use the decimals?
How is - 40.000001°F more fine than - 40.00000000001°C?
23°C is a nice room temperature.
18°C is a bit chilly but still a comfortable temperature.
If you want to go for a finer destinction then we cann say 18.5°C is warmer but I personally can’t feel the difference.
Our bodies are 80% water why not use a system that reflects this?
The universe is mostly empty space with an average temperature of like… 4 Kelvin or some shit. Why not use a system that reflects that? Oh, we do? Right. Celsius is Kelvin + 273.15.
Are you made of mostly empty space? Your response does leave me questioning. Please aknoowledge that you are made of 64% water and not 4°k nothing.
As a matter of fact…
I mean, yeah, we all are. That’s how atoms work.
alternatively, yeah, mostly between his ears.
Plese do not use Kelvin with a degree symbol. There ist no “degree Kelvin”.
Please make sure you are right before you correct someone
www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/kelvin-K
I don’t know why “techtarget” would be a credible source on Physics questions, but the SI convention, which is, according to Wikipedia, the “only system of measurement with an official status in nearly every country in the world, employed in science, technology, industry, and everyday commerce”, poses that “kelvin is never referred to nor written as a degree.”
But I also made the mistake to write it as “Kelvin” instead of “kelvin”.
…rankine glowers in your general direction…
So then we should use the system that reflects the freezing point and boiling points of water at nice round values such as 0 and 100 then? Sounds like Celsius is the better system