iamBullivant20mph speed limits save lives. Research from London:
"Child casualties dropped by 46%, and children killed by 75%"
20mph = Fewer maimed and dead children.
Difficult to argue with that.
CodeByJeff@bullivant aren't you folks supposed to be using the metric system?
@codebyjeff Not in the UK, really. It depends. Fuel and food, by and large metric. Speed limits still Imperial.
@bullivant yeah, I know
and people weight by stone, and beer volume by pint
I'm just mentioning for the next time a Brit decides they "can't comprehend the American Fahrenheit system, and why don't we go metric?"
Which is a dumb reason to hijack a thread about saving children's lives, but I'm in one of those moods atm
Robyn@codebyjeff
Continuing with the highjacking -
Fahrenheit makes no sense to me whatsoever, not just because my country has been metric since before I was born, but also because the Celsius scale is tied to a meaningful physical constant and Fahrenheit just isn't. However I can easily roughly convert miles to km as they at least have the same zero. I am also slightly envious that the imperial or US customary unit users have the excellent slogan "twenty is plenty" when advocating for lower limits, whilst 'thirty is less hurty" just doesn't work as well
@bullivant
Continuing with the highjacking -
Fahrenheit makes no sense to me whatsoever, not just because my country has been metric since before I was born, but also because the Celsius scale is tied to a meaningful physical constant and Fahrenheit just isn't. However I can easily roughly convert miles to km as they at least have the same zero. I am also slightly envious that the imperial or US customary unit users have the excellent slogan "twenty is plenty" when advocating for lower limits, whilst 'thirty is less hurty" just doesn't work as well
@bullivant
ChrisR@RedRobyn I think 100 Fahrenheit was the blood temperature of a cow, and 0F was the minimum melting point of water with lots of salts added. So, you're right!
groff 🇺🇦Celsius is tied to distilled water, Fahrenheit to salted ice.
0°F was the lowest temperature reached by adding salt to ice, then the melting point of snow was separated from the boiling point of water by 180°.
Celsius originally had 0 as the boiling point of water and 100 as the melting point of snow. So that was even weirder.