4 ms·
we don't want to: 12 is more divisible than 10
by knoebber 4y ago
we don't want to: 12 is more divisible than 10
- trgn 4y agoMetric system sucks for day2day measuring.
- GalenErso 4y agoI have no difficulty estimating sizes and weights in kilometers, meters and centimeters, in tons, kilograms or grams, or in assessing the weather in celsius.
- NDizzle 4y agoF > C.
- bobbygunderson 4y agoOnly down to -40
- NDizzle 4y agoWhat I mean is that it's calibrated for humans, at least dumb ones like me. 0F, it's cold and the wind chill makes it miserable. 0C? That's 32F, which is technically freezing but I can still work on my cars outside in that weather. 100F, sweaty, hot, chugging water if you're outside. 100C? GG, you're dead.
- cassianoleal 4y agoHonestly, that's just a matter of what you're used to. All my life I used Celsius, and even the dumbest of the dumb around me would always have a pretty good idea about how hot or cold a day was based on the temperature.
- bannedbybros 4y ago[dead]
- brink 4y agoI prefer Fahrenheit too. I don't care that 0°C is freezing for water, and 100°C is boiling for water. I am not water, I am a human. I would rather have a system that is human-centric, even if it is "arbitrary". 0°F is about as cold as you can go outside comfortably with a decent coat, and if it's 100°F, that's about the limit of what humans can tolerate too. If it's 100°C outside, you're dead, it's useless to daily experience, and to me, daily experience is far more important.
- zeitgeistcowboy 4y agoAlso, something I didn't know for a long time. There are exactly 180 degrees F between freezing and boiling by design. Half a circle. That's pretty cool!
- nemo44x 4y ago> I don't care that 0°C is freezing for water, and 100°C is boiling for water. The best part is that isn't even true at different elevations. It makes no sense as a reference point for many people that live at higher elevations. What a weird thing to base a system of measurement on since it isn't constant.
- laserdancepony 4y agoThe Kelvin scale will absolutely blow your mind. And reading up on standard conditions.
- nemo44x 4y agoIt's what we should use.
- timbit42 4y agoI find knowing water freezes at 0C helpful as that's about when roads become icy. Also, I live near sea level.
- zeitgeistcowboy 4y agoThis. The U.S. measurement systems work pretty well! And, we use metric where metric works well. The U.S. systems are sized to daily life and are based on 12 or powers of 2, which you could argue are more fundamental bases of measurement than 10. I never hear people argue for a 10 hour day.