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  • XM34@feddit.detoScience Memes@mander.xyzTurn up the heat
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    3 months ago

    No, it’s not. I’m people and I don’t feel like Fahrenheit. Lower than 10°C is cold, lower than 0°C is freezing (quite literally) and warmer than 30°C is too hot. See? Easy to remember numbers. Almost as if people feel numbers they’re used to.












  • XM34@feddit.detoScience Memes@mander.xyztemperature
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    4 months ago

    Fahrenheit was invented at a hospital for identifying patients outside of the normal range…

    0°F is outside the normal human temperature range? No shit!

    You’re talking a bunch of bullcrap! Fahrenheit was developed by a German Scientist and he just chose two measurements that were halfway decent to reproduce. That’s all there is to it. Got nothing to do with hospitals.


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    4 months ago

    Why compare it to 40°? Because I know what 40° feels like because I’ve been living in a civilized country with a civilized measurement system all my life. I can tell you that 65° is too hot, because I make my tea with 70° to 80° hot water. Therefore just before that will probably be too hot for my skin.

    In the end, there is no objectively better system when it comes to day to day temperatures. But there is one when it comes to science, reliability and universality and that is Celsius.

    All international science uses metric and slowly but surely the resistance amongst US universities melts away and they switch to metric as well. Give it another one or two generations and we’ll finally be rid of the outdated and arbitrary imperial system!