If you live almost everywhere but the U.S., you get the temperature in degrees Celsius. In the U.S., you get them in degrees Fahrenheit. Does it matter? And how did they arrive at these scales in the first place?
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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :
To be honest, though, it doesn't make that poor sense to have 0 being water's boiling point. It means less negative numbers! Unless you're a chemist, of course...
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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :
Wouldn't that make more negative numbers? Or, if I actually read this, I would've known that you're talking about the reversed scale. Forget about my stupidity, and have a good night.
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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :
It would only make more negative numbers if you dealt with temperatures in excess of 100 degress Centigrade, on a daily basis. Otherwise, -10 would be 110, 10 would be 90, etc.
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
That's why Kelvin is so handy.
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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
[gayesque voice] Yes Kelvin *sigh* he DOES come in handy now and then doesn't he [/gayesque voice]
*grin*
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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :
Well, yes, Sol, that's true.
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Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :
Sometimes I think Homo habilis was really well off; come to think of it, hot and cold are really all we need. So let's strip and run around in Africa stark naked. It's so much more fun than today's daily life.
Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :
RW, I'll wager you tan about as poorly as I do. Sunburn, on the other hand...
Living naked on the savannah sounds like fun as long as there's plenty of cold beer and sunscreen and insect repellant. Without those three minimums, no thanks.
Actually, most Brits over the age of 20 are fairly familiar with Fahrenheit too. And most people over 60 would have no idea how to tell the temperature in centigrade. The weather reports normally tell us both the fahrenheit and centigrade figures.
Us young, hip, generation leaders can do both. And we can do inches AND centimeters.
Not kilometres for some reason though. We falter a bit at that.
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