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It's the false allure that somehow the metric sounds smarter just because it is generally used in the sciences. It's just an arbitrary convention, and different trades use their own systems/units to make their own concerns more manageable.
Ever heard of the saying if it ain't broke then don't fix it? Besides the US is on top,so why should we be like the rest of the world?
Ever heard of the saying if it ain't broke then don't fix it? Besides the US is on top,so why should we be like the rest of the world?
Yes we understand all that. But Fahrenheit is the best scale suited to describing weather.
Metric should be adopted, perhaps except military equipment.
I would imagine that a lot of the more modern equipment already is, anything built overseas or built in the U.S. for an overseas market would also be metric. The military will have to change to, every other military in the world uses it.
You clearly miss the point.
What point is that?
No argument about academic and laboratory uses. Scientists will use what ever is more scientifically expedient. That is expected.Arguable.
I read your prior statements including the long one at #78 or smth.
While true, for weather maybe Fahrenheit is better, as in, public information about weather. The weatherman on tv telling people if it's gonna be hot or warm.
But for calculation, celcius is better. So for scientific weather predictions, temperature calculations, etc, celcius is better. It also makes calculation conversions to and from kelvin a lot easier and more precise than with fahrenheit.
But then again, nobody cares about the weather that much. I mean, when the weatherman tells me that it's gonna be a maximum of 26 degrees, I know how to dress. It doesn't impact me. It's not like if it turns out to be 28 degrees that I'd melt if I were dressed for 26degrees C. So the advantage, if you wanna call it, of F over C from this perspective is minimalist while the advantage of C in everything else is obvious.
No argument about academic and laboratory uses. Scientists will use what ever is more scientifically expedient. That is expected.
Though for the public use, Fahrenheit just makes more sense ... AND all Americans already understand it and are use to it.
The American public would gain no advantage from using the Celsius scale for weather description.
If a meteorologist wants to tell us what the temperature is in Canada, he can do the calculation into Fahrenheit ... That's part of his job.
No argument about academic and laboratory uses. Scientists will use what ever is more scientifically expedient. That is expected.
Though for the public use, Fahrenheit just makes more sense ... AND all Americans already understand it and are use to it.
The American public would gain no advantage from using the Celsius scale for weather description.
If a meteorologist wants to tell us what the temperature is in Canada, he can do the calculation into Fahrenheit ... That's part of his job.
Weather is local... and when weather concerns are not local, they are reported to us by a local meteorologist.He can make the translation. He wouldn't report about a rainstorm in France using the French language either.The objective of using Celsius is that it aligns the U.S. with international standards, weather everywhere else is done in celsius.
Exactly my point.However, this temperature measurement is not glued to the metric system and that's the topic here.
Exactly my point.
When the country was asked to convert to the metric system we were asked to give up our superior weather temperature scale at the same time.
The Celsius scale has nothing to do with the metric system and should never have been tied to the program.
Exactly my point.
When the country was asked to convert to the metric system we were asked to give up our superior weather temperature scale at the same time.
The Celsius scale has nothing to do with the metric system and should never have been tied to the program.
The U.S. isn't a hipster, literally everyone else in the world uses it.
Everyone else in the world could be jumping off a cliff,I am not going to join them just because everybody else is doing it.
Ah. It's too hard.
And yards would be impossible to convert to meters!
Another indication that it because of Conservatives that we can't have nice things.
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