Current Events > Celsius is good for science, but makes no sense for every day life.

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Fahrenheit is very simple, 0 is cold and 100 is hot, and there are a ton of numbers in between so it's easy to express differences. In Celsius 0 is sort of cold but not really, maybe negative 10 is cold, and around 25 is hot? And the range is so small that you can't really say anything meaningful without using decimal points. It's honestly stupid as h*ck
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Did you just censor out heck?
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Philoktetes posted...

h*ck

No
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lol
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we'll always have -40.

Ummmmmmmmmmmm
most of the world uses C for every day life
so what you said makes no sense
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Squidkids posted...

Ummmmmmmmmmmm
most of the world uses C for every day life
so what you said makes no sense

Well fortunately all the good parts of the world don't.
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Squidkids posted...

Ummmmmmmmmmmm
most of the world uses C for every day life
so what you said makes no sense

Just because most of the world uses Celsius doesn't mean that it's inherently better. This is the classic "appeal to popularity" fallacy
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speaking as someone who uses Celsius in everyday life: Celsius makes perfect sense for every day life
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You're just used to Fahrenheit more. The scale of 0-100 means nothing to me.
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uhh water freezes at 0 celcius. So that is a good reference point for many things. Many people don't know what is the F equivalent.
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when do you ever need to know what the freezing temp of water is in irl life outside of a laboratory
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Philoktetes posted...

when do you ever need to know what the freezing temp of water is in irl life outside of a laboratory

Well it should give you a hint that if the weather is below 0 you should wear some thick jackets.
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Kelvin makes the most sense in all cases.
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Rankine 4 lyfe
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Mal_Fet posted...

Kelvin makes the most sense in all cases.

Yeah, no
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I agree in this case. Water freezing at zero is convenient for science, but its honestly not that cold when we're talking about temperature. When I think of zero, I think of bitter cold, which zero Fahrenheit is. Zero celcius is chilly at worst.
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Darmik posted...

You're just used to Fahrenheit more. The scale of 0-100 means nothing to me.

For example, today's temp is 15.. so automatically... everyone should know that it's on the cooler side of things. In Fahrenheit, what would it be? 59? That makes no fcking sense at all.

meh it's all just numbers, high number is hot, low number is cold
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here in UK, its just -5oC to 35oC. 0 being freezing point. 17-19 feels the best. Over 25 gets uncomfortable hot. Over 30 celcius, 1 or 2 persons in europe will die. Cause we brits never have good weather often. When there is, many go bask in the sun like cancer doesnt exist.

and 100oC is boiling water


0F - 100F
is -17oC - 37oC

Farenheit is probably good number to remember for the hot weather. But your water freezing point is 32. And i assume you dont get to use 0F very often since -17oC is nearly freezer temperature.

And your water boils are 212F. Really odd numbers imo.


So basically in F
32F, put some gloves and scarfs on
59F, light jacket
64-77F, t-shirt
86F+ tank top/shirtless
100F-104F, very hot, constant sweat, constant thirst

in oC
0oC, gloves and scarfs
15oC, light jacket
18-25oC, t-shirt
30oC+, tank top/shirtless
37-40oC, very hot, constant sweat, constant thirst
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mew4ever posted...

I agree in this case. Water freezing at zero is convenient for science, but its honestly not that cold when we're talking about temperature. When I think of zero, I think of bitter cold, which zero Fahrenheit is. Zero celcius is chilly at worst.

That really depends on what you're used to lol. And again this is solely because you're used to 0 Fahrenheit instead of 0 Celsius.

In a way it's like trying to argue a currency is superior because you know what a dollar should be worth.
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Darmik posted...

In a way it's like trying to argue a currency is superior because you know what a dollar should be worth.

Yes, that's why this topic is dumb.
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At least with Celsius you know that when the sign changes to negative then shit can start to go sideways. Fahrenheit's just "Yeah I'm gonna stay positive for a little while longer".
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comparing c to f is like comparing android to iphone. whatever you are used to seems the best choice
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Kyurem-BW posted...

comparing c to f is like comparing android to iphone. whatever you are used to seems the best choice

*better choice


you can't use superlative adjectives to compare only two nouns
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Fahrenheit you gotta remember the magic numbers 0, 32 and 212.
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what is magic about 0 in fahrenheit
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i dont have to remember 32 and 212 because when do you ever need to know those numbers in normal life

if youre boiling water you just wait until it boils visibly, you cant measure the temp until its 212
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Darmik posted...

Philoktetes posted...

when do you ever need to know what the freezing temp of water is in irl life outside of a laboratory

Well it should give you a hint that if the weather is below 0 you should wear some thick jackets.

That goes for both f and c so...

Philoktetes posted...

Fahrenheit is very simple, 0 is cold and 100 is hot, and there are a ton of numbers in between so it's easy to express differences. In Celsius 0 is sort of cold but not really, maybe negative 10 is cold, and around 25 is hot? And the range is so small that you can't really say anything meaningful without using decimal points. It's honestly stupid as h*ck

0 isn't cold? It's literally freezing.
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And they say Americans are the stupid lazy ones
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I agree. The imperial system is easy to learn and use because it uses measurements that relates to everyday human life. Such as foot (ft), MPH, ect.
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Cobra1010 posted...

your water freezing point is 32.

For pure water. Which is great to know in a lab setting, but in the real world it only starts freezing at 32F/0C. However salt waterfreezes in the area of 0F.

212 isn't that weird of a number. Celsius was just engineered for boiling to be at 100, so it has to use larger gaps in the individual numbers.
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Works just fine for me.
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*facepalm*
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This topic is basically "They're both fine for every day life when you're used to it".
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ShamblerQ posted...

I agree. The imperial system is easy to learn and use because it uses measurements that relates to everyday human life. Such as foot (ft), MPH, ect.

Yeah and it's mostly used in america and some 2-3 other third world countries, really makes you think!
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huck
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Cobra1010 posted...

And i assume you dont get to use 0F very often

oh my sweet summer child
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Knowing the freezing point of water is useful, if it's been raining recently, and you want to know whether or not the roadds are likely to be icy. If it's below the freezing point the roads are likely icy if it's above the roads likely won't be.

ShamblerQ posted...

I agree. The imperial system is easy to learn and use because it uses measurements that relates to everyday human life. Such as foot (ft), MPH, ect.

How so?

DrizztLink posted...

Cobra1010 posted...

And i assume you dont get to use 0F very often

oh my sweet summer child

Where the fuck in america does it get to -17oC? Thats like poland winter
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America being one of the only countries to use imperial and an outdated version of imperial should say it all lol.

Who the fuck censors heck? And the way you censored it would be a bypass anyway.
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Celsius is far better than Fahrenheit for every day temperatures. It's actually meaningful. 0 degrees is when water freezes, 100 degrees is when water boils.

wtf is 0 degrees in Fahrenheit?
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Cobra1010 posted...

DrizztLink posted...

Cobra1010 posted...

And i assume you dont get to use 0F very often

oh my sweet summer child

Where the fuck in america does it get to -17oC? Thats like poland winter

Alaska, obviously.

Then there's Minnesota, Michigan, it happens regularly in the part of Colorado I lived in...

We're a country that covers a range of weather like your entire continent.

Rika_Furude posted...

wtf is 0 degrees in Fahrenheit?

Cold.
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Rika_Furude posted...

Celsius is far better than Fahrenheit for every day temperatures. It's actually meaningful. 0 degrees is when water freezes, 100 degrees is when water boils.

wtf is 0 degrees in Fahrenheit?

Why do I need to know when water boils in everyday regular life? Or when water freezes
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emblem boy posted...

Or when water freezes

I think a lot of people live in places where water freezes half the year.
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emblem boy posted...

Rika_Furude posted...

Celsius is far better than Fahrenheit for every day temperatures. It's actually meaningful. 0 degrees is when water freezes, 100 degrees is when water boils.

wtf is 0 degrees in Fahrenheit?

Why do I need to know when water boils in everyday regular life? Or when water freezes

why did americans feel the need to invent a shitty meaningless system that is used nowhere else in the world?
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Well Americans didn't invent fahrenheit iirc, a dane did

And yeah, I've always said that Imperial is better for IRL and metric for science but so much of the world uses metric for both that Americans just want to be special snowflakes for sticking with Imperial
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Stop responding to Philo topics. The fuck is wrong with you people?
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Celsius is useless. Temperatures should either be in Fahrenheit or Kelvin.

0 degrees Celsius is 32 degrees Fahrenheit. 100 degrees Celsius is 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
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