Americans: why would I care how water feels
I don’t understand the meme and I use C…
Fuck it, it’s 8 o’clock and 28°C with 60% already. We are not used to this shit here.
https://www.meteoblue.com/en/blog/article/show/40238_Heat+wave+in+Europe
Try 38° at 9am. I reckon, i live in the Sahara desert but australia is just a huge desert too.
Here’s a rough C° primer for Americans
0° or below, fucking cold
1° - 10° cold
11° - 20° cool
21° - 30° warm
31° - 40° hot
41° or above - Jesus Christ I’m on fire!
As for Fahrenheit for the rest of the world, on a scale from 0 to 100, how hot is it? Assume anything below zero is really fucking cold, and anything above 100 is really fucking hot.
-10° - -1° very cold
0° Water freezes
1° - 5° Cold
6° - 10° cool
11° - 16° warm
17° - 25° hot
26° - 30 very hot
26 very hot? It was 25 the other day in winter here. (Melbourne)
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That’s the thing, you live in hell’s microwave.
microwave
Correction: smelting furnace
Most of the US and Canada would be using AC at that temp. Since the example was poised for Americans and not those living in bizzaro world.
Found the Canadian
No, just the reasonable guy.
Yup. Where I live we have seen down to -20F (during that time texas almost lost their power grid) and up to 115F.
Its currently 110F. Aka, hot.
Or, -28c to 46C. Currently 43C. And 40% humidity. Feels horrible.
I get metric for everything else, but °F is the better system for everyday/non scientific use. I will die on this hill.
That’s because Fahrenheit is % of hot, based on what we feel. Therefore, °F is better for everyday use.
The one you use is the better system. I want to know whether I should bring a sweater. The system is arbitrary.
Unpopular opinion time; the US already uses metric/Celsius where it matters; in science, engineering and the military. Where it doesn’t matter, we use a weird hybrid system that makes intuitive sense to us and is accordingly perfectly functional and doesn’t need to be changed.
Just admit it, Celsius is garbage, use Kelvin cowards. Also this: Temperature scales
Kelvin use the same scale as Celsius, the only difference is the zero point. The imperial system and Farenheit sucks and result very expensive and cause even deaths because of wrong conversions: Crushed 2 Mars probes >$350M, flight crash with more than 130 victims because of an error calculating the amount of fuel, wrong amount of medicine respect bodyweight, etc…
https://www.vox.com/2015/2/16/8031177/america-fahrenheit
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I’m sorry, but Fahrenheit has nothing to do with the errors you cited. Hell, even the overall Imperial system, silly an (mostly) antiquated as it is, has nothing to do with the examples you cited.
The expensive failures you listed were caused by a lack of standardization. Those failures wouldn’t have taken place if every international agency had standardized on the Imperial system or the metric system.
Your point is not only a nonsensical non sequitur, it is also wrong.
It has nothing to do with standardization. With science and technology today, it is not possible to work in conditions with measurements and units random, based on parts of the body of a dead king centuries ago and not even, what is more serious, does not differentiate between weight and mass. Besides, it requires complicated conversions, a source of errors. For example of calculating the angular momentum in different parts of a 1.6 mile long bridge, if it has to be calculated with inches. No problem in a Bridge of 2,364 km to use Meters, centimetros or even Milimetros, only have to move the coma, no calculations needed. The important thing in science is that the units are repeatable and reconstructible, which in degrees Celsius is not a problem, having as a reference the freezing and boiling of water at sea level as a reference. A similar reference for Fahrenheit does not exist, at least not with sufficient accuracy, which is why it was discarded as a unit. You can be sure that the manufacturers that supply Fahrenheit thermometers to the US calibrate them using Celsius or Kelvin, then put the Fahrenheit scale after converting the values.
Apologies, but I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Both Celsius and Fahrenheit are based off the exact same thing: the freezing and boiling points of water. Fahrenheit just gives you more resolution between the two (180 degrees for Fahrenheit vs 100 degrees for Celsius), but otherwise they operate in the same way.
I agree that the underpinnings of the weight and distance measurements used in the Imperial system are silly, but they are still just as accurate as the weight and distance measurements in the metric system. The metric system’s units for weight and distance are more logical and easier to use, but that doesn’t make them more accurate given modern measurement methods.
I think the US should adopt the metric system in general, but I honestly don’t see the point in bringing Celsius along with the rest of the measurement standards.
I honestly see zero benefit to Celsius over Fahrenheit: they are both pegged to the boiling and freezing points of water, Celsius was just unnecessarily limited in the number of degrees between those two points. Beyond that limitation of Celsius, there’s basically zero difference between it and Fahrenheit.
It’s not like that. Fahrenheit is not based on the freezing and boiling point of water, which is used32ºF and 180ºF as a reference, if not, it would result absurdo. No it serves to consider it the same claiming that water freezes at 32ºF because it is known. It does not make it reconstructible, essential in science. You can’t work with randomly obtained values if you use a fixed reference like water, how do you want to determine a zero point without do all kinds of conversions in physical or chemical applications and experiments? Sure, you can put a thermometer on ice and in boiling water and then put a scale between 32º and 180º instead of between 0º and 100º, to measure in Fahrenheit, but this does not solve the problem of reconstructibility of these units. Fahrenheit set the 0ºF and the 100ºF on the scale by recording the lowest temperatures he could measure and his own body temperature, by being in a slight state of fever. He took the lowest temperature that was measured in the harsh winter of 1708 to 1709 in his city of Gdansk (Poland), about -17.8 C, as point 0 F, with this we have the same problem as with the other imperial units, they lacks an exact unit for the reconstruction, not better than the pie as unit for the lenght. Even the Réaumur scale is better, also use 0º for the freeze point of water, but using a octagesimal scale where water boils at 80º instead of 100º in C.
For the other Americans that came into the thread hoping to see a conversion:
- 10c = 50f
- 30c = 86f
Edit: I’d like to note that 10c is a very reasonable temperature for shorts. I’m a Minnesotan (basically Canada lite (please annex us)), people start raising eyebrows at around 0C
F = C * 1.8 + 32
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Oh come on. Now you expect us to learn math too??
Why does the US live rent free in so many European’s heads all the time?
Because each time we look for some English content, they use some dumb fantasy metrics based on the size fo the feet of a king for some reason, and we need to look up a converter to change it to a metric used in 195 different countries.
It’s really not hard to convert.
Then why don’t you Just switch
Because it’s a massive waste of money for little to no benefit, and barely actually comes up because unit conversion is trivial and is done constantly regardless of overall unit system.
Armchair unit system fanatics make it out to be such a bigger deal than it is. Whether im working in metric or standard I’m doing several to several dozen dimensional analyses anyway, normally with industry specific units. Which again, exist in both standard and si.
Money.
You mean x football fields.
Coincidentally both “football fields” are pretty close in length.
I didn’t know Canada and Australia were in Europe
I love that the meme is about Canada, Australia, and the US(ish), yet it’s the Europeans that get called out by this guy. Who’s living rent free in whose head? ;)
Am I wrong lol
I’d assume because the internet is 90% catered to american’s.
Kelvin gang
Kelvin is cool but Celsius is more suited to weather imo
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Most kids don’t get degrees.
I just use
30°C is hot, 20°C is nice 10°C is cold, 0°C is ice.
Obviously that won’t apply everywhere, but in milder climates it works pretty good.
And 40°C is the melting point of the human brain.
Which goes some way towards explaining some of the decisions happening in Florida, Texas and Arizona during their ridiculously hot summers…
I understand and appreciate your joke, but is it really? And I imagine that the bones and skin would melt first, right? Idk. I’ve never considered that someone could melt from the inside.
Not literally, no, but it can be very difficult to concentrate on anything else when you’re suffering under immense heat and a lack of concentration can lead to a figurative brain meltdown.
That being said, the brain is mostly fluid, fat and electric connections so it would DEFINITELY melt long before your bones.
Would have to be around 50-60°C for the 60% of it that’s fat to hypothetically melt if exposed directly to the heat rather than protected by the skull and cooled down by the blood, but that’s nothing compared to the 1670°C melting point of human bones.
Btw, I hope you’re happy with this reply since my Google search history looks rather grisly now 😂
40 is dying 50 is dead
- Me when everything else: BURN THE EMPIRE DEATH TO AMERIKKA
- Me when measurements: USA! USA! USA! USA!
Metric system is much simpler and conversion is easy Numbers are also much less arbitrary
100% but also I’m lazy and old and imperial is forever second nature
Double Celsius and add 30. It’ll get you close enough for environment temps.
10*2 is 20, plus 30 = 50.
(10°C × 9/5) + 32 = 50°F
30 doubled is 60, plus 30 is 90.
(30°C × 9/5) + 32 = 86°F
10°C is mild af. Who tf doesn’t wear shorts when it’s 50F?
If you want to sound more metal, tell people how cold it is in celsius. Was it kinda cold or was it in the negatives?
I find it easier to just remember the approximate table.
0C = 30F
10C = 50F
20C = 70F
30C = 90F
The easy but not quite right conversion from C to F is to double it, then add 30.
F to C is subtract 30 and divide by 2.
I’ve always learned 32, not 30
When doing a simple double/half, 30 will give less average error between 0° and 100°C. Though the real formula is C * 9 / 5 + 32 = F
Shit use of the meme bro
