Foone🏳️⚧️
I think the metric system has obvious advantages over the US system, but for temperature scales it's less obviously a positive to use one scale over another.
but I greatly support the Celsius scale over the Fahrenheit scale as it's much easier to spell.
Eric Gustafson ☑️
@foone Why is there no "metric time" .. seems an obvious one there.
Foone🏳️⚧️
@ericgus oh there is. it just never caught on
Nearly Normal Norm
Swedish astronomer Anders Celcius died in 1744 at the age of 43, however his contemporary, Daniel Farenheight maintained he was 109.
Foone🏳️⚧️
@Spoon or according to French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, 85. Such a pity, a few more months and he would have had his 84th birthday!
Foone🏳️⚧️
@A_C_McGregor I can think of at least one temperature scale that's even easier to convert to kelvin. Why don't we just use that one?
Alisdair Calder McGregor
@foone the main advantage of Celcius is it's much easier to convert to Kelvin.
Seeing Fahrenheit in a paper induces a kind of mental wince in me because it's almost always a signal that some bullshit unit like "foot-pounds" is going to make an appearance.
Metric all the things.
Video_Game_King
@foone I'm the inverse, in that while I acknowledge the metric system's superiority over imperial, I still prefer using miles over kilometers because walking twenty minutes every day instilled in me the intuition that a mile is twenty minutes' worth of walking.
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