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Celsius Vs Fahrenheit: Which Is Better?
IFL Science ^ | December 31, 2024 | Dr. Katie Spalding

Posted on 12/31/2024 9:42:50 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 12/31/2024 9:42:50 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

What Euroweenie wrote this???


2 posted on 12/31/2024 9:44:49 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
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To: Red Badger

Celsius Vs Fahrenheit
Metric System

Trying to Make America Lose Again.


3 posted on 12/31/2024 9:46:01 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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Celsius Vs Fahrenheit: Which Is Better?“

Fahrenheit, next question.


4 posted on 12/31/2024 9:48:21 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: Red Badger
Oh, America. You do so confuse the rest of the world, with your “pounds per square inch” and “cups”


5 posted on 12/31/2024 9:49:01 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: iamgalt

I prefer Kelvin.


6 posted on 12/31/2024 9:49:28 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: Red Badger

Whatever one grew up with is ‘better’.


7 posted on 12/31/2024 9:51:12 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger

It would seem that freezing should be zero...


8 posted on 12/31/2024 9:52:01 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Many mechanical things have a button to switch from F to C. My scale and indoors thermometer.


9 posted on 12/31/2024 9:54:56 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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I remember decades ago hearing about degrees CENTIGRADE not degrees CELSIUS. Somewhere along the way the use of centigrade was abandoned.


10 posted on 12/31/2024 9:57:23 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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But are they really enough to justify its use in the 21st century? Let’s find out.

Stuff it, you smarmy bitch.

11 posted on 12/31/2024 9:58:48 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

Fahrenheit more concise


12 posted on 12/31/2024 9:58:51 AM PST by wardaddy ( .If the GOPe didn't go wobbly slightest incoming flak we'd always win in)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The International Committee on Weights and Measures decided that every measurement must be named after a person........


13 posted on 12/31/2024 9:59:30 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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14 posted on 12/31/2024 9:59:44 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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15 posted on 12/31/2024 10:00:32 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Dilbert San Diego

https://expattutor.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/what-happened-to-centigrade-confusion-over-the-celsius-temperature-scale/


16 posted on 12/31/2024 10:00:41 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DoodleBob

It’s 275 K outside.


17 posted on 12/31/2024 10:01:25 AM PST by Greg123456
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To: Red Badger

Fahrenheit is more precise. And our weights and measures are more useful than Metric.


18 posted on 12/31/2024 10:01:47 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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it was a nefarious plan to ultimately sell more tools


19 posted on 12/31/2024 10:01:51 AM PST by Gene Eric
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To: DoodleBob
Kelvin and Hobbs. Or rather,


20 posted on 12/31/2024 10:02:31 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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