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1 posted on 12/31/2024 9:42:50 AM PST by Red Badger
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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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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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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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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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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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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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15 posted on 12/31/2024 10:00:32 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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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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Kelvin should be the only way to measure temperature as it starts at absolute zero. Thermodynamics and Gas Laws are based on Kelvin. It corresponds to −273.15 °C on the Celsius temperature scale and to −459.67 °F on the Fahrenheit temperature scale.

Example: If the temperature goes from 10 degrees C to 20 degrees the temperature did not double. It increased 3.5%.

Kelvin is easy.


23 posted on 12/31/2024 10:04:57 AM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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At minus forty degrees, it doesn’t matter.


25 posted on 12/31/2024 10:08:16 AM PST by granite ("It's a Barnum and Bailey World, Just as Phony as it can be.")
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Typical globalist leftist, trying to make America as bad as the rest of the world.


27 posted on 12/31/2024 10:09:35 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral creulty of the Biden-Harris regime.)
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Fahrenheit is nice because a ten degree range matches with clothing choice. The nineties mean wear as little as you can get away with. The sixties mean long sleeve shirt and pants, but no jacket needed, etc. In Celsius you would need to break the range into upper and lower because the twenties C would be from 68 to 86F.


28 posted on 12/31/2024 10:10:55 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Now unburdened by the Biden/Harris administration that has been.)
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The Metric system is Un- American


29 posted on 12/31/2024 10:12:52 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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Kelvin


30 posted on 12/31/2024 10:13:52 AM PST by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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The Communist temperature scale has never lived up to any of its alleged benefits. Nor has the (equally Communist) metric system in general.

If Base 10 is so inherently superior, why did some cultures find it more practical to use Base 12? Or Base 60?

Why do you think there are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour? And why haven’t they managed to come up with a 100-second minute or a 10-hour day?

Metric system be damned, Pi (π) is still “May I have a large container of coffee cream and sugar” (3.1415926535...). Avogadro’s number is still 6.0221415x10^23. If it confuses you when freezing and boiling don’t come out in even zeros, maybe math and science aren’t your cup of tea.

The original fairy tale was that the entire metric system was based on values that could be calculated independently anywhere on earth. A meter was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole. A kilogram is defined by use of three different physical constants. And the boiling point of water changes with atmospheric pressure.

Over time they have found that despite its ersatz universality, the metric system still requires a single physical object to be the world’s standard, and that physical object must be kept under lock and key in a radiation-free vacuum container like some scientific holy grail. And all other “standards” are as-near-as-possible replicas of that one.

So in the fullness of time we’ve come to learn that it’s really no easier to standardize (and hence no more convenient) than he Imperial system. It’s been little more than an exercise in testing global gullibility.

Can you say “coronapanic”?


34 posted on 12/31/2024 10:22:29 AM PST by Paal Gulli
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Nooowww....

Let's do millibars versus inches of Mercury!!!

-PJ

35 posted on 12/31/2024 10:24:09 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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