lol, having grown up with farenheit, what is the deal with celcius? Geez, had a perfect working system then someone comes along and now it is unmanagable.
Like we had a perfectly good Bible and then someone came along and now we got Quran :D
Ah, don't hate people, I am laughing as I write this, loosen up a bit and glory in the world that offers two views even on the temperature.
see when it is around zero you are ready freeze, so it is perfectly relative to something we are very familiar with i.e water. and in Fahrenheit its 32 ! why , what it means if temp is 17 or 77 ?? it is greek for me
Now in system international of units (SI) there is kelvin (official scale for temprature). No body knows about it( it is technical like -273 absolute zero) , so we dont use it. But celcius is perfect scale and makes lot of sense for real world.
imagine how confused I am…I was born and brought up using celcius…Then was exposed to farenheit got used to it and after 5 yrs of using it was put back to celsius again…well as of now i don’t like either farenheit or celcius…d’ouh
CR,
LOL,:)..do you know,..Fahrenheit is the only scale which is more accurate than Celsius,…I used to have Hard time just like you,..but now actually I am used to of it.
Yes… Amreeka always needs its own dairh eent ki masjid…
The US signed the "Treaty of the Meter" in 1875 along with all the major industrialized nations, and in fact it was the country to have the metric currency (100 cents = $1)… yet it has still resisted the implementation of the actual system.
Mr. Jefferson is partly to blame. He was afraid that the adoption of the metric system would give France too much influence because they were the main driving force behind its adoption in Europe.
I guess the U.S. is slowly moving towards partial adoption… in 1991, Bush Sr. signed an order that made anyone who worked for him or a federal agency use the metric system. I guess they’ll be in deeper shyte by 2009 when all products sold in Europe will be labeled ONLY in metric units.
The one thing thats most common and essential to all life is water. Therefore it only makes sense to have a scale that runs parallel to the properties of water.
0 degrees Celcius/Centigrade is the temp at which water freezes
100 degress Celcius/Centigrade is the temp at which water boils.
0 and 100 are far more easier to remember and calculate than 32 and 212.
The celsius scale also runs parallel to the Kelvin scale (1 degree change in C = 1 degree change in K). Kelvin really is better and more complete than both celcius and fahrenheit.
in science where extreme temps are a norm, this scale is fine, but when I hear a weather forecast, I don't want to hear "it is 299.15K out there folks, spring is here"... How weird :)
that’s the thing… with Europe moving to a single labeling scheme by 2009 where the mandate is to ONLY use metric scale, there certainly would be additional investment required by the U.S. in order to have compliant exports and localized imports.