Comment on Everyday, as an American

• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The temperature of ice melting, on the other hand, is hugely important for weather. 0 point is placed at a very important spot as far as weather observations go.

  Can’t say that of Fahrenheit.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We’ll just keep things as they are becuase it seems to be working fine.

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    • Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fine except for the Mars Climate Orbiter.

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    • pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The previous systems also worked fine in other parts of the world, but pretty much every country came to the conclusion that it’s simply smart to switch to the metric system, giving up their own with seemingly random conversions.

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And those that didn’t don’t seem to be suffering any ill effects as a result.

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• pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think we can agree that the freezing point is super important when it comes to the weather.

  So where would you place the second mark (you have to define two spots) so it “makes sense for the weather” (I don’t see how it makes less sense for the weather than Fahrenheit, at least Celsius tells you if it’ll snow or not while Fahrenheit tells you nothing) while still making sure that it can easily be recreated?

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