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

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- Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Fine except for the Mars Climate Orbiter.
  
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- pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    And those that didn’t don’t seem to be suffering any ill effects as a result.
    
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