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Allero@lemmy.today 6 months agoThe 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.
samus12345@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We’ll just keep things as they are becuase it seems to be working fine.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fine except for the Mars Climate Orbiter.
pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 6 months 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.
samus12345@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And those that didn’t don’t seem to be suffering any ill effects as a result.