Why USA still uses fahrenheit, whats so bad about celcius?
celsius is capitalist evil degree
true heat degrees come used in glorious myanmar and libya
Because, they're too ashamed to change it now
Why India still uses designated shitting street, whats so bad about toilet?
>>709622039
Celsius is for water you dumb shit the freezing point for water is 0 degrees Celsius and the boiling point is 100 degrees Celsius
Fahrenheit is for people, we know 100 degrees Fahrenheit is hot as fuck and 0 degrees Fahrenheit is cold as fuck
37.7778 degrees Celsius is 100 degrees Fahrenheit
Get it?
>>709622377
what is the melting point of humans?
>>709622377
^ 'murica
americans genuinely believe that they live in the greatest country in the world (in reality they arent in the top 50), so they wont change shit.
I'm just sitting here twiddling my thumbs waiting for russia and china (and the rest of the asian countries) to team up and knock those fat fuckers into the dirt
>>709622527
this is inevitable btw, this will happen one day , and youll be sucking everyones dick to come help you out (again)
>>709622454
around 140 degrees Fahrenheit
>>709622377
I'm sure 100 celsius is PRETTY hot as fuck tho, bro
its one of those "its too late to change it now things"
>>709622039
As you can see, Celsius is logically flawed.
>>709622527
Nah by then the jews will have
>>709622691
has it ever gotten to be 212 degrees Fahrenheit in your country
>>709622527
>not so great
>would require unlikely allies to band together to have a chance at stopping us
sure dave
Pretty sure we didn't lose. And I'm pretty sure France actually did
So Fahrenheit was designed to not have negatives temperatures right?
And body temp at 100?
And completely fucking retarded?
>>709622789
Fuck should I know? I'm not retarded to measure temperature in such a pathetic manner.
>>709622527
Seeing as how one of their states has a richer gdp than the entirety of Russia, I think they have a point.
Overall, they're the greatest country in the world. There's really no arguing that point. Go ahead and talk about your health care or safety or education or anything else - pound-for-pound they're better than you.
Accept it and get off of /b/. Oh, and then take the mudslime dick out of your ass; you're embarrassing the rest of your people.
>>709622731
We are talking temperature
not measurements (which I agree we have fucked up on)
or how we arrange dates (which you can do several ways d/m/y d/y/m m/y/d m/d/y y/m/d)
>>709623041
Full on butt hurt American pretending (unconvincingly) that he isn't an American idiot.
>>709623041
pound for pound America is bigger, true, a 36% adult obesity rate is pretty fucking huge.
Anyway, if you think that gdp determines the greatness of a country, you truly are a brainwashed ameritard at its finest. (btw: http://www.nationaldebtclocks.org/debtclock/unitedstates )
>>709623145
Yes, you can write the date many ways.
>but only d/m/y makes any sense.
Go ahead, argue with logic and common sense.
>It would be un-American not to.
>>709622039
cause the us is a bitch and wants to be difficult just like apple
>>709622377
I think you're the one who needs to "get it", Champ.
Bitch, we ain't got time for decimal points.
Because they want to be speshul, just like how they refuse to call soccer it's real name, football. (Yes I know the brits used to do that, but then they got better and started to use the proper name.)
>>709622957
>So Fahrenheit was designed to not have negatives temperatures right?
No we can have negatives, but if your asking if it was designed to have negatives, there isn't anywhere i could find that statment
>And body temp at 100?
actually body temps at and over 100 means your sick and body temp is 98.6 and below in Fahrenheit
>>709623476
>Too busy getting shot at school
>>709622039
We are the last holdout of the 1700s British Empire. We changed the King and have fought like hell to keep everything else the same.
Ultimately underlies and explains almost everything about our culture.
>>709622039
You try to educate that population of imbeciles.
Nobody wants to do it, not even their own government.
>>709623544
>>709623363
are you trying to sound like a cunt
>>709623567
Or, to sum it up in a word:
>stupidity
>>709623616
>Tells the truth
>is a cunt
U.S.A, huh?
Can you please keep it down? I'm trying to take a Donald Trump.
>>709623605
Don't you have to watch you wife get fucked by a sandnigger right now?
>>709623812
KYS BLUE PILLED NORMIE
>>709622039
don't forget they lost a war too against fucking leafs
>>709623717
Sorry my friend, I have to go rewatch the latest MLP so I can review it for my website, we'll have to discuss this at another date
>tips fedora
>skips out
>playfully turns around and winks
>>709622039
>Britain uses Imperial System
>America thinks thats dumb and makes the United States Customary Standard
>Britain starts sweating and makes the Metric System and makes all its colonies adopt it
>Brits now feel morally superior
:|
>>709623717
You're doing it again, you still sound like a cunt.
>>709622789
>temperature not measurements
How do you find out temp? You MEASURE it with a thermometer. Found the retard folks.
>>709622039
its used in science
>>709623952
Doesn't really matter who came up with the metric system. It's still better.
>>709622731
>>709622527
>not in the top 50
i can agree we have our problems but you have to be retarded to think the US is not on the top 50
>>709624028
lol no it's not.
Not even in our own country it isn't.
Only in elementary school thru high school, where bad ideas are perpetuated for the entire country by the Texas education boards disproportionate influence on the textbook industry. Literally USA is only as educated as Texan suburbanites have allowed it to be. Fucking Texas. No wonder our "history" education is little more than a cliffs notes version of a propaganda pamphlet.
>>709623865
And the award for most pedestrian response goes to...
>This cunt
>>709624107
its not so much better as it is different.
For example, Fahrenheit was based on the observational freezing point of Sea Water. Which is useful if you were you know.. in a boat and out at Sea. Celsius based on the freezing point of Distilled water. That isn't terribly useful.for daily life.
Also, in many cases British people STILL use their older imperial system such as weighing things in Stones. Pints of beer and milk. Etc.
We also DO use metric, for example we buy sida in 2 liters. Alcohol is sold as 750mL for the smaller bottles, dailly products such as dental floss, etc. are measured in meters and grams.
Nutrition labels are in metric as well.
Really, both countries use a mixture of systems, but only british people act like a cunt about it and accuse us of using the "Imperial system" (which we don't, you do), We use the US Customary Standard and were the ones who tried to standardize everything in the first place.
>>709624780
are you just the least likeable person in the world or what
>>709624146
If that's the best you can do to defend Fahrenheit,
I'm afraid to tell you that "really cold" and "really hot" are vague as fuck. I can just hold my hand out the window and that would be just as helpful.
>>709622377
>Celsius is for water
>meanwhile Fahrenheit is for brine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
>>709624347
sorry, Afrika, china, russia have all surpassed america while you were pretending to love your country.
>>709624847
Yeah, when I ever decide to take a boat across to the USA, I'll be so worried THAT THE FUCKING SEA WILL FREEZE
c'mon
>>709624928
no, 0 Fahrenheit is your -18c
100 Fahrenheit is your 37c
you can see how 0 to 100 is pretty representative of hot and cold and pretty much all 4 season states experience 0 to 100 temperatures rarely getting hotter or colder.
They why do Britbongs still use miles per hour but Canadians don't? Checkmate Commonwealth, you've cucked yourselves again.
>>709625187
you might not, but a captain of a ship would like to be conscious of that fact, When you are driving (in which case, the water ha elements of salt, unlike Celsius which does not) will normally freeze at 0F and certainly people in 1724 would be concerned.
>literally the ONLY use for fahrenheit is to help you choose between a shirt and a sweater
KEK
E
K
>>709624847
>Claims the imperial system is better
> doesn't use the imperial system for volumes because it is inconvenient.
>>709625192
This is exactly why we won't switch.
Like at the weather channel in any Celsius using country. It is always a decimal. (22.4*C)
Fahrenheit doesn't need to use a decimal because of the reason in the comment above.
>>709622039
Celcius is bad for your teeth.
>>709625425
>>709625363
and if there is ice on a road, if you have to be concern about icy water if you are on a boat, if you
Fahrenheit actually seems more logical. 100 is really fuckin' hot, 0 is really fuckin' cold.
>>709625426
I live in Australia and the weather channels never use decimals. and even if they did its not that hard to understand you fucking tard
>>709625475
so why dont you just change your weather system to
"really fuckin' cold"
"fuckin' cold" (0)
"cold"
"warm"
"hot"
"fuckin' hot"
"really fuckin hot" (100)
Would that be easier for you dumb dumb ?
>>709625387
I am not saying its better or worse. There are different use cases for using different systems. So much so that WE use metric and YOU use imperial still. Most countries don't strictly follow any system but instead use the system that works the best for that country and there are also all sorts of standards everyone doesn't use. For example, your outlets that every british person is wildly excited about is prob ably the furthest thing from the ACTUAL standard suggested by the ieee and your outlets are actually the result of concessions caused by metal shortages after ww2.
This is the actual ieee standard outlet, which only Brazil uses.
Enjoy being faggots who religiously defend standards when it fits your purpose, then religiously blast standards when it fits your purposes.
>>709625472
>hmmm what's that solid water on the road
>better check the FAHRENHEIT scale to see if it's cold enough to be ice
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>709625475
logical does not equal intuitive
>>709625332
you win, I didn't consider that you lived in 1724
>>709625820
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_ice
underage b&
>>709625125
Africa is a 3rd world shithole where tribal bullshit still reigns supreme. South Africs was once great but when the niggers took over it reverted to shit like everything else with too many niggers involved.
China is absolute shit unless you are in the top 1%. Everyone else is basically starving and working in hellish conditions to make iPhones and Nike shoes for Americans to buy.
Europe is overrun with sand niggers thanks to the EU.
The Middle East is sand nigger central and has always and will always be shit.
Nice try faggot.
>>709625716
Actually, yes. That would be much better.
Imagine watching the morning news while getting ready for work and a weatherman points to a green screen, calmly proclaiming, "...and this Saturday, it looks like it's gonna be really fuckin' cold with an 80% chance of snow."
Does that really sound like a world you wouldn't want to live in?
>>709625852
you have been engineering around your retarded outlets that you adopted because of metal shortages in ww2 for YEARS. Sure, it made sense then, but your outlets make Zero sense these days. That doesn't stop you from using it and defending it as one of the best.
You just have misplaced nationalistic tendencies. its fine, we do that with a lot of things as well but it is important to recognize it when you do it.
>>709625898
>apparently only Fahrenheit can be used to see if it's cold enough for ice to form
PFTCHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ARE AMERICANS THIS STUPID?
>>709625969
>>709625969
Americans never take anything seriously. This is why Trump is going to be your next president. Have fun with that.
>>709622377
So I can use weather to gauge temperature. If it's icy, I know it's toward 0°C.
>>709626045
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264917/UK-weather-Treacherous-black-ice-causes-travel-chaos-country-forecasters-predict-snow-afternoon-Heathrow-cancels-200-flights.html
1°C = 1K
1°F = 9/5 K
Wtf dudes ?
>>709626163
>look at this article I cherrypicked that somehow proves that nearly 7 billion people can't use Celsius
PFTCHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
AMERICAN LOGIC RIGHT HERE, FOLKS
HE'S THAT STUPID
ALSO
>DAILY MAIL
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAA
>>709625425
underrated kek
>>709626033
> assumes that I'm brittish
>>709626112
it would have to be 30 degrees below 0c since 0c is distilled water, road and sidewalks have usually been treated with salt and salt is naturally occuring around you, as are other elements which lower the freeing point of water. Hence for ice detection, fahrenheit is better.
>>709625969
Honestly I would love to live in a world where reporters swore more often regardless of measurement.
>"Last night, a man led Phoenix police on a 20-minute chase after he continued to drive with an outstanding warrant after being told to stop. About 15 minutes into the chase, however, he pulled into an In-N-Out drive-through to order himself a burger."
>"Fuckin' dumbass."
>>709622731
>>709626244
the daily mail is a british newspaper. You are just mocking yourself at this point.
Fahrenheit is a scale of human habitat. Anything outside of the 0 to 100 scale is pretty much shit weather that you don't want to be in. It's based on the human experience. We Americans use Fahrenheit for every day stuff like "how fucking hot or cold is it outside" and Celsius for physical sciences and kelvin for extreme measurements. We are smart enough to use the right tool for the right tasks instead of being retards and only being able to comprehend one system.
/thread, jealous fags
>>709626328
>AMERICAN LOGIC
YOU'RE WITNESSING IT LIVE FOLKS, FULL-ON AMERICAN RETARDATION
>>709626254
where are you from, since all measurements are based on praacticalities, not god given holy standards. Your country along with every other country uses an admixture of metric, imperial, customary and other standards. So, please tell me.
Of course, unless you are from brazil your outlet is all wrong
Amerifag here. I will gladly admit that the Imperial System is retarded and that the Metric System is probably the way to go.
But Celsius can fuck right off. It's the most retarded temperature scaling system on the planet.
>>709626345
> Need another unit for knowing what is cold or warm
> Call others retards
Ok ...
i wonder at what kind of fahrenheit temperature jet fuel can melt steel beams
>>709622039
Why do you care?
>>709626345
You should then create a new unit for dick size : 0 dickometers is 3 inches, 100 is 12 inches. You can then know if your dick is big or not. Nice logic dumbass.
>>709626631
Efficiency.
>>709626345
Your logic is F makes sense because of an arbitrary and subjective sense of comfortable temperature range. This has to be bait.
>>709626437
I'm from Germany
Now please tell me whats wrong about our outlets, and under what circumstances I use
- imperial
- customary
- other standards
UK here:
Still use Fahrenheit, feet and inches, yards and miles, pounds and ounces, pints and quarts and gallons.
Sensible real world values. Decimal shit is for computers.
>>709626713
>dickometers
I lol'd>>709626726
>>709626713
>dickometers
I lol'd
>>709626529
You don't use a fucking hammer to tighten a screw and you don't use a grinder when a light scuffing with sandpaper is what's needed. Fahrenheit is the right tool for evaluating your clothing and equipment needs outside while Kelvin is pretty good for dealing with the extremes of space. You want to use a single tool to accomplish many tasks and that usually results in said tool being equally shitty in many things rather than being good at one or a few. That's why that make different sizes of rulers for different tasks, different sizes of hammers for different jobs and different kinds of cars for different purposes. Nigga you want to drive a semi truck everywhere that's you business but we have car for daily driving, a pickup for trips to the hardware store and dump, and then a motorcycle for fun day trips. Have fun in your one size fits all suck truck for cucks
>>709623567
>american """""culture"""""
celsius would explain the americans the global warming issue. if water >0°C then ice = gone
and why would we want that?
>>709622039
...because of the importance of 32 and 33 in our culture... that's why...
>>709626860
He types on a personal computer largely developed by American companies hooked up to an Internet developed in America using software written by Americans. Why don't you get the America jizz of your chin before you try and talk shit?
>>709626755
customers ask for one pound (ein Pfund) of something when they want (exactly) 500 grams.
Electrical sockets (outlets) in Germany (Deutschland) usually supply electricity at between 220 and 240 volts AC. If you're plugging in an appliance that was built for 220-240 volt electrical input, or an appliance that is compatible with multiple voltages, then an adapter is all you need.
But travel plug adapters do not change the voltage, so the electricity coming through the adapter will still be the same 220-240 volts the socket is supplying. North American sockets supply electricity at between 110 and 120 volts, far lower than in most of the rest of the world. Consequently, North American appliances are generally built for 110-120 volts.
But that doesn't mean that your specific appliance isn't already compatible with the higher voltage -- it may very well be.
So how do I know whether or not my appliance is compatible with 220-240 volts?
Short answer: The only way to know is to check, and there's absolutely no getting around that crucial step. Electricity is nothing to mess around with, and assuming can be bad news. If you're wrong, you could "fry" your appliance, or worse yet, start a fire.
Despite using a 24 hour clock, you use 12 digits in speech.
“Sollen wir uns um 9 Uhr treffen?”
instead of “um ein-und-zwan-zig Uhr”
so, you are like america in this instance.
>>709627289
Not to mention we also use 220 in our houses to power heating units and clothes dryers as well. And that Brits have a 110 outlet they use exclusively in bathrooms for an electric shaver...
Because Americans are fucking morons and even if literally everyone but Lithuania does it, they think their way is better. Because morons.
>>709623630
Surprised you got to type that before the Muslims raped your entire family you stupid cuck. Your entire country needs to grow a spine, fucking degenerate
>>709626272
how about no you fucking autist.
What kind of polluted environment do you live in?
I live in Norway and water almost always freezes at just below 0
>>709627457
Morons who've invented the entire world in which you live in. Like computers, airplanes or anything else worth a shit? It probably started here first. Nice try cuck
>>709627289
>Pfund
this measure is archaic in German and the only person I know who uses it, is my grandmother
>North america uses 110-120V, but the rest of the world far more, so all of those suck
You can't be for real
> 12 vs 24 digit clocks
adding / substracting 12 hours is NOTHING compared to vast array of fucked up measurement systems you use.
>>709627540
Surprised you got to reply before you got shot.
And what country am I from, exactly?
I'm guessing you don't know the difference between an assumption and a presumption.
>u dum
>>709627289
you use dd.mm.yyyy instead of the standard yyyy.mm.dd
(ISO 8601)
whats worse, you actually did implement ISO 8601 and guess what? no one followed it so you repealed it in '01
you use Pferdestärken instead of SI unit kilowatt.
you measure wind in Knoten and Beaufort and sea as Seemeilen instead of metric.
you use Kalorie instead of joule and your Kalorie is wrong and actually mean Kilokalorie.
you measure in Zoll (imperial) for monitors and the like.
Font sizes are measured in point (instead of millimeter)
Resolution in dpidpi or ppippi (dots/pixel per inch) instead of d/mmd/mm or px/mmpx/mm (dots/pixel per mm)
also you use
“Meilenweit von etwas entfernt sein” (to be miles away from something)
“Meilenstein” (milestone)
“Etwas 3 Meilen gegen den Wind riechen” (smell something a mile off)
“Zollstock” (yardstick)
All imperial
>>709627681
>Hurr durr I can't figure out four QUARTS are QUARTERS of a gallon boo hoo
>>709627706
germany still uses Karat to measure mass but in most ases the measurement of mass is good but you use karat to measure the quality of gold and you also use karat to measure the mass of a diamond. So not only is it non-standard, you use the same word to measure two completely different things.
In short, germany, just like the rest of the world uses measurements based more on whats practical to them, not what is standard. Just like the US and just like the UK
>>709623544
You aren't understanding the question. He asked about design not practical use. The guy that set up the Fahrenheit scale intended for the upper level to be the human body. Except he did it wrong, so average body temperature is around 98.6. For the low scale he chose what he thought was the coldest thing around, frozen dirt, and set that as 0, so it was totally arbitrary.
We Americans mostly all know that the metric system is more sensible, we're just too stubborn to be bothered with changing.
>>709627937
That and it's never going to be 100 degrees Celsius outside so it's a stupid system for everyday experience anyway
>>709627877
Nice effort, but except for Kalorie I never had to do any calculations with those units, because they are all very limited in use.
Unlike your system, which is entirely diferent from the norm.
>>709627797
You cant even get it right yourself mate
four quarters are a full gallon
>>709622039
Well...to be fair...while C is typically more scientifically useful and the metric system in general is better for almost everything, I can't really recall a time when I've ever used temperature for anything other than telling me how hot it was outside or for something like baking a cake. In these instances, F is vastly superior since it gives you a better range of practical temperature.
The window of about -10 to 50 C for outside temp is replaced by 0-120. It's much easier to speak in relative terms about whole numbers and a half a degree than 30.125 degrees.
>>709628149
Those are all accepted and used standards within germany for scientific and legal documents that do not comply with international standards or metric. You can bitch all you want, but Germany does not follow the metric system perfectly, nor does literally any country in the world. You ALL use fucked up standards and you defend the fuck out of them like iso8601. When you tried to switch, you couldn't because everyone ignored it just like how amerians ignore some of metric, just like how you ignore some of metric, even like how the uk itself ignores some of metric. Everyone ignores metric when it is inconvenient.
>>709628348
I killed a thread with pure reason.
Check and Mate
>>709622039
Maybe if the rest of the world could do more complicated math than multiplying or dividing by 10, this map would no longer be true.
>>709629109
God Bless You
>>709622039
The Fahrenquaheit defree was a mistake. The design was to use boiling water as 200• and frozen water as 0•. The system's creator Augùste Fleaonydias Pfaltzgruinheimat mistakenly though his two glass apparatus were calibrated identically, and his work of measuring the weather for 54 years thereafter was rendered useless and only serves to contribute fuel for climate change doubting idiots.
The superior Kelvin temperature system is as nearly perfect a measure as the Cardinal System for counting items.
As fine as Lord Kelvin's temperature system is, the English Binary Volumetric system approaches its elegance. Each measure is an exact power of two between adjacents and each tenthly separarated power lies against the natural base (e) at an angle exactly equivalent to the orbits of adjacent electron pairs in the S shell of primordial Xenon atoms at zero degrees Kelvin.
Frit = the volume occupied by a Mole of Xenon condensed to 0•K at 760 Torrs.
1 ounce = 2^12 Frit
1 jigger = 2 ^ 1 oz.
1 hacup = 2 ^ 2 oz.
1 cup, 2^3rd power oz. (ounces)
1 pint ^4
1 quart ^5
1 Hagel ^6 (named for the amount of whiskey the philosopher could consume in 1,000 seconds), also a play on Hagal, the ancient former unit of half-gallon (ha-gal).
1 gallon = 2^7 ounces
1 peck 2^8
Bushel ^9
Hapn'y 10
Ponykeg 11
Hakeg 12
Keg 13
Habrell 14
Barrel 15
Haycart 16
Cart 17
Oxcart 18
Float 19
Barge 20
The Imperial System's binary nature makes calculations easy for computers and this is how the Anericans reached the moon at great expense. This is a more honorable achievement than manufacturing and selling arms, or crafting remotely operated weapon systems to use against civilians. A return to the manned exploration of space wouldn't gain much for years but would be preferable to the United States current hobby of destabilization and arms sales.
>>709623041
Actually middle Europe has better health care
>>709629109
The soviets also landed on the moon, in fact they were there first...
They just didn't use people.
>>709629109
http://www.space.com/34472-exomars-mars-lander-crash-site-photos.html
>Europe's ExoMars lander apparently crashed on the Red Planet, and an orbiting NASA spacecraft has spotted its grave, European Space Agency (ESA) officials said.
>>709622377
Yeah you know people feel heat relatively?
>>709622039
nothing
'murica is just a bunch of wannabies
>>709622039
It's a meme, ya dip.
>>709625125
Source?
>>709629407
Shooting a hunk of metal from Earth and hitting a target as big as the moon isn't that impressive, though granted, it's more than France or Cambodia or any other third world country have ever accomplished. But sending people there, several times, and getting those people back to Earth safely, is a true testament to the power of the human intellect and spirit of ingenuity.
>>709626319
Butthurt alert
>>709629414
Another 40 or 50 years and they'll catch up.
>>709629744
>Shooting a hunk of metal from Earth and hitting a target as big as the moon isn't that impressive
Call me when you get it done ok?
Anyway, they safely landed a rover on there, not so much as to shoot a bullet at the moon.
>>709629456
But still everyone internal temperature is 98.6 degrees f. So anything near or over that is going to feel hot because the body has to work to cool itself.
>>709629109
>'muricans actally believe that
>>709629109
Because you totally didn't get a nazi to do all the hard work for you to get to the moon.
It's also not like America's huge industry didn't play a role or anything, I mean Europe wasn't divided and separated at all or anything.
>>709629407
>They just didn't use people.
sure they did. in a one way trip
>>709630047
don't spoonfeed him. it's the only meme 'murica can use
ALRIGHT FOLKS, we've had some fun tonight, I'd like to thank you all for coming out tonight, god bless and drive safe!
>>709622039
Because memes. /thread
>>709629934
Yes, it's a huge conspiracy that the American government has perpetrated upon it's uneducated populous that we are the only country to send people to the moon. Someday we'll have Internet access and we'll be able to watch archived footage of all the Swedish and Danish astronauts joyfully prancing around the moon's craters.
>>709622039
Celsius and Fahrenheit are both shit Kelvin is only logic. And people don't change it because the are too used too it and we would need to change standard values for industry and such shit so people are too lazy
>>709623363
yyyy/mm/dd is the correct format. dd/mm/yyyy is acceptable but not standard or preferred. All others are wrong, totally.
>>709622039
It would require a midwife change of road , and re-education if the US were to go from imperial to metric.
>>709622039
You're missing a few countries there, bucko
That said, Fahreinheit remains for the same reason Windows beat out OS/2, or the same reason Apple still makes computers, or the same reason we haven't developed any weapon more powerful than nukes.
Technology has inertia. Once you've invested billions of dollars into something you don't want to scrap it and invent something better -- you just want to keep making incremental improvements.
If every single American already knows Fahrenheit and our laws are written with Fahrenheit units and our textbooks all use Fahrenheit in their examples -- it would be a HUGE investment to switch. You can't just wake up one day and say "okay, we're changing". The reason other countries had a chance to adopt another unit is because 99.9% of their populations were uneducated fuck-peasants who didn't know ANY temperature scales, so they were taught Celsius first. America was so technologically and educationally superior that our population all knew how to read already, sealing our fate.
That said, a few comments on the scales:
>Celsius should be named Centigrade. The INVENTOR of Celsius wanted to name it Centigrade, but "science" is now less about science and more about sounding superior, making money, and credit. So it was named after someone because it's too fucking hard to teach kids the word "100 scale" when you can make them memorize an obscure name
>Fahrenheit is based on halving and doubling. The difference between sea water (73% of Earth, so rather important) at 34.6 and the human body at 98.6 is exactly 64 -- a power of two. Meanwhile the difference between pure water freezing at 32 and boiling at 112 is exactly 180 -- the number of degrees in a half-turn of a radial thermometer, the only thermometer that existed at the time
>Celsius is based on some arbitrary counting base and the freezing and boiling points of one arbitrary molecule. Fahrenheit is based on research and math
>>709630231
'murica had 2 (two) perfect moments to switch to SI but they didn't. easy to guess why
>Fahrenheit is based on research and math
>math based on imperial units
that's why it was made so fucking wrong
>>709630189
good thing that i can watch the first "moonlanding"
and stop pretending that 'murican gov is not a one big lie factory
>>709625765
Murican system is retarded. Metric is sensible. Not British or murican here so you can fuck off with your shithouse arguments
Keep talking about America were known to storm country's and raid your shot and kill your whole fucking culture ask the fucking middle east , Japan, Germany and the continent Africa . No hesitation to send in troops and leave your land in rubble then you dumb fucks will seek refuge in my land . But you'll get treated less then our fellow niggers
>>709630474
So to be clear, you don't believe that Americans have successfully landed on the moon?
>>709630596
maybe later, when russia gave up because it was too expensive and there was nothing to achieve
also:
>Americans have
plz...
>>709630822
Yes, the Russians "gave up". Sure, champ. More like ran out of cosmonauts that anything more than a small pile of ashes that were burned up in the Earth's atmosphere. And explain to me how Americans are not solely responsible for, still to this day - nearly 50 years later - the only country to send people to the moon. Right - that's no achievement. Get fucked, Europor.
>>709624146
kek
>>709631364
>assumptions
>this mad
idc what crap they've pumped into your perfectly empty head. maybe do something worthwile in your life and do some research
>nearly 50 years later - the only country to send people to the moon
not everyone wants to throw up massive amounts of munny and still pay for it, after nearly 50 years
and stop with this 'murican did X crap
>>709622039
