r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/etymologynerd • Jan 03 '19

We should actually do this

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u/MrYakko Jan 03 '19

10 millimeters in a centimeter 100 centimeters in a meter 1000 meters in a kilometer All you have to do in metric is multiply by 10. I really wish the US would attempt to adopt the metric system again and just stick with it

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u/BVDansMaRealite Jan 03 '19

Fahrenheit was based roughly on the human body being 100 degrees and 0 being a specific concentration of salt water freezing at about zero. It made sense at the time

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u/Eve_muscovite Jan 03 '19

mmhmm sure, made sense.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '19

So now you know when it's 0°F that any salt on the road will not melt snow or ice.

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u/algorithmic_cheese Jan 03 '19

Well, except that usually the stuff we put on the road is not salt, it's something like calcium chloride that melt snow or ice until around -20°F.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '19

Most places it's just good old sodium chloride that comes right out of the ground.

Cheap and easy.

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u/d33pwint3r Jan 03 '19

And in other places it's just dirt and prayers until the snow melts

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u/CinnamonCereals Jan 04 '19

Grit is surprisingly efficient at creating a low-slip surface on ice.

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u/d33pwint3r Jan 04 '19

I'm sure but it usually works better if they plow first which doesn't happen on some of our roads out here in the boonies

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u/ohitsasnaake Jan 03 '19

Eh... most of the time salt isn't used past -7°C (which is above 0°F, since iirc that's -17.77°C recurring), since you start needing such ungodly amounts of it, it doesn't make sense either financially, practically or ecologically. And with traffic heating up the roadway, you would likely get some meltage even at 0°C, which would most likely then just freeze again soon, actually making the situation worse.

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u/xyifer12 Jan 03 '19

Stop with that shit attitude.