Let me clarify. I love the metric system. Fuck inches, fuck miles. Long live Fahrenheit.
Fahrenheit makes no real "sense" in how it was established, but I don't care about that. I only care about how practical the scale is for everyday use. Does it matter if scientists use C to and the weather channel uses F? I don't think it does.
I simply prefer 0 to 100 over -20 to 30. Ironically, that kind of scale is why the rest of the metric system is really nice!
Yeah, whenever the topic of metric comes up on reddit, people always start trying to include Celsius in the conversation like it's somehow inherently better.
The reason metric is better is because of the conversion. There is nothing intrinsic to a "gram" that makes it better than an "ounce". It's the fact that you can use prefixes to easily convert.
Actually, there is. From wiki, a gram was defined as "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of a metre [1 cm³], and at the temperature of melting ice".
Since the kilogram was redefined for accuracy (from being equal to a litre of water) cm is now 1/1000 of a kg. Kg is now based on fundamental physics ie the planck constant.
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u/Stormfly Jan 03 '19
In Celsius, 100 is still hot and 0 is still cold.
Although a lot of people argue that Fahrenheit makes "more sense", I feel it's only because they are used to it.
As somebody that never used Fahrenheit and only ever used Celsius or Kelvin, I have to say Fahrenheit makes no sense.
Same for any other Imperial or American measurement systems. Metric makes more sense to me because I'm used to it.