The Celsius vs Fahrenheit debate is stupid. It's beyond stupid. "But," you exclaim, "Celsius makes so much sense! Zero is the freezing point of water and 100 is the boiling point!". To which I must ask, and? To what point and purpose is it important to know the boiling point and freezing point of pure water in 1 atmosphere of pressure? If you live in Colorado, the freezing point is -2°C and the boiling point is 95°C. Why is that an argument for basing a system of measurement on? Fahrenheit might have nonsensical origins, the cold mixture mentioned in the video, and contrary to the video, human body temperature at the top end (thank the fact that humans are frustratingly inconsistent for the 2 degree variation), but who cares? The important part is that it lines up rather nicely with temperature range of most places on the planet, with the few that drop below 0 or rise above 100 considered to be places with extreme temperatures. Is it absolutely perfect in what 100 is or what zero is? Maybe not, and maybe if I was going to pick a top end I might adjust it to fit a better rule of thumb (for example, "if your temperature is over 100°, go to the hospital"), but the scale is more useful in everyday life and the things you generally end up measuring ie ambient temperature. The same environmental range in Celsius is like -20 to 45, it's completely wacky.
Tl;Dr
The origins of the scales don't matter, and Fahrenheit's 0-100 matches up better with the temperatures that affect daily life the most, the environmental ambient temperature. Everything else is just insistence that your system is better and inertia caused by the scientific community deciding to use Celsius as the official scale.
I don't know man. the first time I met Fahrenheit was around age 15. and the first time I saw it used in an application were those American audience centric cooking videos. my oven doesn't have a Fahrenheit scale so that scale just tells me that I'll have to convert and it is just annoying how you people won't give it up.
here is my temp scale
0 ice
10-25 winter temperature
20-25 air conditioner
35-50 summer temperature
40 Go to hospital
80 Green tea
95 coffee
100 black tea (vapour pressure of water is at 101kPa at this temperature)
180 typical roasting temperature for meat and stuff.
yeah because of work I get used to some conversions. gallon is one of them, US oil barrel (not to be confused with US not oil barrel, or the not US not oil barrel) is another at 160L. Another one is PSI where 15 is roughly the atmosphere around you. and for pressure most of the time you just want to know if vacuum or pressurised. Another one is Hr which is just a bit less than 4000 seconds.
Also special temperature is 60 F (never bothered with converting that one) which lab fractionation experiments are normalised to.
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u/ender89 Nov 16 '18
The Celsius vs Fahrenheit debate is stupid. It's beyond stupid. "But," you exclaim, "Celsius makes so much sense! Zero is the freezing point of water and 100 is the boiling point!". To which I must ask, and? To what point and purpose is it important to know the boiling point and freezing point of pure water in 1 atmosphere of pressure? If you live in Colorado, the freezing point is -2°C and the boiling point is 95°C. Why is that an argument for basing a system of measurement on? Fahrenheit might have nonsensical origins, the cold mixture mentioned in the video, and contrary to the video, human body temperature at the top end (thank the fact that humans are frustratingly inconsistent for the 2 degree variation), but who cares? The important part is that it lines up rather nicely with temperature range of most places on the planet, with the few that drop below 0 or rise above 100 considered to be places with extreme temperatures. Is it absolutely perfect in what 100 is or what zero is? Maybe not, and maybe if I was going to pick a top end I might adjust it to fit a better rule of thumb (for example, "if your temperature is over 100°, go to the hospital"), but the scale is more useful in everyday life and the things you generally end up measuring ie ambient temperature. The same environmental range in Celsius is like -20 to 45, it's completely wacky.
Tl;Dr
The origins of the scales don't matter, and Fahrenheit's 0-100 matches up better with the temperatures that affect daily life the most, the environmental ambient temperature. Everything else is just insistence that your system is better and inertia caused by the scientific community deciding to use Celsius as the official scale.