International space colony? They'd use Celsius, because Fahrenheit isn't really used much outside of the U.S.
Also, a space colony would be comprised mostly of scientists, and they'd all use Celsius. Edit: Because the Celsius scale follows the Kelvin scale.
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idiggory, King of Bards wrote:
It just works well. I can hear the temperature and know exactly how I feel about that.
But to the degree that we're placing any relevance at all on the usefulness of a "0-100 scale", 100 F is far more useful for determining "hot/cold" for humans than 100C. The boiling point of water is so far outside the range of anything useful in terms of human sensitivity as to be completely useless.
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I know instantly that, say 25°C is going to mean warm but not too hot and that -5°C means that half of the Netherlands is pitching a tent over the possibility of an Elfstedentocht.
Only because you've gotten used to an arbitrary number. It's not a "non-argument" to say that 100F is a good measurement that tells you instantly that "it's hot outside", while 40C really doesn't do the same thing at all. It's a very compelling argument, in fact.
King Nobby wrote:
More words please
Mazra wrote:
Also, a space colony would be comprised mostly of scientists, and they'd all argue over which unit of measurement to use and crash the rocket into Mars.
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gbaji wrote:
Only because you've gotten used to an arbitrary number.
Unlike you guys? Your understanding of 0 to 100 is founded in science, right? That's why the scientific community uses Fahrenheit, right?
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Mazra wrote:
International space colony? They'd use Celsius, because Fahrenheit isn't really used much outside of the U.S.
Also, a space colony would be comprised mostly of scientists, and they'd all use Celsius. Edit: Because the Celsius scale follows the Kelvin scale.
Also, a space colony would be comprised mostly of scientists, and they'd all use Celsius. Edit: Because the Celsius scale follows the Kelvin scale.
Psh, clearly the Americans would be launching that thing. You'd be too busy trying to figure out which weird words to string together for its name...
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Mazra wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Only because you've gotten used to an arbitrary number.
Unlike you guys? Your understanding of 0 to 100 is founded in science, right? That's why the scientific community uses Fahrenheit, right?
I'm specifically not talking about the scientific community, but how the average joe is going to react to a number. Let's forget about the bottom end for a moment and look at the top end. 100F is a convenient number that tells us that "it's hot". 38C is just a random number. Why not 58? Or 78?
Any temperature scale is arbitrary. But the Fahrenheit scale is arbitrarily aligned to how temperatures feel to humans, while the Celsius scale is aligned to how water feels on a bunsen burner. One is useful in a lab, the other useful on the weather channel.
King Nobby wrote:
More words please
gbaji wrote:
One is useful in a lab and on the weather channel, the other only useful on the weather channel.
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You people take your units of temperature scale a little too seriously 
Belkira wrote:
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Jophiel wrote:
You people take your units of temperature scale a little too seriously
It's because it's so cold outside, and those celsius bastards see our 20s and laugh.
IDrownFish wrote:
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lolgaxe wrote:
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gbaji wrote:
Mazra wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Only because you've gotten used to an arbitrary number.
Unlike you guys? Your understanding of 0 to 100 is founded in science, right? That's why the scientific community uses Fahrenheit, right?
I'm specifically not talking about the scientific community, but how the average joe is going to react to a number. Let's forget about the bottom end for a moment and look at the top end. 100F is a convenient number that tells us that "it's hot". 38C is just a random number. Why not 58? Or 78?
Any temperature scale is arbitrary. But the Fahrenheit scale is arbitrarily aligned to how temperatures feel to humans, while the Celsius scale is aligned to how water feels on a bunsen burner. One is useful in a lab, the other useful on the weather channel.
But why put cold at 0 when the scale also uses negative numbers? Doesn't it make more sense to put a negative number as cold and a positive number as hot? Like -100 ºF to +100 ºF? Minus means frost on the Celsius scale, which makes more sense to me than "Oh, it'll drop below 32 tonight"...
I get that 0-100 is a nice scale for mathematically challenged people, but come on. You're taught negative numbers in first grade. Why not use them?
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You're taught negative numbers in first grade. Why not use them?
You're seriously overestimating the American school system.
IDrownFish wrote:
Anyways, you all are horrible, @#%^ed up people
lolgaxe wrote:
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Maybe Dr. Joe Fahrenheit thought anyone who called one degree F "cold" was a pansy.
Belkira wrote:
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Mazra wrote:
I get that 0-100 is a nice scale for mathematically challenged people, but come on. You're taught negative numbers in first grade. Why not use them?
By that argument no scale is better or worse than any other. We could peg 0 at the temperature that bacon grease congeals and 100 at the temperature of a mongoose fart, and it would be just as useful.
So we're left with a choice between not caring about whether the numbers are arbitrary, in which case Fahrenheit and Celsius are equal (as are any randomly chosen scale for that matter), or we decide we actually do care about the numbers having some relevance to human perception of hot/cold, in which case Fahrenheit is superior.
So basically, if we don't care what we use, they're the same, but if we do, then Fahrenheit is superior. Are we agreed on this?
King Nobby wrote:
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There's only two thermal measurements in a space station that matter:
A>. Nominal
B>. +3 Kelvin, because you have a hull breach.
A>. Nominal
B>. +3 Kelvin, because you have a hull breach.
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gbaji wrote:
So basically, if we don't care what we use, they're the same, but if we do, then Fahrenheit is superior. Are we agreed on this? 
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gbaji wrote:
So basically, if we don't care what we use, they're the same, but if we do, then Fahrenheit is superior. Are we agreed on this?
No, because...
gbaji wrote:
...we decide we actually do care about the numbers having some relevance to human perception of hot/cold...
...and perception is subjective.
Anyway, this is a pointless discussion. Whether the scale is based on the freezing point of water or brine, what matters is our ability to understand them. Same with the metric vs the imperial system. The rest of the world uses the metric system (and Celsius), but fine... be a special snowflake.
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Mazra wrote:
but fine... be a special snowflake. 
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