The UK went metric in the 70's, young people know both systems, old people only know f. the weather on Tv they usually tell you both..

Oh and they still use miles instead of kilometres. Sort of a fucked up highbred of the two systems, but it works and confuses the fuck out of foreigners :1orglaugh


Kelvin is the hardcore sytem 0 degrees kelvin is -256f. Liquid nitrogen temp,
I think.
Going back 15 years to chemistry class to remember that one.

We still use the two to some extent here in Canada. We give our height in feet and inches and our weight in pounds. However, our driver's licenses give the height in centimetres and weight in kilos.

Celcius here in norway!

You live in a different UK than me then. Have you watched a weather forecast anytime in the last few years?

We ran both for a long while due to the change only happening in he 70's but like it or not there's very little use of imperial now other than the road system and people over 35-40. Best case scenario you'll get the odd imperial conversion shown too although more often and not these days in all measurements you get just metric. If it's any different where you are then as I say - you live in a different UK than me.

Here's my 2 cent take on this.

I'm an American, living in Mexico. I find that the F v. C question is a simple matter of "specifics." English is a much more specific language than Spanish. Spanish is very "generic." Take away a person's expressions and hand gestures and they can't speak Spanish.

"Specifics", as mentioned here, means "exactness." With C, you're breaking down a range "generically." F tends to break it down more specificially by giving you more segments within the same range. K goes even farther, within that same range and gives you MORE units to work with within the noted range.

The range of "exactness" withing a noted reference segment is broad (C), segmented (F) and precise (K).

Play with you numbers all you want. Words, too. When one has more units to choose from, within a stated range, you get more exact readings, not some "generic round about."

And....Spanish sucks, too!

Farenheit is the downs syndrome kid of temperature measurement.

ok I admit, 40 is hot.. Going to be like 32ish here today.

I like the heat though. I grew up in Texas then moved to Canada and about died. Spending two winters in Edmonton was one crazy experience. I moved to Vegas thinking it was warm enough, which it wasn't. (it gets damn cold in the winter in vegas). Now I'm in S. Arizona and loving it.

Juicy a quick way to convert in your head. Get your celcius, double it, subtract 10% and add 32 and it gets you pretty much at your fahrenheit.

I'm sure any measurement won't impress them. :winkwink:

Celsius is as exact as Kelvin is. the scale is just displaced. 0C = 273,15K and 10C = 283,15K so it's 1:1. but compared to fahrenheit the ratio is 1:1:1.8

that doesn't mean any unit is more exact than another. the scales are just displaced at a certain ratio. :winkwink: kelvin is the scientifical unit. I know I'm clever shit :jerkoff

50 Calculus Flunkies

That's not just quick, it's totally accurate.

here are the formulas
(Cx1.8)+32=F
(F-32)/1.8=C


-40C = -40F
ie Fucking Cold is Fucking Cold no matter which way you look at it.


Anyone besides me think it's funny that the US is the last country hanging onto the "Imperial" system?

Didn't NASA drop a Mars probe over some bad Metric/Imperial communication?

I think it's time to give it up.

Has Juicy even posted in this thread since he started it?

Again, people... it just doesn't get any simpler than this.

It makes the most sense to have zero as the freezing point. And all this pseudo-logic about the other scales being more details is bullocks. We're talking about a universal system that entire populations can grasp, and in terms of describing the temperature outside to the masses there simply is no better system than the Celsius scale. And over 90% of the world agrees with that, obviously.

The other day I heard a meteorologist say that the temperature dropping from 60F to 54F
was a 10% drop. Ever since I've been on a Kelvin kick.

Okay that I can understand.

Too funny :D

Hahahahahaha... True!