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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Celsius is near useless as well, you can't use it for anything without converting it to kelvins first. Both F and C are "because we use it and it's familiar". 100 degrees we should have said your blood is already frozen! Turn the heat on

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago*

    Celsius is near useless

    Found a USian 🤦

    “In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”

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