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In the USA I'm going to start asking mechinists and mechanics "Do you use the royal feet or scientific meters?"... maybe that will finally get people offended enough to switch to metric :)
@freemo meh, plenty of us are proud to use royal feet over scientific meters because they just make more sense for the particular application.
We proudly use the better tool rather than following the crowd!
@volkris There is no application where it makes better sense unless you mean something that already uses that and therefore youjust dont have the choice (often the case)
@freemo as we apply measurements, we disagree :)
We find that, for example, inches are scaled far better for so many projects than cm or mm, in the same way that degrees F are scaled better for human application than degrees C or K.
When it comes down to something ranging in size from around a baseball up to a table leg--roughly human sized things--the royal feet units are simply more practical, so we prefer them.
They make more practical sense.
Reading up on what Fahrenheit is based on: "0 Β°F, was established as the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride (a salt)."
Hmm...right...because everyone does that, obviously. π€£
Seriously though, why would he be mixing water, ice (!) and salt? Over here (in Sweden) we know that water freezes at 0C (that is 32F I believe). But why mix with ice, which is already frozen water? And salt? Over here we put salt on the roads and sidewalks to make them _not_ freeze.
Over here anything below 0C means icy roads and rain comes down as snow. You are likely to be late for work if you drive and you haven't started earlier. I think that is more relevant, and applicable, than "there will be icy roads at 31F but not at 33F".
So, water freezes at 0C and it boils at 100C. I have no idea what the boiling temperature of a brine solution of tree sap, gasoline and sugar is, but as that isn't something I normally do either, actually about as often as I mix water, ice and salt, I can get by quite well without that knowledge. I do need to know when I should get up 1 hour earlier to dig out my car from the snow. π
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