"Arbitrary scale at which water freezes" is such an annoyingly dumb representation of the Fahrenheit scale, that even as a European I feel the need to defend it.
I generally agree that metric is better, but there's an argument for Fahrenheit.
It was based on human body temperature, so its easier to inuit if a temperature "feels hot"
How? it is just numbers, there is no human relation. i grew up learning both measures. i know that 20C is comfortable the same at 68F is comfortable. If anything C makes more sense, at 0 things are going to want to freeze on my body. For F that is 32...an arbitrary value
0-50f is cold enough to kill you by exposure, 75f is comfortable, 100f is uncomfortable, higher than 100f can kill you. Seems kinda arbitrary to me.
Sure. Kelvin is the proper scale. Celsius is just water from freezing to boiling at some atmospheric pressure divided into 100 units. Not because there's anything absolute to it, but because water is kind of important in our lives.
Exactly. I once visited a seed bank and there was some text along the lines of “we store these seeds at -60 °C which is 3 times as cold as your typical freezer” (for Americans: a freezer typically is about -20 °C). Yeah, no, that’s not how it works. With Kelvin you can actually do math like that, because 0 K is the absence of heat zero thermal energy.
0 K is zero thermal energy, not heat. Heat is the amount of thermal energy transferred during a process.
Sure there's an argument, but it's a terrible one and you should feel bad for even making it
After the dutch and indian language, Americans are the second thing I hate the most in the world. God its almost unhealthy.