Imperial is better for everyday use, it was designed around the human. 1 foot is about the size of a foot. Inches are about the size of a digit section. A yard is about the size of a stride. A mile is about a 1000 paces.
Fahrenheit units are great for most temperature ranges, 0 you are very cold and 100 you are very hot. With celsius 0 you are kinda cold, 100 you never see it.
For sketchy communications it is easy to mix up millimeters, centimeters, kilometers with meters. if the comms gives out. There is no confusion of saying feet, yard, or mile, the words sound different.
Screw the change to metric, I see this as a ploy to really knock the US identity. You can go ahead and use it in a lab, but out here when you have no measurement device, imperial is best.
Screw the change to metric, I see this as a ploy to really knock the US identity.
That's pretty much my view. I see zero practical daily limitations with imperial. If someone wants to use metric for research purposes or calibration who give a shiit. It has some advantages. But to try to force us to abandon traditional cultural rules of measure that present no inherent problems? No way.
Fahrenheit units are great for most temperature ranges, 0 you are very cold and 100 you are very hot. With celsius 0 you are kinda cold, 100 you never see it.
Fahrenheit is pointless?
0 degC is ice, so don't brake hard 100 degC is boiling water at sea level
these have the same real world relevancy as feet and inches, feeling hot or cold is relative, if we had 0 or 100 degF in the UK, everyone would take a day off work, we'd invent a "UK Fahrenheit" range of 50 to 77, so 22 degrees of precision
I was referring to the US.
I didn't say it was pointless, but how many times has the weather given us 100C?
You aren't always relating temperature to the weather, I already know when I'm likely to be hot or cold, but 0degC is an important enough figure to warrant a warning light on the dashboard
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