On Tue, 08 May 2001 00:08:45 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Well Sam, I agree with your comments re perception of discomfort, but
> the survivability is independant of adaptation at those temperatures
> assuming reasonable attire and no wind chill.
The Farenheit scale is rather charming in its eccentricity, what with
it's mistakes and corrections and so forth. It does have the advantage
of more gradations in the human comfort zone, which is quite narrow
after all, despite the variation of what we can subjectively tolerate.
The Celsius scale, while admirable in it's rationality, doesn't
lend itself to making easily expressed distinsctions like that of
65 or 72 degrees Farenheit.
Of course, it's just as easy to measure this differance with the
Celsius scale, but it's harder to express verbally.
This may be a matter of familiarity and usage.
I do know that for common usage, the United States is not going
to adapt the metric system anytime in the foreseeable future.
But here's a question: In those countries that use the metric
system, what is the size of a standard sheet of plywood?
Perhaps there is no "standard" maybe I should say what is the most
common size of a sheet of plywood? In the United States it's
4 feet x 8 feet.
Sam Ewalt
Croswell, Michigan, USA
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