"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
> Besides, everyone knows that freezing is a very relative thing anyways. I
> have seen snow and ice many times at 34-35 F (or slightly above your
> beloved 0 C). Plus, negative numbers are always slightly more
> inconvenient than positive integers.
>
> This makes comparision of memories of extreme weather conditions much
> easier, by having convenient benchmarks at the extremes, instead of
> irrelevant numbers like "below -10 C days," and "above 35 C days".
>
> After all, 100 degrees is where it starts to get actually *hot*.
>
I'm no great fan of either system, I'd go along with whatever is chosen
officially, but the above reasons are personal aesthetic reasons not really
logical ones, and when it comes down to choosing units of measurement, it
seems to me that logical, scientific reasons should take precedence. That and
compatibility. If the rest of the world has decided that imperial units are
outmoded maybe we should get off our high horse and go along.
I just hope we don't have to start driving on the wrong side of the road. 8^)
Doug
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"This situation is similar to a group of people deciding to build a bridge to
the moon. Instead
of assessing the feasibility of the full project before moving forward, they
decide to start
building the onramps, since that's the part they know how to do."
Physicists David Wright and Theodore Postol on the National Missile Defense
Initiative
http://www.commondreams.org/views/051100-101.htm
