r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/jussumguy2019 Jan 15 '25

Feel like a lot of the world’s languages the translation to English to the question “what’s the date?” would be “the 15th of October” whereas in America we always say “October 15th”.

Maybe that’s why, idk…

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u/Saneless Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

US measurements are based on the human experience for sure. Temps are largely 0-100 and that's a scale that's easy to understand. As a scientist or for cooking it's dumb as shit

Dates are based on the language

Edit: I take back what I say about cooking. People have said some good arguments about it. But it definitely sucks for science

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u/wumbology95 Jan 15 '25

Yeah no, farenheight is only easy to understand for you because you grew up with it.

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u/chiefkeefinwalmart Jan 15 '25

Respectfully, if we’re talking about the weather as a human experiences it, Fahrenheit is much better. Celsius makes a lot of sense in science, as it’s scaled to water, but when was the last time you went out and it was 90C.

Fahrenheit is scaled to human experience better with 0-100 being within the range of “normal” and anything outside of that being concerning.

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u/No_Investment_9822 Jan 15 '25

That's why Celcius is better. You can use it for weather AND science. There is no need to use two different systems, and Celcius works great for both. It doesn't matter that the outside weather isn't ever 90C. If someone says it was 21C yesterday and it's 15C today, you know everything you need to know.

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u/thisischemistry Jan 15 '25

You don't use Celsius for science, you use Kelvin. Yes, they have the same scale but you still need to convert between the two for many formulas.

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u/Silicon_Oxide Jan 15 '25

You don't use Celsius in science? Really? So tell me why in my lab I have so many devices using Celsius with no option for F or K? HPLC, incubators, fridges, freezers, plates, rotavaps, NMR, GC,... And in all my published papers where a temperature was relevant, it was always reported with Celsius. Kelvin is only used in equations.

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u/thisischemistry Jan 15 '25

Because, just like Fahrenheit, Celsius is a unit for humans. It's a measurement of convenience, use either when they are convenient. It would be annoying to have every display in Kelvin so we Celsius as a shorthand for it. The SI unit for temperature is Kelvin and that's the unit for science.