The metric system

[Hatman 🍁]

When it comes to speed, km/h is better too. Think about it...

100 - big number - means maximum fastocity
50 - in the middle - means averagocity
0 - Well, this is the same in m/h it means go nowhereocity

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I find the U.S. system very difficult to figure out. Especially farenheit. It makes no sense. why is 32 the freezing mark?

  There are a number of explanations as to why the Fahrenheit scale is as it was.  However, the theory that makes the most sense to me is that Fahrenheit was able to determine fairly acurately the freezing/melting points of pure water and an ice-salt mixture.  He set the melting point of ice at 32° and that of the ice-salt mixture at 0°.  The easiest way to subdivide a scale is by halves, so using a number of degrees equal to a power 2, such 32 = 2⁵ as the number of degrees between his calibration points makes excellent sense.  (A related story has him using 96° as a reference point of either horse or human blood temperature thus providing 64 degrees between his two reference marks.)  Actually, the boiling point is a very poor calibration point for a temperature scale since it varies a lot depnding upon atmospheric pressure.  The only reason Celsius became the metric temperature scale is it used a power of 10 between its calibration points and so was pseudo-metric already.  Setting the zero point at absolute zero, as in the Kelvin and Rankene scales makes the most sense, but that still leaves the question of where to put the other reference point.  Since the triple points can be found fairly easy, if one were defining a temperature scale from scratch, setting a triple point to be some power of 10 as the other reference point would make the most sense.  However, while it might make sense, there would be no appreciable benefit to be gained from such a change, so it will never be made.

[Lunar]

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The shorter answer is that the scale isn't based off of water.

I acutally prefer Fahrenheit to Celsius.  I think it's slightly easier to use since the degrees are more spread out.

[Hatman 🍁]

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The shorter answer is that the scale isn't based off of water.

I acutally prefer Fahrenheit to Celsius.  I think it's slightly easier to use since the degrees are more spread out.

Yeah, but it makes no sense! There's no need to be that specific anyways. I'm sure 64 F is not much different than 63 or even 62 for example.  In fact it's too many numbers to remember,  Especially in a climate such as where I am, where temperatures will vary from -30 to +30.

[KEmperor]

When it comes to speed, km/h is better too. Think about it...

100 - big number - means maximum fastocity
50 - in the middle - means averagocity
0 - Well, this is the same in m/h it means go nowhereocity

Yeah, but it makes no sense! There's no need to be that specific anyways. I'm sure 64 F is not much different than 63 or even 62 for example.  In fact it's too many numbers to remember,  Especially in a climate such as where I am, where temperatures will vary from -30 to +30.

Your logic seems to vary depending on what you are talking about.  Using the same argument you yourself used for speed, I can use for temperature:

0=Very Cold, you better wear gloves and avoid prolonged exposure.
50=Medium, still need a light jacket, but its not bad
100=Very Hot, definately need to turn on the A/C

Sure using freezing and boiling points for water is dead useful from a scientific viewpoint, but from an everyday, "how cold is it out?" standpoint, having a full range from 0 to 100 be common temperatures makes more sense.  How often is the temperature outside going to start approaching boiling?

Also, is there really much difference between 64km/h, 63km/h, and 62km/h?  Seems like too many numbers to me.

[Gabu]

Also, is there really much difference between 64km/h, 63km/h, and 62km/h?

Depends on whether the police officer is in a good mood.

At any rate, I dunno.  I've used Celcius for everyday purposes all my life and it's worked fine for me.  I know exactly what 0, 10, 20, or 30 degrees Celcius feels like; hearing a number in Celcius makes perfect sense to me.  I've never needed numbers all the way from 0 to 100.

[Ebowed]

I am against switching to the metric system.