Ducky Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 2 hours ago, PerreaultForever said: An easy one to remember is 28 is 82 (within small decimal points) so you can usually guestimate from there without even doing much math. Also, every degree of C is 1.8F. If you move up 10C, you are moving up 18F. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDS Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 Fahrenheit: 0° is really really cold. 100° is really really hot. It is a great scale for the weather. Celsius: 0° is kind of coldish. 100° is death to all living things. It is a sucky scale for weather. There’s no reason to convert a number if you just use the better scale. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwampD Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 30 minutes ago, SDS said: Fahrenheit: 0° is really really cold. 100° is really really hot. It is a great scale for the weather. Celsius: 0° is kind of coldish. 100° is death to all living things. It is a sucky scale for weather. There’s no reason to convert a number if you just use the better scale. This is an interesting post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PerreaultForever Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 2 hours ago, SDS said: Fahrenheit: 0° is really really cold. 100° is really really hot. It is a great scale for the weather. Celsius: 0° is kind of coldish. 100° is death to all living things. It is a sucky scale for weather. There’s no reason to convert a number if you just use the better scale. idk, don't you think it's weird for the whole world to do one method, based on 0-100, much like the rest of number usage in a decimal system and one country hanging on to an archaic system? Anyway, I was also going to say -40 is -40, that's where the two scales meet on the bottom end. As for the weather, it's easy, anything 30 and up is hot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwampD Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 10 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said: idk, don't you think it's weird for the whole world to do one method, based on 0-100, much like the rest of number usage in a decimal system and one country hanging on to an archaic system? Anyway, I was also going to say -40 is -40, that's where the two scales meet on the bottom end. As for the weather, it's easy, anything 30 and up is hot. So you agree with SDS. The metric system, without question, is better for everything else, based on the 0-100 that you mention,... except the weather. Farenheit 0-100 is just better when talking about the weather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PerreaultForever Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 39 minutes ago, SwampD said: So you agree with SDS. The metric system, without question, is better for everything else, based on the 0-100 that you mention,... except the weather. Farenheit 0-100 is just better when talking about the weather. Not really. You're just used to it. Honestly I'm old enough to be familiar with both systems . I still say I weigh 175 pounds and have no idea off the top of my head how many kilos that is. I convert to pounds. I'm 6'1". Not whatever in meters or centimeters. But, although I know both temperature systems I think of the weather in celsius automatically and when I am on an American channel and see weather maps with 50s and 60s or whatever I have to think and calculate what that means. Also driving, totally used to klms and klms/hr. and often end up speeding on U.S. highways when I'm across the border. (back in those days we were allowed to cross, way back in the olden days.......or so it feels like lol) So short answer, no, I think it's just what you're used to. and in any event, by any scale, it was too f'n hot. Finally breaking tonight. Should only be about 27/80 tomorrow. Hopefully with a breeze too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PerreaultForever Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 Just to cap this off, I heard today that in Lytton, way up north here, it was hotter than it's EVER been in Las Vegas. That's just wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_sauve28 Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 The United States has been on the metric system for oneimportant thing since 1790. Any guesses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthEbriate Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 25 minutes ago, bob_sauve28 said: The United States has been on the metric system for oneimportant thing since 1790. Any guesses? It's probably something boring like the weight of gold in grams as measure of then gold-backed currency. For myself, I propose a guess that Benjamin Franklin was flying a key from a kite, got struck by lightning, measured it in 1.21 gigawatts, and that's when he drew the diagram of the flux capacitor which is what makes time travel possible. That, or the use of parsecs as a system of... <mumbling something incoherent> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_sauve28 Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 1 minute ago, DarthEbriate said: It's probably something boring like the weight of gold in grams as measure of then gold-backed currency. For myself, I propose a guess that Benjamin Franklin was flying a key from a kite, got struck by lightning, measured it in 1.21 gigawatts, and that's when he drew the diagram of the flux capacitor which is what makes time travel possible. That, or the use of parsecs as a system of... <mumbling something incoherent> Lol, you were so close yet so far away in your first part. It’s like such an obvious thing but people don’t think of it that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwampD Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 1 hour ago, bob_sauve28 said: The United States has been on the metric system for oneimportant thing since 1790. Any guesses? Booze. And Blow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubkev Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 (edited) 25 minutes ago, SwampD said: Booze. And Blow. That is correct! And everything under the hood of my car is 10mm. Edited June 30, 2021 by ubkev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 1 hour ago, bob_sauve28 said: The United States has been on the metric system for oneimportant thing since 1790. Any guesses? I didn't think *anyone* was using the metric system in 1790. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_sauve28 Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 6 minutes ago, Eleven said: I didn't think *anyone* was using the metric system in 1790. Alexander Hamilton and the money system. Based on 10s. That was a break from the Pound and shillings and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 1 minute ago, bob_sauve28 said: Alexander Hamilton and the money system. Based on 10s. That was a break from the Pound and shillings and such. Decimal currency, yeah. Metric system though? The French were just starting to think about it in 1790. And a decimal calendar along with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_sauve28 Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 15 minutes ago, Eleven said: Decimal currency, yeah. Metric system though? The French were just starting to think about it in 1790. And a decimal calendar along with it. Maybe I remember that one wrong. Thought biographer Ron Chernow made that point about Hamilton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthEbriate Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 23 minutes ago, Eleven said: Decimal currency, yeah. Metric system though? The French were just starting to think about it in 1790. And a decimal calendar along with it. Hmmm.... Yes. I think I'd have to also question our currency being metric because it appears to based on a decimal system with the primary dollar unit on a scale of 100 instead of 10s. Now, with a cent (centimeter) it makes perfect sense (ha! homonyms!) because century/100 and all that. But formally, we'd be calling those centidollars. And dimes should be decidollars. And instead of dropping Hamiltons we'd be dropping decadollars. Kilodollars for 1,000s. All of our veteran players would be signing seven-figure megadollar contracts instead of million dollar contracts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDS Posted July 1, 2021 Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 I wanted to point this out about the currency, but I didn’t have the energy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PerreaultForever Posted July 1, 2021 Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 Well you want to go back in time to the ridiculous stuff remember a "foot" was not 12 inches but rather the length of the King's actual foot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted July 1, 2021 Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 20 hours ago, PerreaultForever said: idk, don't you think it's weird for the whole world to do one method, based on 0-100, much like the rest of number usage in a decimal system and one country hanging on to an archaic system? Anyway, I was also going to say -40 is -40, that's where the two scales meet on the bottom end. As for the weather, it's easy, anything 30 and up is hot. Thing is with that archaic system, when doing conversions & calculations (especially in engineering) you don't end up with answers that are off 1 or 2 orders of magnitude when not noticing that things were in centimeters when you were expecting either millimeters or meters. Will stick with the archaic system. 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PerreaultForever Posted July 1, 2021 Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Taro T said: Thing is with that archaic system, when doing conversions & calculations (especially in engineering) you don't end up with answers that are off 1 or 2 orders of magnitude when not noticing that things were in centimeters when you were expecting either millimeters or meters. Will stick with the archaic system. 😉 I'm a retired engineer so I totally get this, but you do realize it's the exact opposite perspective up here. Imported American products usually have converted specs, but when they don't, mistakes can definitely be made. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubkev Posted July 1, 2021 Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 9 hours ago, PerreaultForever said: Just to cap this off, I heard today that in Lytton, way up north here, it was hotter than it's EVER been in Las Vegas. That's just wrong. And now the whole town is on fire. Very sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted July 1, 2021 Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 7 hours ago, bob_sauve28 said: Maybe I remember that one wrong. Thought biographer Ron Chernow made that point about Hamilton Oh, Hammy (any relation to Paul?) may have, with currency, and Chernow may have been right. I've no idea. I suspect that it's correct. But the metric system, the decimal calendar, and the decimal clock (yes they tried) were borne from the French Revolution, which was in 1789, and it took them a few years to get all of it going. There's no way that a decimal American dollar, if it began in 1790, was based upon a French metric system. 1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said: I'm a retired engineer so I totally get this, but you do realize it's the exact opposite perspective up here. Imported American products usually have converted specs, but when they don't, mistakes can definitely be made. We still serve real pours here, though. In all kinds of weather. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwampD Posted July 1, 2021 Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 7 hours ago, DarthEbriate said: Hmmm.... Yes. I think I'd have to also question our currency being metric because it appears to based on a decimal system with the primary dollar unit on a scale of 100 instead of 10s. Now, with a cent (centimeter) it makes perfect sense (ha! homonyms!) because century/100 and all that. But formally, we'd be calling those centidollars. And dimes should be decidollars. And instead of dropping Hamiltons we'd be dropping decadollars. Kilodollars for 1,000s. All of our veteran players would be signing seven-figure megadollar contracts instead of million dollar contracts. Wouldn’t that be the dollaric system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PerreaultForever Posted July 1, 2021 Report Share Posted July 1, 2021 55 minutes ago, ubkev said: And now the whole town is on fire. Very sad. Indeed, they've evacuated the whole town and there are several wildfires all around that area. Even bigger one at Sparks Lake near Kamloops. It looks like it will be a very bad summer for the interior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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