• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    Nah, Fahrenheit doesn’t have a place. Humans feel temperature differently to one another. You can’t make a set scale about it.

    Humans have been known to live and thrive in temperatures well below 0°, as well as above 100°. And while 50° is the middle, it isn’t even a comfortable temperature for humans.

    0° is based on what that one Polish town measured in winter during that one year 1709, only later did they find something to represent that temperature.

    The world doesn’t need Fahrenheit. Humans don’t need it either.

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      7 months ago

      Having this:

      Humans feel temperature differently to one another. You can’t make a set scale about it.

      And this:

      The world doesn’t need Fahrenheit. Humans don’t need it either.

      In the same comment is wild. Which is it, people all feel temperature differently so it’s impossible to make everyone agree on a scale, or Celsius is the one scale that everyone must agree on?