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Originally Posted by nudeyorker  US tried it in the seventies...Most Americans were too stupid to understand it! |
Don't you need to be smarter to use imperial units? If metric is easier, then any idiot can use it.
And it's not illegal to use the metric system in the USA. We are free to use whichever system we want in day-to-day life.
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Originally Posted by SteveHd |
That's what I was going to say.
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Originally Posted by Phil Ayesho The Fahrenheit scale, however, set zero at the coldest day of the year and 100 at the hottest day of the year in the German town Fahrenheit lived in.
Therefore, the Fahrenheit scale is based upon HUMAN experience of temperature, rather than a lab experiment. |
There are competing versions of how he came up with the scale.