You seem to have missed the point. Even American scientists do not use Fahrenheit, only the stubbornly ignorant American public. The rest of the world has gone metric. Even the USA has a program initiated almost 40 years ago to use metric in ten years. But stubbornly ignorant account for the American obsession with religion, right-wing politics, the WWE, and maybe even NASCAR.
Oh, so you know Americans so well? Quit being a stereotype. Maybe if you guys weren’t so lazy as to just google it, maybe we wouldn’t have this problem, hm?
Maybe if you guys weren’t so lazy to start using a more internationally known standard that is also defined using more accurately measured points, maybe we wouldn’t have this problem, hm?
Why complain so much? Most of us learn the conversions for celsius, you can take a few minutes to look up the equation yourself to go back to farenheit. Regardless, even if you’re too lazy to do so, the joke shouldn’t be lost on you unless you’re too ignorant to realize at 45 degrees = 45 degrees.
If 45 degrees F = 45 degrees celsius, I would die wearing a coat. In fact, I’d probably die of heat stroke. Besides, I think it’s time for the US to catch up with the rest of the world.
Chris meant that complaining about how the cartoon is in Fahrenheit is ridiculous because any moron could see that the temperatures are the same. I could have made up a new unit of temperature measurement, but as long as the values are the same, the joke is still understandable. And funny.
As an American living in Canada (northern sask) I can completely agree with the sentiment of the post… I will also contend that although metric measurements does make more mathematical sense, there is a good reason why the old measurements caught on-practicality.
Fahrenheit Is based on the freezing temperature of salt water, as well as the amount of change in temp that the average human can recognize.
Fahrenheit scaled his temperature like this:
Freezing temperature of salt water as 0 degrees and the body temperature at 100 degrees.
Whereas Celsius sets 0 degrees at freezing of normal water and 100 degrees at boiling water (a better constant than the average body temperature).
Also Fahrenheits metabolism was higher than most people meaning that taking his body temperature as 100 degrees would cause the average body temperature to be 98.6 degrees.
All in all he chose 2 different constants to scale to (of which 1 was incorrect).
There is a reason the scientific community, yes even in the US, chooses to use the metric system.
Celsius is now defined using the triple point of a specifically standardised water sample, and absolute zero, just so that pressure won’t influence the scale.
That isn’t actually why body temperature is lower than 100 now. Eventually, people realized it was really inconvenient for fresh water to boil and freeze at 32.3 and 214.7 (or whatever it was), so Fahrenheit was redefined so that those two things occurred at integers a convenient distance (180 degrees) from one another. This resulted in everything else being a little off from where it was before, but not so far that it really mattered. Also, body temperature isn’t *really* 98.6 either. it’s 37 Celcius, which some moron converted, got 98.6, and left it as is. The problem is 37 C and 98.6 F mean different things. 37 mens between 36.5 and 37.5, and 98.6 means between 98.55 and 98.65. add in that Fahrenheit degrees are smaller than Celsius degrees, and you’ve got a ridiculously narrow range.
as long as we’re arguing semantics, you say that the Celsius scale is based on freezing/boiling of normal water, and Fahrenheit is based on salt water, but there is much more salt water on the planet Earth than drinkable water, therefore making salt water “normal” water
We all know the metric system is better. America has already tried to convert to the metric system, but the current system is so ingrained that its nearly impossible to change.
Who really cares what you use, Fahreheit or Celsius? It really doesn’t just laugh at the joke, replace 45 F with 7.22 C. Stop bagging on Americans, because when you do, all you do is prove were better.
I fail to see how the American public is at fault for not using an international standard. I can understand the sentiment of being out of the loop– but, to call the public ignorant for not knowing something? To be rude and arrogant? I’m sorry, but that’s rather ignorant to get your panties in a bunch because an entirely different society uses a different standard.
Yep!
Mmhmm.
Totally.
Old joke.
the only people who use farenheit anymore are the americans. do one in a temperature that the world can understand.
http://trunc.it/f2cbv :)
How did you do that?
http://lmgtfy.com/
An excellent passive aggressive tool. :)
Hilarious.
Wish it didn’t say, “Was that so hard?”
You seem to have missed the point. Even American scientists do not use Fahrenheit, only the stubbornly ignorant American public. The rest of the world has gone metric. Even the USA has a program initiated almost 40 years ago to use metric in ten years. But stubbornly ignorant account for the American obsession with religion, right-wing politics, the WWE, and maybe even NASCAR.
Oh, so you know Americans so well? Quit being a stereotype. Maybe if you guys weren’t so lazy as to just google it, maybe we wouldn’t have this problem, hm?
Maybe if you guys weren’t so lazy to start using a more internationally known standard that is also defined using more accurately measured points, maybe we wouldn’t have this problem, hm?
Maw, the only people in the world who use snotty remarks because they’re not able to Google something are….
Wait a minute, who the hell can’t Google something?
bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
You don’t even need to know what that temperature is to get the joke. It’s obvious.
(And I live in a metric-using country.)
Agree.
nobody else has ever used fahrenheit, so how about the rest of the world catch up to the americans…
Maw, I’ll bet you’re a laugh and half to be around in real life…
Hmm, I’m American and understand both Celcius and Farenheit. Maybe you should get an education instead of slagging off a nation.
Oh silly man u must enjoy soccer too, or “fooball” as it most likely in your native tongue
Why complain so much? Most of us learn the conversions for celsius, you can take a few minutes to look up the equation yourself to go back to farenheit. Regardless, even if you’re too lazy to do so, the joke shouldn’t be lost on you unless you’re too ignorant to realize at 45 degrees = 45 degrees.
If 45 degrees F = 45 degrees celsius, I would die wearing a coat. In fact, I’d probably die of heat stroke. Besides, I think it’s time for the US to catch up with the rest of the world.
And I suppose it shouldn’t be put in English, since I’m sure there’s a language which is more used in the whole world (such as Spanish)?
English is the most influential language on the planet (more people speak Mandarin, but it doesn’t venture much out of China).
Chris meant that complaining about how the cartoon is in Fahrenheit is ridiculous because any moron could see that the temperatures are the same. I could have made up a new unit of temperature measurement, but as long as the values are the same, the joke is still understandable. And funny.
truth
As an American living in Canada (northern sask) I can completely agree with the sentiment of the post… I will also contend that although metric measurements does make more mathematical sense, there is a good reason why the old measurements caught on-practicality.
Fahrenheit Is based on the freezing temperature of salt water, as well as the amount of change in temp that the average human can recognize.
Fahrenheit scaled his temperature like this:
Freezing temperature of salt water as 0 degrees and the body temperature at 100 degrees.
Whereas Celsius sets 0 degrees at freezing of normal water and 100 degrees at boiling water (a better constant than the average body temperature).
Also Fahrenheits metabolism was higher than most people meaning that taking his body temperature as 100 degrees would cause the average body temperature to be 98.6 degrees.
All in all he chose 2 different constants to scale to (of which 1 was incorrect).
There is a reason the scientific community, yes even in the US, chooses to use the metric system.
Celsius is now defined using the triple point of a specifically standardised water sample, and absolute zero, just so that pressure won’t influence the scale.
That isn’t actually why body temperature is lower than 100 now. Eventually, people realized it was really inconvenient for fresh water to boil and freeze at 32.3 and 214.7 (or whatever it was), so Fahrenheit was redefined so that those two things occurred at integers a convenient distance (180 degrees) from one another. This resulted in everything else being a little off from where it was before, but not so far that it really mattered. Also, body temperature isn’t *really* 98.6 either. it’s 37 Celcius, which some moron converted, got 98.6, and left it as is. The problem is 37 C and 98.6 F mean different things. 37 mens between 36.5 and 37.5, and 98.6 means between 98.55 and 98.65. add in that Fahrenheit degrees are smaller than Celsius degrees, and you’ve got a ridiculously narrow range.
as long as we’re arguing semantics, you say that the Celsius scale is based on freezing/boiling of normal water, and Fahrenheit is based on salt water, but there is much more salt water on the planet Earth than drinkable water, therefore making salt water “normal” water
No matter what everybody else says, Son, this is a funny joke that we relive every year.
Why isn’t this in Kelvin? A temperature based on absolute 0 is far superior to both Celcius AND Fahrenheit.
Rankine would have been a far superior choice
We all know the metric system is better. America has already tried to convert to the metric system, but the current system is so ingrained that its nearly impossible to change.
Who really cares what you use, Fahreheit or Celsius? It really doesn’t just laugh at the joke, replace 45 F with 7.22 C. Stop bagging on Americans, because when you do, all you do is prove were better.
http://oi51.tinypic.com/awua0z.jpg
happy now?
I fail to see how the American public is at fault for not using an international standard. I can understand the sentiment of being out of the loop– but, to call the public ignorant for not knowing something? To be rude and arrogant? I’m sorry, but that’s rather ignorant to get your panties in a bunch because an entirely different society uses a different standard.
And you still missed the joke negative nelson.
Noobs… Kelvin’s where it’s at.
It’s 294.3 K in this room right now… I’m nice and comfy.
This was funny until I started reading this war about Celsius and Fahrenheit. Now I’m just sad.
Ziggy, thank you. I appreciate the massive amount of sarcasm.