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tstehler1

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I live in Minnesota.

It is currently -11 degrees Fahrenheit in Minnesota, and feels like -40 because of the wind.

So I go to Steam to play Kerbal with friends.

Steam is down. Must start Steam in offline mode.

No Steam voice chat with friends on cold day.

No group Kerbal session.

:'(

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6.forty

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The imperial system is cool like that. It looks the metric system in the eye and says "guess what? We're going to make our units completely different so that they make no sense!"

In some situations metric is just unfitting. Would you rather a recipe call for 1/2 cup of milk, or 118.3mL of milk?

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Rounding error because decimals
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6.forty

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Or would you rather have a recipe call for 100ml of milk or 0.423 cups of milk?

Well there's a reason I used a recipe as an example, it's something where laboratory level accuracy isn't necessary. IIRC that was the entire idea of the imperial measurement system, simple measurements using everyday things (cup, teaspoon, foot, hand, etc) that still had a degree of accuracy when necessary.

And I'd rather have the 1/2 cup of milk. More milk means better brownies.

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Rocket Farmer

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-10 pfft

Here in Canada last week we had -35 (not wind chill, actual temperature plus a blizzard to go with it) and it was nice that it got that warm.

All kidding aside I've seen it below -50 F and things around here don't slow done until at least -40 on the thermometer if not colder.

I swear up here they should start measuring it in kelvins.

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Markus Reese

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The imperial system is cool like that. It looks the metric system in the eye and says "guess what? We're going to make our units completely different so that they make no sense!"

Yeah, the formula for F to C is kinda funny. F=C*9/5+32.... Don't know how that came about, but it is what it is...

-40s here... No kerbal problems since is another warm sunny day at the KSC!

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Kialar

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That's all because Fahrenheit was a german scientist in the 17th century. He tried to make everything as exact and reproducable as possible. With the result, that nobody understands what that old prussian mastermind though when he decided water to freeze at 32°F.

It is just to make simpler brains totally confused. *ghostly villain BWUUHARRHARR from the off*

btw: 15°C/59°F here since 10 weeks. This is a really cold winter... not.

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zeppelinmage

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Yeah, the formula for F to C is kinda funny. F=C*9/5+32.... Don't know how that came about, but it is what it is...

History lesson from a meteorologist! :)

Fahrenheit and Celsius scales were created independently in the 1700s, by dudes (shockingly) named Fahrenheit and Celsius.

Fahrenheit built on a scale developed by Rømer, that had much smaller graduations between temperatures. (freezing point of brine = 0, human body temperature = 22). Fahrenheit multiplied them by a factor of four to increase the number of graduations and calibrated the focus temperatures (frozen brine, human body temperature) at 0 and 96, respectively. He also observed that the freezing point of pure water was 32, and the boiling point was at 212. (This will be important later.)

Celsius based his scale entirely on pure water (instead of brine). Freezing point was 100, boiling point was 0. (I don't know why.) He had some scientific reasoning (p = RT) behind the scale, which is why it works so well with physics (and is the current SI unit). To make the scale more sane, the scale ended up reversing.

As for the formula, that's pretty easy. It was derived later when scientists had a need to convert between the two scales. You'll notice the difference between freezing and boiling points of water for the Fahrenheit scale is 180. Divide that graduation by 100 for Celsius, and you get 1.8. Or, 9/5. So, to convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit, you multiply your Celsius number by 9/5 and add 32. You do the opposite for Fahrenheit (subtract 32 and multiply by 5/9).

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lajoswinkler

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In some situations metric is just unfitting. Would you rather a recipe call for 1/2 cup of milk, or 118.3mL of milk?

A cup, you say?

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Anyway, while some of you bake and others freeze, let me tell you it's been 10-15°C during the day at my place for the last month or two. It doesn't fall below 5°C at night. It's around 12°C at the moment, and quite humid. This is unusually warm weather for this time of year. We're measuring record highs during the last year.

I'd be ok with cold weather, but when it's cold and damp, rainy, oh... I hate that so much.

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