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Originally Posted by foghat
Not to go way off on a tangent, but the system is broken?? 0C water freezes, 100C water boils. Simple. You exagerate greatly in saying a handful of degrees is the difference between freezing day and a sweltering day.
Granted each 2 or 3 degrees does make a reasonable difference in temperature - which is a good thing. Of course it comes down to what you are used to.
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The problem is that human beings, living in normal environments, use only about the first 40 degrees of the C scale, together with a few of the degrees under zero. The other 60 degrees have no meaning until you get to 100, at which point the meaning is just "don't stick your hand in it." Those degrees are wasted, and can't even be recycled or donated to charity.
The C scale is a scientific scale. But most of us live our lives in a very unscientific fashion.
And we don't want change all that much, even when we embrace it, which is why many people don't like locations when they've been using pages all their lives. Our children, however, will view "location" as normal. They will have to be taught to understand what "page" means when they encounter the concept. Sort of like kids these days would have to be taught how to use a rotary dial on a "telephone." Note that we still "dial" our cellphones, even when we punch the numbers or, these days, scroll & touch.