I was looking over the US Metric Associaltion site last week, and was amused to discover that their application form is on a non-metric-sized PDF. 
I’m glad someone pointed that neat fact out.
Oh, just cool off! 
Or, if you get a headache over calculations, here’s a table
But hopefully not such a dry heat that the eucalyptus trees express vaporized oils into the air allowing the air to literally catch on fire like last year.
It’s annoying when that happens.
That’s actually an important plot element (Arctic explorers having to “thaw out” frozen words) in one episode of The Mighty Boosh, you know.
It was -6F / -22C when I had to take the dog out this morning. I hate you. Just saying.
I don’t really have that much trouble thinking in Celcius… :dubious:
No, I didn’t know anything about it. (I wonder now if any writers read a paperback joke book from the 60’s. It was soooo old that I can recall an ad for a Jack Paar book, “I Kid You Not” on the back. For those who do not know, Jack Paar was most famous for “The Tonight Show” pre-Carson. There is more at the link. – And now I’m begiining to wonder if Paar himself assembled the jokes and edited the book.)
It looks like an interesting show. I haven’t watched any television shows in months. Thanks for the info.
“Frozen words” goes at least as far back as the Paul Bunyon stories, where it’s just one of many anecdotes of “it was so cold that…”. (example: “-We slept under so many blankets we had to call for help to roll over”).
I wish we’d convert to SI and state temperatures in kelvins. Only yesterday I was trying to deal with estimating the differences in temperatures to the fourth power for a thermal problem.
But if that isn’t going to happen, because temperatures make more sense with that offset to them, then I propose we define the current 58 inches to be zero, and allow for negative lengths, with this offset, just like temperatures. After all, most things are bigger than 58 inches, so it would make the values smaller and more reasonable and more natural feeling, like Celsius over Kelvin temperatures.
It’s one of my favourite shows but I should warn you, it’s very surreal.
Current temps at post time:
[ul]
[li]Adelaide, Australia - 104*F[/li][li]Alice Springs, NT Australia - 73 *F[/li][li]Minneapolis, MN USA - 2.8 *F[/li][li]Pensacola, FL USA - 26.6 *F[/li][li]Atlanta, GA USA - 23.3 *F[/li][li]Calgary, AL CAN - 39 *F[/li][li]Stockholm, Sweden - 17.7 *F[/li][li]Mumbai, India - 84 *F (and smoke)[/li][/ul]
All from here —> http://www.wunderground.com/
That’s me, or at least it was until yesterday morning. At your post time I was,
[ul][]Broome, Australia - 88F[/ul]
That’s funny - it didn’t feel a hair over 4ºC. 
ETA: Alberta isn’t abbreviated AL - it’s AB. AL is Alabama.
Would you like to go for some colder walks in the name of science? Thanks!
I’m all for the U.S. switching to metric when it comes to measuring distances and volumes and weights and all that stuff. But keep your hands off my temperature scale!
The 0-to-100 scale is a very natural scale to want to work with, and I don’t blame the scientists’ desiring a temperature scale where 0-to-100 fitted their needs, which are apparently to match up to the range where water is a liquid.
But most of us human beings live in more or less temperate climates, and the Fahrenheit scale puts the 0-to-100 range in the right place for us, where we’re using almost all of that interval, but rarely exceeding it.
So I’m perfectly content with scientists’ working in Celsius units, and the rest of us in Fahrenheit. If the rest of the world also wants to use a Celsius scale, fine. And maybe global warming will eventually make the Celsius scale a better fit than it is now. But for right now, I want to keep my Fahrenheit scale for everyday stuff.
Easiest conversion that I know of from C → F is to double C, subtract 10% from it (easier than taking 90% of it), and add 32.
(20C)*2=40, 40-4=36, 36+32=68F
(-40C)*2=-80, -80-(-8)=-72, -72+32=-40F
Likewise, conversion from F → C is to subtract 32 from F, add 11.111% (essentially rounding up to the next whole number if you only used 10%), and halve it.
(68F)-32=36, 36+4=40, 40/2=20C
(-40F)-32=-72, -72+(-8)=-80, -80/2=-40C
Easiest conversion from C to F is google “x celsius fahrenheit.”
No, it’s “x c in f”. That way, you don’t have to remember how to spell Fahrenheit.
::Tries it::
Oh my God, you’re right! You don’t even need to type in the rest! Google, you are truly amazing!