On 10/8/2015 7:05 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2015-10-07 8:33 PM, Embudo wrote:
>
>>> Am I the only North American who actually likes the metric system and
>>> sees it has being so much easier to understand and to use?
>>>
>>
>> No, but your temperatures are coarsely represented and your speedometers
>> read insanely high.
>
> The temperature scale is the best part of it. Most people can actually
> detect change of 1 degree C,

Hey no kidding?

You mean they can only grasp a 3degree F change?

Wow.

> and the freezing point involves a dynamic
> change. It makes a lot of sense to have that as a base because water
> freezes and lower temperatures are below freezing

It makes NO sense at all form a diurnal temperature spread basis.

The numbers totally contradict you.