Why America still uses Fahrenheit
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- Опубликовано: 3 май 2024
- Fahrenheit, explained to the rest of the world
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Since I've moved to the US in 2010, there's one thing that I still don't fully understand: the imperial system. Virtually every country on earth uses Celsius but America has yet to follow. Although it might not seem like a big deal, not using the metric system puts America at a great disadvantage. For example, American kids have to learn 2 sets of measurements making science education even more difficult. On top of that, American companies have to produce extra products to export to metric countries. So why does the United States still have such an antiquated system of measurement?
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As a child when I heard Americans say it's 100° outside I thought they were just exaggerating.
I thought it was retardedly hot there lol
Yes it's common to see 100°f here is the us
I mean to be fair it is usually an over exaggeration. While at times it can be 100 degrees it’s usually not unless you live somewhere like Arizona. Basically what I’m trying to say is that even if it’s not 100 degrees outside people will still say it is as a hyperbole more often than you’d think.
OMG SAME!!
Ko O I know but 100 degrees is used as a hyperbole a lot. Like if it’s hot out people will often say, “gosh it’s 100 degrees outside!” Even if it’s not really
Its 73° Outside
America : What a nice day
Rest of the world : *AAAAGGHHHHH*
don't forget liberia and myanmar!
@@spongebob1849 HAHAHAHA good joke!!
@Danica Lockett oh I totally believe you
Alan MacLaren • 76 years ago nah he’s right search it up
@Homer explains the joke when did I say he’s wrong? I just said that I totally believe him
Just brand them "military units" and Americans will switch to metric in no time.
as an american i can confirm we would
Better: Freedom Units
Ah
@@Avatar2312 oily units
Lol
America is that one "special" kid in the classroom.
@RobiePAX So America is Joaquin Phoenix's Joker? Understood.
How can you tell me...
Can you tell me... The way, the sto-ry ends...
But literally all of our measurements came from Europe. Ya'll just too bi-polar to stick to one, and we got tired of changing.
And quiet kid since all their history
The special kid who invented great technological advancments
@@mmbleachtasty6121 I think some of those were invented in America. Yes. but by some other nationalities.
American: its 48° outside today.
Me, an Australian: funny, its 48° here too
69 likes
Roasted!
nico osullivan add a negative to that and that is our avrage winter!
@@tasmanmillen literally
me: searches on google what 48 Celsius is in Fahrenheit
also me: begins to laugh
Rest of the developed world: “It’s a logical idea that makes sense!”
America: “NEVER!”
America: You must be unaware of our history.
@@crex8751 British Colony
Also america: schools teach us so much junk we'll never use
@Alex Mostly because we're used to our system, sure the switch would be simple, but we'd have to get used to it again. AKA I know 32°F and below is freezing, 60°F is the perfect Temp and 212° is the boiling point of water. (only reason I know the last one is because that was our school's motto.)
@Alex AKA some people are too lazy to get the point. Our school system also doesn't help either.
In India we use
Celcius for weather
Fahrenheit for body temperature
Metric for distance
Feet for height
Inches for nails
Metric for general weights
Pounds for gym weights
We are never confused 😂 as we think this is normal.
same in Canada
But majorly everything is metric. No-one understands pounds in India. except for those who go to gym. And that's a tiny amount of people. And most gyms in india now use metric weights.
as an indian i never saw pounds in any mesauring of anything except in the measure of cakes in bakery , that too has changed ,
especially not gym weights ,
as for the rest i apporve it
Some gyms use both pounds and kilograms, they are usually side by side labelled. And local units like “a dozen” or “one pau” is also used in India
Its -40° Outside
Celsius Users : **Screams**
Fahrenheit Users : **Screams**
Kelvin Users : [Confused Screaming]
I'd rather leave Kelvin out of it. I also know someone called Kelvin, and would rather leave him out of it. Kelvin not use Kelvin. :-)
@@GoodVideos4 ok dude 😂
why are the "Screams"-es in asterisks but the "Confused Screaming" in i square brackets? it makes no sense. it scares me.
@@somemagellanic would you say it makes you scream when you are *confused*?
0celcius is 32fahrenheit
So 0+0=64fahrenheit
‘The problem was that, unlike the UK, Canada or Australia, the US was too much of a stubborn bastard to comply’
I'm from Australia and my science teacher is American. Our class had a very lengthly discussion about why America is one of the only countries not to use the metric system and even our teacher completely wrote it down as a "act of stubbornness'. we then discussed how America was all about the idea of FREEDOM and how they view changing to the metics system (just like the rest of the world) as an improper way to show their right to freedom. I just through hearing her views on her country really interesting. (Just wanna let y’all know I don’t mean to offend any Americans I think if the system works for you guys then so be it but I just though our class discussions was very interesting and getting an Americans perspective on the issue gave us a better insight on the topic)
Everyone: cast it into the fire destroy it
Us: *no*
"Was"
It’s Because of pirates look it up
ur just jealous that we can conquer your country in the span of a year.
"It's 36° outside"
Americans: Jesus, it's a new ice age?
Rest of the world: Jesus, is the sun hitting the earth now?
Scientists- looks like winter in pluto has started
Ah 36°C, good old summer here at my place
Haha... That is why I always use units after a number. By the way, my home thermostat is set to 25°C during the summer (in the US). I decided to use the metric system for my thermostat starting in May 2022, and I don't want to go back to imperial. Shame my fridge and oven can't be set to Celsius. My weather app is set to metric also.
as an american who lives in the north no one would ever say that about 36 degrees cause thats pretty warm
36 is like average mid summer day
As a mechanical engineer I can say, people seriously underestimate how deeply entrenched imperial measurements are to American and Canadian economies.
Farenheit looks like someone just picked some random numbers and called it a day
You little bit of a good time to
Wrong
@@g-4642 It’s believed to be because (1) the freezing point of brine and the boiling point of water were the coldest and hottest temperatures, respectively you could reliably reproduce in the lab with available techniques of the era (while something is in the process of melting or boiling, the temp of both phases remain constant until the process is entirely complete), so it was a good measure to reliably calibrate his new mercury thermometers with and (2) he wanted 180 degrees between freezing and boiling because 1/180th is literally what a “degree” means, and they were close enough to whole numbers that he could just adjust the brine mixture a little bit to MAKE both those points into easy-to-use (compared to other systems available at the time) whole numbers.
@@IONATVS meanwhile celsius...
0° freezing point. That's it.
@@Sasujerk why dose water matter if we’re measuring temperature
"That would spend a lot of mony"
Said the country with a military budget of 1 trilion
Coreone 9 they are in huge debt
You have excatly 69 likes
Nah mates that would be the welfare budget.
yeah pretty sad that America gotta carry the rest of the world like that
2 TRILLION
As a child always saw American movies where the mother would take the temperature of their sick kid and exclaim "100 degrees omg baby you're burning up!" and I always thought that it was just normal for your body to get up to the same temperature of boiling water when you get sick, until I realised they use Farenheit.
Well, if it is 100 degrees Celsius, the child is really burning up
@@user-wd5vs1jc9b100 Celsius degrees is not burning up that’s literally dying
funfact: nasa lost a 300million dollar aircraft in space due to conversion errors in 1990s. nasa used the metric system while the company that supplied the parts to NASA used imperial units
They would probably just complain someone is taking away their freedom if they had to switch
The freedom to use a system of the British Empire.
This will surely happen
@@Garother Invented by a German...
exactly 😂😂
As an American who thinks that both systems are equal, I really would have a problem with a switch. If it going to happen, then I think I'd have to mail the government a letter to do it when I'm dead
How tall are you?
Americans: i'm 6'2
Rest of the world: okay dwarf
cries in 5'4
So I’m confused about this I have friends that say their height around the world. They all use feet when saying height.
@Sebbo h actually, here in the Philippines, we use feet not meters to measure people’s height. But we still use km, Celsius, etc
Doesn’t the rest of the world use meters to measure height? Wouldn’t they be calling them super tall?
*meters*
The only time I know the American in general using metric system is for measuring the size of calibre of the gun.
No! Also drugs were soled in g in the US... ;-)
Drugs, soft drinks, power consumption, in science
We buy weed by the gram
No we Americans use military per oil
Engine sizes on cars often use metric.
Not to mention they use MM/DD/YYYY as date format
@Shinymaniac I prefer order and consistency over expressing dates marginally quicker in a foreign language.
DD/MM/YY or YY/MM/DD it is. :P
Wasted opportunity. It should have been titled:
“Why the F° America Still Uses Fahrenheit”
C’mon guys, a little creativity!!!
does
@@PyroFloe also r/woooosh
@@dotbox3018 great job redditor, but that was a grammar correction
I C° what you did there
U mean... C°mon guys
Basically the entire world uses Celsius on a daily basis and Kelvin for scientifc purposes, Fahrenheit is just pointless
Kelvin is Celsius with offset. Celsius and Kelvin have the same scale
The equivalent for Kelvin in the Fahrenheit is degrees Rankin (another painful scale to stumble across).
@@BigChiken44 I'd know, I have a PhD in Chemistry
@@Paolanmetal wow you do! I just think maybe where s/he lives in, less people know what Kelvin is and s/he thinks it's an uncommon fact. If you have a PhD, you'd know how stupid people could be, so much that an entire community may not really know what Kelvin is and s/he is one of the 'smart' people.
Just like America has become. Pointless.
It's hilarious that the video is about Fahrenheit and it's 4:51 long! How clever!
good catcha!!! haha
I was born in the US spent the first 10 years of my life in Canada, it took me a whole lot of time to convert to Fahrenheit, I would mix them up, I think that the adoption of the metric system would be amazing, an using a 24 clock would be cool too.
I'm one foot, one leg, one torso, one neck and one head tall.
IAmAgainst i am approximately the size of 16 weed brownies
IAmAgainst youre cute
wot me 2
I suggest just renaming all units to freedom. Here are some examples
The drive from LA to San Francisco is 381.1 freedoms an apple weighs 5-6 freedoms and water freezes at 32° Freedom and there are 12 freedoms in one freedom.
I am five calf tall
Hello, i am 16 iphones tall and i weigh 12,000 tidepods.
Lol
"look, it's the funny!"
"Wow, that's rare"
@@v01can06 ok
What? 😂😂
You could weigh yourself in stone, but would have to decide whether to use UK or US stone...
The UK is a weird case where we sort of never switched to metric for some things either. We measure milk and drinks at the pub in pints, road signs all have miles on them - yet we get taught only the metric system in school, use Celsius, use grams and litres on most supermarket items, and use meters for product measurements.
According to the Wikipedia article it says that due to Brexit the conversion to Metric was temporarily paused in 2020 so expect it to resume and be fully metric soon
and UK still measure height/weight in feet and stones. Almost as bad as American use of pounds.
Draught beer and cider are the only things available in a pub in imperial units . Canned and bottled beer, wine and spirits are all metric.
That’s a naive perspective to say that Celsius is more intuitive just because it’s more intuitive to you. 0-100 Celsius is great as a measurement for how water reacts to temperature. 0-100 Fahrenheit is a great measurement for how humans react to and experience temperature. Just depends on perspective
32-212*
And umidity is more important than temperature(for humans).
Celsius better 👍
When I was younger I would always hear youtubers saying it’s over 100 degrees and I would be so confused as to how they were still alive. And whenever it was like 40 degrees Celsius in my country I would never complain cuz I’d think about how Americans have it over double.
That's actually so sweet
lol
well but its not over the double, because of kelvin. 40°C would be 313 K and 100°C would be 373K, so it is 1.19 times
It's like 15°C at most in Ireland 😥
@@bigmanmatt7142 that's what the temp is during the coldest hours of the night where I live
It's 20° outside
Rest of world: What a lovely day
America: ARGH!
American: it’s 80 degrees outside. Awesome
Rest of world: Armageddon is here, say your goodbyes.
America: Wait its always Canada?
The rest of the world: Never has been.
Finally snow in LA
thats every day in my state
Bro, 20° in Australia is considered freezing.
American: It's like 100° outside
Me as a kid: How tf are you still alive?
If anyone is confused about Fahrenheit just think of it like a 100% scale.
32%- Can snow, water can freeze. Really cold/freezing
50%-It’s cold
60%-Chilly
70%-Nice
80%-Warm
90%-Hot
100%-Desert
Anything below 50% is freezing with extra steps. Now just replace the % with the Fahrenheit symbol and that’s it.
Still, quite a bit harder o grasp than Celcius or Kelvin
when I was a kid I thought America was just absurdly hot because I thought they used celsius too
Lol, America is weird. Once in an Odd1sout video, James and Jaiden said that the temprature was 120 degreese and I was like, "Wait... Why aren't they burning?"
Same
Blur
@@maya697 yes
@@oilics5826 you have impeccable taste 😌😼
“Imagine using the imperial system ”
This post was made by the rest of the world.
The metric gang
imagine not living in usa, what do you even do, like you cant even drive a tank
ItchyPit Have normal healthcare
Imagine protest against Wuhan Virus
- The rest of the world
@@trunghoanginh3505 imagine thinking the entire united states was doing that
-99.9% of the USA
We must reject both celsius and Farenheit. Kelvin is the true system.
@Xerius Kelvin is better due to counting from absolute zero
Kelvin is based on Celsius.
Rankine is based on Fahrenheit.
@@srikrishna2561Actually, it's the other way round. Celsius is based on Kelvin, which itself is defined using the Boltzmann constant. Why would the base unit for temperature, used to derive other units from, be a non-absolute unit?
I worked in a chemical warehousing company where we receive a lot of various chemicals for oil drilling from different countries all over the world.
The US originated chemicals brought us a lot of problem because of the unit of measurement used. The inventory messes up every time.
**Me dying cause of 45℃**
US weather report:
IT IS A *H U N D R E D* degrees here
😂
45 Celsius is 113 Fahrenheit. Either way that's HOT.
@@johntracy72 well it's 313 kelvin
@john tracy Happens every day during summer in India 😂
@@Creativity06 kelvin doesn't use degrees.
When Middle Eastern asks what's the temperature in the NY
Middle Eastern: What's the temperature there?
American: It's 45 degrees
Middle Eastern: Weird, it's 45 degrees in here too.
And sometimes it reaches 55 degrees celsius
loll ol
NY your 45 degrees are not oir 45 degrees
Where do you think Hell's Kitchen got its name?
I live in Phoenix, AZ. It gets up to 45°C here in the summer.
Why would anyone use Fahrenheit,32 degrees for freezing and 212 for boiling,it's absurd.
Actually its 273,16K for freezing and 373,15K for boiling.
The Celsius scale isen't exactly part of the Metric System, the Kelvin scale is ;).
@@michaelhoppmann6167
Celsius is most definitely a part of the Metric System.
You are confusing Metric with SI.
Celsius is even used/tolerated in the scientific world because it's interchangeable nature with Kelvin when dealing with delta values.
The Fahrenheit scale isn’t about the properties of water, it’s about human experience. In temperate zones, the temperature is almost always between 0°F and 100°F. The scale is tied to Celsius at 32 and 212 because that is 180 steps.
My experience growing up in the UK, when it came to weather, was that winter was for Celsius and summer for Fahrenheit. Seemed 0 could be understood for cold and 100 for heat. Spring and autumn were anyone's guess.
I've seen tabloids switch the temperature units every summer and winter. It's just plain weird; just use Celsius or Fahrenheit, not both.
Literally no-one in the UK uses Fahrenheit ever.
@@patrickgibbons7066Do you know every single person in the UK?
Hipsters use Kelvin
Gangsters use Rankine
Idiots use Fahrenheit.
Thomas Tressel well I mean we did create a nuke which worked pretty well built the airplane made it to the moon won 2 World Wars and build some of the highest quality products you can find and the best teachers and doctors
TheGoober2100 the first nuke was created by and Israeli engineer..
We also walked our own soldiers through nuke craters which made them later get weird diseases, built "the first" airplane which copied a lot of ideas from those of French and English scientists from the 19th century, failed to send the first man to space, intervened late in both World Wars (especially the first one) which made us seem like huge douches who didn't care about the sufferings of our allies (not saying this is the case, by the way), import most of the products we consume yet exit the TPP and have doubts about the NAFTA, and have teachers who are Christian and fundamentalists to the point that they refuse to teach anything related to evolution.
I swear, some day we'll stop having live political debates and just settle everything in the youtube comment section
Robert Kite not just the comment section. There is gonna be diss tracks too, horrible horrible diss tracks
No debate needed on that point...
Oh god no. RUclips Comment Section Politicians. The lowest IQ demographic on earth I swear to god
people nowadays use opinions to fight with. that just separates us. opinions are not wrong nor right. yet we use that thinking it's the truth. one voices how they feel they attacked yet people say to stand up to what you believe in.
@@inkedhigh Regardless of that, lets take a look at a popular political discussion. Abortion. One side of the argument is right, and one is wrong. Given that it is an important issue, each side argues believing they are right.
I’m a Canadian living alongside the border, so naturally both the imperial and metric systems influence me, oddly I use Fahrenheit during the summer months and Celsius during the winter months.
I use metric at home but have to use imperial at work the only unit I can't kind of visualise and convert is fluid ounces. If the USA changed to metric it would take almost no effort to learn because it's so much simpler than imperial. They'd also save money long term by improved efficiency and avoiding conversion errors.
At least the US also uses seconds, minutes, hours, days etc....
No kidding, when I flew to the US for holiday about 10 years ago I went fully confused when I got that they used the imperial system but I lost it when I realised that they still used Seconds, minutes and hours
Thank God.
But I bet if we find a better time keeping system, US would lag without it for a century more.
What's funny is that time is actually a base 12 measurement system developed in the Eastern parts of the world.
Every other part of the metric system is base 10.
I think there's some cultures that actually use different bases for time measurements such as base 10 time
@@Arniox French tried to made metric time made on 10, 100s in minute, 100 minutes in hour, 10 hours in day, 10 days in the weak. But that failed spectacularly and nobody really used that.
@@ObywatelMurawjow As a french myself funny how i didnt knew this. Sadly few of us know that metric system come from us but to this point woyah sacrebleu
I only wonder why does the U.S. use such a simple currency, when there is clearly a more complicated option: *Wizard money* 1 Galleon = 17 Sickles and 1 Sickle = 29 Knuts.
😂😂😂😂😂
Still too simple. That would be 493 knuts in a galleon.
Why not 1 Galleon = 17.843 Sickles and 1 Sickle = 28.219 Knuts? That would be 503.5116 Knuts in a Galleon.
@@fresch4395 That's.. perfect.
@Kang SwagGi Improvement.
It's just a silly temperature scale for humans because at 32 degrees being freezing is cold but not awful. 0 degrees being freezing just makes it seem as if it's super cold out when in reality it isn't.
Fahrenheit was a Dutch biologist. 100F is the ideal temperature for bacteria to grow and 0F was the minimum temperature where bacteria can grow. So freezers always have to be below 0F. yogurt and rising bread work well at 100F. Since people are biological beings it makes a lot of sense to use biology as a scale.
I was hoping for a video about farenheight usage not just another plea to switch to metric.
Don't worry. The US is still inching towards the metric system.
INCHING towards
Nice.
I hope so. It's the best decision to integrate with the world in this regard.
Hahaha
Andres Felipe Enriquez no they aren’t, its a joke
America: No! I will not use Celsius!
The rest of the world: Ok Boomer.
That moment when it's the rest of the world that are boomers
k
@@adrianflare7951 such a boomer thing to say
@@derasLTU I'm 19.
Adrian Flare 19 years from 80 get tf out of here boomer
4:33 the rest of the world finally understood
You nailed it, l too am completely confused with the imperial system. I was looking at the price of petrol at a ‘Gas Station’ in New York. Lady asked me if l was okay. I told her I had no idea how much a gallon was, she looked at me real funny. I still have no idea what a gallon is and l don’t need to know.
Metric is simple, currency is easy, weight is easy, distance is easy, speed is easy, measurement is easy and temperature is easy pessie.
US galon is about 3,7l. Funnily UK galon will be abour 4,5. Most infuriating thing is US cooking recipes because they can't even agree if cup is about 250ml or half that
I stayed in America for a little while. While there I equate gallon to that big bottle of milk that they sell in the store. It's the largest milk bottle I saw in my life. It stuck in my head.
There are two types of countries in this world-
1.The ones that use metric system
2.The country that loses war to rice farmers
underrated comment
And my country, the one who lost a war to a species of big birds.
Yeah but we have the best weed
3. countries that lose wars to the country that lost war to rice farmers
Liberia doesn't use the metric system and it didn't lose a war to rice farmers.
Fun fact: -40 is the only number in the scale that corresponds to the same temperature in celsius and fahrenheit
its not that fun
It is
that's just more confusing
And if I see that temperature I'm locking myself in a bomb shelter.
Jason Hardman does -40 wind chill count? I've been out in it, I would be right behind you. XD
My college physics professor (an englishman) once explained to us the practicality of fahrenheit. In technical applications it's far easier and likely outright better to use metric, but for every day usage, imperial units are very "human-friendly"; 0 degrees F is very cold, and 100 degrees F is very hot - very simple. Furthermore the smaller degree units allow for better articulation of temperature to people, from 68 being room-temp, slightly cold, to 72 slightly warm, all expressed in integers.
I don’t really see how imperial units are more “human-friendly” in this case. 0 degrees C is still very cold and 100 degrees C is still very hot and when you talk about room temp to slightly warm temp it seems more like a perspective thing if anything (In that whatever you were taught as a kid would be easier understand). Or am I just reading this wrong?
Exactly! More graduations between whole numbers make it easy to get a better grip or "feel" of the number being said or stated.
For me metric is way easier: 0°C water is freezing - there could be ice in the streets-> I can perfectly imagine that, 100°C water is boiling-> please do not but your hand in water hot like that, it will hurt you... also very easy to imagine. 20°C -> nice not to hot summer day in europe. 36°C my bodies temperatue. All values that are easily imaginable and user friendly. The explanation for 0°F is (wiki) : Fahrenheit used as the zero point of his scale the lowest temperature he could produce with a mixture of ice, water and ammonia (= ammonium chloride) or sea salt (cold mixture): -17,8 °C. Water, ice and ammonia mixture is something I can rarely see in nature. I can see freezing water every winter in form of ice. I do not think that your professor worked in a STEM field.
Speed in imperial : 60,120,180,240...
Speed In metric : 100,200,300,400...
Much more easier at least for me
Who said the USA doesn't use metric system? Drugs are sold in grams and ammo calibre is measured in millimetres.
Guess you never buy drugs of large scale lol.... when the dealers are selling a lot they go back to ounces, ridiculous
Also soft drinks and other stuff. Even power consumption is measured in Kilowatts per hour. Which is disappointing. I thought it would be something fancy like "stone-gallon per foreman gas grill clock-inch".
The USA is inching towards the metric system.
@@Avatar2312 yes, "inching" towards metric, not "metering"
@@prateekbhurkay9376 I chose those words carefully ;)
You forgot the "Tons of TNT"
Nobody:
Americans: An ELePhAnT iS AS TaLL aS TwO ReFrIGErAToR.
a real news article: "a sinkhole roughly the size of six to seven washing machines..." we as americans like to use anything but what the rest of the world uses to measure.
The thing is, how wide are 6 to 7 washing machines?
A person is as tall as a human.
or a 1/100 of FoOTbAlL GrOunD
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Americans understand both systems. The metric system has been the official system for decades in the US. We use both systems, numerous times daily, without issue.
Whenever I heard an United States man say something like "boil the water at more than 200°" I thought how they hecking got an industrial ore smelter into their house
too be fair there are a lot of weird things people have in their houses here lots of people have casting furnaces
@@IndustrialParrot2816 that aside, ovens easily surpass at least 250º. not that you could ever get water to that point, but still, really doesnt take any specialized equipment.
as an american i can indeed confirm that we use donuts per bald eagle
Sorry it’s hotdogs per gun
It’s actually soccer field per McDonald’s.
Its actually shopping malls per guccis
Football fields per moon landing
@@yeno6492 nah fam its atomic bombs per heart attacks
Well, as an European I like to use American units, like Eagles per Cheeseburger or Weapons per squareobisity.
*obesity, if your going to criticize Americans at least learn how to spell words in american.
hahahaha
@@definitivedom5482 it's a joke. I love these types of jokes and am American lol
We also use military per oil
Did you forget football fields?
or bullet square per child
In Brazil the only remaining use of imperial I can remember, is for measuring TV diagonal sizes, in inches. Which I never understood, why we keep using it...
Same in France ,every screen (For TV ,Computer ,laptop etc...) are in inches ,but nobody understand it and we have to convert it on Internet .
Same in Poland… just why? Centimeters, please!
It’s a country who still thinks it’s #1 and right about everything.
USA - Miles!
Most of the world - KM!
UK - Miles for speed, KM for distance!
wtf really?
@@bigdickmcgee3293 yup
@Demonic Sinister boi Japan and some Asian nations drive on the left too.
Uk mph Usa KPH
Usa Watts uk Volts
USA ounces and gallons uk litres and milliliters
err... uk is miles for distance too.
0 degrees Celsius is the freezing point of water.
100 degrees Celsius is the boiling point of water.
Heating 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius takes 1 calorie worth of energy.
What was Fahrenheit useful for again?
BudgeThePutcher 0 degrees Fahrenheit is the freezing point of salt water 100 degrees Fahrenheit is the boiling point of salt water
Except that salt water that you encounter in nature has a freezing point of roughly -2C/28F. The "salt water" that has a freezing point of 0 degrees Fahrenheit is completely saturated and contains something like 30% salt. That's something that you won't ever use or come in contact with. It's useless.
And no, the boiling point of that "salt water" isn't 100 degrees Fahrenheit, it's more like 250.
Fahrenheit was the first standardized method of measuring temperature, 2:10
The first wheel was made of wood. That doesn't mean it's any good.
BudgeThePutcher any wheel is better than no wheels. First they develop an accurate system, then they would have something to improve on.
I have no problem with the metric system but, I despise the Celsius temperature scale. There is too much space between degrees in the Celsius scale. With Fahrenheit you get a better sense of what is very cold, what is cold, what is chilly, what is warm, what is hot, what is very hot.
metric system is better for science, american system is better for your average person. Lengths like inches and feet seem arbitrary until you realize that each length is easily measured without tools. For example, an inch is about the length from the base of you thumb to the joint, and a foot is about the length of your forearm. Obviously the exact measurement will differ based off the person, but its good for eyeballing measurements. Miles i never understood though. As for Fahrenheit, ive heard it described as how a human feels about the temperature, whereas celsius is how water feels about the temperature.
Why America uses Fahrenheit system
Why America uses Mile system
Why America uses a different date format
TheLegend27 BECUZ FREDUM
TheLegend27 Because they're HIPSTERS
Wait, what's the difference in date formats?
JJDraws In Europe, and Canada, and in most places, it goes DD/MM/YYYY
In the US, it goes MM/DD/YYYY
mm/dd/yyyy
dd/mm/yyyy
How often do you forget which month it is before which day? smh America.
Kelvin cries in the corner..
I mean, it's basically the same thing as Celsius.
Kelvin is worthless in day to day life.
tokekkk I like how I know exactly what 0 kelvin is, and how concrete it is. If it's better to use Celsius, why don't we continue worth the logical extreme, and just use kelvin. It's not like adding 273.15 is very difficult. Remembering that ice roughly melts at 0 C as it does at 32 degrees F or 273.15 K. Using Kelvin also makes doing science easier considering you'll have to do simpler calculations. It is also very difficult for you to confuse if someone is using celsius or Fahrenheit. Additionally Kelvin is faster to speak, and easier to spell than either Celsius or fahrenheit.
But I guess the benefits all of the can be grossly outweighed by the additional ink required to write the extra digits. Then again, I'm pretty sure if we add up the minuscule amount of tome that's wasted over the F vs C debate, the additional calculation errors, spelling mistakes, it would have been optimal if the system everyone adopted were Kelvin, and not Celsius.
@ timithy4569
Not to mention you usual weather thermometer won't be measuring 1/100 of a kelvin, so you can round that 273.15 K off to 273 K for freezing in weather apps. Also, there is no degree symbol which makes it much easier to type. I find that to use Celsius or Fahrenheit you either need to omit it (which makes it almost look like an electric charge, in coulombs (C), or a capacitance, in farads (F)) or you need to use some awkward computer magic to get that ever-lovin' degree symbol. But for Kelvin it's just K, no degrees, with 300 K read as "300 kelvins" or less accurately/more colloquially, "300 Kelvin". So no need to try to obtain awkward symbols not found on your keyboard to type anything.
I find it funny that I'm more familiar with the Earth average surface temperature as 288 K, then any other scale. Then again I also might advocate not only for kelvins but kiloseconds. None of that hours and minutes bullcrap. 1 000 s, 86.4 per day, 9 192 631 770 000 cesium sneezes is where it's at. Then that's the only non-SI factor you'd ever need (since there's no need for a 273.15 offset to get Celsius when you're not using Celsius anymore but straight up Kelvin although Celsius is SI it is wedged in a little awkwardly so I'm calling it "non-SI" here) - 86.4 ks / day. You'll have to deal with a worse number when you go to Mars: there it's 88.775 per day (or "sols", actually, they're called, not "days", heh.). With kiloseconds there is no need for kilowatt hours, just use megajoules (MJ) to bill electricity as SI intended, so all energy units can be just reduced to joules and prefixed joules, with nothing else needed, making all energy comparisons transparent (dump food calories too and use kilojoules (kJ).). Speeds can be set on the road to m/s, not km/h. So 30 m/s might be a typical highway speed limit. Since m/s = km/ks by cancellation, if you're driving 30 m/s you can see you will drive 60 km in 2 ks, but also 600 m in 20 s. Which actually shows how fast highway speed is - doing that calculation I was a bit surprised you go that far that fast. We take our highway travel for granted so often we forget just how insane these speeds really are. Except when there's a crash...
It is. The degrees are the same size, but the zero point is different. So it is basically Celsius.
the u.s.a. always reminds me of that weird quirky kid who thinks they're cool for not using stuff most other people do
Very informative. Great job
*Metric system is so much easier!*
Metricccc
Wei Xun - *So, pretty much like your mom?*
*M E T R I C C*
Exactly, and nobody wants to learn how to apply the most basic mathematics to everyday life even though they use something similar but with different quantities.
M E *T H I C C*
When I come to America I need to learn 3 languages.
English, sarcasm and the Imperial System
Does the rest of the world not use sarcasm?
@@OrigamiMaster06 nope, we just straight up throw insults at each other
@@martinxy1291 Huh, I thought sarcasam was pretty universal (except for maybe in the east)
Well, you'll learn that lesson pretty early because of Internet people
@@OrigamiMaster06 no only in Britain the rest of Europe will just be condescending
Ok but you can go out when it’s 69 Fahrenheit and it feels nice
As a Canadian myself I can wholeheartedly say that the imperial system at least in measuring temperature has always been confusing for me
I live in Canada
The roads are metric and metric is official but there are some stuff you see imperial units too
like grocery it says $1.95/lb
I'm definitely late on this comment, but the way I've had it explained is the Imperial system measures temperature in relation to the average human body's comfort rather than water freezing/boiling. 35°F is a tad chilly so you'll want a nice jacket, 77°F is pretty balmy so a t-shirt and shorts is the optimal pick, 100°F+ is when you crave death because it's so hot, etc.
@@yourfriendann9695 Yea, I think the Metric system is better in every way besides Celcius, a scale where the average human will experience temperatures between -15 and 45 makes no sense to me.
@@raffaeleleo92 it makes no sense to you because you grew up using farhenheit. A scale where the 0°C is not the freezing point makes not sense to me, that gives you a pretty big information about the weather. if only the body temperature was 100°F but it's not even that.
Me in America: hows the temperature, siri?
Siri: it is 90° sir
Me: {confused screaming in spanish}
I think you can program Siri so you'll get the temperature in Celsius.
In metric* 😂
If siri or alexa does answer with imperial system I'd insta destroy it
TSeries is better than OmNom honestly its not that hard to understand if you don’t think about it 0-50 chilly/cold 60-100 warm/hot obviously above 100 very hot
I want to program Siri to give temperatures in the Jevrel scale, which I created because I was bored. Water freezes at 0°J and boils at 128°J.
Me in the same situation: Siri, what's the temperature outside?
Siri: It's 41°J.
If Sweden could shift from left side driving, then USA can shift to metric.
Cheers Mate Just remember, most of our small States have a population the size of Sweden.
Christopher Frey so Sweden has more GDP than those states anyway.
True, my grandfather still remembers the day when we switched. He always says that it was a mess
Dagen H yay!
bongo155 my ass. There's gonna be a lot of people pissed about switching. But idc, it's not gonna happen anyway
I switched to Celsius just as I was going into college, because of this video. Now five years later I’m glad I did.
I actually just realized that I don't care. This is not satire, I am serious. I used to care somewhat about switching, but seeing this thumbnail was like a reflection on myself, and I just do not care anymore. Its just temperature. If you need to use one over the other, then do it.
America likes their measurement because it have the word "Imperial" in it.
The Imperial Strikes Back!
Rebels hate em!
imperialism
Of course.
Jerrodb5 - Bur it doesn’t. We use the US Customary System.
The United States: **Gets joked about for not using the metric system**
Liberia and Myanmar: 👌
Liberia is good and uses the Imperial system, Myanmar is also good because it dosent use the metric System
I like american cooking instructions cause here in Canada the ovens are in imperial
Thinking Brain whoosh
that was the joke flying over your head, dude
Cuphead , don’t you guys get a lot of appliances from the states? Is that why?
they get us...
Ive been trying to learn Celsius as an American for many reasons(one is i dont plan on staying here) and the other is im tired of looking up converters. I love that its easy to understand. That 100 is boiling and 0 is freezing. A lot easier than 32 is freezing and 212 is boiling. But i kind of like the variability of Fahrenheit. How you can get a pinpoint on the exact temp. But even then id still prefer Celsius. It just makes so much more sense…
Just… use a decimal. I get that weather reports never show decimals, but that’s because the accuracy would never need that. Arguably Fahrenheit creates the illusion of exactness, while being exactly as exact…
When you boil water, do you care what the temperature is on any scale? Most people do not. They just heat the pan until they see the water boil.
So.... basically even if upto 4000 kids go to the er a year, it still isn't enough of a reason to switch unless there's a good enough financial profit....way to go America. I honestly don't know what I expected with the topic of standard units when gun reform is still an argument.
The US: Spends $700+ Billion on the military, literarly more than the next 10 combined
Also the US: Not converting to metrics because it "costs a lot of time and money"
??
Lolz.. they dont even use the military time.. like the rest of the world. 😆😆
And because it’s too hard :(
Funding a miltary and trying to change 330 million peoples way of measuring things are two entirely different things.
@@parksalot7669 yet the whole world managed to change to celsius. Even China and India.
I believe it is just because your government is too lazy to care
older canadians use fahrenheit and imperial and it drives me crazy
"it's 46 degrees outside" is it really, Linda? it's only april but ok
Lol in other countries around the world it's actually 46 degrees outside
Climate change hitting HARD
Respect your elders and use Imperial
@@alaskaball188 a lot of our elders also supported hitler
As of writing this in thailand, yes ite 46 degree outside
My uncle, a medical doctor noter Fahrenheit degrees are smaller thus more accurate for measuring changes in patient temperature.
It has been legal to use the metric system in the United States since 1866 but never required. Also, Congress supplied each state at that time with a set of standard metric weights and measures. By 1980 most items but not all showed the units used in the U.S. along with their metric equivalent.
I remember my 2nd grade teacher in 2002 tried to introduce us to the metric system. When some parents heard she was teaching something outside of the prescribed curriculum, they complained to the superintendent, and she was forced to stop.
Sad press f to pay respect
Yep, that's par for the course for a country where mass shootings are measured in 43/67ths of a prayer.
You're stealing the kids' freedom to use Imperial! //s
Sanchez, Theodore J. How on earth is it stealing the kids freedom when imperial is the official system that Americans use for everyday life? Metric is still the better option anyways
@@ammszz5939 it's sarcasm, duh
The world: "Why can't you just be normal?"
USA: *screams in Fahrenheit*
What’s wrong with being a little different?
@@monkeydui7241 a lot of things
@@monkeydui7241 nothing, its just because of America's unwillingness to change its broken system that a million dollar satellite went missing.
@@my.dear.watson Do you know how much it would cost to change it?
Also how's it broken? It's been working for us for a long time.
(For context I'm Canadian)
I remember the rich kid in my class came back from his vacation to Florida or California(Don't remember it exactly) and he said it was 300 degrees there and everyone in my class was freaking out. Our teacher told us it was probably in Fahrenheit. That was the day I discovered there was a metric system and an imperial system.
We use both the imperial and metric system, like we use the imperial system i.e. cups and tsp/tbsp, pounds, feet, etc. but we use the metric for like driving and stuff, hella confusing but that's how it is.
It what's you feel. Having just returned from six weeks in Europe, Celsius is just too vague to me. I'm sure visitors or immigrants to the US feel the same about Fahrenheit. The economic costs are fairly minimal, as just about every mechanical device I can think of is using metric (apart from building trades), just like many electronic devices have a switch or auto-adapt between 120V and 220V. Our federal system also makes it very difficult to have a mandatory conversion as states, localities, and individuals can simply ignore any mandate.
nobody:
America:
Miles!
Inch!
Foot!
Yard!
Fahrenheit!
MM/DD/YYYY!
Weeaboo Generator *yyyy
@@rezkid283 o_o fixed
Ok "weeaboo generator"
I absolutely hate the American date format. For some reason most digital watches use that annoying format. It's DD/MM/YYYY. The month is not before the day!
@Natalie Wood Can you please explain why you prefer MM/DD/YYYY over DD/MM/YYYY?
When I first came to the US I got really scared when the weatherman said it was 90° outside. I thought the world would end.
:o
It will. by the time the US switches it'll get °90 Celsius
90°F would be 34.37°J. The J stands for Jevrel, a temperature scale I created out of boredom. Water freezes at 0°J and boils at 128°J.
AetheralMeowstic neat
@Vision Thing yeeeeeah sure infact only one country in the world uses it
This maybe one of the reasons why Filipinos struggle in physics bec. We tend to be taught in 2 different systems. And in construction, we always us this two systems.
4:07 - this is a mistake. The U.S. doesn't use the imperial system but its own system of customary units. Sometimes this coincides with the imperial system but not always. For example, tons are different between the two.
This video is mostly about why America should change to metric, not why America is still using Fahrenheit
because there is no reason why they are still doing it
She's making good points. America needs to get off its high horse and join the rest of the planet.
@@TheWayBesst she's making great points and i'm 900% done with farhenheit and wish we'd use the metric system already (i'm US born and raised but still forget conversions from ounces to cups between wet and dry, how many feet in a mile, etc) but i came to this video looking for a better historical perspective rather than making obvious points in a way that alienates american viewers and gives everyone else warm fuzzies about using the better system. i kind of expected a better look into the cultural and industrial/business oppositions to switching to metric because it seems like an interesting dynamic.
@@kakashisfriend Maybe the content you're looking for will surface as pressure rises for America to the switch. Not sure when that'll happen
It was kind of trash
Son: dad I’m cold.
Dad: go to the corner. I heard it’s 90 degrees
Do you mean 90 degrees angle or 90 degrees in temperature?
This is confusing
@@mariafe7050 This is joke
@maria fe First time on the internet?
@@ppslayergod69xd96 dude you stole my profile picture, not cool
I'm british and i use the metric system but i still use the old imperial units for the height of a person, beer, and for checking the cooking 🌡 temperature of meat
I wish i had watched this video, when it was released. It would have saved a lot of time and trouble.
2 years back, being beginner in Power Plant Engineering, i repeated and rechecked my calculations for many hours as the "end value" (numerical) is not within the safe limit set by GE.
Without realising that, the value i arrived are in "mm" and the limits given in GE documents are in "inches". lol.
No one:
Not a single soul:
Americans: hºw mªnY fO0Tbªll fiElDs iS a kíL0meTeR?!?!?
On a real note, I don't think anybody knows. To convert football fields to kilometers or miles you would have to have at least some knowledge of how big a football field is. To my observation so far, no single person in the world knows how big a football field is. The most accurate answer I have gotten is "I dunno, it's probably really big"
Edit: Jeez, I didn't know you guys were football fanatics. On a real note though, basketball is so much better
literally all of Europe: HoW mAny RevaLutiOns AnD wArs iN a YeAr?!?!?
about ten, give or take. (when you take their length obviously)
the american football field is 100 yards, thus 91.44 m, meaning 11 of these make 1.00584 km.
on the other hand soccer fields are 105 m, thus 10 of these make 1.05 km.
very roughly 10, 1 footbal field is 100 yards, 1 yard is roughly 1 meter, so 1 football field is roughly 100 meters, which is a 10th of a kilo(thousand) metrers
@@Jessica-eo5hg football fields are VERY clearly marked with how big they are,,, that's why the numbers are there, they're not just there for fun, to spice up the game with some math