23rd February 2004, 2:45 PM
Oh yes, tempurature would be the hardest front to hit. Everyone likes farenheight, though I myself have no idea what 0 and 100 sit at. I only learned that for celsius, simple enough, 0 is freezing, 100 is boiling. Wow that threw me off as a kid hearing that things are "100 degrees in the shade" and thinking "I guess the body is pretty near boiling all the time, it's just a few degrees from burning I guess...". Heh, that's why I wouldn't mind so much going celsius, though the other half of me is the part that has become used to F, the only point I know of though is 70 degrees, which is "comfortable", and everything else is either "hot" or "cold".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)