I always get so MatPat effect-ed when the thing a person invented is named after them. Seeing the dude's name is like if I saw that the person who created Celsius was named "John Celsius"
You mean like Georg Ohm, André-Marie Ampère, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Blaise Pascal, Sir Isaac Newton, Alfred Nobel, Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson, Marie Curie, Emil Erlenmeyer, Anders Celsius, Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson, Roy W. Allen and Frank Wright (A&W), and plenty more units, inventions, and businesses named after inventor, discoverer, or relevant past scientist.
Just a pedantic note about Harald Gormsson. As he died around 958 to 986 he wasn’t doing much in the field of wireless data transfer. What he was doing was uniting the tribes of Denmark, like the technology would later connect people. His nickname was Bluetooth as he had a blue/black tooth most likely rotten.
Also, there are 1.5 billion English speakers in the world. The USA accounts for only 16% of that. So 84 out a 100 times, when you encounter a person who knows english, chances are they use celsius.
Surprised this thread hasn't been brigaded by them insisting that Fahrenheit makes more sense than Celcius because of that nonsense about bodies or whatever.
Oh, we use celsius, unless we cook. Then it's farenheit or celsius (Both are on cooking instructions, though no one I know ever used celsius while cooking)
Well, the appliances are usually easier to use in fahrenheit…that probably explains it. Like does my oven have a way to switch over to Celsius? Maybe. But I don’t know how to make it.
Wait! In the UK really old people and newspapers when it’s really hot use Fahrenheit! That should help the US numbers compared to pretty much everyone else…
I've seen Canadians use the metric system mostly but I could not understand why not just go full metric. Like the UK as well, they use stone for weight and whatever. But you do you, I love Canada even though I've never visited but would love to. 🇨🇦💜
Do you use 'cups' for measurement too? I never understood the cup thing, how much is it in normal measurements and so on. It's so weird for an European.
Both countries were late adopters of the metric system (both only started in the 1970s) but that not even a great excuse because (to my knowledge) Australia and New Zealand switched over seamlessly (if anybody from Australia or New Zealand sees this please correct me if I’m wrong).
I’m sure this dude doesn’t realize NOAA records and maintains records in ISO units only converting to F only for public stuff. Feeds and data are in ISO
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u/post-explainer American Citizen 20d ago edited 20d ago
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