Well I guess the title says it all, I was just wondering who ya'll thought were the most active 'forumers' in this part of the AG forum. Opinions, that what this Forum is going to be, pure opinions, and yes you can say 'Me'.
I lol'd. This is perhaps the only reason why I love England over some other countries - our weather is consistently bad but not to the 'OMG - don't go out there!' level. We haven't had any real snow drifts or storms for many years.
The Fahrenheit system is a shambles. Why keep your freezing point at 32 degrees and your boiling point at 212?
We here are currently in the middle of spring. Winter passed and those were cold rainy days and close to freezing nights. Of course, I'm too far up north to enjoy the sight of snow.
As for bad storms, I lived in the Philippines for five years. Typhoon season.
I would think that any of our measurements are not quite as good as those of other countries. in the metric system, it's so easy to convert distances, just divide/ multiply by easy numbers like 10, 100, 1000, etc. In our english system, you have all those complicated conversions, like 12 inches in one foot, 5280 feet in one mile, etc. I think that i would like using the metric system in the united states over the English system.
Think of it this way: temperature is the amount of heat in something. How can you have a negative amount of heat in anything? That just doesn't make any sense. That's why Kelvin is the only logical measurement.
Hmm only time I've used Kelvin is in an AP chemistry class. That class did open up the true wonderfulness of the metric system to me as well. Darn you america and your outdated ways.
It may be outdated, but we did try to convert. in the 70's, we tried to do it, but no body wanted to convert, so the attempt failed. As for Kelvin scale, I don't have a clue how it works, and before your brought it up in this thread, couldn't even remember its name. However, having no negative numbers in the scale does sound convenient.
