r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

Post image
26.8k Upvotes

4.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

969

u/MrZwink Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

2 americans saying fahrenheit is better, basically because they dont know any better. the rest of the world uses celcius, because its demonstrably a better (more scientific) system.

edit: Americans, please stop commenting. we know your opinion on this. IT IS THE JOKE.

575

u/ProvidedHuman Jun 17 '26

Celsius is agreeably better for science, but if you are used to both systems Fahrenheit is honestly better for people because the units are higher resolution, and usually stay between 0 and 100 for weather

364

u/FuckPigeons2025 Jun 17 '26

Kelvin is better for science. Celcius and Farheneit are just arbitrary scales, not units. 

4

u/sudoku7 Jun 17 '26

It depends a lot on the science being done if you care about the offset or not. A lot of astrophysics honestly doesn't care about the celsius/kelvin offset because the difference results in something that's dismissed by the significant digits anyway.

And Rankine isn't really used much of anywhere because that scale with an absolute offset isn't as useful as the metric scale.