Technically Rankine serves as Fahrenheit's Kelvin equivalent, where 0*R equals absolute zero, and the degree intervals are the same as in Fahrenheit. So, we can manage fine. Though as I said before, even though I like Fahrenheit for common everyday uses, I overwhelmingly prefer metric for Scien...

Technically Rankine serves as Fahrenheit's Kelvin equivalent, where 0*R equals absolute zero, and the degree intervals are the same as in Fahrenheit. So, we can manage fine. Though as I said before, even though I like Fahrenheit for common everyday uses, I overwhelmingly prefer metric for Scientific and Engineering applications, so although I understand the viewpoints from both sides, I may have internal biases that prevent me from truly being representative of either side. I just am trying defend that our choice is equally valid in terms of temperature scale, even if it means I don't know certain relations off the top of my head for working between American scales, like for example, in metric I know things like 1ccm of water at 1 AU = 1mL of water = 1g, and that the energy required to raise that mass 1*C in temp = 1cal = .001Cal(food calorie). I don't have to think, I just know, and to be honest, if I had to do something like that in American scales, I would just cheat and quickly convert to metric to do the math, then back to whatever for the answer. The main point though, is whether or not we should be forced to change our preference because most of the world uses something else. I can easily say that even though you're a native Norwegian, you write in English better than most of the Americans on this thread, so I can only assume you're very comfortable using it. Also, English, and i'm sure soon Chinese Mandarin, are taught around the world as kind of the unofficial language of global business. But even so, just because a lot of people use English around the world, including you, it doesn't mean Norway should drop using Norsk for English, should it?

Thank you for understanding, you seem to be quite reflected on the world around you. I love it when people know what they are talking about. (haha) ;-)
I think we should drop using Norsk (Bokmål & Nynorsk), because everything we learned at school was in International English (EST - English for Sc...

Thank you for understanding, you seem to be quite reflected on the world around you. I love it when people know what they are talking about. (haha) ;-)
I think we should drop using Norsk (Bokmål & Nynorsk), because everything we learned at school was in International English (EST - English for Science and Technology). Everyone in Norway start learning english in pre school, that means that our 2nd language is English ;-)

On another note; A colleague of mine had to learn mandarin as an official job requirement, that shows how wide spead that language is. ;-)

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A sauna is a controlled environment. What Burnie is referring to, is that when your internal body temperature reaches 106 degrees, your internal organs begin to become damaged, most notably the brain. When the outdoor temperature is over 100 F, many individuals, are prone to suffer heat exhaustion. ...

A sauna is a controlled environment. What Burnie is referring to, is that when your internal body temperature reaches 106 degrees, your internal organs begin to become damaged, most notably the brain. When the outdoor temperature is over 100 F, many individuals, are prone to suffer heat exhaustion. We are warmblooded, so our bodies naturally produce heat, just by breathing. We need that heat to dissipate from our bodies to maintain a normal body temperature. When the environment makes that difficult, certain age groups are susceptible to organ failure.

I don't think it's hard concept to understand that 0 is cold and 100 is hot when talking about weather conditions.