HOT!

[jonesthecurl]

Also, water is the most common thing on this planet we can think off that is easily recognisable. It freezes below 0 celsius and boils at 100 celsius, those temperatures are normal on this planet. Unlike the boiling and freezing points of oxygen.

I'm not sure Oxygen even has a freezing point.

At a low enough temperature, or under high enough pressure, oxygen will happily become solid.

[Timminz]

This is exactly why only Kelvin makes sense.

But even the Kelvin scale is based on the arbitrary notion that 1 degree is the equivalent of one hundreth of the difference between the freezing and boiling points of pure water at pressure equal to that of sea-level (earth, circa 2000).

Everything relies on perspective.

[kagetora]

0C is when water freezes. 100C is when water boils

Fahrenheit has a system. 0F is the coldest the guy (Fahrenheit) could get with a mixture of water and a few other ingredients. 100 was the body temperature of someone.

So 0F is as cold as he could get with water, and 100F was someone's body temperature.

I personally like the Kelvin system

[animorpherv1]

It's -7 Celcius right here, right now.