[Pxtl]

Yeah, you could argue that if it was an accurate 100F for the human body, but you'd still want the bottom level to be something useful - freezing point of water is as good a zero as anything (well, short of absolute zero).

My bigger question is why Metric stuck with Celcius and Kelvin instead of factoring in the Gas Constant (R) into Kelvin so the math would be completely constant-free.

Of course, then you'd have water freezing at 2271 and boiling at 3102, which wouldn't be fun in conversation.

[raverbashing]

> My bigger question is why Metric stuck with Celcius and Kelvin instead of factoring in the Gas Constant (R) into Kelvin so the math would be completely constant-free

That's a really good question. Another possibility would be to fix the calories/joules mismatch in heating water

[marcosdumay]

The Metric system changes are all about preserving the measures people are used to, and not at all about removing constants from calculations.