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More proof that Fahrenheit is superior.
by earthboundkid 3y ago
More proof that Fahrenheit is superior.
- malfist 3y agoI'm partial to rankine myself.
- rzzzt 3y agoRéaumur gets very little mention these days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9aumur_scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9aumur_scale (I'd like to know what these guys were thinking when it came to deciding on the number associated with the boiling point of water, though. 60 and 80?)
- The_Colonel 3y ago60 is a pretty useful base with many factors. Not sure if that is a very useful property for expressing temperature, but it's not a completely random number either.
- hospitalJail 3y agoI worked in a factory that didn't have decimal points on the thermostat for the ovens. It was sooo much harder to make foam in Canada than in the US as a result. I know that is an ancient problem, but this was only a decade ago.... Kind of blows my mind the rest of the world doesnt use decimals when talking about the weather.
- earthboundkid 3y agoThe problem with Celsius is that nice weather in Fahrenheit is 70 to 80, but in Celsius it's only 20 to 25. 5 degrees is too narrow to talk about the difference between a little too cool and a little too hot! For cooking in ovens or whatever, it's fine because you're up at 350/175 or 500/250. Once you're up that high, precision doesn't matter.
- esafak 3y agohttps://blockworks.co/news/celsius-banks-on-future-with-new-name-kelvin https://blockworks.co/news/celsius-banks-on-future-with-new-...
- dijksterhuis 3y agoI’d argue Kelvin is absolutely better.
- cozzyd 3y agoit's exactly 273.15 better. but I like to measure temperature in eV.
- tomxor 3y agoNo, real scientists use plank temperature ;)
- cozzyd 3y agoyeah, I'm an experimentalist :)
- tomxor 3y agohttps://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/
- dredmorbius 3y agoPlanck
- cozzyd 3y agoIt's real pirates who use planks to measure tempargture
- dredmorbius 3y agoAre those the ones who're always going on about "shiver me timbers"?
- tomxor 3y ago