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I mean, one would hope that a nation would know at least one system. If they tell me one more time "it just makes more sense" about stupid fahrenheit it will be too much.
The freezing and boiling points of MALT does not a good system make!
You're just jealous you're not made of malt
Oh then we both have terrible news today....
uh oh. you tell me mine. im pretty stupid
THAT’S WHAT IT’S BASED ON?
One of my pet peeves is people thinking units of the past or people in the past were stupid, as opposed to just prioritizing different things.
The low end was based on the stabilizing temperature of a solution of water, ice and salt in a proportion lost to time. The benefit was that a water/ice/salt solution will stabilize it's temperature naturally until the ice melts, making it useful for calibrating something like a thermometer: "ice" can be below the freezing point, but you can use the solution to set a steady baseline: the liquid will be 0°F.
The next steady baseline was body temperature, available to anyone measuring.
The scale was then set so that the freezing and boiling points of water were 180° apart. This was useful because it put them on opposite sides of a dial.
It was before we decided that ten was the ultimate number that couldn't be beat, so people still played with circular symmetry, thirds and so one.
This meant you could calibrate your thermometer by setting 0 to bring, 100 to your body, and then pushing steam through it and adjusting the offset so that the intervals were right and you correct body temperature variance. Some specific numbers have changed over the years as we adjust the scale to be based on metric.
Not stupid or arbitrary, just prioritizing things we don't care about so much any more.
Celsius and the other are both based on absolute zero and a very specific change in energy levels in the medium, so it's ultimately moot. Neither is technically based on what they originally were.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_revision_of_the_SI
@darthelmet @M0oP0o
Nobody really knows for sure. It's lost to history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
Oh sure, it just so happens to line up just so and comes from a time where malt (max saturation of salt in water) was common.
Fun thing though is that due to this its the one thing f is good at. No point salting a road at or below zero f. Yeap that's it, wooooo
It's a better system for weather, but that's about it. 0 is very cold, and 100 is very hot. No decimals needed.
... Please stop. Its not only not true it is also very silly. No its not good for weather, 78 is not a temp for a room.
78F is not a typical room temperature.
Yes! And how would anyone know one way or the other?! Its american madness
look at arizona and boil in the heat of the average house
I've always explained °Fwith:
0° = Cold AF
100° = Hot AF
50° = Chilly, but manageable
Why are you all like this?
I heard they have A1 steak sauce in schools, for teaching.
For Celsius
0º - water becomes solid - it's cold
25º - water is refreshing - ideal temperature
50º - water is scalding - dangerous
100º - water is boiling - guaranteed serious injure territory from this point forward
And, since nobody seems to reach an agreement...
For Kelvin
0º - matter has ceased to move; collapse of matter and reality as we understand it - it's cold
273.15º - water is remains solid - still cold
298.15º - water is a fluid, drinkable, safe to enter - ideal temperature
323.15º - water is capable of delivering serious injuries upon contact - dangerous
373.15º - water is passing into vapour form at high rythm - avoid proximity and all contact from this point forward
FYI: Kelvin doesn't use the degree symbol. It's not degrees Kelvin, just Kelvin.
I'll leave as a testimony of my idiocy. May those seeking to demonstrate my ineptitude never lack evidence.
Nah, it's not widely known. Multiple teachers in school got it wrong.
Get the fuck out of here with your miserable warm water, water is refreshing between 3° and 10°C.
You want to take a swim in water at that temperature? Be my guest. And drinking water that cold? I don't my teeth enamel redone.
If I want to be refreshed, yeah. Also, unless it's scalding hot it shouldn't damage teeth - you might want to look into the content of your water rather than it's temperature if it's damaging your tooth enamel.
There is no battery acid in it, I can assure you.
This is not the explanation you think it is, over there.
So I take it 50°F is the ideal temperature for humans, since it's halfway between cold and hot?