Solved global warming. Nice.
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I actually think a great compromise between c and f would be c x 2 so 200c is boiling point, all the benefits of c and f
Supposedly one of the main draws for fahrenheit is that common cold temperatures aren't negative, so this doesn't address that part.
honestly why would someone care about that... common cold temperatures being negative makes more sense to me, i say this as an american.
This is the point. Whether ice is likely to form is a very important aspect of weather.
Is it going snow instead of rain. Are the roads going to be treacherous. Will my water supply stop flowing.
Why isnt the list ordered by cursedness?
Galen has by far the lowest score and real Celsius the highest
Can we count 10/0 as a big number? Or even just as a number.
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I once read that circular thermometers were a thing and that's why fahrenheit has 180° between freezing and boiling.
I've heard this too. It also allows for easily making your own thermometer, since you can just divide by 2 until you get all the way down to degrees.
I think a degree F was 1/10,000 of the volume of mercury he happened to use in his first thermometer. The 180 was probably a coincidence because bimetal spring thermometers came along later.
I was positive that the Wedgwood scale had to be fictional but nope! That Josiah dude was WEIRD 😄
Non-linear temperature hurts my noggin
I recommend staying in abstract then. Real world stuff like latent heat and state-changes might maky it boyle.
After joking about this at work, I landed on the most cursed scale I could think of... pT = log10 FPW.
Pros: no bottom to scale, increasing negative values asymptotically approach absolute zero. Water freezes at zero.
1 pT is almost exactly the melting point of iridium. Lightning bolts are around 2 pT. Boiling points of neon and helium are in the neighborhood of -1 and -2.
At least that follows some mathematical logic. Mohs scale of hardness is pretty close to pT scale in that sense, but there’s no mathematics or logic involved. It’s just a list of standard materials that define specific points on the scale. When you compare the results with a more logical scale, it looks neatly non-linar at first glance, but the closer you look, the less sense it makes. It’s just a list of exceptions to whatever rule you may have had in mind.
Doesn’t mean it’s a useless scale. You can totally use it for qualitative assessment of hardness, but steer clear of it when numbers and decimals actually matter.
lol did he get ideas from lemmy? https://lemm.ee/comment/14633558
I think that meme is older than the Fediverse.
I was pointing to the comments, not the post.
I wouldn't be surprised
Real Celsius 10/0 , Galen | 4/-4
Lmfao. Surprised there isn't one that is something like sqrt(-1)/10. Probably something to do with E&M lol
You could totally make an extra cursed temperature scale. Randall proposed the °X scale, but maybe we can do better than that. That was pretty cursed because it defines three points based on statistics observed on of Earth and uses linear interpolation to connect the dots.
I propose an extra cursed system that uses completely fictional values. Let’s take -π as the melting point of unicorns and +GrahamsNumber as the peak temperature in the core of the hypothetical planet Vulcan. Between the two points you can fit any seventh degree polynomial you like in order to get the values that fit your needs. On Wednesdays you can use a sine wave too.
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