Ask the crickets

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• sevon@lemmy.kde.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Americans and their units

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  • Pazuzu@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    metric is great until you need to do anything practical with it like converting cricket chirps to degrees ^/s^

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  • Botzo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de

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• ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Assuming one spherical cricket in a vacuum

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can’t hear a cricket chirp in a vacuum.

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  …or count the chirps in 8 seconds and add 4.

  Why am I taking 25seconds and dividing by 3? Accuracy?

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  • TheMetaleek@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My guess would be better approximation as you avoid a “fluke”, as 8 second is a very short time where nothing could easily happen even with crickets being present

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    • yimby@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m just bothered they chose divide by 3, instead of 16 seconds divide by 2 which is wayyy easier

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  • NuraShiny@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you count only for 8 seconds, it will be inaccurate, you need to count for 8 and 1/3 seconds!

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• essell@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wow.

  It’s zero degrees here in June.

  Weird.

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  • Zron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How did you hear negative chirps?

    Can I learn this power?

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    • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Try salvia

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Using the metric version you can get zero with no chirps. The method doesn’t work at all for the current temperature though, you can’t get -1°C any way

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  • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hello fellow southernhemispherian, how does it feel bring safe from nuclear winter?

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Glad to know it’s America and crickets that find fahrenheit more convenient for temperature.

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  • Today@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think that’s how we got fahrenheit.

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    • kurwa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Actually it was originally based on the freezing temperature of a brine and human body temperature.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit

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• Widdershins@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel like parentheses don’t belong in explaining math if they aren’t used appropriately.

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  • LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    30 chirps + (added to) 40 = 70

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• NuraShiny@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I guess Summer’s over, it’s 4 degrees celsius where I currently am.

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  • propter_hog@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    0 where I’m at, hell yeah

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    • NuraShiny@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How did you count negative chirps?

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• MyFriendGodzilla@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But what species is the cricket?

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• not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was expecting some kind of Duckworth-Lewis formula.

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Test or One-Day?

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