Title made me think centimeters.
Baby how cold is it oitside?
Submitted 1 year ago by Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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SHITPOSTING_ACCOUNT@feddit.de 1 year ago
Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Kelvin mostly seems to be used to measure really hot (like ovens, metal forges, stars) or really cold (e.g. planets beyond Mars) things, Fahrenheit still exists only because the US Congress was lazy (though as an American I do find it somewhat useful for comparing weather and Earth’s climate zones in finer detail than just -1 in winter and 28 in summer), and I’ve never heard of that last one.
Donkter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kelvin is useful in physics because it’s always positive, reducing the amount of shenanigans.
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Just looked at the Wikipedia page. What is the reason for so many fucking scales?
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Different people deciding at different times that they need to measure temperature for something specific and then varying degrees of adoption.
derekabutton@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well Kelvin makes some math much easier. Formulas look pretty if you don’t need to remove 213 a bunch of times.
Zorque@kbin.social 1 year ago
https://xkcd.com/927/
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Yeah that sums it up thanks
Quik@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Is there any research on which xkcds are cited most often?
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
The purpose for this one is for scientists that normally use Fahrenheit. Those people don’t really exist though
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 year ago
they used to exist like 200 years ago