• imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Thoughts?

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    Generally -40 to 40 are the extremes of livable areas.

    Sure, water is a really good system and it works well.

    And for F that range is -40 to 104. See how you get 64 extra degrees of precision and nearly all of them are double digit numbers? No downside.

    Furthermore F can use its base 10 system to describe useful ranges of temperature such as the 20s, 60s, etc. So you have 144 degrees instead of just 80, and you also have the option to utilize a more broad 16 degree scale that’s also built in.

    You might say that Celsius technically also has an 8 degree scale(10s, 30s), but I would argue that the range of 10 degrees Celsius is too broad to be useful in the same way. In order to scale such that 0C is water freezing and 100C boiling, it was necessary for the units to become larger and thus the 10C shorthand is much less descriptive than the 10F shorthand, at least for most human purposes.

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      8 months ago

      See how you get 64 extra degrees of precision and nearly all of them are double digit numbers? No downside.

      Except you don’t, because all instrumentation uses celsius, as that is the sensible system. Also to human perception a difference of 1 degree C is already negligible, thinking adding an extra digit has any benefits is lunacy.

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        8 months ago

        Any response to the rest of my points?

        Also to human perception a difference of 1 degree C is already negligible, thinking adding an extra digit has any benefits is lunacy.

        Source?

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          8 months ago

          Simple experiment. Hold a pan at 50ºC for a minute, then hold a different pan for a minute at 51ºC. Once you’re done, tell me which burn hurt more, okay? :)

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            8 months ago

            Hey buddy this is a bit much for a discussion about temperature scales, no? I’m quite shocked by this response tbh, if I knew people were this sensitive about Celsius I would have been more diplomatic in my original comment.

            You’ll never know what it’s like to enjoy a sunny summer day, not a cloud in the sky, with a high of 82. Unlucky.

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                8 months ago

                How? I’m literally responding to his points and asking for a source and he’s telling me to burn myself. But I have issues. Okay 👍

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                  8 months ago

                  I’ll hazard it’s because all your points sound like pseudoscientific nonsense that you basically just pulled out of your arse.

                  Dying on that hill doesn’t make you king of the hill. It just makes you a person who chose to die on that hill. Like I said, I won’t stop you. But I will still comment.