• MxM111
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      301 year ago

      Less known 301.4375C at which F and K are the same and equal to 574.5875

      • ares35
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        161 year ago

        that’s when it starts to get ‘cold’. before that, it’s just a ‘little chilly’.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I know this is a joke but as a Minnesotan I think right around -15°F (-26°c) is where it starts to get ‘cold’. This is where the air really begins to sting your face and people have issues starting their vehicles.

          • ares35
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            11 year ago

            am a native and lived there most my life. only had problems with my piece-of-shit cars when it got colder than -20F or so. block heater (on a timer) and a newish-battery and they always started, though, even during that record cold snap (-60F).

          • @Piafraus
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            51 year ago

            The worst part is that vodka freezes right in the plastic cups. It’s not fun to drink vodka with icy mush.

            • Flying Squid
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              11 year ago

              You drink Russian vodka. Made with ethylene glycol. Is antifreeze. No vodka ice!

            • @[email protected]
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              🤔 🤣… ummm… i’ve drank wine half frozen wine from a cup at -30C 🤣… not fun, but it kept us warm that night 🤣. too bad we didn’t have vodka at 3AM 🤣.

              I think we drank like 10L of wine that night 🤣. Vodka would’ve been more efficient 🤣.

    • @HerrBeter
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      101 year ago

      You mean…

      -40°C = (-40-32)/18*10

  • Sabre363
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    231 year ago

    Kelvin and Celsius are literally the same just offset by 273.15°

      • Sabre363
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        161 year ago

        Kelvin was developed from Celsius. The only difference is that 0° is based on absolute 0 (because it’s logical and constant) rather than the rough freezing point of water (a vague and inconsistent reference point). Every degree change in one unit is exactly the same change in the other.

        • Sneezycat
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          171 year ago

          Except Kelvin aren’t degrees (e.g. it’s just 273’15K not 273’15°K). But a change of one Kelvin is indeed equivalent to a change of one degree Celsius.

    • MxM111
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      371 year ago

      F and C are laterally the same just offset by 32 and scaled by 5/9.

      • Sabre363
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        21 year ago

        Ehh, they were developed in different ways using completely different reference points

        • MxM111
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          201 year ago

          C and K use different reference points too, yet you called them laterally the same.

          • Sabre363
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            11 year ago

            They have a lot more in common than Celsius and Fahrenheit, which are only related because they are both measures of temperature.

            • MxM111
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              31 year ago

              That depends how you count “a lot more in common”. The reference points for zero is much closer for C and F. People commonly use in everyday life C and F, but not K. Should I continue?

    • Zorque
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      121 year ago

      Theyre also not pointing guns at each other in the picture.

    • @chiliedogg
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      31 year ago

      Same relationship between Rankine and Fahrenheit.

      And 0 Kelvin and 0° Rankine are three same temperature.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        In that case I assume it would be 0 Rankine without degrees, too? Because it’s an absolute unit like Kelvin.

        • @chiliedogg
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          31 year ago

          It’s still technically defined based on its relationship to Fahrenheit, just like Kelvin was with Celsius until the 60s.

    • @MisterFrog
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      Rankine is based? The same way pound-mol and 1000th of an inch are based?

      AT THAT POINT, WHY NOT JUST USE METRIC o_0

      I bite my thumb at Rankine, sir.

  • YAMAPIKARIYA
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    131 year ago

    Because 0 is not a lack of temperature like the measurements. (With the exception of Kelvin)

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    Sounds funny but really, why would a weight or length measurement start with ≠0?? Like “size of the dick or prince Charles”?

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      But that argument would go for temperature as well. Yet, here we are with the most commonly used ones having zero as wey more than the “nothing”-level.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Zero comes from experience, at least in Celsius. Its semi-scientifical as water is a pretty big part of our world. For our life and all it is pretty much the turning point, isnt it? But of course it could also be 50 or so, as below is possible

  • @elrik
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    31 year ago

    0lbs ≠ 0kg in the absence of gravity.

      • @elrik
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        21 year ago

        You’re right, “pounds” is ambiguous.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Sorry, perhaps this is a disciplinary difference. In engineering, physics, and biomechanics (my doctoral specialization), and from a unit standard perspective, the pound representing both mass and weight is a false equivalency born out of convenience. This is why the Imperial standard for mass is the slug, allowing for gravitational acceleration of a mass to equate to a force.

          • @[email protected]
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            Yeah this is exactly why I was confused. Pounds can definitely be used to measure mass. So the guy was wrong and assuming stupid parameters