And Rankine is a sin.
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Chenzo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Someone posted here once something like
Farienhiet is how humans feel. Celsius is how water feels. Kelvin is how atoms feel.
I kinda like that.
maniclucky@lemmy.world 5 months ago
frezik@midwest.social 5 months ago
I was mocking up a control panel for a makerspace vacuum former as a potential project (didn’t end up happening), and I put in controls for Celsius, Kelvin, Farenheit, and Rankine. Then I wanted a unit more ridiculous than Rankine, so I invented the Nihon. Zero Nihon is the freezing point of Nihonium, and 100 is the boiling point. Except it’s the theoretical point, because Nihonium has too short of a half life to actually study.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 5 months ago
you genius bastard
Hillock@feddit.de 5 months ago
It only makes sense if you grow up with Fahrenheit. Otherwise Fahrenheit isn’t how humans feels since most of us have no concept what these number mean.
If I would just go with 0 - cold 100 - hot I would assume 50 - perfect. But 50 is still chilly. 70-80 feels like it should be getting hot but that’s the most comfortable temperature.
Evotech@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Honestly it makes more sense with Celsius. -40 is really cold. +40 is really hot
Hillock@feddit.de 5 months ago
No, Celsius doesn’t make more sense in regard to how humans feel. It just feels more intuitive to us because we are used to the numbers. But if you try to explain the scala to someone the numbers feel entirely arbitrary with no real reason behind it. Why is 40 the really hot? 40 is such a weird number for humans.
0 being cold, 100 being hot makes sense, anyone can grasp that concept. But the inbetween steps of Fahrenheit make no sense. It isn’t intuitive, it only makes sense if you are used to them. A intuitive scala would be:
0 - cold, you need proper winter clothes 25 - chilly, you need a light jacket 50 - room temperature 75 - getting uncomfortably hot 100 - too hot, heatstroke is a real danger
gmtom@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Mate you talk about Celsius being arbitrary but it’s literally the other way around. 0 and 100 in f are bothe completely arbitrary. 0 outside has no real significance. In C its when you can start to expect ice and snow, so gives you actual information about the weather. The f scale could justnas well be 7° to 96° and it would make no difference.
Evotech@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I disagree. Cold should be negative numbers
Room temperature being 75 also makes no sense at that scale
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
For Celsius, it’s 0 and under for proper winter clothes and the cutoff for snow (though it can snow above that due to temperature variance at higher altitudes and snow can melt below that due to the sun, so it’s a bit of a soft cutoff).
0 - 10 is chilly, pants and coat weather, though you might unzip your coat at the higher end.
10 - 20 is pants and jacket weather, though you’ll remove your jacket at the higher end.
20 - 30 is shorts and short sleeve weather and IMO the perfect range.
30 - 40 is getting uncomfortably or even deadly hot, depending on the person and humidity level.
BluesF@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m not sure any linear scale will quite accurately represent how people feel.
fidodo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It makes sense if you’re used to 70 being a C average like in school