It’s just a scale, you get used to it. Human bodies are 60% water
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ArdMacha@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 2 months ago
No, your just used to Fahrenheit.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Who uses Fahrenheit in a first world country?
Custodian1623@lemmy.world 2 months ago
America bad!!
systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t live there, so ill take your word for it.
kattenluik@feddit.nl 2 months ago
How’d you know?
John_McMurray@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That makes as much sense as shutting on the lights
FUBAR@lemm.ee 2 months ago
At this point, there’s no harm in using Fahrenheit. We can convert it to celcius. But please use a sane date format.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
ISO 8601
systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Month day year it is then.
TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 2 months ago
yyyy.mm.dd
Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No. Only use epoch. Oh crap…I was supposed to be at work at 1710337651! Gotta go!
yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 2 months ago
dd/mm/yy
SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s selsius
Tango@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Most heated post on Lemmy
IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Converting from Fahrenheit to Celsius is quite easy. All you need to do is:
import math import random import time def obtain_temperature_scale(): temperature_scales = ["Fahrenheit", "Celsius", "Kelvin", "Rankine", "Réaumur", "Newton", "Delisle", "Rømer"] return random.choice(temperature_scales) def create_cryptic_prompts(): cryptic_prompts = [ "Unveil the hidden truth within the scorching embers.", "Decode the whispers of the arctic winds.", "Unravel the enigma of thermal equilibrium.", "Unlock the secrets of the thermometric realm." ] return random.choice(cryptic_prompts) def await_user_input(prompt): print(prompt) return float(input("Enter the temperature value: ")) def dramatic_pause(): print("Calculating...") time.sleep(random.uniform(1.5, 3.5)) def convert_to_celsius(fahrenheit): return (fahrenheit - 32) * (5/9) def main(): temperature_scale = obtain_temperature_scale() if temperature_scale == "Fahrenheit": cryptic_prompt = create_cryptic_prompts() fahrenheit_temp = await_user_input(cryptic_prompt) dramatic_pause() celsius_temp = convert_to_celsius(fahrenheit_temp) print(f"The temperature in Celsius is: {celsius_temp:.2f}°C") else: print("This program only accepts Fahrenheit temperatures.") if __name__ == "__main__": main()
Leg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Those cryptic prompts go pretty hard.
IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Are youyou on your phone? On desktop it shows the Python code. Memmy doesn’t show it. I’m guessing that’s probably why it’s so cryptic.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
def dramatic_pause():
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 months ago
These comments are toxic as fuck.
inverted_deflector@startrek.website 2 months ago
Yeah people are being weirdly condescending and smarmy in here.
SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Only if you are from the US. Everyone else is just nodding, thinking about time someone said that, and moving on
SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How can you manage to spell Fahrenheit right but Celsius wrong?
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
USA
survivalmachine@beehaw.org 2 months ago
[deleted]UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 2 months ago
“don’t tell the Americans”, you are an American mate. The rest of us don’t think Fahrenheit is better.
herpaderp@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
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Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The gun emoji pointing toward the baby’s head is just chefs kiss.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Forget rage bait, we’re into straight up “gr 7 science” bait territory now.
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, the reason you can’t stop thinking about it is because it makes no sense but you insist it does so your brain can’t stop processing it, trying to figure it out, but every answer you come up with is crap and you know it. It’s called cognitive dissonance, you’re really not supposed to lean into it.
nexussapphire@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It makes no sense but it’s my reality. o7
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 2 months ago
… you think that’s your reality? an emo bullshit post like this is your reality? then truly I do salute you, fellow retard
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The thing about Fahrenheit is kinda wrong. 0 is when salt water freezes, and 100 was supposedly measured by a woman’s body temperature when she was sick.
Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Wait, what’s the culture war deal with this marde?
For me, fahrenheit is fine (just remember 100 c to 212 f, --> with 5/9 or 9/5 +/-32 calculation)
but I prefer for simplicity, celcius, if not kelvin…
, it do be like this, 1 world, 2 systems
It’s like always the same map around here, ykwim…
SoyViking@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Yeah that’s all very cool but Celsius means that the temperature display on my kettle reaches 100 once the water is boiling. That’s a round number. Checkmate, atheists.
getaway@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
If fahrenheit was how people felt, then room temperature would be 0 because that’s the ideal temperature. Negative fahrenheit would be too cold, positive to warm.
ferralcat@monyet.cc 2 months ago
100 is hot out and 0 is cold. That’s not crazy. 35 being hot out is pretty arbitrary for day to day use. But if your job is boiling water every day, it’s probably not the best.
Rediphile@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The freezing point of water seems a hell of a lot more relevant to what humans consider ‘cold’…which is why it’s the zero. The boiling point of water isn’t the zero in Celsius after all.
Also ‘cold’ as a concept is often represented with symbols related to frozen water such as snow flakes and icicles.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I would like to use this system you propose. 0 is room temperature, plus/minus 100 is death by freezing or heatstroke… But we probably have to do some work to make units fit in a linear way. Are you filing the patent or am I?
Rediphile@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I was in a sauna at +95 Celsius for several minutes the other day. And within the same week I felt -35 Celsius cold on my bare skin.
Both could kill me provided a bit more exposure, but they don’t instantly. Meanwhile, +4 Celsius can also cause death by hypothermia pretty easily in the right circumstances.
So, while I like the idea, I think implementation will be hard as there is no clear death number on either end of the spectrum. Not to mention humidity, clothing, exertion, level of hydration, etc…
ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That isn’t consistent with K and C though. -K doesn’t exist. And water doesn’t become more frozen at -C (well I guess it technically becomes different kinds of frozen).
Zero in that sense represents the absolute limit that one could exist in a particular state, which for F would be comfort? I guess the issue with humans is that 0 would be very subjective. But I think for almost all humans, the limit would be closer to 40F than 0F.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 2 months ago
-K doesn’t exist.
It does though, but negative Kelvin is actually hotter than any positive Kelvin.
invisiblegorilla@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Fuck Fahrenheit.
Rodeo@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
All my homies hate fahrenheit.
Dehydrated@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Too bad that people are 80% water and water is a molecule
amio@kbin.social 2 months ago
How very American.
I suppose it is how people feel, just, y'know, about 4% of people.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I think the focus of this is just where the origins of the units are derived. Fahrenheit was invented at a hospital for identifying patients outside of the normal range, Celsius was invented based on the liquid range of water, and Kelvin was invented based on when matter stops
XM34@feddit.de 2 months ago
Fahrenheit was invented at a hospital for identifying patients outside of the normal range…
0°F is outside the normal human temperature range? No shit!
You’re talking a bunch of bullcrap! Fahrenheit was developed by a German Scientist and he just chose two measurements that were halfway decent to reproduce. That’s all there is to it. Got nothing to do with hospitals.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Except it was calibrated on someone who was running a fever, so it fails at even that.
amio@kbin.social 2 months ago
The focus of it is what you are used to.
All scales are basically created equal - they must be, since they measure the same thing and scale the same way. (No pun intended.)
The only difference there can ever be between C/K/F (or R for that matter) is multiplying by one constant and/or adding another.Yanks use Fahrenheit, grow up with it, and see it used every day. Therefore it is intuitive and logical. To them.
The vast majority of people on Earth - about 95% - actually don't, so it isn't.That makes the phrasing and underlying assumption pretty characteristically American, and tempting to poke some gentle fun at.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 2 months ago
I think if Fahrenheit as percent hot. 0F is zero percent hot, 100F is 100 percent hot. Most people are comfortable with the weather between 60-80 percent hot.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 months ago
I see a lot of people that say Fahrenheit makes sense if you think about it as a percentage, but i have no idea what “60% hot” means
FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fuck Fahrenheit.
uienia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Americans always regurgite the “Fahrenheit is how people feel” nonsense, but it is just that: nonsense. Americans are familiar with fahrenheit so they think that it is more inituitive than other systems, but unsurprisingly people who are used to celsius have no problems using it to measure “how people feel” and will think it is a very inituitive system.
Lizardking27@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean, you’re 100% wrong. Fahrenheit isn’t “how people feel” arbitrarily, it’s almost literally a 0-100 scale of how hot it is outside. You need no prior knowledge to interpret a Fahrenheit measurement. Which really reflects poorly on everyone who says “Fahrenheit doesn’t make any sense” because if they were capable of any thought at all they would figure it out in 2 seconds, like everyone else. I’m a lab rat that uses Celsius all day every day, I’m just not a pretentious stuck up tool about alternate measurements just because I refuse to understand them.
inverted_deflector@startrek.website 2 months ago
Celsius is more intuitive for like science or lab work but for day to day use either one is really arbitrary based on what you’re used to.
ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I like that Fahrenheit has a narrower range for degrees. 1C is 1.8 degrees F. So, F allows you to have more precision without the use of decimals. Like, 71F feels noticeably different to me than 64F, but that is only a 3.8 degree difference in C.
Ilflish@lemm.ee 2 months ago
But that also doesn’t matter because the granularity is meaningless if you don’t make decisions for differences between 71F and 70F
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Both are equally arbitrary. You just have to know a handful of temperatures that you use in your day to day life either way.
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Celsius being based on water makes it the most intuitive of the three imo.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Can confirm. Moved from the US to Canada and a year of using Celcius revealed to me just how fucking stupid and convoluted Fahrenheit is.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 2 months ago
CluckN@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fahrenheit has a fine granularity that is lost in cold climates. It’s why the Bahamas/Belize use it as well.
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It is really easy to map onto human feel though. 0-100 pretty accurately maps onto our minimum and maximum realistically survivable temps, long-term, and the middle temperatures of those are the most comfortable. It’s far more round, when it comes to describing human preference and survivability, than Celsius is.
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Good luck surviving in 0°F long term.
faintbeep@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I bet a lot more people know what 0°C feels like than 0°F. One is freezing point, one is a completely arbitrary temperature which only gets called “the lowest you’ll experience” as a post hoc rationalisation of Fahrenheit. Most people will never experience anything that cold.
I even bet more people know what 100°C feels like than 100°F. One is accidentally getting scalded by boiling water, the other is a completely arbitrary temperature which is quite hot but not even the hottest you’ll experience in America.
Allero@lemmy.today 2 months ago
No it doesn’t, unfortunately What makes 0F (-18C) special? How do you estimate survivability at such temperature? If I’d be out on the street naked, I would die there in a matter of minutes. At the same time, there is plenty of places where winter temperatures go -40F (-40C) and even below, yet people very much survive and live there.
Similar with 100F (38C). There are places with higher temps in the summer, up to 120F (49C) in some places, yet people survive. Still, if you’re not equipped with anything, 100F (38C) will burn you alive.
hex@programming.dev 2 months ago
I wanna say that with this logic 50 should be right around the most comfortable temp… But for most people it’s closer to 70.
I’ll try to explain how easily mappable Celsius is to people as well.
-40 to +40… -40 being extremely cold, and +40 being extremely hot. 21c is the equivalent of 70f.
It’s all the same stuff. Just matters what you’re used to.
Filthmontane@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fahrenheit isn’t how people feel, it’s how brine solutions feel.
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Which is a surprisingly good approximation for how people feel. 0-100 is pretty survivable, with the mid ranges being most comfortable, and things outside of that range starting to pose serious threats.
Undearius@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
0-100 is pretty survivable
I can tell you’ve never been outside when it was 0°F
DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
50F (10C) is not the most comfortable for…well, anyone i think. Thats pretty chilly for most people. Most universally comfortable temperature range is probably around 70-80F, which is not really “around the middle” in that 0-100 range.
C126@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I don’t get it…people freeze at 0F and boil at 100F?
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
No, but those describe pretty well the range within people tend to do okay in. Anything lower or higher and you tend to need more specialized gear and have to seriously limit exposure.
C126@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You need specialized gear at less than 0F and more than 100F? So totally fine to wear t-shirt and shorts anywhere in between?
Shurimal@kbin.social 2 months ago
With Celsius it's all nice and round numbers unlike the mess called fahrenheit:
0°C—black ice, snow, be careful on the road and you probably want to wear gloves and a hat
0...10°C—a bit chilly, but you can leave your hat home
10...20°C—pleasant, but not quite tee-and-shorts yet
20...30°C—nice summer weather
30...40°C—holy crap it's hot!
40...50°C—are you fucking kidding me?
50+°C—my proteins are starting to denature...
100°C—good sauna
110°C—finns think it's a good sauna
120+°C—finns think it's getting a bit too hot in the sauna. Italians tend to vaporize in sauna (speaking from experience)
...
0...-10°C—a pleasant winter weather
-10...-20°C—getting a bit frosty
-20...-30°C—finns think it's a pleasant winter weather
-40°C—vodka freezes. Russians and finns agree it's getting a bit frosty
-50°C—getting a little hard to start your Uazik in the morning in Siberia due to engine oil solidifying
-60°C—researchers in Antarctica all agree it's getting a bit frosty and someone should close the windowT4V0@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To be honest, a 10°C range is way too much variation for me to consider it as the same ‘category’ (at least in the 0°C ~ 40°C range).
Railing5132@lemmy.world 2 months ago
See that’s my issue with degrees C. It’s not as fine a measurement as degrees F. A difference of 5F is not terribly much, but it is noticeable. A difference of 5C is substantial (to me) and would make me very uncomfortable. So with F, I can know with more precision how uncomfortable I should expect to be :)
readthemessage@lemmy.eco.br 2 months ago
Yeah, most people in Brazil do not think 20 is pleasant at all
Adam1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
-60c - Canadians consider putting on a hoodie
Gabu@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Except it makes literally no sense whatsoever…
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 months ago
“On a scale of -20 ➡️ 40, how hot are you?” Isn’t that hard to comprehend
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
So fahrenheit is The Incredibles, celsius is Elemental, and kelvin is an upcoming Pixar movie?
kaffiene@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What you grew up with makes sense to you. Shock!