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The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Re: The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Post by zinckiwi »

Guvante wrote: post #15
artisinal wrote: post #5

This is why we should ditch Celsius for Kelvin. I never liked how we coupled 0 and 100 to where water freezes and boils under certain conditions. Kelvin doesn't rely on non-invariant reference points.

You want numbers to be understandable and K produces illogical numbers. (There is a reason it is common to drop the century when talking about years, humans are less skilled at numbers over 100) And I know temperatures in Fahrenheit go higher but it is common to refer to Phoenix as "over 100" even when it's high can peak over 120.

That’s 02025 thinking.

Re: The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Post by TylerE »

warmdarksea wrote: post #18
artisinal wrote: post #5

This is why we should ditch Celsius for Kelvin. I never liked how we coupled 0 and 100 to where water freezes and boils under certain conditions. Kelvin doesn't rely on non-invariant reference points.

this is actually why i like fahrenheit the most... 0F is "really cold" and 100F is "really hot", whereas in celsius 0C is "kind of cold" and 100C is "uninhabitable". it makes sense for the 0-100 range to be reserved for temperatures frequently encountered in our habitat as humans i think...

Also for things like hvac temps Celsius is rather too coarse where as 1F is right around the perceivable difference.

Re: The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Post by artisinal »

throwatdem12311 wrote: post #23
artisinal wrote: post #5

This is why we should ditch Celsius for Kelvin. I never liked how we coupled 0 and 100 to where water freezes and boils under certain conditions. Kelvin doesn't rely on non-invariant reference points.

Now do metric vs imperial.

Nothing screams freedom more than using ancient terms like horsepower and measuring tires in inches and percentages.

The other day I heard an American talk about a TV being 65 inches. Took me a while to understand they had a 165 centimeter diagonal television.

Re: The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Post by al_borland »

warmdarksea wrote: post #18
artisinal wrote: post #5

This is why we should ditch Celsius for Kelvin. I never liked how we coupled 0 and 100 to where water freezes and boils under certain conditions. Kelvin doesn't rely on non-invariant reference points.

this is actually why i like fahrenheit the most... 0F is "really cold" and 100F is "really hot", whereas in celsius 0C is "kind of cold" and 100C is "uninhabitable". it makes sense for the 0-100 range to be reserved for temperatures frequently encountered in our habitat as humans i think...

This has always been my primary argument in favor of Fahrenheit. It makes sense for humans, which is all a majority of the population really cares about. In addition, it's more granular. Sometimes turning the thermostat up or down by 1C could be too much, where 1F is just right.

In science and math, I can see where having round numbers for commonly used temperatures would be useful, but if 0C and 100C are the only places that happens, it's not that hard to memorize 2 numbers.

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Post by [deleted] »

wongarsu wrote: post #20
warmdarksea wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this is actually why i like fahrenheit the most... 0F is "really cold" and 100F is "really hot", whereas in celsius 0C is "kind of cold" and 100C is "uninhabitable". it makes sense for the 0-100 range to be reserved for temperatures frequently encountered in our habitat as humans i think...

Celsius maps nicely to the temperatures observed in a typical Finnish sauna. 100C is among the highest typical sauna temperatures (very relaxing in dry air), and afterwards you cool off with water around 0C Also, having 100C as water temp for black tee and 80 for green tee is nice to remember

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Re: The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Post by Jblx2 »

throwatdem12311 wrote: post #23
artisinal wrote: post #5

This is why we should ditch Celsius for Kelvin. I never liked how we coupled 0 and 100 to where water freezes and boils under certain conditions. Kelvin doesn't rely on non-invariant reference points.

Now do metric vs imperial.

ahem U.S. Customary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units

Re: The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Post by thaumasiotes »

Guvante wrote: post #15
artisinal wrote: post #5

This is why we should ditch Celsius for Kelvin. I never liked how we coupled 0 and 100 to where water freezes and boils under certain conditions. Kelvin doesn't rely on non-invariant reference points.

You want numbers to be understandable and K produces illogical numbers. (There is a reason it is common to drop the century when talking about years, humans are less skilled at numbers over 100) And I know temperatures in Fahrenheit go higher but it is common to refer to Phoenix as "over 100" even when it's high can peak over 120.

> (There is a reason it is common to drop the century when talking about years,

Yep.

> humans are less skilled at numbers over 100)

No, the reason is that the century is constant and therefore carries no information. Where the century isn't constant, it never gets dropped.

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