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ost_uid0][quote ost_uid0="catalina_marina"][quote ost_uid0]I'll overlook the fact that that's in Fahrenheit, and just be insanely jealous instead.[/quote ost_uid0]You can be jealous about 99 degrees, if it were really 99 degrees, you wouldn't [i ost_uid0]be[/i ost_uid0].[quote ost_uid0]He's just jealous because Fahrenheit is actually more precise, per digit, than Celsius.[/quote ost_uid0]But it's easier to convert Celsius to Kelvin than it is to convert Fahrenheit to Kelvin, so we win. [/quote ost_uid0]:lol: I could make up a pair of temperature scales based on Fahrenheit that merely involved setting a different zero, and then Fahrenheit would be better on that score. :smile: Let's see, there can be the [b ost_uid0]Marina[/b ost_uid0], with its zero at the freezing point (putting 180 at the boiling point and making it blindingly obvious that Fahrenheit [i ost_uid0]is[/i ost_uid0] more precise than Celsius, plus the conversion to Celsius and back is easier), and the [b ost_uid0]Saxamaphone[/b ost_uid0], in which zero is set at "absolute zero" (simplifying the conversion to Kelvin and back).[/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0]You know, I think they might just catch on.[/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0][quote ost_uid0]He's just jealous because Fahrenheit is actually more precise, per digit, than Celsius.[/quote ost_uid0]But Celcius is based on something that can be easily checked, rather than the body temperature of a guy who's been dead for over a century or weather conditions that no longer exist thanks to global warming (or possibly just a natural change in climate patterns). Silly Foreignheat.[/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0][quote ost_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][quote ost_uid0]He's just jealous because Fahrenheit is actually more precise, per digit, than Celsius.[/quote ost_uid0]But Celcius is based on something that can be easily checked, rather than the body temperature of a guy who's been dead for over a century or weather conditions that no longer exist thanks to global warming (or possibly just a natural change in climate patterns).[/quote ost_uid0]There's a one-to-one function that accurately relates temperature in F to temperature in C, so one temperature scale is just as stable (or unstable) as the other. ![]() Back to the original topic: I would pay good money (assuming I had money) to see this scene from "The Trouble With Tribbles" portrayed well on a T-shirt (not because it's so hilarious, but because I think it would translate well to a picture): [quote ost_uid0]Kirk: You must've gotten a bootleg script with some tentative title! Ha! That's how you saw this episode so early....Spock: Not so...now if you need me, I'll be in my quarters deleting the evidence from my hard drive.[/quote ost_uid0]With Spock in the process of getting up from his seat, and Kirk in the background grinning fit to burst. [/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0][quote ost_uid0]There's a one-to-one function that accurately relates temperature in F to temperature in C, so one temperature scale is just as stable (or unstable) as the other.[/quote ost_uid0]But those Foreignheat values can't be independently verified. Celcius can. You can take a pan of distilled water down to sea level, boil and freeze it (possibly in the reverse order) and calibrate a thermometer. You can't do that in F (the jokes wears thin after a while, and it's too long to type the proper way) because Dr F's body temperature is currently the same temperature as his coffin, and an average winter's day in Vienna is not the same now as it was in 18-whatever.[/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0][quote ost_uid0="NAHTMMM"]Back to the original topic: [/quote ost_uid0]Is that allowed?[/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000 ost_uid0][quote ost_uid0]Think four-letter words beginning with "s" and ending with "oon".[/quote ost_uid0]Spoon? (2+2=5)[/color ost_uid0][/quote ost_uid0][color=#000000 ost_uid0]"There is no spoon, it is you who bends."And you can argue about Celsius and Farenheit all you want, I'm sticking with Kelvin :P :heheh:[/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0][quote ost_uid0="MmeBlueberry"][quote ost_uid0="NAHTMMM"]Back to the original topic: [/quote ost_uid0]Is that allowed?[/quote ost_uid0]come to think of it its not. Arrest that man! Edit to remove extra explanation points.[/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0]Yes he's broken the 47th Commandment! "Thou shalt not bring forum topics back on track."He Must Pay![/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0]Therefor:[quote ost_uid0]And you can argue about Celsius and Farenheit all you want, I'm sticking with Kelvin :P :heheh:[/quote ost_uid0]Kelvin is the only one where point zero actually makes sense. Of course, the scale doesn't, but who cares? And I think Kelvin is international.[/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0][quote ost_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"]But those Foreignheat values can't be independently verified. Â Celcius can. Â You can take a pan of distilled water down to sea level, boil and freeze it (possibly in the reverse order) and calibrate a thermometer. Â You can't do that in F (the jokes wears thin after a while, and it's too long to type the proper way) because Dr F's body temperature is currently the same temperature as his coffin, and an average winter's day in Vienna is not the same now as it was in 18-whatever.[/quote ost_uid0]All I can say is that it seems to me that you place great faith in the thermometer's ability to tell a 0 from a 32. :smile: Â [/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0]They all apply anywhere in the universe, but everyone knows Kelvin. I for one have no idea how Fahrenheit works, and I know there are a lot of people out there who think the same of Celsius.[/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0][quote ost_uid0]They all apply anywhere in the universe, but everyone knows Kelvin. I for one have no idea how Fahrenheit works, and I know there are a lot of people out there who think the same of Celsius.[/quote ost_uid0]So there are Dutch weather forecasts that go "Tomorrow will be a balmy 298 degrees..."? Â (spoken in Dutch, obviously)[/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0]:O Er, no, they always go in Celsius. And they say it is, like 25 degrees Celsius. And if someone talks about Kelvin, they probably tell you that too. Like, we have this wonderful book of tables called [i ost_uid0]Binas[/i ost_uid0] (basically used for chemistry). Every temperature there is in Kelvin, obviously, but at every table concerning temperatures, it says at the top it's in Kelvin.[/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0]Hmm... Am I the only one who still measures temperatures as either 'Hot', 'Warm' or 'Cold'? Any other temperature is then measured relatively as either 'warmer' or 'colder'. These piffling primitive ideas of mine. Â [quote ost_uid0]I'd like to see the big red word "FIVER" writtenacross the chest and the website on the back.[/quote ost_uid0]I already have a shirt with 'Fiver' on the front, but that's a different story. Â [/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0]I like singing random songs inside my head throughoutthe day when I'm at work. It helps to keep me sane. Speaking of sane, I like the fact that [b ost_uid0]entei[/b ost_uid0] actuallymanaged to get the thread back on topic. Let's see how long it lasts. [b ost_uid0]*looks at digital watch & begins counting the seconds*[/b ost_uid0][/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0][quote ost_uid0]I like the fact that entei actuallymanaged to get the thread back on topic.[/quote ost_uid0]That's incredible! How did you do it entei? ![]() Allright, stupid question. But it's still amazing.[/color ost_uid0]
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~Bachelor of Science Marijke I'm not the devil, I just work for her. What spoon? There is no spoon. According to Zeke, it's a cat. ~NeoMatrix "Apparently we're on the wrong side. Or the right side if you like winning." ~Spike Sa'ar Chasm: Too far south you hit Belgium. catalina marina: Not in Limburg you don't. ![]() Sa'ar Chasm: You do if you go south in the right way. |
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ost_uid0][quote ost_uid0="catalina_marina"]Kelvin is the only one where point zero actually makes sense.[/quote ost_uid0]Um... how does making zero the freezing point of water (and 100 the boiling point of water) not make sense? Â If it's below zero, you get snow... above zero, you get rain. However, the United States should be proud to join the likes of Liberia and Myanmar in not adopting the metric system like the rest of the planet. [/color ost_uid0]
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ost_uid0][quote ost_uid0="FatMat426"]Speaking of sane, I like the fact that [b ost_uid0]entei[/b ost_uid0] actuallymanaged to get the thread back on topic.[/quote ost_uid0]Aww... did you have to say that Fatmat? I was quite attached to this neck. Â [/color ost_uid0]
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