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[-] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

K = 273 + 5(F - 32)/9 is even worse

[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Why use kelvin when R = F - 459.67

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Sure, if one would use Fahrenheit as go to unit..

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"How hot is it, honey?"

"Not a lot, just 298.15 K"

[-] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

Yeah but C makes more sense. 0-10 is cold but not freezing, 10-20 is cool, 20-30 is warm, 30-40 is hot, 40+ is "you're gonna die of heat exposure! Get inside, what are you doing?!" increasing in urgency with the number. If it's in the negatives, it's the same as the 40+ except "cold exposure".

[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It makes more sense in terms of our perception. But from a science perspective ~~Klevin~~ Kelvin makes more sense since you can't go lower than 0 K and negative temperature doesn't really make sense, since it'd mean something like negative energy.

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A mistake plus Klevin gets you home by 7

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Negative absolute temperature is a thing. Lasers exhibit negative temperatures when active, i.e. the lasing medium has a negative temperature expressed in Kelvin. Adding more energy doesn't increase its entropy, it just turns into more laser light. Any such system with bounded entropy can have a negative thermodynamic temperature.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah but from an every day perspective you've basically got 250 or so units there for no reason.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

NO SOLICITING!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I wouldn’t say it corresponds between negative and positive. -20 is already a lot more dangerous than 40.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Depends where you live, I guess. I don't really consider -20 to be dangerous but I live in Canada so I know how to dress for cold weather.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Canada is dry. Humidity is the other Killing factor there.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

F has that too. Below 0, f it's cold. Above 100, f it's hot. 0-25 winter sports baby, 25-50 bleh it's wet and nasty, 50-75 chefs kiss, 75-100 let's hit the beach.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I’ve always thought it’s like: 0- is freezing, 10 is cold, 20 is ok, 30 is hot, 40+ is hell

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Above 25 is hot, 30 is hell, 40+ is dead for me

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Also 0 is freezing so it can’t snow unless the temperature is below zero.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

It very well can, it just won't stick around.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

298.15 - 273,5 so its 24.65°C? I'd argue that is a lot. But i may just be heat sensitive

Edit: fixed typo Edit2: fixed another typo. I gotta start proof reading before sending

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

VERY generally speaking, 20s are warm, 30s are hot. Humidity changes this a lot. And yes, personal sensitivity to heat plays a role. I live in a dry climate, and I feel rather comfortable until we're close to 30 ºC. I remember reading something like the ideal room temperature for humans was around 20-22 ºC.

For those using F, this is, more or less, the scale of C:

Below 0: freezing (0 ºC being the freezing point of water, duh!)
0 to 10: cold (don't go out without a coat)
10s: cool (a sweatshirt or light coat may do)
20s: warm
30s: hot
40s: uncomfortably hot (stay in the shade and hydrate)
50s: you're dead (or you wish you were. Unsafe for humans)

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago
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Yes. It used to be around 27°C, but you know, climate change and stuff. The temperature in my hometown is around 35 °C.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

I'm from the UK and part of the forgotten generation, so I was pretty much brought up on both systems. The "cheaper" way to do F from C is double it and add thirty. It works reasonable enough. Of course the reverse is minus thirty then half.

I'm definitely more native in deg C, but am fine with deg F too. Yes, I added deg to stop the coding jokes.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah, SCIENCE, bitch!

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

That's not right, it should be F = 2C + 32 + 'ish'

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For easier mental C -> F conversion, take (2C)-(2C/10)+32 where C = temp in c.

16c × 2 = 32

32/10 = 3.2

32 - 3.2 = 28.8

28.8+32 = 60.8, which is exactly correct.

Or if you just want a rough estimate for weather, 2C+(22 to 32) gets you close enough with easier mental math

16x2+30 = 62, just 1 degree off.

37x2+30 = 104 is like 6 degrees off, though. The further from zero you are, the smaller the number you should add.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Rankine gang rise up

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