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Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin (i.imgur.com)
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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (26 children)

Fahrenheit: how hot humans feel

Celsius: how hot water feels

Kelvin & Rankine: how hot atoms feel

[–] ILikeBoobies 44 points 1 year ago (20 children)

I don’t think how hot humans feel works at all, it’s just arbitrary

Can humans survive 100 degree heat? Yes so it doesn’t represent 100%

150 for 3rd degree burns (almost instant), does Fahrenheit go off base 150? Also no

What about cold? Well -40 requires a lot of layers, so then +40 should be pretty hot for humans right? Nope, because it’s not related to humans at all

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No one said it represents "100%", whatever that is even supposed to mean. 100F is really hot outside. 0 F is really cold. Doesn't have to make 100% sense. Celsius doesn't make perfect sense either. There is no perfect magical scale that works completely.

[–] ILikeBoobies 3 points 1 year ago

It’s pointing out multiple ways that it doesn’t represent people

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fahrenheit only works like that if ur used to extreme cold tempature. Anything under 10c (50f) is cold af to me and 38c (100f) is hot sure but nowhere near as cold as -17c (0f) is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"really hot" and "really cold" are supremely useless terms in this context though.

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