Re:Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees
by TomMarius on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:49AM
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Yeah but it's still a very useful point where 100 should be, e.g. when you go to a sauna you know more precisely what to expect.
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Re:Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees
by thefringthing on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:14AM
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While it's true that 100C doesn't have any weather meaning, 0F being "very cold" isn't particularly objective. I just looked it up, and apparently 0F is only about -18C. Whether -18C is "very, very cold" depends a lot on where you're from and what you're used to. I'm Canadian and I certainly wouldn't characterize -18C as "very, very cold". -30C maybe. 0C has a fairly objective interpretation in terms of weather: it's the point at which puddles start to freeze into ice slicks.