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Re:Freedom Clock by tgsovlerkhgsel on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:35AM (#35303699)
If your body temp is over 100 F, you have a fever. If the outside is 100 F, it's too damn hot.

The bottom end is much harder to justify but I believe the idea was that you wouldn't have to regularly deal with negative numbers.

But both F and C are completely arbitrary. That's the least messed up part of the non-SI unit system.

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Re:Freedom Clock by groestl on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:43AM (#35303803)
Freezing and boiling water really does not seem that arbitrary to me.
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Re:Freedom Clock by Steltek on Saturday March 25, 2023 @12:36PM (#35304318)
What's the pressure for your nonarbitrary boiling point? In SI units please.
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Re:Freedom Clock by groestl on Saturday March 25, 2023 @01:12PM (#35304751)
It know it's not SI level scientific, but still, it's not as arbitrary as the "temperature of a normal human body".
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