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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by ChuckMcM on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @04:11PM (#5788772)
Ewww. Interesting, but weird to think of 10K year old blood. This guy, Semyon Grigoriev, is somewhat obsessed with Mammoths so I take his reports with a grain of salt but it would be difficult to mistranslate 'blood coming out'
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by danielweber on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @03:54PM (#5788680)
The temperature was ten degrees celsius below zero when the mammoth was found, so the discovery of liquid blood was a shock.

That's a very weird way to express temperature. Is it a British-ism?

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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by rjsw on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @04:07PM (#5788748)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by ars on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @04:11PM (#5788771)
He means, why not just say "minus 10 celsius". Or in print -10c
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by rjsw on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @04:19PM (#5788803)
The SI unit is "degree Celsius", the original statement looks perfectly good English to me.
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by teeboy on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @04:26PM (#5788849)
Looks fine to me. We use it the same way in India.

And both celsius and Kelvin are SI units.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system#Conversion_and_ca...

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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by heidar on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @04:25PM (#5788843)
The SI unit for temperature is kelvin.
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by coherentpony on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @07:31PM (#5789955)
Kelvin and Celsius are the same, modulo a shift.
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by threedaymonk on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @08:14PM (#5790161)
"Ten below", "ten below zero", and "ten degrees below zero" all seem natural to me (BrE speaker), but I'm not sure about "ten degrees celsius below zero". That strikes me as an attempt to shoehorn units into an ambiguous* idiom. It doesn't work, and "-10C" or "minus ten celsius" would be better, in my opinion.

* Both F and C are used in the UK, but I think it's an age divide. I doubt many people under around 40 would use Fahrenheit as their measurement system of choice. I'm 35 and I have no intuitive understanding of Fahrenheit temperatures.

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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by daledavies on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @07:13PM (#5789867)
I'm British and read that without thinking anything of it, but I can see where you're coming from - it could mistakenly be read as "plus ten degrees below zero" perhaps.
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by hamstergene on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @04:58PM (#5789037)
Must be literal translation from Russian, "N degrees above/below zero" and "N degrees of warmth/cold" are common expressions in it.
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by CatMtKing on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @05:06PM (#5789096)
Seems fine to me. How would you express -10°C?
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by burke on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @05:40PM (#5789335)
Negative (or minus) ten degrees celsius.
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by danielweber on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @05:13PM (#5789142)
Ten degrees below zero celsius.
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Re:Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out by CatMtKing on Thursday May 30, 2013 @02:19AM (#5791201)
I would argue that the unit of measure is "degrees Celcius" rather than individually degrees or Celcius. So I would agree with either ten-below-zero degrees Celcius (which is a little awkward), minus ten degrees C, or as the author wrote it.
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