Re:Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in Ame...
by chrismcb on Saturday August 09, 2014 @02:46PM
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F was designed for humans, while C is apparently designed for water. Half of your list talks about what water does, or are fairly meaningless numbers to humans. While pretty much every number on the GPs list is relevant to humans. That is the big difference. In day to day life, the average human doesn't really need to know what temp water changes state. They want to know how comfortable they will be.
Re:Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in Ame...
by yongjik on Saturday August 09, 2014 @02:56PM
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I take it that you never tasted a cucumber partly frozen because your fridge went a bit overzealous...
We (and most things we eat, and all that white shitty stuff that blocks your commute in a winter day) are made mostly of water. The difference between -1C and 1C can be pretty significant, unlike the difference between -1F (fucking cold) and 1F (duh, fucking cold).
* Well, of course all of this is silly pissing match between groups of people who grew up with their favorite measure system, but anyway...
Re:Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in Ame...
by 0x006A on Sunday August 10, 2014 @08:56AM
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Humans are 80% Water.
110 - sauna is too hot
100 - water boils in one atmosphere
50 - desert hot (record is 56.7 °C (134.1 °F) Death Valley, California, U.S.A. 10 July 1913)
30 - hot (for a finn)
25 - nice hot
20 - use more clothes below this
0 - water freezes, ice forms on roads, lakes etc.
-10 - cold but OK with good clothes
-20 - this starts to be so cold were you need to prepare yourself well if you want to spend more than an hour outside. Temperature inside freezer.
-30 - extreme colds start. You don't enjoy this even when prepared and using good clothes.
-40 - Winter War conditions
-50 - record breaking extremes
−89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) Vostok Station 21 July 1983
-110 Kriotherapy room for treating joint inflammation