Handy temperature conversion scale.

I have this theory that Americans suck at math because they insist on sticking with the imperial measurement system and so nothing makes mathematical sense - Americans intuitively just think in every day units qualitatively. Whereas the rest of the world uses metric, so base 10 math just comes naturally.

Source: I am a US STEM professor. Our students suck at math.

Three scientists arguing over the definition of zero

Celsius says “zero is the freezing point of water”

Fahrenheit says “no, zero is the freezing point of ammonium chloride”

Kelvin says “hold my beer”

100C° is not death, it is Finnish sauna temp. Really, Sauna competitions start with 110C°. Famously in 2010 one Russian competitor died, and the Finn who won had to be sent to ER.

Edit: didn't know that they actually haven't held any competitions after that.

This is why I'm Fahrenheit gang all the way. I'm not running lab experiments daily, but I am going outside all the time. If you have to express the temperature with decimal precision for everyday use, you've lost.

Edit: It's hilarious how easily you can piss people off by saying Fahrenheit is subjectively better as a human temperature scale. Too much of your identity is wrapped up in being able to talk temperature in multiples of ten, people. Chill out. Maybe something near 42 degrees. Sorry, meant to say 5.6 degrees for the nerds in here.

I really like your attention to detail here. Fahrenheit and Celsius both have degree symbols, but Kelvin doesn't -- just as it should be.

Jokes on you I’m a tardigrade

Someone posted here once something like

Farienhiet is how humans feel. Celsius is how water feels. Kelvin is how atoms feel.

I kinda like that.

What's so special about 0 - 100? 40° of civilized units sucks, but is still perfectly survivable and is becoming more and more common in some parts of the world. That's 104° of fucked up units.

Negatives up to -30° are also common around the world and I frequently went out in shorts and t-shirt in -10° for a short time to grab mail or take out trash.

The only sort of reasonable justification for F units I've ever heard was that there's less of a change between whole degrees, but decimals are not exactly hard to figure out imnho.

Yall just jealous that a mile is longer than a kilometer.

Zero is freezing

10 is not

20 is pleasing

30 is hot

40 frying

50 dying

The scales have their places.

F is range of comfortable heat for humans. 0 oppressively cold, 100 is oppressively hot. Nearly all humans can agree on that.

C is range of comfortable heat for liquid water at 1ATM.

K is range of comfortable heat for an atom. Except atoms can handle lots of heat.

Wait is there a universal maximum temperature? There must be, right? Like, it has to be impossible for atoms and subatomic particles to move faster than the speed of light, right?

Ah, more FCK jokes.

Really cold water, really hot water 😎

I read somewhere that F is the scale of how hot/cold people are, C is the scale of how hot/cold water is, and K is the scale of how hot/cold particles are.

Yeah, well my car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!

No degree sign for the my man Kelvin?