It’s sure cold out. I was trying to explain what -30 C is like (yesterday’s high temperature) to a Fahrenheiter and it just doesn’t make sense.
“I’d guess that’d be like, uhhh, -30F? Don’t they converge at -34 degrees? No? Then -20 or so? +50F? -400? Fuck, I dunno, it’s pretty cold.”
(-30C turns out to be -22F. And I’m still wearing my summer jacket and sneakers. Canadians are not only super sexy, we’re also tough.)
I did the follow-up research this morning, -40C is -40F, that’s where they converge. I can’t make sense of Fahrenheit. It’s just a bunch of arbitrary numbers to me. Water boils at some unfathomably high and random sounding number, water freezes at some stupid non-zero number, and I only know 98 degrees is the body’s temperature because of that douchebag boy band a few years ago.
Did you know they were invented around the same time in history centuries ago? Celsius is not only cool and logical, it’s just as old as Fahrenheit.
The king of them all though in terms of awesomeness is the Kelvin scale. The lowest temperature possible is 0. Water freezes at 273. Water boils at 373 degrees. It’s scientific, makes sense, and when someone says “It’s twice as cold as yesterday” you can kind of back it up with real numbers. Mind you, “It’s only 243 degrees out there!!” doesn’t have the same oopmh that “It’s 40 below out there!!” has.
So now that I’ve bored you, you should be ready for a nap at your desk huh? Go for it, no one’s going to notice!
Dammit! I left my pillow at home.
No, really, I’m fascinated by this stuff. I am. Seriously. It’s goddamn riveting.
Crazy Canadians with your crazy weirdo temperature system…
Conan is from Canada. And he’s funny and sexy. So…I see what you’re saying.
I’m pretty much ok on the whole Celsius-Fahrenheit thing around temperatures that I’m willing to endure personally but what really confuses me in going to Canada is having to use that damn metric clock.
yeah, ummmm.. I think I was absent on that day too!
You really shouldn’t be misleading people like that. Water freezes at 273.15–Christ, dude, we need those significant numbers!!! I mean, the gas law constant R NEEDS those extra two digits in order to work properly!
Did you know that helium solidifies at 4 K. That’s pretty effing awesome, if you ask me.
Fahrenheit also used, as his zero marker, a mixture of ice, water and ammonium chloride, which, at the time, was about as cold as one could get. I think that’s like -10 C, if my memory serves correctly. However, Fahrenheit never actually used the boiling point of water as a marker. Instead, someone else came along and said “water boils about 180 degrees above the freezing point–oh, hey, 212!!!” Brilliant.
Also…you misspelled Fahrenheit. tsk tsk.
Actually 100 degrees F was originally set as human body temperature and yes, 0 degrees was the temperature of Ice water. It was later found that normal human body temperature was 98.6 degrees.
It’s not arbitrary. Water boils at approx 212 degrees at “Sea Level”, Seal Level is the arbitrary factor.
Damn…tough audience Poo.
Damn, zzzz…that’s…uh…zzzz…cold…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…..
lol… tough crowd!
I, for one, know basically nothing about Celsius OR Fahrenheit… all I know is that I think it’s really fucking stupid that we’re not all on the same page with this crap. I mean, really?!? Why would anyone think its a good idea? We may as well be speaking different languages!
I usually stick with: IT’S FUCKING COLD OUTSIDE!!!!!!
What? Is my pocket protector showing?
Please don’t let the internet think I’m a nerd…
I literally remember them trying to convert Americans to the metric system when I was in fifth grade, and it failed miserably. We’re too lazy and arrogant and stupid to figure out the system that the Rest of the Whole Entire World follows. By the way, my fifth grade would be, I don’t know, 32 meters or 5 degrees Celsius for you, in years.
I’ll take Farenheit and the over. Sorry was just betting on football games.
“7 chipmunks twirlin’ on a branch, eatin’ lots of sunflowers on my uncles ranch.” Just wanted to say that, ok I feel better now.
Ugh. Every American system of measuring is completely STUPID. And I can say that. I’m American. … yeah, whatever. But seriously, the metric system just makes more sense in every. single. way.
The metric system is for sissies that can’t handle non base ten fractions.
I think a new measurement system should be instated.
O degrees DB = Absolute zero No molecular movement.
100 degrees DB = The highest temperature in the center of a supernova.
All other temperatures will be expressed in % of temperature of a supernova.
It’s .0000000029426 degrees DB outside or 70 degrees F