• protist@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I’m assuming this is because the concept of absolute zero did not exist when most of these temperature scales were defined, whereas zero distance and zero weight were easily observable

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    1 year ago

    Fun fact;

    Fahrenheit and Celsius line up at -40

    Fahrenheit and Kelvin line up at 575

    Those numbers are not particularly useful, but they are fun to know.

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        1 year ago

        It was invented by some scottish guy long before we had the means to measure things that would need it, and ever since that multibillion-dollar satellite thing fell to pieces even American scientists use metric units, we learn them in every grade level’s science class and our scientific community has this understandable atmosphere of regret that Congress was too lazy to completely kill off imperial units when they had the chance

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    1 year ago

    I’ve always been curious why 32 was chosen for the freezing point of water in Fahrenheit. or was there something else and did that just land at 32?

    it’s kind of a mystery and i love it