Daniel Butler
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There's a reason they used that frozen-brine measurement. I think when you mix that stuff together, there's a thermal reaction that occurs which brings the temperature to 0*F.
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What you just said sounded like they used the brine measurement because they wanted the 0*F, but it should read as they used 0*F because of the brine measurement.
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quote:Originally posted by Reverend: It's simple. Water freezes at zero and boils at one hundred. So 50 degrees centigrade is fooking hot, or if you wish, half way towards scalding, by definition.
I should probably clarify. I know how celsius works, as it is the only measurement of temperature that we use in science class. It's just that if the US suddenly switched to Celsius (as if), I would feel weird lableing a day with spring jacket weather as 14 degrees. For measurements though, C is much more efficient, as it is a hell of a lot easier to remember that water boils at 100 degrees, rather than 212 degrees.
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Daniel Butler
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I like Kelvin because then you can say it's a nice balmy 300 degrees outside. I like that for some reason.
Also, it makes you realize how incredibly frigid our planet is. I mean, it's only a couple hundred degrees above absolute zero. It's strange to think that stars are so hot, and everything else is (by comparison) unimaginably cold, receiving feeble warmth from their (mostly wasted) outpourings of radiation.
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