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18 Freedom Degrees This Morning

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I feel your pain olds. The 7 day where I'm at doesn't look much better...🙁
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When I was a bunch younger I rode my motorcycle (Yamaha RD-350) to school when it was -20F.

I'll not do that again!!!!


BTW, current temperature is about 275K.


Brian
 
The coldest I've been out riding in was 15 deg. F. in Spokane, WA. I rode my bike for two winters there. You get used to the cold and learn to dress well for it.

That and having a full fairing helps.
 
-22C (-7.6 Freedom Degrees) on my way into work this morning. So cold that my car wouldn't run at normal operating temperature around the city. On the highway it was fine but after 30 mins on the 401 I got into town and the temps dropped to about 60 to 65C. It's a diesel so I'm sure that's all it is.
 
I wonder if it would be too difficult for the US to switch to the Celsius scale. I think it would be doable. The switch to the metric system failed because it was too drastic, but I don't think switching just the temperature units would be a big deal.
 
cbrunny said:
Only freedom degrees. And lets face it. Freedom degrees are extremely stupid when Celsius already exists.
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Choose Kelvin. It has the best of both worlds: an unfamiliar scale and a zero point that has no meaning in most people's daily lives.
 
cbrunny said:
Only freedom degrees. And lets face it. Freedom degrees are extremely stupid when Celsius already exists.
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What's so great about Celcius? Its as arbitrary as anything else.

I propose a temperature scale based on my balls. It would range from extreme turtle to extreme sweaty stank.
 
skimple said:
What's so great about Celcius? Its as arbitrary as anything else.
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It's not quite as arbitrary as Farenheit, which seems to be based on the body temperature of someone with a slight fever.


IronWing said:
Choose Kelvin. It has the best of both worlds: an unfamiliar scale and a zero point that has no meaning in most people's daily lives.
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Well Celcius is just Kelvin with a more user friendly zero point.
 
cbrunny said:
Only freedom degrees. And lets face it. Freedom degrees are extremely stupid when Celsius already exists.
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Daniel Fahrenheit invented his scale in 1724. The Centigrade scale was not invented until 1742, and wasn't even called "Celcius" until 1948.

Using your rules, it would seem that Celsius is extremely stupid.

Edit - I don't have a problem using either one and it seems stupid to even argue about it.
 
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lol Celsius is not arbitrary. What comes first is rarely the best thing. Revisions to things occur all the time in order to improve. If you want to pick on the usage of the word "already" go ahead. To me it isn't really relevant at all which was invented first.

Celsius is simply better than Fahrenheit.
 
Of all the MKS units Celsius is perhaps the unit that's only a tad better than the older English units. The units for distance, OTH, is where MKS smokes the older units. With MKS we have metres and prefixes in orders of ten. With the older standard we have 12 inches/foot, 3 feet/yard, 5280 ft/mile etc. The units for weight and mass are another area where MKS kicks ass on the older units. But temperature -- not so much...

At the moment the temp is 504 degrees Rankine.


Brian
 
cbrunny said:
What's an American degree? Do you mean Farenheit? Or is America trying to hijack 'Farenheit' and replace it with 'American' just like they're trying to hijack 'English' and replace that with 'American'?

True story, my cousin (9) was telling me that he speaks American (he lives in Michigan). I told him that I was speaking English, and he legit didn't understand how it we could understand each other.

FWIW, -14C (6.8F) today here. With the wind chill -22C (-7.6F).
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Does anyone here speak Australian?
 
Brian Stirling said:
Of all the MKS units Celsius is perhaps the unit that's only a tad better than the older English units.
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Pretty much. I suppose Kelvin would be better since there is no inherent negative degrees in that system any more than there are negative meters. Dealing with positive numbers seems more consistent. Positive temp, time and distance.
 
skimple said:
What's so great about Celcius? Its as arbitrary as anything else.
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Arbitrary? How so?


I always felt Celsius made a lot more sense than anything else. Set the 0 to when water freezes, and make boiling (at sea level anyway) a nice round number that makes sense. Hey, why not 100?!

Need a metric for distance? Why not customize it to the planet we live on? So Anders, being a astronomer, used the diameter of the earth and broke it down (originally anyway) to 10,000,000 units. Actually it's closer to 13,000,000 meters as the planet isn't a perfect sphere, but you get the idea.

Celsius doesn't seem arbitrary to me at all. It's based on physical facts of the world around, which are repeatable. Hundreds of years ago I bet everyone had a slightly different take on what constitutes a precise barleycorn count or how much land an ox could plow in a single day. I think we can agree on that being one arbitrary acre. 😉
 
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