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Celsius units are so difficult to relate to... what's that in Fahrenheit?

Do... you actually have anything practical to relate it to at that scale? If you're talking over 1M degrees, it doesn't much matter if it's C, F, Rankine, or whatever. It is fucking hot :P

I wonder whether it's a sarcastic comment. Due to Poe's Law, I cannot tell.

Why cant just farenheight be like kelvin, just add /subtract 273.15 to x thats it no fractions involved lol

Like, okay thats 1,000,273.15 kelvin that seems hot

That is exactly what rankine is but it is not really widely used.

>Do... you actually have anything practical to relate it to at that scale?

I think was the point of his comment. That the number is so big the unit doesn't matter.

Also, I think it relates to the point people arguing for Fahrenheit make that 0C and 100C aren't as relatable since they're related to boiling and freezing points of water compared to 0F and 100F which would be more "human" temperatures. So the joke is that this is one case where it doesn't matter.

At that temperature it's almost meaningless to compare the numerical value of C and F. But it's 180M F for the curious.

Plus 32.

We were only given 3 (or fewer) significant figures.

Just multiply by 2 for a poor man’s Celsius -> Fahrenheit conversion. 200M degrees.

Or by 1.8 for a grade schooler's conversion.

Temperatures seven times hotter than the center of the sun aren't exactly easy to relate to regardless of the unit of measurement ;)

I'm more bothered by the arbitrary origin of the scale… what's that temperature in Kelvin?

100M Kelvin

100.00027315M Kelvin

it's easier to think:

first one, and then the other.

at temperatures that high, there's nothing really relatable to what most of us have seen, so it's much easier to think in "abstract" terms.

lets just say you can't put your hand near it or you'll get a pretty bad ouchie

Since the conversion factor is about two: 200,000,000 degrees.

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