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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Our bodies are mostly water why not use a system that reflects this?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The universe is mostly empty space with an average temperature of like... 4 Kelvin or some shit. Why not use a system that reflects that? Oh, we do? Right. Celsius is Kelvin + 273.15.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

...rankine glowers in your general direction...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Are you made of mostly empty space? Your response does leave me questioning. Please aknowledge that you are made of 64% water and not 4°k nothing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I mean, yeah, we all are. That's how atoms work.

alternatively, yeah, mostly between his ears.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

As a matter of fact...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Plese do not use Kelvin with a degree symbol. There ist no "degree Kelvin".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Please make sure you are right before you correct someone https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/kelvin-K

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I don't know why "techtarget" would be a credible source on Physics questions, but the SI convention, which is, according to Wikipedia, the "only system of measurement with an official status in nearly every country in the world, employed in science, technology, industry, and everyday commerce", poses that "kelvin is never referred to nor written as a degree."

But I also made the mistake to write it as "Kelvin" instead of "kelvin".

[–] Strykker 13 points 8 months ago

So then we should use the system that reflects the freezing point and boiling points of water at nice round values such as 0 and 100 then? Sounds like Celsius is the better system