• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
    47·
    2 days ago

    K is however a more annoying scale to use for normal/human temps.

    I just want you to ponder on that statement for a bit

    Now imagine that you live on a planet where everyone outside your country uses Kelvin and swears it is normal

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
      3·
      2 days ago

      That is fair, but we don’t live on a planet like that.

      So my argument stands for this planet.

      However, lets look a bit closer at a world like that and it would be used.

      In daily life I doubt that people would say:

      Take it slow now, it is slippery, the temp just dropped to two hundred and seventy three point fifteen degrees out!

      People would probably say something like:

      Take it slow now, it is slippery, the temp just dropped to freezing!

      Or during the summer, peeps would not say:

      Perfect weather, two hundred and ninety six degrees, slow breeze and scattered clouds!

      They would probably shorten it to:

      Perfect weather, ninety six degrees, slow breeze and scattered clouds

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
        110·
        2 days ago

        during the summer, peeps would not say:

        Perfect weather, two hundred and ninety six degrees, slow breeze and scattered clouds!

        They would probably shorten it to:

        Perfect weather, ninety six degrees, slow breeze and scattered clouds

        You’ve almost got it! Now talk about the opposite problem where all the temperatures are at weird low values and 0 is in the wrong place