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new temperature scale
buschmaster
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temperature is not rocket science.
the Fahrenheit scale has 0 set at the melting point of briny sea water, and he called the average body temp 96 degrees. why 96? so he could mark that on his mercury thermometer and divide it, and divide it again, until he got 96 marks.
state of the art in 1724.
later on, when they had the technology to put 100 evenly spaced marks on a thermometer, the Celsius scale put 0 at the freezing point of water and 100 at the boiling point.
now, every other country uses the Celsius scale except the United States. why don't we? aside from the fact that we're not a bunch of lobsters concerned with the temperature of boiling water, actual surveys asking people the question have determined that the scale is all wrong for us. most people say the biggest problem is that the degrees are too close together. such as the difference between 25 and 30, only 5 degrees, makes the difference between a pleasant day and a hot day.
and, a hot day is only "30"? and 50 is enough to kill off all life on the planet? that's just wacked.
so it becomes apparent that a temperature scale is used, most commonly by far, to determine the weather outside and the comfort of a room inside.
therefore we should finally invent a temperature scale that does exactly that.
I propose to set 0 at the freezing point of water; there's no arguing that. it's most useful on a cold day and there is a palpable change in the air. below 0 tells you how much colder than freezing water and only makes sense.
100 should be put at the perfect comfortable room temperature, which should apply to the same experience outside in the shade. 100 is neither hot nor cold, and any deviation from that tells you instantly which direction it's headed.
furthermore, most people can tell the difference between 2-3 degrees F, which would correspond to roughly 1 degree on this scale, making it perfect again for the use of us flesh-and-blood humans.
exactly where that perfect point is that we call 100, may be determined by observing 100 naked women in a temperature-controlled room to see how comfortable they are. or one at a time. the details can be worked out later.
of course, I would have to call it the buschmaster scale of temperature and the units are B.
what say ye
the Fahrenheit scale has 0 set at the melting point of briny sea water, and he called the average body temp 96 degrees. why 96? so he could mark that on his mercury thermometer and divide it, and divide it again, until he got 96 marks.
state of the art in 1724.
later on, when they had the technology to put 100 evenly spaced marks on a thermometer, the Celsius scale put 0 at the freezing point of water and 100 at the boiling point.
now, every other country uses the Celsius scale except the United States. why don't we? aside from the fact that we're not a bunch of lobsters concerned with the temperature of boiling water, actual surveys asking people the question have determined that the scale is all wrong for us. most people say the biggest problem is that the degrees are too close together. such as the difference between 25 and 30, only 5 degrees, makes the difference between a pleasant day and a hot day.
and, a hot day is only "30"? and 50 is enough to kill off all life on the planet? that's just wacked.
so it becomes apparent that a temperature scale is used, most commonly by far, to determine the weather outside and the comfort of a room inside.
therefore we should finally invent a temperature scale that does exactly that.
I propose to set 0 at the freezing point of water; there's no arguing that. it's most useful on a cold day and there is a palpable change in the air. below 0 tells you how much colder than freezing water and only makes sense.
100 should be put at the perfect comfortable room temperature, which should apply to the same experience outside in the shade. 100 is neither hot nor cold, and any deviation from that tells you instantly which direction it's headed.
furthermore, most people can tell the difference between 2-3 degrees F, which would correspond to roughly 1 degree on this scale, making it perfect again for the use of us flesh-and-blood humans.
exactly where that perfect point is that we call 100, may be determined by observing 100 naked women in a temperature-controlled room to see how comfortable they are. or one at a time. the details can be worked out later.
of course, I would have to call it the buschmaster scale of temperature and the units are B.
what say ye
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Mike
Kelvin uses the Celsius scale but puts 0 at "absolute zero", which is the state of zero crystalline entropy.
Rankine does the same thing but with the Fahrenheit scale.
It is complicated enough already.
The problem is there is no fast easy was to convert C to F.
Here is what I did:
20C=68F
30C=86F
40C=104F
I memorized these 3 temps and I knew if it was between 20 and 30C it was going to be nice. If between 30-35C its getting hot and over 35C its Africa hot
The formula for converting temps from C to F is: T(?F) = T(?C) ? 1.8 + 32
My other way was to double it and add 25 that also got me close.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
C F
0 32
5 41
10 50
15 59
20 68
25 77
30 86
35 95
40 104
45 113
50 122
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
That is nifty MrP
The "Celcigrade" scale makes good sense for science because it is based on properties of water, but is less than optimum for people. But it is "metric" and so that's what metric countries use. If we changed to it, we'd get used to it soon enough. Heck, even Canadians manage with it.
I wondered the same thing. I was taught 'centigrade' in Canada and in US high school chemistry in the early 70's, then later chastised for using that in college.
Learned 'the triple point of water' (both Celsius and Fahrenheit) only to learn today that it is more defined.
It's nice to grow older and realize that everything I know is wrong. (Hell, I learned just last week that oil isn't from dead dinosaurs, but from sea life and plant material. So much for Dino the dinosaur and Sinclair gas)
Naked women.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
while that sounds good in theory, some women were not meant to be seen naked.......
or nonsensical as calling normal freezing water 32F, or boiling water at only 100, and why do you care about boiling water again? why must it have some significant number?
a comfortable temperature isn't very subjective. everybody knows it's somewhere between 72 and 74, and all it takes to nail it down exactly is to get an average of what most people like. which will have at most 2 degrees F deviation for most of the population.
exactly following the equation F=(9/5)C+32.
for every 5C, there is 9F. starting where C=0 and F=32.
Celcius was also called the Centigrade scale. as in "the temperature is 23 degrees centigrade" which is a misnomer. the Celius scale is a type of centigrade scale, having 100 divisions. being the only one around they called it... "the centigrade scale".
Fahrenheit is a type of bisected scale. he chose two points and bisected multiple times to get a scale from 0 to 96.
before Fahrenheit and his mercury thermometers, there were around 35 different temperature scales, all using water or alcohol and divided in 12 parts because a) thermometers weren't that accurate (precise, yes. accurate, no) and b) people didn't care much what the temperature was:
- no central weather station telling people what temperature it was at the moment
- no weather forecasting like we have today
- hot, cold, and warm were good enough for everybody
- they had no manufacturing technology which took advantage of precise temperatures
- metal workers, cooks, etc had other methods of determining temp and they were very good at it.
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observing 100 women. might have to repeat the experiment around different parts of the country.
Freezing water and boiling water are easy points to use to calibrate a scale. That's why. Neither is particularly interesting aside from that, but those points are less than arbitrary since they are the basis for at least one temperature scale that's been in use for decades.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Note: New reference numbers (left column) included for the anally retentive.
Here is what the Channel 10 weather report will sound like:
"Temperatures were in the low greens today and expected to be in the mid blues tonight and in the upper blues tomorrow.
Good night."
Bustedknee?s Temperature Scale
+5--- A/C hugger ? automobile or building (currently 110F)
+4--- No pants - shade umbrella (currently 100F)
+3--- No shirt - SPF 50 (currently 90F)
+2--- Short sleeve shirt (currently 65F)
+1--- Long sleeve shirt (currently 55F)
0--- Don?t Worry ? Be Happy (currently 45F)
-1--- Layered shirts - cap (currently 40F)
-2--- Jacket - sweater (currently 35F)
-3--- Hat - gloves (currently 30F)
-4--- Parka - snowsuit (currently 20F)
-5--- Long underwear ? electric socks (currently 15F)
-6--- Facemask ? electric undies (currently 10F)
-7--- Peppermint Snapps - Hot Chocolate (currently 0F)
-8--- Bare flesh freezes - beer gets chunky (currently -20F)
-9--- Eyelids freeze shut ? bare genitals freeze & fall off (currently -40F)
-10--- Pee freezes in mid air ? Who pees up at any temp? (currently -60F)
Zero is the temperature of a perfectly cold beer.
100 is the temp of a perfect day to take off and go fishing.