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| Thread ID: 102382 | 2009-08-17 18:56:00 | New Thermal Scale | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 801974 | 2009-08-17 18:56:00 | Tired of C-to-F conversions? I am . I suggest that there be a new scale for temperatures that make it so much easier to fathom . LIVER BASAL VALUES . From now on, 0ºL (Liver) is the standard . That's the normal temperature of the adult human liver in a living person . Simple . Boiling water is 100ºL and frozen water is -100ºL . Everything else is in between . :D |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 801975 | 2009-08-17 20:29:00 | If you can't be bothered converting Celsius to Fahrenheit (which I can never spell :p), just Google it. (www.google.com) :D | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 801976 | 2009-08-17 21:39:00 | This is a nice and free application for the times I need to convert any unit to another unit. joshmadison.com Not only converting C to F but will deal with K and R as well for that matter. The only temperatures that really matter is how do you feel on the day. Does the Liver scale proposed take into account the wind chill factor in the event I have an emmision of gas from my anus? Didn't think so! |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 801977 | 2009-08-17 21:45:00 | Those gas emissions are regarded as cool by small boys. Their mothers take a chillier view. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 801978 | 2009-08-17 21:54:00 | Those gas emissions are regarded as cool by small boys. Their mothers take a chillier view. Just realised that girls do not have similar emissions or if they do it would be blamed on the pet dog. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 801979 | 2009-08-17 21:56:00 | Also, it would sound mighty cold if it was -80°L all the time. :D | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 801980 | 2009-08-17 22:23:00 | Well - if youse guys don't like the "L-scale", then I can only say that I instead proffer the "H-scale" which is in values of my happiness. So .... +1ºH is a good thing whilst -20ºH is a bad thing. Right now since youse guys has eschewed my L-scale I am running at about -22.8ºH. Hrrrumph! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 801981 | 2009-08-17 23:48:00 | It irks me just a little to hear weather presenters talking about 'hot and cold temperatures'. A temperature is just a number on a scale, and numbers are neither hot nor cold. Now I will accept that sort of colloquial talk from the chattering masses, but weather presenters should be more precise. In the same way they refer to wind speeds as so many 'ks' (kays) instead of saying kilo-metres per hour. After all back in the good old imperial days they didn't say 'ems' instead of mph:clap |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 801982 | 2009-08-18 00:08:00 | "Ks" here are "klicks" a hangover from the old VietNam police action days. Another big gripe with me is when we get the weather guessers saying: "Today the highs will be in the low hundreds" and that's good - because I can't stand temps in the MID hundreds. Mid hundreds? That's about 150ºF or about 66ºC or so - when they actually mean about 101ºF/38ºC to about 112ºF/44ºC. Them's da low hundreds to me! Right now, at 16:00 the temp is: 94ºF or 34.4ºC, a real cold snap for us. Winter is a comin'. |
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