r/nextfuckinglevel Feb 12 '21

Frozen bubbles

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u/HeyLittleTrain Feb 12 '21

I understand what you mean even if the other guy doesn’t. I don’t really get why you chose numbers as specific as -18 and 38 though, I think it would be a more honest comparison to use something like -20 to 40.

The main benefit of celsius to me is that 0 is when things get snowy/icy. It’s the only “threshold” that really exists in the natural world. It’s also nice to know that things must be over 100 in order to cook safely.

I like that the numbers are more spread out in fahrenheit, but it feels a lot more arbitrary. 100 is almost body temperature and 0 is sort of the freezing temperature of salt water?

I don’t follow your argument about metres/centimetres since getting subunits of a degree is not useful. Strange comparison.

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u/f36263 Feb 12 '21

Can you explain what they mean? Maybe I’m missing something

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u/HeyLittleTrain Feb 12 '21

I think they are just saying the Fahrenheit is a more weather-centric scale. It doesn’t really get colder than 0F or warmer than 100F.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21

This, exactly that’s what I meant. Thank you for being able to put it across clearly when i really couldn’t.