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Crazy how nature be like that (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 8 months ago by Gork@lemm.ee to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 6 points 8 months ago

Can someone explain the joke?

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 16 points 8 months ago

-40°C = -40°F

They intersect at that point for mysterious nature reasons

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago

Linear scale reasons.

They measure the same thing. But they scale it differently, so they must meet somewhere. One, for some crazy reason, has decided the freezing and boiling point of water aught to be exactly 100 units apart. Where the other, sensibly, uses a really cold day in Danzig Germany because the AIR feels cold at that temperature, and what the natural resting point of the human body temperature is, separated by 96 units so as to make the scale easier to make in a lab.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago

I think there's a /s missing...

[-] manucode@feddit.de 7 points 8 months ago

I think you've just insulted a bunch of poles.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

The fact that danzig is in the nation state of Poland today doesn't mean there were clear cut boarders back then. Kafka lived in Prague, don't tell me he was Czech

[-] manucode@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago

Still, you wouldn't say that Kafka was born in the Austrian city of Prague, even though in 1883 Prague belonged to the Austrian part (Cisleithania) of Austria-Hungary.