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        that’s when it starts to get ‘cold’. before that, it’s just a ‘little chilly’.

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          I know this is a joke but as a Minnesotan I think right around -15°F (-26°c) is where it starts to get ‘cold’. This is where the air really begins to sting your face and people have issues starting their vehicles.

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            am a native and lived there most my life. only had problems with my piece-of-shit cars when it got colder than -20F or so. block heater (on a timer) and a newish-battery and they always started, though, even during that record cold snap (-60F).

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          -40 is fucking freezing in C 😂. Should be even worse in F 😂.

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            The worst part is that vodka freezes right in the plastic cups. It’s not fun to drink vodka with icy mush.

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              🤔 🤣… ummm… i’ve drank wine half frozen wine from a cup at -30C 🤣… not fun, but it kept us warm that night 🤣. too bad we didn’t have vodka at 3AM 🤣.

              I think we drank like 10L of wine that night 🤣. Vodka would’ve been more efficient 🤣.

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    Kelvin and Celsius are literally the same just offset by 273.15°

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        Kelvin was developed from Celsius. The only difference is that 0° is based on absolute 0 (because it’s logical and constant) rather than the rough freezing point of water (a vague and inconsistent reference point). Every degree change in one unit is exactly the same change in the other.

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          Except Kelvin aren’t degrees (e.g. it’s just 273’15K not 273’15°K). But a change of one Kelvin is indeed equivalent to a change of one degree Celsius.

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        Ehh, they were developed in different ways using completely different reference points

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          C and K use different reference points too, yet you called them laterally the same.

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            They have a lot more in common than Celsius and Fahrenheit, which are only related because they are both measures of temperature.

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              That depends how you count “a lot more in common”. The reference points for zero is much closer for C and F. People commonly use in everyday life C and F, but not K. Should I continue?

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        Ah yes just rolls off the tongue. Totally the same as, an increment of one is equal in both.

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      Same relationship between Rankine and Fahrenheit.

      And 0 Kelvin and 0° Rankine are three same temperature.

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          It’s still technically defined based on its relationship to Fahrenheit, just like Kelvin was with Celsius until the 60s.

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    Kelvin and Rankine are based.

    What’s Ra°? Not Reamur (Re°) or Rømer (Rø°)

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      I think Ra° is an alternate for Rankine

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      Rankine is based? The same way pound-mol and 1000th of an inch are based?

      AT THAT POINT, WHY NOT JUST USE METRIC o_0

      I bite my thumb at Rankine, sir.

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    Sounds funny but really, why would a weight or length measurement start with ≠0?? Like “size of the dick or prince Charles”?

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      But that argument would go for temperature as well. Yet, here we are with the most commonly used ones having zero as wey more than the “nothing”-level.

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        Zero comes from experience, at least in Celsius. Its semi-scientifical as water is a pretty big part of our world. For our life and all it is pretty much the turning point, isnt it? But of course it could also be 50 or so, as below is possible

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    If only they made a meter equal a yard. I’m okay with a bigger yard. Let’s do it.