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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14837856 times)

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #43440 on: January 27, 2014, 11:53:01 am »

Celsius has fine increments. It's called decimals. Besides, fine increments don't really matter in temperature. There's hardly a difference between, say, 64 and 63 F, neither is there a noticeable difference between 14 and 15 degrees C.
I assure you, people can. If I put the heater up even a single degree Fahrenheit, my wife notices! Every single time!

In fact, the increments in Fahrenheit seem to be based very closely on the minimum detectable change for most people. Most people I've met can usually tell a degree difference and almost always tell 2. So it seems about right.

And yeah, the Farenheit range limits of "<0 is too cold, >100 is too hot" is quite convenient :)
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« Reply #43441 on: January 27, 2014, 11:59:15 am »

I like mountains because they can get me very high.

Inevitably, all of your arguments for the superiority of one system of measurement for temperature are pointless, because they're all relative to some standard deemed important by some poor narcisistic schmuck, which is subjective. Who even gives a crap about water or human body temperature? Why not use the peak and minimum temperatures on record for the surface of the sun as a baseline?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #43442 on: January 27, 2014, 12:03:36 pm »

I like mountains because they can get me very high.

Inevitably, all of your arguments for the superiority of one system of measurement for temperature are pointless, because they're all relative to some standard deemed important by some poor narcisistic schmuck, which is subjective. Who even gives a crap about water or human body temperature? Why not use the peak and minimum temperatures on record for the surface of the sun as a baseline?

Well, 0 K means literally no temperature at all, so it's not really arbitrary. The increments are, though.
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« Reply #43443 on: January 27, 2014, 12:26:07 pm »

Real men measure in Urists.
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« Reply #43444 on: January 27, 2014, 12:32:11 pm »

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« Reply #43445 on: January 27, 2014, 12:40:02 pm »

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« Reply #43447 on: January 27, 2014, 12:54:26 pm »

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #43449 on: January 27, 2014, 01:04:34 pm »

Doesn't it defeat the purpose of having compound eyes if he can see as a normal person?
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« Reply #43450 on: January 27, 2014, 01:06:42 pm »

Doesn't it defeat the purpose of having compound eyes if he can see as a normal person?

It's just an illustration of the inefficiency of compound eyes. So, that's the point exactly.
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« Reply #43451 on: January 27, 2014, 01:08:18 pm »

Of course, you must be a tycoon or magnate, complete with suit and belly, in order to see as well. Otherwise it just doesn't work.
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« Reply #43452 on: January 27, 2014, 01:56:00 pm »

i got told I was a good person today because i asked a mate if they were okay following girl trouble.
I'm not sure if this makes me happy I'm a good person or very sad that showing even the vaguest regard for a friends feelings is considered unusual.
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« Reply #43453 on: January 27, 2014, 01:57:30 pm »

It's only unusual if you considering being a good person as an unusual thing.
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« Reply #43454 on: January 27, 2014, 02:00:10 pm »

i was informed that I'd been the only person to ask.
I just hope to god his friends aren't representative of humanity, but my cynicism says they are :(
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