FCK Temperatures
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Fahrenheit Celsius Kelvin The proliferations of different systems to measure temperature is enough to make one swear. If only there were a _U_niversal temperature measurement, we'd be all the better for it. ;)
I've always thought that centigrade (snootily renamed Celsius by a bunch of pr1cks, a few years ago, who ignored the fact that Celsius named it centigrade) was the most fun. A system based on the change-of-state points of one of millions of different molecular structures at a particular air pressure appeals to me. I think we should introduce a new one, with zero as the point at which bananas freeze at 1127 feet on a cloudy day, and 139 as the point at which bananas go soft if you deep fry them in a particular brand of olive oil in a bathysphere 300 feet below sea level.
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I've always thought that centigrade (snootily renamed Celsius by a bunch of pr1cks, a few years ago, who ignored the fact that Celsius named it centigrade) was the most fun. A system based on the change-of-state points of one of millions of different molecular structures at a particular air pressure appeals to me. I think we should introduce a new one, with zero as the point at which bananas freeze at 1127 feet on a cloudy day, and 139 as the point at which bananas go soft if you deep fry them in a particular brand of olive oil in a bathysphere 300 feet below sea level.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
Celsius named it centigrade
He didn't name it at all, it's from the French translation of his papers.
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Fahrenheit Celsius Kelvin The proliferations of different systems to measure temperature is enough to make one swear. If only there were a _U_niversal temperature measurement, we'd be all the better for it. ;)
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
Celsius named it centigrade
He didn't name it at all, it's from the French translation of his papers.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
Celsius published his work in Latin (as just about all European scientists did at that time), so didn't need anyone translating his Latin term into French and then back into Latin for him. Centigrate (lat) = hundred steps (eng) All That's what he called it, in Latin.
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Fahrenheit Celsius Kelvin The proliferations of different systems to measure temperature is enough to make one swear. If only there were a _U_niversal temperature measurement, we'd be all the better for it. ;)
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FCKR. Happy now?
Why don't we introduce a 'U' inbetween U for Universal.
--- The nk. http://bit.ly/14uCFsf[^]
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Brilliant, you beat me to it. Not sure everybody got it though, so let me list them all again: Fahrenheit, Undercooked, Celsius, Kelvin. [Edit] Just noticed the _U_niversal reference in OP's thread... Oh well...
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Fahrenheit Celsius Kelvin The proliferations of different systems to measure temperature is enough to make one swear. If only there were a _U_niversal temperature measurement, we'd be all the better for it. ;)
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Why don't we introduce a 'U' inbetween U for Universal.
--- The nk. http://bit.ly/14uCFsf[^]
OK, I've just created it: Universal Scale: Absolute Zero: 0U Boiling Point Ethanol*: 33U It is just as logical as some of the other scales. So Nagy knows where to calibrate his thermometer.
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OK, I've just created it: Universal Scale: Absolute Zero: 0U Boiling Point Ethanol*: 33U It is just as logical as some of the other scales. So Nagy knows where to calibrate his thermometer.
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
Lets commercially start making new sensors and thermometers... Need some investors here... ;P
--- The nk.
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Celsius published his work in Latin (as just about all European scientists did at that time), so didn't need anyone translating his Latin term into French and then back into Latin for him. Centigrate (lat) = hundred steps (eng) All That's what he called it, in Latin.
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You didn't even bother to check that did you? :laugh: His astronomical works were indeed published in Latin. His "Observations of two persistent degrees on a thermometer"[^] was written in Swedish.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
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You didn't even bother to check that did you? :laugh: His astronomical works were indeed published in Latin. His "Observations of two persistent degrees on a thermometer"[^] was written in Swedish.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
Jörgen Andersson wrote:
You didn't even bother to check that did you?
Nope. But I do know that he used the Latin name "centigrade" for his scale.
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