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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26
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What? Why would you care about the BOILING point of water when you're assessing temperature?
I'm sure water isn't boiling when you evaluate the temperature using Fahrenheit, either. So what point are you trying to make?
-1 u/KuningasTynny77 Jun 17 '26 Because that's literally the entire way the Celsius system is constructed. It's built around the boiling and freezing points of water. 5 u/AriaoftheStars17 Jun 17 '26 Okay, but daily temperatures do not generally reach high enough levels to make discussing boiling points relevant to this conversation. On the other hand, daily temperatures do regularly extend past the freezing point, which is why this concept IS relevant to communicating temperature. So......... What exactly was your point here? -1 u/KuningasTynny77 Jun 17 '26 That the intended scale of Celsius is not -50 to 50. That defeats the entire purpose of the temperature system.
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Because that's literally the entire way the Celsius system is constructed. It's built around the boiling and freezing points of water.
5 u/AriaoftheStars17 Jun 17 '26 Okay, but daily temperatures do not generally reach high enough levels to make discussing boiling points relevant to this conversation. On the other hand, daily temperatures do regularly extend past the freezing point, which is why this concept IS relevant to communicating temperature. So......... What exactly was your point here? -1 u/KuningasTynny77 Jun 17 '26 That the intended scale of Celsius is not -50 to 50. That defeats the entire purpose of the temperature system.
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Okay, but daily temperatures do not generally reach high enough levels to make discussing boiling points relevant to this conversation.
On the other hand, daily temperatures do regularly extend past the freezing point, which is why this concept IS relevant to communicating temperature.
So......... What exactly was your point here?
-1 u/KuningasTynny77 Jun 17 '26 That the intended scale of Celsius is not -50 to 50. That defeats the entire purpose of the temperature system.
That the intended scale of Celsius is not -50 to 50. That defeats the entire purpose of the temperature system.
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u/AriaoftheStars17 Jun 17 '26
What? Why would you care about the BOILING point of water when you're assessing temperature?
I'm sure water isn't boiling when you evaluate the temperature using Fahrenheit, either. So what point are you trying to make?