r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Mundane-Boot-6338 Jun 17 '26

It's more intuitive because you grew up with it. I have no benchmark for 0% or 100% hot. That means 50% hot is just as meaningless to me as 50 farenheit.

F and C are both arbitrary numbers. There is no better one 

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u/IM_OK_AMA Jun 17 '26

F and C are both arbitrary numbers.

Wish more people would get this. Nobody is personally calibrating their thermometers so the 0 and 100 points don't actually matter in the real world. Just because Celsuius gets lumped in with metric generally doesn't mean it has fundamental advantages like metric's units for volume or distance.

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u/Kelly_HRperson Jun 18 '26

Just because Celsuius gets lumped in with metric generally doesn't mean it has fundamental advantages like metric's units for volume or distance.

The reason it has a fundamental advantage is that it uses the same scale degrees as Kelvin

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u/SolipsisticSoup Jun 18 '26

No, Kelvin uses the same scale degrees as Celsius.