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2014-12-31 04:34 6981026 Anonymous (image.jpg 640x1136 92kB)
>F Why is this still allowed?

1 min later 6981027 Anonymous
>>6981026 >my arbitrary units are better than yours

2 min later 6981028 Anonymous
>>6981027 Nice bait, fat man.

3 min later 6981031 Anonymous
>>6981026 There's not enough information to answer that question.

20 min later 6981048 Anonymous
At what pressure?

30 min later 6981059 Anonymous
>>6981031 >>6981048 Typically, in high school level chemistry questions, standard conditions are assumed unless otherwise specified. Don't be a sperg. >>6981028 Celsius is still not a thermodynamic scale, so there's no reason to say that either one is better. I like that the degrees in Fahrenheit are closer together so that you have a comfortable range. In Celsius 17 is ok but 18 gets too stuffy and 16 is freezing.

35 min later 6981064 Anonymous
>>6981059 >Celsius is still not a thermodynamic scale At least it's closer than Fahrenheit.

37 min later 6981066 Anonymous
>>6981064 > At least it's closer than Fahrenheit. no it's not.

2 hours later 6981192 Anonymous
>>6981059 Actually there are many reasons that C is better, like simplified, intuitive calculation and correspondence to human experience. But you're probably just trolling anyway.

2 hours later 6981194 Anonymous
>>6981192 plz stop /int/ will come. Both are perfectly reasonable for daily human usage.

2 hours later 6981199 Anonymous
>>6981026 Whats your name on trivia crack?

2 hours later 6981206 Anonymous
>>6981192 >and correspondence to human experience. fahrenheit fits that criteria perfectly well too

2 hours later 6981211 Anonymous
>>6981059 >In Celsius 17 is ok but 18 gets too stuffy and 16 is freezing. worst argument I have seen in my life buy yourself a body temperature regulator

2 hours later 6981220 Anonymous (lizard.png 391x514 344kB)
>>6981059 >>6981211

2 hours later 6981240 Anonymous
Does it seem like there's a bunch of pre-med kids/biofags shitting up the science category on this game to anyone else? The vast majority of science questions I get are anatomy, latin words, breeds of animals, and shit like that.

2 hours later 6981252 Anonymous
>>6981066 Yes, it is. It's practically a shifted Kelvin's scale (if we don't get into the physical meaning).

3 hours later 6981258 Anonymous
>>6981252 I'm guessing you've never heard of Rankine...

3 hours later 6981279 Anonymous
>>6981192 >Actually there are many reasons that C is better >C >Not Scheme

3 hours later 6981289 Anonymous
>>6981059 >17 is ok >18 too stuffy >16 is freezing According to you. A human. Why the fuck does science and math have to revolve around humans?

3 hours later 6981293 Anonymous (Countries that use Celsius and Fahrenheit.png 1200x754 189kB)
>>6981026 Humans enjoy accessible, efficient, and intuitive means of accomplishing things. This is where Celsius comes in. Americans get extremely butthurt whenever Celsius is mentioned, even though it is much more relatable.

3 hours later 6981296 Anonymous
>>6981289 Because we're the ones who use and apply it you fuck. You can say metric is better all day and I'll agree with you, but it's easier for me to eyeball wrench sizes in fractions of an inch, and to measure building material in feet and inches. That changes when I'm in the lab and need to do several calculations, where metric is more practical.

3 hours later 6981313 Anonymous
>>6981296 Shhhhh, don't tell the metric-groups that they measure traded oil in barrels not in liters. Or that it would be feasibly impossible for a manufacturing powerhouse like the USA to retool all of its manufacturing hardware to run metric- we fucking own manufacturing you foreign nits. We don't have to conform to an international standard because our manufacturing base IS the standard. Also, you're map is wrong since China, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa by extension of their manufacturing firms being owned by many US multinationals, use our measuring system for their manufacturing sequences so fuck off.

3 hours later 6981322 Anonymous
>>6981293 > Americans get extremely butthurt whenever Celsius is mentioned > thread is started by someone getting butthurt that F is used. > though it is much more relatable. > my arbitrary scale I've used all my life is more relatable than yours

3 hours later 6981325 Anonymous
>>6981289 >Why the fuck does science and math have to revolve around humans? ...because it's a human-made system used exclusively by humans to communicate with other humans and the shit humans decide to make up for use on our planet does not become some great universal constant? seriously what in the actual fuck are you talking about?

3 hours later 6981343 Anonymous
>>6981293 Orange: Countries that have rovers on Mars Blue: Countries that don't

3 hours later 6981345 Anonymous
>>6981258 >Rankine Not particularly interested in some obsolete temperature scale barely used today.

3 hours later 6981346 Anonymous
>>6981343 /INT/ PLZ GO This is probably an /int/ thread right now

3 hours later 6981347 Anonymous
>>6981345 We used it fairly often in my thermo class.

4 hours later 6981359 Anonymous
>>6981346 W-what's wrong with /int/? Also, base 10 an arbitrary shit.

4 hours later 6981363 Anonymous
>>6981192 >that C is better, like simplified, intuitive calculation Typical scientism-ist, worshiping anything blessed by the almighty scientists without knowing why. >correspondence to human experience 100°F Fucking hot 50°F Nice 0°F Fucking cold 100°C Fucking dead mate 50°C Fucking dying hot 0°C Meh, snow won't stick to the ground

4 hours later 6981371 Anonymous
>>6981343 Seriously, where do these fuckers get off? America owns the space race America owns world wide manufacturing output America leads scientific discoveries by 100 fold over competitor nations. America is such a manufacturing powerhouse that we basically discovered all 20th century engineering knowledge in house, minor contributions from Germany and Japan. But "America should switch to the international standard because metric is superiorz to everythang".. Bahahahahahahhaah; that's so funny my sides.

4 hours later 6981373 Anonymous
>>6981313 Imperial (or standard depending on where you are) is still the industry standard in Canada and some other metric nations. Each system has their merits, that's why they both still exist.

4 hours later 6981399 Anonymous
>>6981373 As a practicing manufacturing engineer, the reason I like metric is because it's one less thing to get wrong, and that all of the sizes for wrenches increase by 1 mm (which is nice). That being said, increasing by 1/32" isn't so incredibly difficult to get a hold of. Fahrenheit scale has more "spread" than Celsius, and metric systems still use non metric counting systems (in practice) when talking about agriculture, metal refining, etc. What I don't like about the American standard system mainly arise in thermodynamics or fluid mechanics, conversions are made much more difficult in the American systems for certain kinds of problems. Slugs, lbf, lbm, etc. are just an example (off hand) of where confusion in the American system can arise. The counting system chosen have their own strengths and inadequacies respectively. To say they don't religiously is to be ignorant of the matter at hand in practice.

5 hours later 6981509 Anonymous
>>6981363 >the almighty scientists Envy is not the most deadly of the Cardinal Sins, but it is indeed the most ugly.

5 hours later 6981512 Anonymous
>>6981371 >america owns the space race hohohohoh that is why eurospace and russia have rockets while the United States has no means to get out of the atmosphere.

5 hours later 6981525 Anonymous
>>6981512 >What is Orion

5 hours later 6981527 Anonymous
>>6981026 >PRETTY MUCH 2015 >STILL USING FAHRENHEIT

11 hours later 6982040 Anonymous (6091ff815cda424ace6b44b2ef2331e2.png 165x198 11kB)
>>6981371 >mfw american facilities of research and scientific advancement, as well as all their institutes of space use Celsius

12 hours later 6982090 Anonymous
>>6981059 >knowing the temperature water freezes in standard conditions is HS chemistry Americans, everyone.

14 hours later 6982151 Anonymous
>>6982090 The leader of your country is less globally relevant than the governor of Texas

14 hours later 6982162 Anonymous
>>6981293 Is this correct? I thought Liberia and Burma were retarded too.

14 hours later 6982209 Anonymous
>>6981059 >16 is freezing Mmmmno.

15 hours later 6982233 Anonymous
>>6982151 B T F O T F O

15 hours later 6982234 Anonymous (mfwtearinguphere.png 390x470 20kB)
>>6981525

15 hours later 6982245 Anonymous
>>6982209 I'm pretty sure he didn't mean literally freezing.

35 hours later 6983678 Anonymous
>>6981194 It is not reasonable, however, to have two different scales for the same thing.

35 hours later 6983679 Anonymous
>>6983678 > It is not reasonable, however, to have two different scales for the same thing. says who? you?

35 hours later 6983683 Anonymous
>>6981347 You HAVE to be from literal bumfucked nowhere. Nobody has ever used that scale in the past few millenia.

35 hours later 6983684 Anonymous
>>6983683 Chicago? Its an absolute scale based on Farenheit. What do you think I'd convert to Kelvin just for that?

35 hours later 6983687 Anonymous
>>6983679 Says anyone with at least half a brain. Less overhead, one less way something can fail (like the Mars Climate Orbiter). You only have to standardise units once, while if you don't do it, you have to deal with that shit for the res of time. btw I think we should use Kelvin, since it's already the SI base unit.

35 hours later 6983689 Anonymous (1390111977439.png 592x554 78kB)
>>6981026 This is why. Fucking Americunts

35 hours later 6983690 Anonymous
>>6983684 "the bottom of my cereal box" is not an accredited thermo prof.

35 hours later 6983707 Anonymous
>>6983690 Illinois Tech. May it burn to the ground. >>6983687 > Mars Climate Orbiter > dumbass can't write simple conversion program > btw I think we should use Kelvin, since it's already the SI base unit. never going to happen

36 hours later 6983733 Anonymous
>>6983707 People would get used to it.

36 hours later 6983736 Anonymous
>>6981026 But if 32F is the freezing POINT of water that means that water must be BELOW that point in order to freeze. ie: water does not freeze at 32F

36 hours later 6983738 Anonymous
>>6981059 >16 is freezing I keep my air conditioning on 50F.

36 hours later 6983749 Anonymous
>>6983736 It starts freezing at 32F. You start to get a slurry of ice and water, until you've past the heat of fusion, then it's completely frozen.

41 hours later 6984050 Anonymous
>not using fundamental temperature plebs, all of you

41 hours later 6984060 Anonymous (65497da2aeff85d02299a2fddaf685f5.jpg 736x773 66kB)
Rankine master race

43 hours later 6984136 Anonymous
>>6983687 I agree that Kelvin is 'the best'. I don't think that kelvin will ever be used by the general public due to 'usable' range is 263 to 303*. I think it's better to have the usuable range to be around -10 to 30 *Variation is likely due to location.

43 hours later 6984157 Anonymous
>>6984060 It's not degrees Kelvin you dimwit.

43 hours later 6984163 Anonymous
>>6984060 >degrees kelvin off yourself

43 hours later 6984164 Anonymous
>>6984060 >degrees kelvin wow

43 hours later 6984166 Anonymous
>>6981220 lel

44 hours later 6984177 Anonymous
>>6981296 >we're the ones who apply it Fucking supremacist over here. Science revolves around ecosystems and environments, which, by the way, don't just include us.

44 hours later 6984178 Anonymous
>>6981322 >arbitrary Metric: 1km = 1000m = 100,000cm. Imperial = 1m = 1760 yards = 5280 feet = 63360 inches. >arbitrary Stay hurt.

44 hours later 6984179 Anonymous
>>6981343 Orange: Country that hasn't landed on a comet Blue: Contains country that has landed on a comet. What is the argument?

44 hours later 6984183 Anonymous (First man on moon.jpg 838x740 220kB)
>>6981371

44 hours later 6984194 Anonymous
>>6984183 Even tougth that the guy u were responding too is a retard, my autism force me to point out that murica was the 1st one on geocentric satelite and in creating satellite network.

46 hours later 6984271 Anonymous
>>6981371 Murica's achievements (it was done by nazi scientist btw) don't automatically validate all the stupid shit it does. And you're still a dumb fuck for using Fahrenheit, no matter what some people in your country achieved decades ago.

46 hours later 6984294 Anonymous
never forget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_C limate_Orbiter

47 hours later 6984422 Anonymous
>>6984178 It's still arbitrary. And saying that I'm 6 feet tall sounds right, not two and a half meters, because two meters sounds too short, and screw using 100-something centimeters because that's just equally retarded.

48 hours later 6984460 Anonymous
>>6984422 saying that my dick is 8 inches seems so short compared to 20 cm

48 hours later 6984470 Anonymous
>>6981240 I once got a asked what a centaur was as a science question.

48 hours later 6984482 Anonymous
>>6981064 >closer than Fahrenheit. What does this even mean? it either is, or it isn't. People seem to think that Celsius is somehow amazing because it has the same intervals as kelvin. NEWSFLASH: the intervals in the kelvin scale were taken from the arbitrary spacing of the Celsius scale. It literally makes zero difference whether you use Celsius or Fahrenheit. the only argument I can see is that it's marginally easier to convert from Celsius to kelvin, which arbitrarily is the Si unit of temperature. (So a difference is Celsius is the same as a difference in kelvin) TL;DR: Kelvin is just as arbitrary as any other thermodynamic temperature scale. Stop crying. And I'm not even from burgerland, but an actual, Celsius-using, first world country.

50 hours later 6984570 Anonymous
>>6984422 >because two meters sounds too short Are you retarded?

50 hours later 6984599 Anonymous
>>6984177 We measure and label things, so whatever is convenient for us, since nothing else does.

55 hours later 6985267 Anonymous
>>6984194 ussr is trash

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