• getaway@lemmynsfw.com
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    9 months ago

    If fahrenheit was how people felt, then room temperature would be 0 because that’s the ideal temperature. Negative fahrenheit would be too cold, positive to warm.

    • ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      That isn’t consistent with K and C though. -K doesn’t exist. And water doesn’t become more frozen at -C (well I guess it technically becomes different kinds of frozen).

      Zero in that sense represents the absolute limit that one could exist in a particular state, which for F would be comfort? I guess the issue with humans is that 0 would be very subjective. But I think for almost all humans, the limit would be closer to 40F than 0F.

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      9 months ago

      I would like to use this system you propose. 0 is room temperature, plus/minus 100 is death by freezing or heatstroke… But we probably have to do some work to make units fit in a linear way. Are you filing the patent or am I?