• Mercival@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Ah yes.

    Using the Celsius scale offset by ~273.15 must be the most galaxy brain shit I’ve ever seen.

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        2 years ago

        It’s so odd to use that expression in Fahrenheit though. 70 is by definition just as likely as 130.

        I went to a school where the admission requirement by law is IQ 130, and it’s not like you’d see the kids as fundamentally different from you if you’re within 1std of the mean (85-115, which is 68% of the population).

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      2 years ago

      It took someone with a room temperature IQ expressed in Rankine (530-540) to make this meme.

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        2 years ago

        Kelvin starts at absolute zero and proceeds on the Celsius scale.

        Rankine starts at absolute zero and proceeds on the Fahrenheit scale.

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              2 years ago

              It was named after the Scotsman that developed it. Furthermore, I’ve never seen it used in any practical application here in the US.

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                The only time I’ve ever seen it used was practice questions from my thermodynamics textbooks when Imperial units were used (alongside the wonderfully awful to use BTU which doesn’t translate well with anything).

                I’ve never seen Rankine actually used anywhere otherwise.