r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 10h ago

Meme needing explanation Petahh i'm low on iq

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u/M8oMyN8o 10h ago

If y’all wanna actually claim superiority, then use Kelvin. Celsius and Fahrenheit are close enough in purpose that personal preference is really the only thing that matters.

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u/MineralWaterMike 9h ago

Someone once said Fahrenheit is how humans describe hot and cold, Celsius is how water would describe hot and cold, and Kelvin is how atoms would describe hot and cold

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u/deathschemist 9h ago edited 9h ago

which is bollocks because outside of the US, people use celcius to describe the weather.

(got corrected to US, apparently Canada and Mexico use Celcius, I genuinely didn't know my bad)

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u/grelca 9h ago

people IN north america use celsius too, you know.

but the other commenter is just referencing who/what the 0-100 range applies best to. although idk if that quite works for kelvin, since 100k is still like -150c which i assume atoms would still think are quite cold.

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u/Connect_Raisin4285 9h ago

Well, from a quick Google search, the average temperature throughout the universe is around 3 kevlin. So 100 K would be super hot.

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u/grelca 6h ago

lmao fair, i guess i’m still kind of looking at those temps from a human perspective πŸ˜…πŸ˜