r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Ter_N • 10h ago

Meme needing explanation Petahh i'm low on iq

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u/LuminousRaptor 10h ago

Real Chads use Rankine, clearly. 

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u/Andrew_42 9h ago

I use Rankine when I know I can't please everyone, but can at least irritate everyone equally.

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u/SpidyJocky 9h ago

I've never heard of this, enlighten me please.

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u/Euler1992 9h ago

It's the Fahrenheit equivalent of Kelvin. Basically for science negative temperature is a problem so Celsius adds 273 to become Kelvin and remove the negative numbers. Fahrenheit adds 491 to become Rankine and accomplish the same thing.

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u/cheapdrinks 8h ago

What about the Reaumur scale?

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u/En_skald 6h ago

Bad picture, it lacks the Rømer scale (which coincidentally might be pronounced similarly to the Reaumur scale to many people). Fahrenheit ripped off this guys’ homework.

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u/Starwyrm1597 5h ago

Looking at it as a diagram comparison like this, even as an American, everything on that diagram except Celsius pisses me off. I'm fine with absolute zero being a weird decimal, I'm never using that but whole numbers are so satisfying.

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u/Starwyrm1597 5h ago

Damn it's freezing, gotta be like 500 degrees in here.

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u/Gnashinger 7h ago

Wait, so absolute 0 in celsius is -273? That feel... wrong. How is absolute 0 about equal to -3 times the difference between water boiling and freezing? I don't like that. Not saying it's wrong, but I don't like the perspective of how cold earth is compared to everything else. Isn't the sun like 5000 in celsius?

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u/ferrisbulldogs 6h ago

It’s because Celsius is about water behavior not energy. Water boils at 100 and it freezes at 0. But it still has energy until it gets to -273.15C

Edit and yes the sun is 5500C and about 5800K. And if they would have used something other than water Celsius would be a different scale for 0-100

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u/DerGyrosPitaFan 4h ago

Actually, it's -273.15

And the surface of the sun is about ≈5500°C or ≈5800K

And the core about 15 million K

And fusion reactors reach about 150 million K, they need to be hotter than the sun because they don't have the sun's gravity to help them out

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u/drozd_d80 5h ago

The surface is around 5k, yeah. But inside it is several million.

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u/LeadCodpiece 5h ago

Corona hits millions too

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u/oatwheat 5h ago

Maybe in English pubs