Quick question. Which is colder, -40° C or -40°F ?
Oh, if you said -40° C, you’re wrong. If you said -40°F, you’re wrong. If you knew the correct answer, you’re a geek. Be proud.
What else do you know? Something you’d like to share? Let us know. It’s Wednesday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
I am a geek, I guess. There is no corresponding question in the positives, which I find mildly interesting. More interesting than that is that there are apparently 1,420,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,273.15 degrees Celsius between absolute zero and the Planck Temperature, or “absolute hot.” So that’s all the degrees you get. Use them wisely.
Isn’t this a third grade level problem? Especially if they let you whip out a conversion formula.
3rd grade? When I was in third grade, we only knew of one scale. We called it “temperature.”
I still blame Bush.
The old standards are hard to beat.
If it’s -40F then it means I’m in America. If it’s -40C then it means I’m in Canada. So I say -40C is colder
This year it’s been cold. And hot. And cold. And hot. I think it’s just God messing with Al Gore
Who cares…either one is damn cold.
Joel as a stand-up comic…………….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWCahpvlg64
Just another interesting factoid, that I’ve known for years. Though it probably helped that I was a Physics major before switching to Computer Science.
Joseph Lister, who saved countless lives by pioneering the use of antiseptics in operating rooms, and whose name is memorialized in the product Listerine, was born April 5, 1827, in West Ham, England.
I learned that from a short story mystery… can’t remember which one though, maybe Asimov?
Now they want to be known as vertically challenged stories
Was it “Ring Around the Sun?” That had a plot point involving 40 below, if memory serves.
I Googled that.
http://lingualeo.com/pt/jungle/isaac-asimov-ring-around-the-sun-282008#/page/1
A quick skim didn’t reveal that plot point.
Good story though. Im an Asimov fan