Talk:3001: Temperature Scales

Shouldn't Rankine say "0ºR is set to absolute zero"? 172.70.230.29 (talk) 22:58, 21 October 2024 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

yo,i thought comic 300 was anticlimactic so randall would make this one COOL but sadly not Same. Hope he does something cool for 3072.172.69.134.225 23:44, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

really he didn't do anything special for this either? come ON randall if you don't do something cool for comic 3072 i will come to your house personally and yell at you RadiantRainwing (talk) 23:57, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
What's random about Fahrenheit? (Answer: nothing.) 0F is the freezing point of brine, 100F (or 98.7) is the human body temperature. 172.68.54.65 00:00, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

What concentration of brine? (And which specific salt... No, not NaCl, as you might presume but NH₄Cl!)

And body temperature varies a lot ('typically' 36.5–37.5°C or 97.7–99.5°F, though even this range is thought to be too small), across genders, individuals, time of day and which orifices/surfaces you try to measure it from. (Originally, it was set so that 90°F was to be the 'best guess' of human body temperature. It gradually changed, including via various compounded misunderstandings so that the best you can say is that 100°F is arbitrarily slightly above most afebrile human body temperature measurements.)

Celsius might be a bit off (arguments about triple-point or STP freezing, etc), but it still has far more physical logic to it. 172.70.160.188 01:14, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Personally, I'm most disappointed that Delisle scale was not represented... 172.70.160.188 01:14, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

I guess I was wrong in my comment on the last comic. sigh. -P?sych??otic?pot??at???o (talk) 01:16, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

It's actually spelled Wedgwood scale, not Wedgewood. Wilh3lm (talk) 01:17, 22 October 2024 (UTC)