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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Reading these comments, my spiteful genie wish is to invent and proliferate a log base 10 scale, something like earthquake magnitudes or decibels. Y'all hate F or C? Welcome T, where 1 equals 1 Kelvin, 2 equals 10 Kelvin, 3 equals 100 Kelvin, 4 equals 1000 Kelvin, and so on.

It's easy! Humans live somewhere around 3, as does boiling and freezing, while the sun is between a 4 and a 5 at the surface and the core is closer to an 8.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Make it log, but not start at absolute zero anyway

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yessss .. something positively baffling, like the body temperature of my cousin's guinea pig when experiencing a slight fever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, or the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride. Wait, that's Fahrenheit already.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

No, please start at absolute zero, then you get negative infinity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Take a look at the mean molecular kinetic energy.

As a bonus, it's measured in Joules. Or eV if you want a sensible unity, but I don't think you'll want it.