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hardcore-cpp-hater t1_iwp56eb wrote

Reply to comment by TerpBE in Company fined after worker dies from fall into pot of molten iron twice as hot as lava by habichuelacondulce

I don't know about the first point but who says we're using an arbitrary temperature scale? By twice as hot they clearly intend to mean a temperature perceived to be twice as hot as lava. That part was just pedantic.

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-----_------__----- t1_iwpeg5k wrote

I doubt somebody would perceive it as twice as hot. At some point it isn't perceived as more hot anymore. Maybe we need to do some test with people who experienced both.

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hardcore-cpp-hater t1_iwpl571 wrote

That's correct, after a certain point (a relatively small number) we're unable to perceive that high. What I should've said was, they're saying the" average kinetic energy" is double that of lava - in other words what I'm really just trying to say is bringing up units was literally filler for that comment, it was an irrelevant addition, while correct nonetheless.

Edit: when you say something is hotter than something else without even mentioning units, you're not saying it's x Kelvin or x Celsius hotter ... you're just saying that it's hotter.

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