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CrieDeCoeur t1_irgw6s0 wrote

Pretty simple. 0 Celsius is where water freezes, 100 C is where it boils. A kilometer is 1,000 meters, there are 100 centimeters to a meter, a thousand milliliters to a liter, etc. All divisions or multiples of 10, 100 or 1,000.

Unlike pints and quarts and bushels and pecks and drams and gallons and yards and furlongs and God knows what else with values all over the goshdarn place.

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B_P_G t1_irhuh6s wrote

> 0 Celsius is where water freezes, 100 C is where it boils.

And why is that an advantage from the standpoint of a temperature scale? When was the last time you stuck a thermometer in a pot of boiling water?

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quooo t1_iri1oq9 wrote

>When was the last time you stuck a thermometer in a pot of boiling water?

I don't have to, I just wait until it bubbles.

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radioaktvt t1_irjpm82 wrote

That’s big brain stuff right there, and I’m not being facetious.

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Gandydancer t1_iril3pz wrote

> I don’t have to, I just wait until it bubbles.

Does this mean I can stop making crop circles in random countries? All I want is the hot water, I'm not too keen on knocking down grass with boards. Game changer if true.

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B_P_G t1_irj9lb4 wrote

Exactly. So why does it bubbling at 100 degrees versus 212 degrees matter to anyone?

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