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[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago

Did it never occur to you that Celsius is basically Kelvin with the zero point moved to human reference?

Human reference because >50% of our body is water. We are essentially water bags.

[-] falcunculus@jlai.lu 6 points 9 months ago

This is interesting but not really justified historically. Celsius predates the concept of absolute zero, and water is very important to our world, not just ourselves.

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I was replying to a (now gone) post on how Kelvin is for science, Fahrenheit for humans ,and Celsius is useless. It should give a perspective how to get from Kelvin to Celsius, not give a wildly off-topic history lesson.

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