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  • Masimatutu@lemm.eeOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlScary
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    8 months ago

    100°C is an acceptable sauna temperature. You won’t last much longer naked in 0°C!

    Edit: To make my point more clear, I know some crazy people who go directly from a close to 100 degree sauna to a close to 0 degree ice bath. I think that could be described quite well as going from 100 to 0 % within the human temperature tolerance.

    Also, that’s not my initial point. My initial point was that “percent hot outside” means nothing in Fahrenheit or Celsius.

    (whoops, pressed delete instead of edit)





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    8 months ago

    I found it on Wikipedia. At first, he fixed zero at the stable temperature of a “mixture of ice, water, and salis Armoniaci [transl. ammonium chloride]” and 96 at the human body temperature, but later he would change the lower reference point to water’s freezing point at 32 and still later the upper one to the boiling point of water at 212. So it has always been pretty arbitrary.

    Edit: But I will agree that the scale of zero to one hundred does correspond more closely to how warm humans feel.




  • Masimatutu@lemm.eeOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlScary
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    8 months ago

    Percent of what, exactly? It has been a lot more than 100 Fahrenheit and a lot less than 0.

    Edit: Kelvin is the scientific standard with 0 at absolute zero, and that translates directly to Celsius.