least convoluted way to measure a US measurement system
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I dont like this nonsense. They never tell you what constitutes a chirp, is it chirp chirp? Is it each chirp cause that means its 140°. Like have you ever tried to actually use this in RL? It simply doesn't work.
Counting the negative chirps is the worst. Like, why is there a -20ch marker if it's never -20?
Cricket will go "yeeep" if the temperature is in the negative Fahrenheit
You’re telling me you cant keep track of 30-45 simple chirps off a standard reference cricket in a 15 second period? Did you even go to school dude?
You’re telling me you cant keep track of 30-45 simple chirps off a standard reference cricket in a 15 second period?
That depends on whether it's a frictionless sphere.
Well there is no standard, most crickets chirp different and at different speeds its not working in most places unless they are resonating and even then its dependent on (wind, time of day, noise that scares them, other bugs around disrupting things, fucking LIGHT for the city people) that narrows it down to next to useless and an occasional huh look correlation, youre just the dumbass that believed it without thought and hasn't traveled at ALL, or applied themselves to thinking outside their dogmatic-ass-box apparently.
No, they all chirp together, that’s kind of why they do it, maybe there are other insects chirping if you are in a more rural area like locusts or something that chirp really fast?
Use your goddamn brain its a drone of insects chirping there is no fucking obvious line for a chirp in a second, you have to capture one and even then its not how the chirping works
Literally listening to them now just nonstop chirp drone. That's how most are. Read the fucking manual. Aka the study and what it says stop dramaing it up like a little bitch and pretending your being smart or anything other then the bitch you are being
Ok, perhaps you are hearing a cacophony of other insects, or your hearing is different than mine.
Yes, I am a bitch but that is neither here nor there, but I can clearly hear a wave pattern with the chirps as I sit outside on my front porch, and I already knew about this cool way to measure the temperature in Fahrenheit… obviously, we already know whether we are too hot or too cold without knowing the exact temperature though… it’s just a fun factoid when you’re camping
Also if you make a loud bang or a loud noise you can interrupt the chirping but they will continue…
So you can't do it then and your just bullshitti g to engage? Sad lonely vibes I feel you could be more.... Happy doing something else
Not sure what you’re saying? You seem upset about life or something,
Are you having a bad day? feel free to vent…
Very strange lol why are you messaging me about Celsius?
Celsius will never win!
standard reference cricket
Fuck
It must be in that small part of the world where temperature is measured in Fahrenheit. Eurasian, African, Australian or even South American crickets would never do that.
We should stop using Fahrenheit and Celsius and use chirp
So it's 4°C, got it!
I was trying to think of any situation where this would be useful and the only thing I come up with is a way to keep kids occupied during a camping trip.
That's a grasshopper.
No wonder the weather has been so weird all week! We had the wrong insect controlling it!
Europeans in shambles
Is that an AI generated thermometer? The scaling makes no sense whatsoever lol
It makes absolutely no sense lol. Definitely AI
No, it's what happens of you don't use a metric unit
No mate look on the right side, the number 20 is repeated. Ye imperial units are fucked but we are not at a point where 20 Celsius is equal to 2 different Fahrenheit values.
look on the right side
Thanks! I looked at the wrong side at first
No, I was just kidding, including the first comment. Both sides are messed up, it was a variation of the "anything but metric" meme.
Yeah, I'm going to hunt one down, and isolate it from all the others just so I can count its chirps so the count won't be screwed up by being confused by other chirpers - all to avoid simply looking at all the other sources of said information that are much more readily available and convenient
Unless you're doing some sort of environmental science experiment while living in a post-apocalyptic world where every pre-existing analog thermometer device for accomplishing this has somehow been destroyed, this is utterly useless.
Only in the sense that knowing the exact temperature on an arbitrary scale is utterly useless. Even Celsius scale is arbitrary, I guess it does use one molecule at an arbitrary atmospheric pressure as a loose guide though…
Is it always 100 degrees Celsius in a vacuum? Because water boils in a vacuum.
100 degrees Celsius is defined as the boiling point at exactly _1.0 atmospheric pressure _
That's a grasshopper.
Everything except metric
There are lots of cursed options
His degrees X would be a good way to show changes over long periods of time by simply graphing the annual adjustments.
I dunno, out of all the uses of metric system, Fahrenheit seems the more logical than the rest…
Metric temperature as Celsius is just as random as any other made up system of temperature measurement. Fahrenheit used the temperature of the human body to create his system, which makes a lot more sense than other systems.
I think our measurement of time for example is way more backwards than the fahrenheit system…
Miles and inches and distance totally makes more sense in metric but I am an American and inches and miles are easier for me because of it ngl
Fahrenheit used the temperature of the human body to create his system, which makes a lot more sense than other systems.
What is 0°F in terms of the human body? I'm guessing that 100°F is supposed to be a normal human body temperature, but in reality that will vary from person to person and everybody I've met is usually 97-99 unless they have a fever.
In Celsius/Centigrade, 0° is the freezing point of water at 1 atmosphere of pressure, and 100° is the boiling point.
In Kelvin, 0 is absolute zero, and it scales with Celsius/Centigrade because anchoring it to water just makes sense.
Fahrenheit is fucking silly and people only defend it because it's what they were familiar with growing up, so they teach the next generation the same thing, thus perpetuating the cycle of tradition for the sake of tradition.
From Wikipedia: ——————— Several accounts of how he originally defined his scale exist, but the original paper suggests the lower defining point, 0 °F, was established as the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride (a salt).[2][3] The other limit established was his best estimate of the average human body temperature, originally set at 90 °F, then 96 °F (about 2.6 °F less than the modern value due to a later redefinition of the scale).[2] ———-
Any measurement of temperature is going to be relative to the atmospheric pressure among other variables… I’m not a scientist but Celsius is just as random… it may make more sense because freezing water and boiling water make sense to you with a refrigerator and stove… for most of human history this would not have made any sense…..
There’s uses of metric that make a lot more sense, it is not my intention to defend imperial systems of measurement or whatever they are called, it is interesting to me though….
What are the measurements we can define where if we met a completely alien race from another solar system where we could immediately agree on the system… that’s probably the best one lol
Kelvin does make sense with the absolute zero thing, in my opinion at least… now I need to look up if there is a maximum temperature. And whether it matters lol… matter would probably fall apart at that temperature in which case it doesn’t matter anyways haha
Get it? It wouldn’t matter 😂
There is a theoretical max temperature, the Planck Temperature ≈ 1.416 x 10^42 K. It's the temperature at which the wavelength of emitted light is the Planck length.
Basically, a system at planck temperature probably would consist of many tiny black holes, and adding energy to said system would create a larger black hole, thereby lowering the temperature.
Woooooah, man, but what if you put some weeeed in there man….
I thought a Planck was a small measure of distance? So that’s space,
I assume you have a idea what you know, space itself has energy?
Also, wouldn’t the black holes just combine, I assume these black holes are far apart in space?
I am not a physicist lol
I thought a black hole was a whole lot of stuff so a small black hole sounds off the charts ugh now I have to pretend to be a scientist and and go back to my mit free lectures damn it
Edit: In my imagination you’ve made me try to put a bunch of black holes kind of like dots on a black sheet of paper in the canvas of my imagination but if they were that close together they would just instantly combine or explode or something, the space between the dots would have to be some inconceivable distance for the “small” black holes to not combine and explode or gravitate the waves or whatever they do when they do that.
Or maybe it’s some perfect system where the small black holes are gravitating orbiting each other because we are talking about the maximum conceivable temperature so kind of like Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd or Bob Marley or something
Way cool, thank you :
The idea is that the tiny black holes are planck scale and they evaporate before they get anywhere near each other. Picture this:
It takes 10^20 Planck lengths to equal the diameter of a proton. It takes 10^20 protons to equal the diameter of the earth. And it takes 10^20 earths to equal the diameter of the observable universe.
That’s wild
Simplified: A black hole is the result of density – how much mass you cram into how little space. If something is heavy enough, even light passing near it gets pulled in and swallowed, so there's some area where no light escapes: a black hole.
The difficulty is that you need a lot of gravity to bend the course of light. Gravity gets stronger the closer you get to the center, so at a certain distance, it will be strong enough no matter how little mass the object has.
But most objects are simply too large: Light will bounce off without ever getting that close to the center. You'd need to squeeze them together real hard to make them small enough, but there are other forces trying to keep them in shape that will resist you.
What you mean with "a whole lot of stuff" is the way more stable black holes work in space: A bunch of stuff so heavy that its own gravity is stronger than the forces trying to keep shape. If it's strong enough, it can pull itself together so close that it gets smaller than that distance. Thus, there's now an area around it where light can be trapped.
If you involve quantum physics, things get fucky, and supposedly there actually is some radiation still escaping, which is what the other post referred to, but I'm out of my depth there. There are also different types of black holes with their own complications, a bunch of details I skipped and a lot more I don't even know.
Space is awesome and big and full of nothing and tons of tiny, really fascinating bits of not-nothing sprinkled in, and we could spend our entire lives studying it and never know just how much we don't.
I agree with you, except that I think the time system is great. It was deliberately designed to be maximally divisible, and makes a lot of sense in that manner. 12 hours of daylight— a highly divisible number, with 60 small (minuscule, or “minute”) divisions of the hour, which is even MORE divisible than 12. Then when time keeping got more accurate, they added a second division of 60 more parts, and… well, called ‘em seconds.
Basically, 12 and 60 are just so divisible they make really good bases.
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And people say farenheight doesn't have a use...
What use is the Fahrenheit measurement though? I thought only one or two countries use it.
US and ... maybe Israel? Those are the two countries that use the US "Simple English" while the rest of us know what a U is for and how to say Z... so if they also both used F that would track.
Two countries and crickets apparently.
Just as God intended
This is bullshit
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