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Crazy how nature be like that (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can someone explain the joke?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

-40°C = -40°F

They intersect at that point for mysterious nature reasons

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Linear scale reasons.

They measure the same thing. But they scale it differently, so they must meet somewhere. One, for some crazy reason, has decided the freezing and boiling point of water aught to be exactly 100 units apart. Where the other, sensibly, uses a really cold day in Danzig Germany because the AIR feels cold at that temperature, and what the natural resting point of the human body temperature is, separated by 96 units so as to make the scale easier to make in a lab.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I think there's a /s missing...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you've just insulted a bunch of poles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact that danzig is in the nation state of Poland today doesn't mean there were clear cut boarders back then. Kafka lived in Prague, don't tell me he was Czech

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still, you wouldn't say that Kafka was born in the Austrian city of Prague, even though in 1883 Prague belonged to the Austrian part (Cisleithania) of Austria-Hungary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I reread the comment you replied to and you are right. I thought it was "the German guy from Danzig" which would be fine but "Danzig, Germany" isn't

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Aaah, thanks!