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[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 months ago (4 children)

37.78 Celsius for those who don't know freedom units offhand (including me, I had to search the conversion).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Thank you for your service my hero

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you're going to be snarky about units, at least get the significant digits correct. The infographic gives 100°F as the temperature. If I had to guess I'd say that wherever that number came from, it's precision is much less than a whole °F, but for simplicity let's just say that the precision is a whole number, no decimal places in the precision. At that precision 37.5°C and 38°C are both also 100°F. There are 9/5 °F for every °C after all. If you'd said 37.7°C I wouldn't have even commented. But that was one decimal place too far (and being too lazy to find the ° symbol or type out degrees).

You're all probably saying, "Who cares? Why do you care? Aren't you just being any even more annoying pedant?"

I do. I don't know. Probably.

But, if you're going to be a smartass, you better at least try to be smart about it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Wasn't trying to be a smartass. It's just that it's 37.777 repeating, so 37.78 I think gets the point across. I'll include proper significant figures when it's necessary for actual scientific work.

Since you're trying to be more scientific about it, shouldn't it be represented in SI units in the first place.....?

Also, it's science memes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So just about human body temperature, pretty neat

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

It’s actually based on emperor penguin huddle temperature, humans just happen to have the same temp.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's actually Mr. Fahrenheit's wife's body temperature on one particular day. Luckily she happened to be human.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

luckily for who?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Higher actually, it would be a low grade fever In humans

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

for some people it'd be a pretty hefty fever, iirc my body temp is 36°C

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

0° Fahrenheit is human body temperature.

0° F is an ice and salt mix below freezing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Is... Is that second F a C?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That's just going straight.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you zoom in really close, they aren't touching because they 'ain't gay

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

It ain't gay if feather layers don't compress.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Can't be gay anyway.. if they don't wear any socks, right?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's actually quite impressive that they don't get crowd crushes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Understanding why and how would be valuable

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Because they're soft and fluffy!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Superb local avoidance algorithm

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Such a huddle of penguins is called a pengle

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought it was called a Linux

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It's a kernel.org

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I don't believe you but I'm using this now

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

What do the girl penguins do? Please tell me its scissoring.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

According to my expert knowledge bestowed upon me from my viewings of the movie Happy Feet, the females are all off doing food hunting things while the dudes are keeping the eggs warm during the blizzards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah genuinely someone answer this, what DO the female penguins do for warmth?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's kind of hot

No homo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's kind of hot

Yes homo >:D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Huddle for warmth

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

This is like learning if I shrunk myself down and hung out with some extremophiles they could be as cool/cute as penguins