I think it’s 38 degrees celsius for Americans too. But I’m not quite sure, could also be 2 ounces, their system is kind of weird.
Really had to do a double take. Like, what the fuck, the ocean is boiling, it can’t be that be that bad, right? Then it clicked that you’re using that weird Fahrenheit system.
Yes, sorry, it’s weird. Celsius is easy - water freezes at 0 and boils at 100 and there we go…
As an American this is how I interpret Celsius
- 100 is boiling
- 50 is you’re gonna die from heat exhaustion eventually
- 40 is hot
- 30 is a little warm
- 20 is a little cool
- 10 is cold
- 0 is freezing
Thinking about it… Isn’t that exactly what the Celsius scale does just with reliable definitions about what “cold” and “HOT” mean?
Shower water with 38°C is hot, a bowl of rice at 38°C/100F is decidedly not “HOT”. So the perceived convenience of the Fahrenheit scale is not applicable to everything, is it? How is it convenient then?
With how mountainous Europe is, no it doesn’t. What bothers me (aside from the ongoing, increasingly vivid global extinction event) is the sense that, were the situation flipped, you guys wouldn’t miss a beat telling people to look it up instead of assuming every country works like theirs does.
Good news is, we’ll both have something else to complain about in a year or two, if we’re…still able to do that.
Oh, I think you might be projecting there. Have you ever been to Germany or France or any other European country? If the situation was flipped and we Europeans were the only ones using a system no one else does, we wouldn’t tell you to look it up, we would never stop complaining about our governments for not changing shit.
Oh, I think you might be projecting there. Have you ever been to Germany or France or any other European country? If the situation was flipped and we Europeans were the only ones using a system no one else does, we wouldn’t tell you to look it up, we would never stop complaining about our governments for not changing shit.
If only someone had been warning us about this for the past 40 years.
If only that someone had won the popular vote over 20 years ago leaving the deciding electoral votes to Florida with the narrowest of margins (hundreds of votes, by the certified count) giving it the ability to choose its own fate in a historically close election.
The number one alternate timeline I’d like to see is if Gore had become president in 2000. Even more than if the Nazis had won WWII or if Caesar hadn’t gone to the senate that day.
(I’d also like to see the world if the spanish armada had taken a different course back in 1588 and avoided that typhoon though…)
I’d like to see “what if Columbus died and Europeans left the New World alone a while longer.”
122°F (50°C) is the required sustained ocean temperature to theoretically form a continent spanning hypercane incase anyones interested.
Well great, that’s a new terrifying word I never heard of before today, one more thing to worry about fuck.
well that’s a not so fun fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercane
Wikipedia needs to be updated about the highest recorded temperature of the ocean 😓
Oh no, if it isn’t the consequences to our own actions!
There is a scene in the book Ministry of the Future where there is a wet bulb event in India and tons of people flocked to the water to cool down. The water was also like 100°F so the waterways ended up being filled with dead bodies that does from being too hot.
Looks like we may not be very far from that…
