Chirp in Fahrenheit
Chirp in Fahrenheit
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What use is the Fahrenheit measurement though? I thought only one or two countries use it.
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Two countries and crickets apparently.
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Just as God intended
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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.
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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.
Its for a very specific region and a very particular cricket. So its bullshit to pass it off like some natural law
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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?
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standard reference cricket
Fuck
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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.
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Well there is no standard, most crickets chirp different and at different speeds its not working in most places, so it narrows the observation not study really down to next to useless and an occasional huh look correlation, youre just the guy that believed it without thought and hasn't traveled at ALL, or applied themselves to thinking outside their dogmatic-ass-box apparently.
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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.
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Everything except metric
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There are lots of cursed options
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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…
Kilometers and centimeters and distance totally makes more sense in metric but I am an American (USA American) and inches and miles are easier for me because of it ngl
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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.
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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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least convoluted way to measure a US measurement system
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Is that an AI generated thermometer? The scaling makes no sense whatsoever lol
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This is bullshit
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In Celsius it is chirps in 8 seconds + 5 (Dolbear's Law), but if you listen a single "Chirpffffffsss", than better stay at home
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About half the time and an easier addition? Metric wins again.
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As always, metrics with clear rules are always better as random metrics by bodyparts of an King in the past, apart avoiding errors. Ask the NASA, crashing 2 Mars probes using the Imperial system.
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That's a grasshopper.
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No wonder the weather has been so weird all week! We had the wrong insect controlling it!
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That's a grasshopper.
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Exactly. Quick image search will show you that cricket looks like this:
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Crickets in Antarctica be like: prihc
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We should stop using Fahrenheit and Celsius and use chirp
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And people say farenheight doesn't have a use...
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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.
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Europeans in shambles
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So it's 4°C, got it!
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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.
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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.
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100 degrees Celsius is defined as the boiling point at exactly _1.0 atmospheric pressure _
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Am I the only one who thought that was a really shiny grasshopper?