Post AR2eFEePoLKgiKaIN6 by hobs@mstdn.social
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 (DIR) Post #AR2UQ7AAzWqH8QzOds by adamasnemesis@social.adamasnemesis.com
       2022-12-27T17:39:21Z
       
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       "Degree of frost", especially the version where you count up each degree Fahrenheit it gets below freezing, sounds like some wacko measurement you'd find in a Game-of-Thrones-style medieval fantasy world, yet it is (or at least was) a real thing. Hmm.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_of_frostImage is Ivan Aivazovsky's "Winter landscape".#weather #temperature #measurement #history #fantasy #thoughts #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifullandscape #winter
       
 (DIR) Post #AR2dA6UacIUA0bygE4 by adamasnemesis@social.adamasnemesis.com
       2022-12-27T19:17:03Z
       
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       Who says we must count downward as temperatures get colder? Why not upward instead? On some alien worlds it may make more sense than our way.Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2022/12/27/degree-of-frost/This post's featured image is a photograph of window frost in the golden hour by Larisa Koshkina.#degreeoffrost #worldbuilding #temperature #measurement #scifi #sciencefiction #science #fantasy #Celsius #Fahrenheit
       
 (DIR) Post #AR2eFEePoLKgiKaIN6 by hobs@mstdn.social
       2022-12-27T19:29:18Z
       
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       @adamasnemesis there's no limit to hot, there is a limit to cold... absolute zero.
       
 (DIR) Post #AR2h0yhQcYb939t3Ng by yoguiignacio@mastodon.la
       2022-12-27T20:00:11Z
       
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       @adamasnemesis In the relative temperature scales there may be negative signs, such as the Celsius Degree based on two points (the melting point at 0ºC and boiling 100 ºC of water) or the Fahrenheit between the freezing point of ammonium chloride 0 ºF and the human body temperature 100 ºF. But on an absolute temperature scale like that of the International System in Kelvin Degrees, they are all greater than absolute zero!
       
 (DIR) Post #AR2mrbzuFxNrlARm6a by ahilal@sfba.social
       2022-12-27T21:05:12Z
       
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       @adamasnemesis  Intruiging idea but if nothing else, lower = colder is now a very well established convention and so the burden of proof is on claims that it should be changed, not on the convention to prove itself objectively better.