one of those"it's been bugging me" threads

[TacitBlue]

LMAO, that does look weird now that I go back and read it. . I guess I need my shot too...

[BFMF]

I've been inside -40 freezer, and it is amazingly cold. It's the kind of cold that you imagine finding on another planet.

During January 2004, we had a couple weeks that were colder than average. It got down to about -20

[Fozzer]

All I know about Celsius/Centigrade is that if its 0*C, (32*F), I'm freezing my nuts off...
If it's 20*C, (68-72*F), it's nice and comfy in the office...
...anything greater than that and I have to change my shirt, socks, and pants more frequently...  :'(...!

Fahrenheit for King... ...!

Paul...25*C...strippin' off... ...!

[Saitek]

Those who need a hand - use this handy thing:

http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm

Umm it easily gets to 25C and more for about a total of a whole month down south where you are Paul. So does that mean you spend 1/12 of your life with nothing on?

[BFMF]

All I know about Celsius/Centigrade is that if its 0*C, (32*F), I'm freezing my nuts off...

That's nice and warm

It's been below freezing here for over 3 weeks now.

[Whitey]

The coldest I can remember recently here was -4*C, which I saw one morning last month on the digital thermometer on the motorway on my way to uni.  That's not cold, it's raw!

[bbstackerf]

Wasn't the confusion between the 2 systems of measurement to blame for a Mars Probe mission that went wrong? One of the scientists was calculating one way when it should have been the other?

I'll have to google this.

Keni

[Hagar]

Wasn't the confusion between the 2 systems of measurement to blame for a Mars Probe mission that went wrong? One of the scientists was calculating one way when it should have been the other?

You could be right & it wouldn't be the first time. It won't be the last either.

[bbstackerf]

Yup I thought I remembered something about this.

"NASA assigned three separate teams to investigate the embarrassing, US $125 million debacle and determine its cause. Preliminary public statements faulted a slip-up between the probe's builders and its operators, a failure to convert the English units of measurement used in construction into the metric units used for operation."

Here's the full article. Too technical for my likes.

http://www.jamesoberg.com/mars/loss.html

Keni

[Hagar]

Here's the full article. Too technical for my likes.

Scientists like blinding people with science. What it actually means is that someone messed it up bigtime.

PS. Never mind. The good ol' taxpayer foots the bill. Plenty more where that came from. Better luck next time.

[bbstackerf]

In the Navy we(maintenance crews) had a code for this on the forms, A799, "Short between the headset."


Keni

[H]

[quote]...the normal body temperature is 98.6

[Hagar]

Perhaps the 98.4 is your personal average temperature or maybe that was the norm in the UK when your life began. For most of us here, though, 98.6 has been the average during our entire lifetime

It might well have been but apparently it still is. http://www.aquaticape.org/bodytemp.html

Great Britain uses "98.4 degrees F" as "normal", while the French and North Americans use "98.6 F (37 C)".

Now why this should be so is anybody's guess. Why do they insist on messing around with these things?

[bbstackerf]

Did some checking and apparently the 2 degree disparity comes in when converting from either c to f or f to c. Most charts I found vary from saying 37c is 98.4f to some saying 98.4f is 36.9. The formula for the accurate conversion is as follows.

To convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit:

[H]

It might well have been but apparently it still is. http://www.aquaticape.org/bodytemp.html
Now why this should be so is anybody's guess. Why do they insist on messing around with these things?

You complain about our language difference so why should this be any different? On average, the rest of us are just a tad warmer than you are. Secondly, specifically applicable to you in the article to which you refer, "Normally the majority of us do not have a 'normal' temperature... ...older people have a lower one."
I also think they clipped the last quote, thus I've appended:
"Did you know our body temperature is similar to that of at least some bats?
...Does this mean we used to fly?
No" ...we're just batty.