Re: Americans: that clueless cretin you elected just killed the CVE program :-(

On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:03:11 +0100, David Wade wrote:

On 22/04/2025 23:51, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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The only logical temperature scale is one where zero means zero. That
means absolute temperature, i.e. Kelvin.

 
Of course, logical but impractical.

I don’t see why. Consider how your weather report gives readings for
atmospheric pressure: if it were to be “practical” by analogy with
temperature, then the scale would have zero correspond to normal
atmospheric pressure, while high-pressure systems would have positive
numbers in their centres, and low-pressure ones negative numbers in
theirs.

And it would be more “intuitive”, too, wouldn’t it, because we simply
don’t feel the full normal atmospheric pressure squeezing down on our
bodies.

But we don’t do that. All the numbers are around 1000 millibars (or
hectopascals, or whatever), on a scale which goes down to hard vacuum
which you will never see in a weather report.

If people can cope with that in pressures, why not in temperatures?