Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "Vox" channel.

  1. Then the Americans would just switch to degrees Rankine :(
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  2.  @tortture3519  this is so not true. Rich Asian immigrants in the US are a very new thing.
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  3. Rankine. It is a Fahrenheit-based absolute temperature scale, i.e. with 0 °Ra at absolute zero. It is similar to kelvin, which is a Celcius-based absolute temperature scale. The idea is that you won't ever have negative temperatures, which makes some of the physics equations (slightly) simpler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_scale Both William Thomson/Lord Kelvin and William Rankine did important foundational work in thermodynamics. Both suggested an absolute temperature scale, Kelvin in 1848, Rankine in 1859. Kelvin even suggested it be based on the Celcius-scale and Rankine on the Fahrenheit-scale. Hence the names. Here's Kelvin's paper: http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/on_an_absolute_thermometric_scale.html That he used a Celcius-based scale requires a close reading but is otherwise clear enough.
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  4. Danzig was rather German and Fahrenheit's family was a family of Hansa merchants.
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  5. Except that it actually exists.
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  6. You are supposed to ignore that, because the reality is that different population groups behave differently and intelligence is largely genetic. The amount of unearned help blacks get in the US is extreme.
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  7. > whereas male mutilation isn't as it is actually beneficial to have the foreskin removed. Tuck, you are wrong, it isn't actually beneficial. People who do that -- Jews, Muslims, Americans -- prefer to believe that it is but that doesn't make it so.
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  8. We already had good alternatives to CFC gases and switching to those was quick, cheap, and almost painless. That’s very, very different from the CO2 problem. Cutting our energy use will immediately grind our economies to a halt and make us all very, very poor. It will also lead to mass starvation because we can’t produce nearly as much food without artificial fertilizers, which require a lot of energy to make. Alternative energy sources are not practical at large scales, or are very expensive, or take a long time to build... or are politically impractical (nuclear!). That’s why the CO2 problem is so much harder to solve.
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  9. Except his scale was actually inverted (+ he was not the first to suggest the freezing point and boiling point of water as calibration points).
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  10. Yes, as long as affirmative action exists :(
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  11. The mercury thermometer might actually be the invention of Ole Rømer, the astronomer who first measured the speed of light (and realized that it even had a speed). Rømer had a side business in thermometers besides being busy as astronomer, university lecturer, chief of police, fire marshal, and supreme court judge. Fahrenheit visited him specifically to learn how he made such high-quality thermometers -- one of the tricks was to use a drop of mercury to check that the internal diameter of the glass pipe was consistent all the way. We know that Rømer experimented with many different kinds of liquids, he very likely tried mercury as well, as that would be an obvious thing to do since he was using it anyway. At any rate, Fahrenheit invented (or "invented") the mercury thermometer soon after returning from his trip to Copenhagen. Oh, and the Fahrenheit scale is actually a modified Rømer scale.
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  12. Reuter, that's exactly what I mean.
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