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[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 days ago (4 children)

37.78 Celsius for those who don't know freedom units offhand (including me, I had to search the conversion).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

Thank you for your service my hero

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

So just about human body temperature, pretty neat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Higher actually, it would be a low grade fever In humans

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

It’s actually based on emperor penguin huddle temperature, humans just happen to have the same temp.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's actually Mr. Fahrenheit's wife's body temperature on one particular day. Luckily she happened to be human.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

luckily for who?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If you're going to be snarky about units, at least get the significant digits correct. The infographic gives 100°F as the temperature. If I had to guess I'd say that wherever that number came from, it's precision is much less than a whole °F, but for simplicity let's just say that the precision is a whole number, no decimal places in the precision. At that precision 37.5°C and 38°C are both also 100°F. There are 9/5 °F for every °C after all. If you'd said 37.7°C I wouldn't have even commented. But that was one decimal place too far (and being too lazy to find the ° symbol or type out degrees).

You're all probably saying, "Who cares? Why do you care? Aren't you just being any even more annoying pedant?"

I do. I don't know. Probably.

But, if you're going to be a smartass, you better at least try to be smart about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Wasn't trying to be a smartass. It's just that it's 37.777 repeating, so 37.78 I think gets the point across. I'll include proper significant figures when it's necessary for actual scientific work.

Since you're trying to be more scientific about it, shouldn't it be represented in SI units in the first place.....?

Also, it's science memes.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

He's not being snarky about it or the numbers. He's being snarky about someone else that's much like that but much more ridiculous and on TV. Somewhat entertaining because he's completely wrong about gorram near everything. It's about to go completely psychotic when, although, in all fairness, if, the cult followers become aware of the truth. Otherwise they are sociopaths.

Kind of point to be snarky here where we can point at the truth. Has little or nothing to do with the numbers, per se...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was that supposed to be coherent or relevant? Are you lost?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It is coherent but if you're going to be snarky about it because you just don't get it, with an ego that whines all kinds of sensitivity and shit in public, then I'm just not going to explain that shit to you. I mean, Why would I? My ego has dope. So fuck off kid.

...or just ask the question all polite and shit and don't forget the apology.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

0° Fahrenheit is human body temperature.

0° F is an ice and salt mix below freezing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Is... Is that second F a C?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

That's just going straight.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If you zoom in really close, they aren't touching because they 'ain't gay

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

It ain't gay if feather layers don't compress.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Can't be gay anyway.. if they don't wear any socks, right?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's actually quite impressive that they don't get crowd crushes

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You bet they used to but those populations dies off and those who didn't crush themselves survives. That's called evolution.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is we haven't had enough Black Fridays yet

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Understanding why and how would be valuable

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Because they're soft and fluffy!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Superb local avoidance algorithm

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Such a huddle of penguins is called a pengle

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I thought it was called a Linux

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

It's a kernel.org

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

I don't believe you but I'm using this now

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

What do the girl penguins do? Please tell me its scissoring.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

According to my expert knowledge bestowed upon me from my viewings of the movie Happy Feet, the females are all off doing food hunting things while the dudes are keeping the eggs warm during the blizzards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah genuinely someone answer this, what DO the female penguins do for warmth?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

This is like learning if I shrunk myself down and hung out with some extremophiles they could be as cool/cute as penguins

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's kind of hot

No homo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's kind of hot

Yes homo >:D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Huddle for warmth