Author Topic: It's hot where you live dan (Read 6548 times)

atomic7732 · « **on:** July 29, 2009, 08:33:30 PM »

I saw on the weather channel. It was like 108 at seattle. RECORD BREAKING HEAT!

Dan Dixon · « **Reply #1 on:** July 29, 2009, 10:14:32 PM »

Yep. I live near the Space Needle in Seattle and it was hot today. Looks like the high was 104Â°F (40Â°C).

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weather+seattle+2009-07-29

And since Seattle rarely gets above 90Â°F (32Â°C) very few homes have air conditioning (including mine). It's a comfy 93Â°F (34Â°C) right now in my home at 10 pm.

atomic7732 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 29, 2009, 10:27:40 PM »

It's 10:27 here now, a nice 99! It was like 109 today.

hbmp88 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 29, 2009, 10:28:22 PM »

GLOBAL WARMING is all I can say.

monmarfori · « **Reply #4 on:** July 29, 2009, 11:44:05 PM »

The cause is the 2009 North American heat wave. Affecting mostly northwest of US.

Bla · « **Reply #5 on:** July 30, 2009, 02:29:27 AM »

Lol, when you first wrote 108 I thought 108 celcius.

But no, that would be something you could call a heat-wave.

Makes me wish only Kelvin existed...

HallowedError · « **Reply #6 on:** July 30, 2009, 02:51:15 AM »

It will probably be a long time until any unit of measurement other than time becomes completely standardized. I remember a long time ago I would get confused when science shows used meters and kilometers instead of feet and miles, hahaha.

SuperNova · « **Reply #7 on:** July 30, 2009, 03:18:53 AM »

yesterday (tonight)
it was raining so hard! and there was a thunderstorm, now everything is wet.

FGFG · « **Reply #8 on:** July 30, 2009, 04:30:25 AM »

Quote from: HallowedError on July 30, 2009, 02:51:15 AM

It will probably be a long time until any unit of measurement other than time becomes completely standardized. I remember a long time ago I would get confused when science shows used meters and kilometers instead of feet and miles, hahaha.

It happened even now...
Recently a probe crashed on Mars because a sientist considered data miles instead of kilometers...

... DHO!

monmarfori · « **Reply #9 on:** July 30, 2009, 04:47:15 AM »

And my home is a heavy rain. but no thunderstorms.

HallowedError · « **Reply #10 on:** July 30, 2009, 06:31:54 AM »

Wow, I wonder if he still works there. Kind of embarrassing. "Why did it crash?" "Oh, we're still using kilometers? My bad. Won't happen again, I promise!"

Dan Dixon · « **Reply #11 on:** July 30, 2009, 10:57:11 AM »

Quote from: HallowedError on July 30, 2009, 02:51:15 AM

It will probably be a long time until any unit of measurement other than time becomes completely standardized...

The metric system is the official system of measurement for all nations except for Myanmar, Liberia, and the United States.

The United States is messing it up for everyone else.

And this is wild:
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/06/25/nasa-it-would-cost-370-million-dollars-to-conver-to-metric

atomic7732 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 30, 2009, 12:16:06 PM »

a billion dollar project drove into the ground, (LITTERALY), man that sucks to be behind that.

HallowedError · « **Reply #13 on:** July 31, 2009, 12:13:04 AM »

Quote from: Dan Dixon on July 30, 2009, 10:57:11 AM

The metric system is the official system of measurement for all nations except for Myanmar, Liberia, and the United States.

The United States is messing it up for everyone else.

And this is wild:
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/06/25/nasa-it-would-cost-370-million-dollars-to-conver-to-metric

Yeah, that has bothered me since I was little. I wonder what the origin of using different measurement is. Because, like you said, everyone else is using the same thing. It just seems counter intuitive to use something else.

FGFG · « **Reply #14 on:** July 31, 2009, 02:33:29 AM »

in these days is hard to make a change of the system of measurement of a nation. Just think about cars: all the new cars will mount a different tachometer (speed indicator) but this is the nothing: after this all the signposts should be changed, all the old cars should change the tachometer and the other instruments.
Industry and all the services will have to upgrade all the softwares to make machine works, and all of this without creating confusion (this data are inches, feet, meter or centimeters?).
Of course all of this costs money to the state and to private citizens...

etc.

It could become easily the Kaos.

atomic7732 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 31, 2009, 11:28:16 AM »

we call it a speedometer here, but that might be beacuse it's the non-technical term, and we say the common term.

hbmp88 · « **Reply #16 on:** August 02, 2009, 10:27:31 PM »

This is sort of getting off topic... But if we change the system now it will be less expensive than changing it later.

なる523 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 03, 2009, 12:22:54 AM »

Could be.

hbmp88 · « **Reply #18 on:** August 04, 2009, 12:24:29 AM »

We will only get more and more computers etc.

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Darvince · « **Reply #20 on:** November 12, 2011, 12:56:46 AM »

I've gotten 120 F at my house.

Bla · « **Reply #21 on:** November 12, 2011, 04:20:58 AM »

I've gotten 280K (7Â°C, 45Â°F) at my house.

vh · « **Reply #22 on:** November 12, 2011, 05:36:30 AM »

Quote from: Bla on July 30, 2009, 02:29:27 AM

Lol, when you first wrote 108 I thought 108 celcius.
But no, that would be something you could call a heat-wave.

Makes me wish only Kelvin existed...

i lold

*boils everyone*

deoxy99 · « **Reply #23 on:** November 18, 2011, 06:47:40 PM »

Rankine is the best! Who doesn't use Rankine? Just kidding.

vh · « **Reply #24 on:** November 18, 2011, 07:18:20 PM »

whats rankine..

vh · « **Reply #25 on:** November 18, 2011, 07:18:51 PM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_scale

Bla · « **Reply #26 on:** November 22, 2011, 11:58:51 PM »

Notch: Kelvin is awesome. Celsius and Fahrenheit are silly.

Darvince · « **Reply #27 on:** November 23, 2011, 12:43:03 AM »

Rankine looks awesome. You can scare everyone else, just like you can with Kelvin, but moreso.