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Title: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: atomic7732 on July 29, 2009, 08:33:30 PM: I saw on the weather channel. It was like 108 at seattle. RECORD BREAKING HEAT!
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: Dan Dixon 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 104°F (40°C).

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

And since Seattle rarely gets above 90°F (32°C) very few homes have air conditioning (including mine). It's a comfy 93°F (34°C) right now in my home at 10 pm.
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: atomic7732 on July 29, 2009, 10:27:40 PM: It's 10:27 here now, a nice 99! It was like 109 today.
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: hbmp88 on July 29, 2009, 10:28:22 PM: GLOBAL WARMING is all I can say.
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: monmarfori on July 29, 2009, 11:44:05 PM: The cause is the 2009 North American heat wave. Affecting mostly northwest of US.
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: Bla on July 30, 2009, 02:29:27 AM: Lol, when you first wrote 108 I thought 108 celcius. :P
But no, that would be something you could call a heat-wave. :P

Makes me wish only Kelvin existed...
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: SuperNova on July 30, 2009, 03:18:53 AM: yesterday (tonight)
it was raining so hard! and there was a thunderstorm, now everything is wet.
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: FGFG 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!
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: monmarfori on July 30, 2009, 04:47:15 AM: And my home is a heavy rain. but no thunderstorms.
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: HallowedError 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!"
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: Dan Dixon 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
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: atomic7732 on July 30, 2009, 12:16:06 PM: a billion dollar project drove into the ground, (LITTERALY), man that sucks to be behind that.
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: HallowedError 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.
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: FGFG 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.
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: atomic7732 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.
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: hbmp88 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.
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: なる523 on August 03, 2009, 12:22:54 AM: Could be.
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: hbmp88 on August 04, 2009, 12:24:29 AM: We will only get more and more computers etc.
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
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Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: Darvince on November 12, 2011, 12:56:46 AM: I've gotten 120 F at my house.
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: Bla on November 12, 2011, 04:20:58 AM: I've gotten 280K (7°C, 45°F) at my house.
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: vh 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. :P
But no, that would be something you could call a heat-wave. :P

Makes me wish only Kelvin existed...

i lold

*boils everyone*
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: deoxy99 on November 18, 2011, 06:47:40 PM: Rankine is the best! Who doesn't use Rankine? Just kidding. :P
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: vh on November 18, 2011, 07:18:20 PM: whats rankine..
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: vh on November 18, 2011, 07:18:51 PM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_scale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_scale)
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: Bla on November 22, 2011, 11:58:51 PM: Notch: Kelvin is awesome. Celsius and Fahrenheit are silly. (http://notch.tumblr.com/post/13170951247/kelvin-is-awesome-celsius-and-fahrenheit-are-silly) :)
Title: Re: It's hot where you live dan
Post by: Darvince on November 23, 2011, 12:43:03 AM: Rankine looks awesome. You can scare everyone else, just like you can with Kelvin, but moreso. :P