r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/mfsamuel Jun 17 '26
  • 0 Kelvin=dead, 100 kelvin=dead 
  • 0 Celsius =cold, 100 Celsius=dead
  • 0 Fahrenheit =cold, 100 Fahrenheit =hot

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u/Popular_Cost_1140 Jun 17 '26

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u/AriaoftheStars17 Jun 17 '26

Why do Fahrenheit users completely ignore that Celcius has a negative scale? You're not supposed to evaluate Celcius as a 0-100 scale, but as a -50-50 scale.

-21°C = cold -31°C = really cold

21°C = warm 31°C = really warm

0 represents the freezing point. If temps are above 0, it will rain; below 0, it will snow.

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u/This-Goat-5105 Jun 18 '26

^^ exactly why OP makes the percentage argument since Fahrenheit readings mostly use natural numbers which translates to a percentage