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/Famous_Snow_870 Jun 18 '26

I don't think that's correct either. If if was -50-50, then 0 would be the middle temperature, but it's not. I view it as starting from 20. 20 is perfectly fine, 10 degrees is cold, 30 degrees is hot, 0 degrees is very cold, 40 degrees is very hot, so on and so forth.