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  • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzBanana
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    10 days ago

    I could be just parroting a myth, but aren’t they all genetic clones? So anything that evolves to attack one has evolved to attack all, potentially quickly wiping out just about all of them. And I think this happened with the banana we used before this one so now they’re rare and super expensive.

    Through standardizing the banana, we’ve removed biodiversity.


  • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzChirp in Fahrenheit
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    2 months ago

    Fahrenheit used the temperature of the human body to create his system, which makes a lot more sense than other systems.

    What is 0°F in terms of the human body? I’m guessing that 100°F is supposed to be a normal human body temperature, but in reality that will vary from person to person and everybody I’ve met is usually 97-99 unless they have a fever.
    In Celsius/Centigrade, 0° is the freezing point of water at 1 atmosphere of pressure, and 100° is the boiling point.
    In Kelvin, 0 is absolute zero, and it scales with Celsius/Centigrade because anchoring it to water just makes sense.

    Fahrenheit is fucking silly and people only defend it because it’s what they were familiar with growing up, so they teach the next generation the same thing, thus perpetuating the cycle of tradition for the sake of tradition.