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I dont like this nonsense. They never tell you what constitutes a chirp, is it chirp chirp? Is it each chirp cause that means its 140°. Like have you ever tried to actually use this in RL? It simply doesn’t work.
Its for a very specific region and a very particular cricket. So its bullshit to pass it off like some natural law
You’re telling me you cant keep track of 30-45 simple chirps off a standard reference cricket in a 15 second period? Did you even go to school dude?
You’re telling me you cant keep track of 30-45 simple chirps off a standard reference cricket in a 15 second period?
That depends on whether it’s a frictionless sphere.
standard reference cricket
Fuck
Well there is no standard, most crickets chirp different and at different speeds its not working in most places, so it narrows the observation not study really down to next to useless and an occasional huh look correlation, youre just the guy that believed it without thought and hasn’t traveled at ALL, or applied themselves to thinking outside their dogmatic-ass-box apparently.
Maybe you should read a book friend.
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Counting the negative chirps is the worst. Like, why is there a -20ch marker if it’s never -20?
Everything except metric
There are lots of cursed options
Wtf is going on with Dalton
It’s a logarithmic scale based on Kelvin, but with constants shoved in there so 0 and 100 would agree with Celsius.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/459851/john-daltons-temperature-scale
I’m more confused about Galen. -4 to 4, 0 is “normal”? 50 c is “normal”? For what??
In Galen’s scale, the 0 point is 22 °C, an alright room temperature, but the others are described too vaguely for us to convert. It might also be nonlinear. See the explainxkcd.com article
Ohh ok thanks for that link! So it is non linear. But not even a consistent curve like log, just if less than zero some factor, if positive a different one. Yuck.
That’s the conjecture by Randall and Explain XKCD wiki editors. We can’t tell either way, he just wasn’t specific enough. All we know is that 0 on the scale is 22 °C and that it goes 4 steps up to “very hot” and 4 steps down to “very cold”.
His degrees X would be a good way to show changes over long periods of time by simply graphing the annual adjustments.
That’s a grasshopper.
Exactly. Quick image search will show you that cricket looks like this:
That’s a grasshopper.
No wonder the weather has been so weird all week! We had the wrong insect controlling it!
What use is the Fahrenheit measurement though? I thought only one or two countries use it.
Two countries and crickets apparently.
Just as God intended
Crickets in Antarctica be like: prihc
In Celsius it is chirps in 8 seconds + 5 (Dolbear’s Law), but if you listen a single “Chirpffffffsss”, than better stay at home
About half the time and an easier addition? Metric wins again.
As always, metrics with clear rules are always better as random metrics by bodyparts of an King in the past, apart avoiding errors. Ask the NASA, crashing 2 Mars probes using the Imperial system.
This is bullshit
Europeans in shambles
I was trying to think of any situation where this would be useful and the only thing I come up with is a way to keep kids occupied during a camping trip.
Am I the only one who thought that was a really shiny grasshopper?
