Direct use of all metals for tools etc

[Srgnoodles 1,030]

GAWD DAMN IT, MAH SODAH COMES IN "LEETTER" BOTTLES!

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and sweet lady irony strikes again...

[Draco18s 46]

and sweet lady irony strikes again...

I'd actually been looking for an opening to mention two liter bottles.

/me forges that irony into an anvil of PUNishment, to use against the next punster.

[Carthang 11]

Screwed-up educational system? or maybe it got something right, and realized that it's going to be a really long time before US switches to metric, so might as well let you use what you're going to use in the real world?

That said, anyone have a good system for comparing Celsius to Farenheit? Specifically, these temperatures:

60F, 70F, 80F, 90F.

Well, Celsius to Fahrenheit is "(Degrees in Celsius x 1.8) + 32"

Conversely, Fahrenheit to Celsius should obviously be "(Degrees in Fahrenheit - 32) / 1,8"

So those would be roughly: 15.6, 21.1, 26.7, 32.2 (so 15,20,25,30 is indeed close enough, as mentioned above. xD)

I've yet to understand how it is considered logical to base a temperature scale on freezing point for brine at 0F, freezing point of water at 32F and the rough temperature of a human body at 96F(on the first scale, then changed to 90, and now approximately 98). I get that the relation was originally 0:1:3, but I still don't see why. =P

Again, logic would dictate that the Celsius scale is more consistent(and once learned, easier to use. Though this could be because I'm used to it. =P). Though I guess that is why Kelvin is used for scientific purposes most of the time.

[Rgamer 44]

Well, Celsius to Fahrenheit is "(Degrees in Celsius x 1.8) + 32"

Conversely, Fahrenheit to Celsius should obviously be "(Degrees in Fahrenheit - 32) / 1,8"

So those would be roughly: 15.6, 21.1, 26.7, 32.2 (so 15,20,25,30 is indeed close enough, as mentioned above. xD)

I've yet to understand how it is considered logical to base a temperature scale on freezing point for brine at 0F, freezing point of water at 32F and the rough temperature of a human body at 96F(on the first scale, then changed to 90, and now approximately 98). I get that the relation was originally 0:1:3, but I still don't see why. =P

Again, logic would dictate that the Celsius scale is more consistent(and once learned, easier to use. Though this could be because I'm used to it. =P). Though I guess that is why Kelvin is used for scientific purposes most of the time.

Actually, it's based on the temperature of the human body at 100F, but when Farenheit measured his wife's temperature, she had a fever.

you do know that the rest of "the real world" uses the metric system right?

I think they assume most of us aren't going to leave the US or interact with the rest of the world. Besides, whether they succeed in educating us for the real world or not, they still get their paychecks, their munificent benefits, and when they retire, their pensions and the same benefits they enjoyed while working.

[Scooterdanny 285]

Well, what i learned, and found again on wikipedia, is this - According to an article Fahrenheit wrote in 1724, he based his scale on three reference points of temperature.^[4] In his initial scale (which is not the final Fahrenheit scale), the zero point is determined by placing the thermometer in brine: he used a mixture of ice, water, and ammonium chloride, a salt, at a 1:1:1 ratio. This is a frigorific mixture which stabilizes its temperature automatically: that stable temperature was defined as 0 °F (−17.78 °C). The second point, at 32 degrees, was a mixture of ice and water without the ammonium chloride at a 1:1 ratio. The third point, 96 degrees, was approximately the human body temperature, then called "blood-heat"

[4114Fishy 5]

To get back on topic...

I think gold should be able to maybe be smashed with a hammer or taken apart somehow to be made for decorations on armour (aesthetic purposes only, of course), and since it wouldn't take too much of the gold ingot, maybe 1 gold ingot could be made into maybe 2-4 gilt? It wouldn't add any armour value, but it would add a nice aesthetic effect to your armour, to show off how rich you are. And on the topic of people talking about different armies and such, maybe you could make most ingots into different kinds of gilt? So there could be like Tin Gilt, Gold Gilt, etc. and that way it would be a lot easier to distinguish different factions.