Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Portraits of amateur/professional dipterologists

Posted by Roger Thomason on 13-08-2009 22:58
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jorgemotalmeida wrote:
(Roger, don't be angry... but it is incorrect to say degree centigrade. This is used for angle units (don't worry, you are not alone - there are many people that use this when they express temperatures but it is not correct.) For temperature units, we have ºC - Celsius degrees, ºF - Fahrenheit degrees, for absolute temperature the SI unit is K - kelvin... and there are much more. ;) I like to use the correct nomenclature and when I see anyone using the wrong ones I try politely to fix it. Yes, I'm a little pedantic. :D lol)
Hi Jorge
Just got back from Aberdeen...been over-eating and having far too much wine and I'm a bit knackered....couldn't be arsed to dig out the symbol for degrees, and still can't. I'm as pedantic as you are, but for this one..life is too short.


Concerning the temperatures... you must know that, for example, one type of the plastic - the famous PVC - the crap name "Polyvinylchloride" has a melting point around 80 ºC... ;) The plastic man has a very special type of plastic that even he can approach the cromosphere of the SUN without melting. :D LOL

Be too cold for you up here then.
ah... and my keyboard is fine. :D

Give us a tune then

Well... I wait for more portrait photos!!! :D


Not today from me ...I look even more like Sh*t today...and feel worse :|

Edited by Roger Thomason on 13-08-2009 23:07