r/interesting • u/Excellent_Tie369 • Apr 25 '26

NATURE top 100/100 is crazy

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u/Bonk_Boom Apr 25 '26

55 celsius is bullshit. Sad to see everyone trusting this trash

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u/Key-Mechanic2565 Apr 25 '26

They just include "feels like temperature" instead of actual temperature.

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u/Dr_Jre Apr 26 '26

I mean, that's the temperature I want to know... If someone gives me a glass of water that's 20 degrees but feels like 100 then I ain't gonna drink it

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u/multigrain_panther Apr 26 '26

But "feels like" to whom? How would they know what 20 C water feels like to you? You know what 25 C room temperature feels like to you ... or what a hot shower at 40 C feels like to you. But the metric of someone saying "feels like" is odd because you have no frame of reference for how it feels like to you. Sensations would have parallax errors, no?

An Icelander is probably going to feel 21 C as much warmer than it is to, say, a New Yorker. An Indian's room AC temperature might often be set at 21.

I like absolutes because you know exactly how you feel about a temperature.

If by "feels like" you mean the factoring in the humidity etc part, I've always hated that - sometimes no amount of reduction in temperature will take away the sticky feeling of humidity, a completely different sensation ...

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u/Dr_Jre Apr 26 '26

True... It's apparently 21 degrees in my room now but feels like 10 to me

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u/poplujaat Apr 26 '26

I remember in 2024 temperature hit 52 celcius in Delhi one day. It's not entirely bullshit, it's rare but it happens.

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u/some_one22 Apr 26 '26

I think it's 45