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    Well, I don't know where to put this, so if it is the wrong place please move it.

    In 1741 a message appears that tells you about Celsius, and that the boiling point of water is zero, and the freezing point of water is one hundred. Not a history buff, so it may have been that way back in the 1700's, but not likely.

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    Its actually right..

    In 1742, Anders Celsius created a “backwards” version of the modern Celsius temperature scale, using zero to represent the boiling point of water and 100 to represent the melting point of ice. In his paper Observations of two persistent degrees on a thermometer, he recounted his experiments showing that ice’s melting point was effectively unaffected by pressure. He also determined with remarkable precision how water’s boiling point varied as a function of atmospheric pressure. He proposed that zero on his temperature scale (water’s boiling point) would be calibrated at the mean barometric pressure at mean sea level. This pressure is known as one standard atmosphere. In 1954, Resolution 4 of the 10th CGPM (the General Conference on Weights and Measures) established internationally that one standard atmosphere was a pressure equivalent to 1,013,250 dynes per cm2 (101.325 kPa).

    In 1744, coincident with the death of Anders Celsius, the famous botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707 – 1778) effectively reversed [3] Celsius’s scale upon receipt of his first thermometer featuring a scale where zero represented the melting point of ice and 100 represented water’s boiling point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Malkuth View Post
    Its actually right..

    In 1742, Anders Celsius created a “backwards” version of the modern Celsius temperature scale, using zero to represent the boiling point of water and 100 to represent the melting point of ice. In his paper Observations of two persistent degrees on a thermometer, he recounted his experiments showing that ice’s melting point was effectively unaffected by pressure. He also determined with remarkable precision how water’s boiling point varied as a function of atmospheric pressure. He proposed that zero on his temperature scale (water’s boiling point) would be calibrated at the mean barometric pressure at mean sea level. This pressure is known as one standard atmosphere. In 1954, Resolution 4 of the 10th CGPM (the General Conference on Weights and Measures) established internationally that one standard atmosphere was a pressure equivalent to 1,013,250 dynes per cm2 (101.325 kPa).

    In 1744, coincident with the death of Anders Celsius, the famous botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707 – 1778) effectively reversed [3] Celsius’s scale upon receipt of his first thermometer featuring a scale where zero represented the melting point of ice and 100 represented water’s boiling point.


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    Interesting.

    I had to comment here for some reason.

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    Well I wish the mentioned that. It makes me wonder what else they left out that I believed was fact.

    That is one question down, but I still have one more. How is this recruitment time possible?
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    Quote Originally Posted by thedudederek View Post
    Well I wish the mentioned that. It makes me wonder what else they left out that I believed was fact.

    That is one question down, but I still have one more. How is this recruitment time possible?
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    that makes no sense to me. do you lose one when you click that?

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    wasn't linnaeus a taxonomist... considering he founded the field...

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    No, what happened was my unit arrived the next turn, disregarding the negativity. Fortunately, it did not affect gameplay, but it keeps me up at night wondering if the game really has the power to bend space and time, bringing me back in time to tell myself to recruit the unit the turn before.

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    OP's question was answered, so thread closed.

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