h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I think article is great, clear, simple and informative. Just one quibble- the 1st standard temperature for the Farenheit scale isn't *very* clear. I did chemistry to A-level and so understand that what "equal amounts of salt and ice" means the melting/freezing point of water with salt added (-18 degrees celcius), but not everyone will and it would be a shame to leave such an informative article with just one bit that wasn't as clear.

I'll clear that up now

Ok- that section makes more sense now. With the addition of the extra section on other temperature scales the introducing paragraph in which you say ".. a brief introduction to TWO of them..." is no longer accurate.
Plus if you are gonna have a table at the bottom I think it should, really, be complete.

Whoops... missed this one...

I've changed the intro to "some of today's most commonly used scales"...

The table, to be honest I'd prefer to leave the extra boxes blank rather than fill them up with what, in effect, would be meaningless numbers... as it is you can see the two main temperature scales fairly clearly with the two most important temperatures for the other 'scientific' scales... if I was to fill in the rest of the boxes you'd end up with just a mass of numbers.


Finally - don't get this the wrong way - I'm not having a go at you, but it's probably easier in general if, when you're commenting on a piece in Peer Review you add your comments to the conversation in peer review itself (just click on the date in the "last posted" or "date entered" column to get to the conversation itself... The trouble with posting directly to the entry itself is that when someone creates an entry they are not automatically subscribed to conversations that start under the entry... so if they've forgotten to subscribe themselves manually they might not see your postings