Cheap thermometer calibration technique?

both in my mouth and under my arm, and it's never more than about 30C.

And if next time I forgot I'd done that, and stuck it in my mouth?

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Have you ever heard the term, "wash"? And a healthy ass shouldn't have anything harmful in it - it's inside your own body, right?

I think you could survive your own fecal remnant attack. Sheesh. Wash it off already!

But some parts of the body aren't supposed to come into contact with other parts.

Try feeding the exhaust pipe into the air intake in your car and see if you can drive it a fair distance.

Go on, poke fun at me, what would actually happen?

drive it a fair distance.

Bannana in the tailpipe fails as well...

Bwuahahahaha!

If it is a resistor bolometer, one can burn it up by pointing it at the sun.

Some have integrated FETs, and it would blow that... too.

Probably. I just tried a couple of inexpensive IR thermometers, and both read between 36 and 37 degrees C while looking into my mouth. Sounds about right (though I'm not about to check it using a bare thermocouple).

Dave

Was it inaccurate only while cooling down, or did it remain inaccurate once fully cooled to outside temperature? The sensor's own temperature matters, and there should be a thermistor or something to measure the sensor temperature and compensate for it, but this can be screwed up if temperature is changing rapidly.

Dave

can drive it a fair distance.

Not as much backpressure as a spud.

Never had the use of an IR one.

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... Well, it is true that you can't touch your ear with your elbow; are you talking about the "naughty bits"? That's just the body shame that got programmed into you by strict religious parents.

This makes no sense whatsoever.

Cheers! Rich

can drive it a fair distance.

That should have said "Try to feed the exhaust pipe into the passenger compartment, and see if you can drive it a fair distance."

Hehehehehhee! Reminds me of Slaughterhouse Five...

My parents aren't religious, luckily. Or I'd have been thrown out of home for making fun probably.

Are you seriously suggesting that excrement is safe to eat?

Those two lines together made me laugh. It reminded me of a drunk person.

My point was the exhaust is not compatible with the air intake. It would choke. Same as if you inhaled farts.

can drive it a fair distance.

Am I allowed to use scuba gear?

WHY?!?

You mean the shit magically doesn't stick to the sides?

I'd want to bloody sterilise it!

See - made him pass out!

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I don't know about rabbits (maybe something to do with digesting cellulose in grass, which is notoriously difficult to do). Cows do something similar, but it's done internally (i.e. chewing the cud).

Many animals have to eat their parents' excrement -- that's how they get the right bacteria into their gut to breakdown the type of food found in that locality. Elephants are probably the best known example of this, and adults will also repeat this if they are moved to a different location where the diet changes.