https://xkcd.com/2877

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Hypothermia of below 98.6 K should be treated by leaving the giant molecular cloud and moving to the vicinity of a star.

  • chaogomu
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    445 months ago

    Ah, another excuse to whip out my one bit of interesting temperature based trivia.

    -40 is the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit, and 575 is the same in Fahrenheit and Kelvin.

    • @TheHotze
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      165 months ago

      That’s nice, but you still need to get out of the volcano.

      • chaogomu
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        5 months ago

        That one is easy. Rankine and Kelvin line up at 0 and technically a bit at 1 as well. sort of.

        More like 0.5555 Kelvin and 1 Rankine, but I’m allowed to round up a bit in this.

          • @psud
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            5 months ago

            Never. Rankine increases faster than Celcius, so the two will never cross

            • Rankine starts at zero
            • Celsius starts at -273.15°
            • Rankine at room temperature 527.67
            • Celcius at room temperature 20

            Those lines do not cross

            • @[email protected]
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              55 months ago

              Huh, so the lines do cross, just at a pysically impossible temperature of -614.5875. Neat!

  • DreamerofDays
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    255 months ago

    Technically, if you’re visiting the Big Bang, aren’t you home already in space?

        • @TheActualDevil
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          25 months ago

          It was a thing, in a localized area of an infinitely small point, that also was everywhere that existed… I think. I’m not a big bang-ologist, I’m more of a small bang-ologist so my understanding may be flawed.

    • @psud
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      45 months ago

      If you’re visiting the big bang, you might be part of the excess of normal matter (that survived annihilation with the anti-matter

    • Iron Lynx
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      55 months ago

      Dude, get back to the surface. Of Earth, to be precise.

  • Spzi
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    05 months ago

    That might be the unfunniest xkcd I’ve seen so far. It pretty much reads like a table “things which are so and so hot”.