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xkcd #2877: Fever (imgs.xkcd.com)

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.

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[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 44 points 10 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.

[-] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

Wow that was useless. Thanks!

[-] TheHotze@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago
[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

What about Rankine and Celsius?

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Where does Rankine line up with Celsius?

[-] psud@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] DreamerofDays@kbin.social 25 points 10 months ago

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

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago

We're... Not sure space was a thing back then.

[-] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago

I mean… We’re not even sure space is a thing NOW

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Space was definitely a thing, it was just closer together than it is now.

[-] TheActualDevil@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

So there was no place uncorrupted by capitalism.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

easy there Tim Curry

[-] psud@lemmy.world 4 points 10 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

[-] RandomStickman@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago

He has a way of making tables funny

[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago
[-] callyral@pawb.social 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

right when i have a fever of 5000°C an xkcd about fevers is made

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 0 points 10 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".

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