I'm all for pedantry, but any human metaphor is clearly referring to a human perspective, and it's very reasonable to call any temperature that is too high to sustain human life hot.
82500 Kelvin is a hot oven that severely burns you if you touch the tray directly. 1000 K is a nice campfire. 1500 K is the upper end of Magma. 2500 K is beyond normal blast furnace temperatures.
5000 Kelvin is ridiculously hot.
23it's very reasonable to call any temperature that is too high to sustain human life hot.
Dare I say, unbearably so.
830°C in the summer is hot. I want my winter NOW. GET ME OUT
7It's 30° in winter here.
4Comments like this make .me angry even though I know you can't actually make it happen
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The silly thing is comparing the 'temperature' of one's love to it. I mean I get poetic overstatement and I get his idea is to melt the heart of his woman of desire, however this is maybe a bit too literal.
He should read up on Baudelaire
/S
4You certainly don't need 5700K to do that. Garden variety Summer is enough, every year.
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Neil, if you're gonna speak relatively but are exclusively comparing stars, you're going to have to be more specific.
Relatively speaking, stars are hot compared to the rest of the universe.
76The surface of stars are the coolest parts anyway, even the atmosphere is way hotter.
And no mention of neutron stars or feeding black holes? If you're going to one up someone, at least do it right...
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Neill DeBush Tyson.
32Tyson IMO went service industry worker crazy without the usual pressure of getting fired for talking back or snarking at the customers.
Because being tapped to be the new Science Communicator Supreme sounds like a huge honor until you realize you're now cursed to constantly be dealing with having to rehash the same bullshit you've long since lost interest in because of repetition over and over again on morning news shows, when you're not instead dealing with Stephen Colbert trying to Checkmate Atheists you over your own field of study.
27He's not even correct all the time. I saw him speak about osmosis once and he was saying solutes move across the cell membrane via osmosis. By definition osmosis is the movement of water. It really struck me at the time because was so confident sounding and I have never trusted him since
3I don't know what colbert did but my trust in him is automatically higher than in Tyson.
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Methinks Niel enjoys the smell of his own farts a little too much
23Did you know that the only part of yourself you can kiss in the mirror is your lips?
Don't ask me how I know.
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the surface is the coolest part. maybe he was talking about the core, which for Sol is 150 million Kelvin. he also didn't say which sun he was referring to
21Yes, butbhe is right that sun doesn't burn very hot as it does not burn at all.
7Burning hotter than the sun doesn't have to mean "than the sun burns". Just that the fire is hotter than the sun.
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Ok Neil, tell me a single element that doesnt turn to gas at that temperature.
Then tell me about the temperature at the inside of the sun, not the surface.
13Hydrogen is not a gas at that temperature. It's a plasma.
/s
11technically correct is the best kind of correct!
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The only thing tyson has ever really proven himself is that even when you are right, you are still a asshole.
12Then he started rambling about kissing mirrors for a few hours
11Also, while the sun has a surface temperature of a few thousand degrees, its corona ranges into the millions of degrees and we don't yet know why.
11Easy, it's because it is much hotter. Silly sceince people
17Because someone left the oven on. :: glares ::
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Neil degrasse replyguy
8Stars don't burn anything anyway.
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I'm pretty sure the sun isn't massive enough to go supernova.
2He's talking about the other star still
7Ah, makes sense.
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