xkcd #2877: Fever
xkcd #2877: Fever
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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.
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.
44ReplyWow that was useless. Thanks!
32ReplyThat's nice, but you still need to get out of the volcano.
16ReplyWhat about rankine?
5ReplyThat 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.
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Technically, if you’re visiting the Big Bang, aren’t you home already in space?
25ReplyWe're... Not sure space was a thing back then.
20ReplyI mean… We’re not even sure space is a thing NOW
8ReplySpace was definitely a thing, it was just closer together than it is now.
2ReplySo there was no place uncorrupted by capitalism.
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If you're visiting the big bang, you might be part of the excess of normal matter (that survived annihilation with the anti-matter
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He has a way of making tables funny
13Reply 9Replyright when i have a fever of 5000°C an xkcd about fevers is made
7ReplyDude, get back to the surface. Of Earth, to be precise.
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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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