Science Memes @mander.xyz merari42 @lemmy.world 7mo ago

Turn up the heat

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Immune system: I'm not here to keep you alive. I'm here to kill infections.
- and other things I deem dangerous even though they're not (allergies)
  
  Oh no, a peanut, better close your airways!!
  
  Or things that keep you alive (organ transplants)
  
  But you are a danger to yourself too.
- The greater good.
  
  Shut it!
- 10/10 matching gif response
Me: takes tylenol

Immune System:
- The memers are in rare form in this thread.
My immune system this weekend: also, we have to eject everything from your body any way possible.

Me: …

My immune system: hope you didn’t eat spicy.
"You might die but that's a risk I'm will to take."
- But you're ME!
  
  "Sorry, I'm not the brain. I don't do the thinking"
99% of the time, a fever kills the bacteria then lowers. You'll be fine, go take a nap.
Ok, but I can't survive above 38.C for very long as well

I had a fever over 38 °C for a couple weeks once. It was fine, just hot.
- You're still hot to me <3
  
  also still fine
The way the text and image in this specific meme are utilized in the same context as the original source of the meme is refreshing. I feel like I see this meme template used in weird ways that kinda-work-but-not-really more than other templates.

Anyway, good quality well made meme, got me laugh
- Agreed - I think part of the humour in a meme is fitting new situations into the format and when this is ignored (or done poorly) it misses the mark, kinda like as if you'd attempted a limerick but got the meter all wrong.
I generally agree with metric superiority, but 38° is such a random temperature. Whereas if you're over 100 you're too hot. Fahrenheit is the superior temperature unit. Fight me.
- What's the normal fahrenheit temperature?
  
  At least 12
- I agree when it comes to weather as well. 100 is too hot to be outside and 0 is way too cold to be outside. You don't have to have decimal places on thermostats
  
  0C for freezing is better than 32F though. Then you can count by 5s and 10s in celcius for weather till you hit 30. Above that is hot. Having a range of 30 points on the thermometer for weather is easier to gauge than something that goes across almost double the number of points.
  
  Fahrenheit measures how people feel, Celsius measures how water feels.
  Kelvin measures how atoms feel.
- Celsius isnt too bad imo, you know the reference points by the time you are in elem school.
  
  36-37 normal, 37-38 elevated, 38-39 fever, 39-40 high fever, 40-41 very high fever, 41-42 okay, stop, really, 42+ shouldve listened
TIL the reason for high temperature
- Most infections can survive the minor temperature rise. The more tangible reason is that the rise in temperature signals phagocytes that it's dinner time. Also it helps mobilizing white blood cells and increases the production of T-cells.
You can't survive an internal >42C.

You can a 38c.

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