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.

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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.
- Wow that was useless. Thanks!
- That's nice, but you still need to get out of the volcano.
- What about rankine?
  
  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.
  
  https://youtu.be/5nnVxTj_Ujw
Technically, if you’re visiting the Big Bang, aren’t you home already in space?
- We're... Not sure space was a thing back then.
  
  I mean… We’re not even sure space is a thing NOW
  
  So there was no place uncorrupted by capitalism.
  
  Space was definitely a thing, it was just closer together than it is now.
- If you're visiting the big bang, you might be part of the excess of normal matter (that survived annihilation with the anti-matter
He has a way of making tables funny
https://explainxkcd.com/2877
right when i have a fever of 5000°C an xkcd about fevers is made
- Dude, get back to the surface. Of Earth, to be precise.
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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