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.
44 0 ReplyWow that was useless. Thanks!
32 0 ReplyThat's nice, but you still need to get out of the volcano.
15 0 ReplyWhat about rankine?
5 0 ReplyThat 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?
25 0 ReplyWe're... Not sure space was a thing back then.
19 0 ReplyI mean… We’re not even sure space is a thing NOW
8 0 ReplySo there was no place uncorrupted by capitalism.
3 0 ReplySpace was definitely a thing, it was just closer together than it is now.
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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
12 0 Replyright when i have a fever of 5000°C an xkcd about fevers is made
7 0 ReplyDude, 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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