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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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[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

Wow that was useless. Thanks!

[–] TheHotze@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

That's nice, but you still need to get out of the volcano.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

What about Rankine and Celsius?

[–] DreamerofDays@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Technically, if you’re visiting the Big Bang, aren’t you home already in space?

[–] psud@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

If you're visiting the big bang, you might be part of the excess of normal matter (that survived annihilation with the anti-matter

[–] RandomStickman@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

He has a way of making tables funny

[–] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago
[–] callyral@pawb.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

right when i have a fever of 5000°C an xkcd about fevers is made

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Dude, get back to the surface. Of Earth, to be precise.

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

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".