https://xkcd.com/2877

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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.

  • chaogomu@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    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.

      • psud@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Never. Rankine increases faster than Celcius, so the two will never cross

        • Rankine starts at zero
        • Celsius starts at -273.15°
        • Rankine at room temperature 527.67
        • Celcius at room temperature 20

        Those lines do not cross

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          11 months ago

          Huh, so the lines do cross, just at a pysically impossible temperature of -614.5875. Neat!