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
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    446 months ago

    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.

  • DreamerofDays
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    256 months ago

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

    • @fsxylo
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      206 months ago

      We’re… Not sure space was a thing back then.

      • @threelonmusketeers
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        26 months ago

        Space was definitely a thing, it was just closer together than it is now.

        • @[email protected]
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          26 months ago

          It was a thing, in a localized area of an infinitely small point, that also was everywhere that existed… I think. I’m not a big bang-ologist, I’m more of a small bang-ologist so my understanding may be flawed.

    • @[email protected]
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      46 months 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

    • Iron Lynx
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      56 months ago

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

  • Spzi
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    06 months 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”.