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- Please check out my paper, we just found a new superconductor, it has a critical temperature of 127 degrees. - Look, I'm a bit busy right now - Celsius
by inasio 3y ago
- Please check out my paper, we just found a new superconductor, it has a critical temperature of 127 degrees.
- Look, I'm a bit busy right now
- Celsius
- refulgentis 3y agoI don't understand, I assume it's a dialogue? What is the meaning of the punchline being Celsius? Does the first sentence intend to include "room-temperature"?
- malnourish 3y agoThe punchline is the temperature was originally presumed to be Kelvin.
- syncsynchalt 3y agoThough a _real_ stickler of a scientist knows that K is not given in degrees and would have lightly chastised if making that assumption. I still enjoyed the joke though.
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- vermarish 3y agoThe joke is, the second person heard 127 degrees, assumed that was Kelvin, and dismissed it as unimpressive. Then they realized it was 127 degrees Celsius, which is MUCH more impressive.
- mchusma 3y agoI re-read 127 celsius multiple times to try and make sure I understood that (260 Fahrenheit). This is a nice extra bonus, not only does this work at "room temperature", it works in death valley. At 127 celsius, you have a lot of margin even over the hottest temperatures on earth (which appear to be mostly recognized as 56.7 °C) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_temperature_recorded_on_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_temperature_recorded_o....