• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    I’m all for pedantry, but any human metaphor is clearly referring to a human perspective, and it’s very reasonable to call any temperature that is too high to sustain human life hot.

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      21 days ago

      500 Kelvin is a hot oven that severely burns you if you touch the tray directly. 1000 K is a nice campfire. 1500 K is the upper end of Magma. 2500 K is beyond normal blast furnace temperatures.

      5000 Kelvin is ridiculously hot.

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      21 days ago

      The silly thing is comparing the ‘temperature’ of one’s love to it. I mean I get poetic overstatement and I get his idea is to melt the heart of his woman of desire, however this is maybe a bit too literal.

      He should read up on Baudelaire

      /S

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      21 days ago

      You certainly don’t need 5700K to do that. Garden variety Summer is enough, every year.

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    21 days ago

    Tyson IMO went service industry worker crazy without the usual pressure of getting fired for talking back or snarking at the customers.

    Because being tapped to be the new Science Communicator Supreme sounds like a huge honor until you realize you’re now cursed to constantly be dealing with having to rehash the same bullshit you’ve long since lost interest in because of repetition over and over again on morning news shows, when you’re not instead dealing with Stephen Colbert trying to Checkmate Atheists you over your own field of study.

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      20 days ago

      He’s not even correct all the time. I saw him speak about osmosis once and he was saying solutes move across the cell membrane via osmosis. By definition osmosis is the movement of water. It really struck me at the time because was so confident sounding and I have never trusted him since

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      20 days ago

      I don’t know what colbert did but my trust in him is automatically higher than in Tyson.

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    21 days ago

    The only thing tyson has ever really proven himself is that even when you are right, you are still a asshole.

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    21 days ago

    the surface is the coolest part. maybe he was talking about the core, which for Sol is 150 million Kelvin. he also didn’t say which sun he was referring to