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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|Created by an EXPLODING GENOME OF FLU VIRUSES - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
− | + | The comic purports to be a chart on {{w|fever}} temperatures. It starts out reasonably and then progresses to very high, impossible to have — at least for meaningful periods of time — temperatures, a theme present in many xkcd comics. | |
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{| class="wikitable" style="margin:auto" | {| class="wikitable" style="margin:auto" | ||
|+ Treating a Fever | |+ Treating a Fever | ||
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− | ! Fever Temperature | + | ! Fever Temperature (Celsius) !! Equivalent Fahrenheit temperature !! Treatment !! Additional notes |
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− | | 38-40 | + | | 38-40 || 100-104 || Fluids, rest, normal doctor stuff || Normal fever temperatures. |
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− | | 40-45 | + | | 40-45 || 104-113 || Hospital, advanced doctor stuff || Point at which humans might start experiencing brain damage from fever. |
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− | | 45-100 | + | | 45-100 || 113-212 || Exit that steam cloud immediately || Only a few people could survive such external temperatures, for extended periods, without severe discomfort or even injury. And it would be an increasingly improbable core body temperature to register for purely biological reasons. |
− | + | After this point, there is basically no further possibility of the temperature range being ''in vivo'', rather than in the increasingly hostile environments (which are also not healthy to experience). | |
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− | | 100-400 | + | | 100-400 || 212-752 || Stop, drop, and roll || Someone is probably on fire. Stop, drop, and roll is the recommended method for putting out flames on your clothing. |
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− | | 400-500 | + | | 400-500 || 752-932 || Return to Earth from Venus ASAP || 464°C (867°F) is {{w|Venus}}ian atmosphere temperature. |
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− | | 500-1,500 | + | | 500-1,500 || 932-2,732 || Please climb out of that volcano || {{w|Magma}} is about 700°C (1,292°F). Therefore, if someone is at that temperature, they are probably in lava/magma. |
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− | | 1,500-5,000 | + | | 1,500-5,000 || 2,732-9,032 || Turn your tunneling machine around and come back up to the surface || 4,400-6,000°C (7,952-10,832°F) is the estimate internal temperature of the {{w|Earth}}. |
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− | | 5,000-6,000 | + | | 5,000-6,000 || 9,032-10,832 || No, the surface of the '''''Earth''''', not the Sun || 5,500°C (9,932°F) is the approximate temperature of the surface of the {{w|Sun}}. The Sun's {{w|photosphere}} has a temperature between 4,400 and 6,600 K (4,130 and 6,330 °C) (with an effective temperature of 5,772 K (5,499 °C)). |
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− | | 6,000-50,000 | + | | 6,000-50,000 || 10,832-90,032 || Wait, that's not the Sun. What star are you visiting? Come back right now. || Surface temperatures of {{w|main sequence}} stars larger than the Sun can go up to 50,000 (Kelvin and degrees Celsius are indistinguishable at this point). Though some stars can be even hotter. |
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− | | 50,000-20,000,000 | + | | 50,000-20,000,000 || 90,032-90,032 || At least stay on the '''''surface''''' of the star instead of diving down to the core || Core temperatures of main-sequence stars like the Sun are usually around ten million kelvins, while larger and hotter stars can reach up to a hundred million. |
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− | | 20,000,000-10,000,000,000 | + | | 20,000,000-10,000,000,000 || 90,032-18,000,000,032 || You know, you could've picked a normal star instead of one that's exploding || {{w|Supernova}}e can reach temperatures of billions of degrees for brief periods, with type II supernovae even reaching hundreds of billions of degrees. |
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− | | 10,000,000,000 or higher | + | | 10,000,000,000 or higher || 18,000,000,032 or higher || I hope you're enjoying your visit to the Big Bang but you should really come back home immediately || 10<sup>32</sup>°C (or K) is the estimated temperature of the {{w|Big Bang}} |
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+ | The title text suggests that those with temperatures under 98.6 Kelvin (-173.55 Celsius or -280.39 Fahrenheit) are in a {{w|molecular cloud}} and that they should get near a star to warm them up. 98.6 ''Fahrenheit'' (=37°C) is the average human resting body temperature. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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− | : | + | [There is a table of temperatures and corresponding "treatments" for fevers of those temperatures. The caption above the table reads:] |
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− | + | {| class="wikitable" | |
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− | + | |+ Treating a Fever | |
− | + | ! Fever !! Treatment | |
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− | + | | 38°C-40°C (100°F-104°F) || Fluids, rest, normal doctor stuff | |
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− | + | | 40°C-45°C || Hospital, advanced doctor stuff | |
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− | + | | 45°C-100°C || Exit that steam cloud immediately | |
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− | + | | 100°C-400°C || Stop, drop, and roll | |
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− | + | | 400°C-500°C || Return to Earth from Venus ASAP | |
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− | + | | 500°C-1,500°C || Please climb out of that volcano | |
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− | + | | 1,500°C-5,000°C || Turn your tunneling machine around and come back up to the surface | |
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− | + | | 5,000°C-6,000°C || No, the surface of the '''''Earth''''', not the Sun | |
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− | + | | 6,000°C-50,000°C || Wait, that's not the Sun. What star are you visiting? Come back right now. | |
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− | + | | 50,000°C-20,000,000°C || At least stay on the '''''surface''''' of the star instead of diving down to the core | |
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− | + | | 20,000,000°C-10,000,000,000°C || You know, you could've picked a normal star instead of one that's exploding | |
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− | + | | 10,000,000,000°C or higher || I hope you're enjoying your visit to the Big Bang but you should really come back home immediately | |
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