• herescunty@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Three scientists arguing over the definition of zero

    Celsius says “zero is the freezing point of water”

    Fahrenheit says “no, zero is the freezing point of ammonium chloride”

    Kelvin says “hold my beer”

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    11 months ago

    100C° is not death, it is Finnish sauna temp. Really, Sauna competitions start with 110C°. Famously in 2010 one Russian competitor died, and the Finn who won had to be sent to ER.

    Edit: didn’t know that they actually haven’t held any competitions after that.

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      11 months ago

      I think it means dead as in trying to live in a 100° environment. Kind of like the survival rule of 3s, where you can survive 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, 3 hours in an extreme environment, and 3 minutes without air.

      I guess it could say “unsustainable” instead of dead, but that’s less snappy.

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      11 months ago

      Sauna competitions

      I appreciate how you just dropped this casually like of course everyone knows about Sauna competitions.