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LeratoAustini ◴[] No.44358284[source]
I often think about how cold our lifeforms on earth are, relative to temperatures of things in the universe. 0 Kelvin is theoretical lowest possible temp, quasars are apparently > 10 trillion Kelvin (10,000,000,000,000K), yet all life we know of is between what, 250K and 400K?
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hanche ◴[] No.44359908[source]
If you’ll excuse a bit of trivia: SI units named after people are not capitalized. So we have newton, joule, weber, kelvin, named after Newton, Joule, Weber, and Kelvin. (But their abbreviations are capitalized: N, J, Wb, K.)
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1. hungmung ◴[] No.44367166[source]
"You aren't really famous in math or science until people stop capitalizing your name"

Joke I heard in the math department.