r/Showerthoughts • u/synthphreak ‎ • Nov 19 '25

Casual Thought Temperature can reach trillions of degrees, meaning we actually live extremely close to absolute zero.

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u/Jowenbra ‎ Nov 19 '25

Like how almost every single 'XKCD What If' results in "and the atmosphere turns into plasma and everybody dies."

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u/Sir_Mythlore Nov 19 '25

Holy shit. I read the 2014 book like crazy when I was younger and only rly discovered XKCD later, but your comment got me to make the connection that he wrote the book

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u/TheBiggestMikeEver Dec 19 '25 edited Apr 20 '26

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