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.
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.
it's very reasonable to call any temperature that is too high to sustain human life hot.
Dare I say, unbearably so.
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
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You certainly don't need 5700K to do that. Garden variety Summer is enough, every year.
Neil, if you're gonna speak relatively but are exclusively comparing stars, you're going to have to be more specific.
Relatively speaking, stars are hot compared to the rest of the universe.
The surface of stars are the coolest parts anyway, even the atmosphere is way hotter.
And no mention of neutron stars or feeding black holes? If you're going to one up someone, at least do it right...
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.
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
Did you know that the only part of yourself you can kiss in the mirror is your lips?
Don't ask me how I know.
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
Burning hotter than the sun doesn't have to mean "than the sun burns". Just that the fire is hotter than the sun.
Ok Neil, tell me a single element that doesnt turn to gas at that temperature.
Then tell me about the temperature at the inside of the sun, not the surface.
The only thing tyson has ever really proven himself is that even when you are right, you are still a asshole.
Also, while the sun has a surface temperature of a few thousand degrees, its corona ranges into the millions of degrees and we don't yet know why.