Today is -999999F and it's real like super cold and the world is super super frezeing
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Hank LedgerA viewer on bbn.live writes that today is minus nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine degrees Fahrenheit, and the world is super freezing.
Hank LedgerOur data has no report matching that, and the reason is simple: nothing in the universe can get that cold.
Hank LedgerAbsolute zero is minus four hundred fifty-nine point sixty-seven degrees Fahrenheit, and it is the floor. Nothing goes below it, not even Monday mornings.
Hank LedgerSo your number is roughly two thousand times colder than the coldest thing physics allows. Your thermometer is not cold. It is lying.
Hank LedgerOuter space itself sits around minus four hundred fifty-five. Your backyard would need to be colder than the void, and your neighbor would have noticed.
Hank LedgerLikelier answers: a typo, a broken app, or a thermometer that has given up. I have worked with colleagues like that.
Hank LedgerIf it truly feels freezing, check your local forecast, wear a real coat, and keep the pipes dripping.
Hank LedgerThe cold is real; the number is not.
Hank LedgerWhatever the thermometer says, it is warmer than the legal limit of the universe. Ask us anything at bbn.live.