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[–] 27 points 4 months ago

We were assigned that book in my Canadian Prairie school during the 70's. It was called "Celsius 232.778". /s

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  • [–] 46 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    With the amount of times I see it where it has exactly 0 connections to the book, or is even used by a person arguing for it...

    We really should glue orwel to a stick, with the amount he is turning in his grave we would provide free electricity for everyone and still have some leftover

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago

    Fahrenheit 451 on the other hand is about people only watch TV nowadays, modern art is too abstract and minorities censor racist books. I'm surprised the Right doesn't use it but I guess they lack the reading skills to realize this is actually for them.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Literally "Brave New World".

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    The temperature at which books burn.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

    Yes. Only it should have been 451° Celsius. It was a mistake in the book name.

    Edit: I was mistaken, it is indeed the temperature of autoignition of the paper. Thank you for replies!

    I will go donate to Wikipedia now

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    This does not appear to be correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoignition_temperature gives the point for paper as "218–246 °C (424–475 °F)" which roughly matches the title as published.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    average of those two is 449.5, which is 1.5 below 451. like, oh no he missed one of the averages by 1.5 degrees because he asked someone because he himself did not know, and was still within any reasonable margin of error. burn him at the stake.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Yeah, it's the person I was replying to who was saying that Bradbury made a mistake by saying 451°F, and that it should have been 451°C. I cited the range to demonstrate that Bradbury's number was roughly correct and 451°C is very much not.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago
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    233°C, if anyone wondered.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    "Jokes" Who tf is joking about these references, we're frantically trying to pull the wool from your eyes but its seemingly impossible.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    this ones my favorite

    recut the butthole release!

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Is that what temperature a frog boils at?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    man really burning a dead comic aren't we..

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    Save your prayers of love and peace, or you'll wake the thought police.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Brave New World is so much better than 1984 it hurts

    Plus Orwell is so overrated it's just silly

    He was essentially a British intelligence asset writing thinly veiled anti communist propaganda.

    Orwells writing often is masquerading as "a commentary on authoritarianism in general" while in reality it was mostly just him hating on the Soviet Union.

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