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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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
Literally "Brave New World".
Turn 451° and walk away.
The temperature at which books burn.
Paper ignites?
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
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.
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.
No it wasn’t. Bradbury asked and was told that was the autoingition temperature of book paper
233°C, if anyone wondered.
Doesn’t hit the same.
"Jokes" Who tf is joking about these references, we're frantically trying to pull the wool from your eyes but its seemingly impossible.
this ones my favorite

recut the butthole release!
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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