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pantsonfireliarliar
11/23/09

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Which is why we're warming up the planet, amirite?
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truthisapplesucks
11/23/09

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-55 degrees Kelvin? I'm assuming that only an American would be dumb enough to not include scale so yeah.. must be Fahrenheit. So that's about -50 Celsius. Umm never been to anywhere that cold. I do know my old Nokia worked just fine in about -35 Celsius.
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badhatharry
11/23/09

Yes, it's fahrenheit. The article is written in the U.S. Stop being a douche.
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jinushaun
11/23/09

@truthisapplesucks: Seriously. Where are the units? If you're talking about length, you're not gonna just give a number. Is it feet or inches? The same is true for temperature. It doesn't matter where you are from or what your native unit of measurement is--always include them.
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Monty
11/23/09

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My mother is the superintendent of the Delta school district in Alaska where they have a policy that they call off classes at negative fifty degrees. There is a lot of arguing about how they measure that (normal thermometers cannot accurately register temperatures below negative thirty), where they measure that, and whether that is safe. They now have an amazingly geeky gadget for measuring temperature which is the same type used in Antarctica.

Regardless, my point of this story is that their policy apparently does not take into account the ability of the students to use their cell phone while waiting for the bus at any temperature below negative forty. It may be time for her to update their school policy. Would hate for the kiddies to be without their cell phones for the day.
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CaseyG
11/23/09

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"...an old Motorola Krzr belonging to a PM staffer..."

"And although we expected it to shatter, the fall barely caused any damage. In fact, it wasn’t until we dunked the Krzr in the liquid nitrogen four times, and then forcibly threw it to the ground, that it finally called it quits."

Okay, mental note: If I ever take a job at Popular Mechanics, I will never ever bring anything to work that I want to keep.
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SQLGuru
11/23/09

@CaseyG: On the flip side, working at PM sounds like working on the set of MythBusters.......
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bleek
11/23/09

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Well now I know which phone I should buy if I ever want to bathe in liquid nitrogen!
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Red_Flag
11/23/09

@bleek: I'm pretty sure you can do that without a phone.
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bleek
11/23/09

@Red_Flag: Ya, but why would I want to do it without a phone? I have to tell everyone what I'm doing every second of the day.
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