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temperature

Original: temperature on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Caption (yellow banner at top): PRO TIP: THIS IS THE ANSWER TO ANY THERMODYNAMICS TEST QUESTION THAT REQUIRES YOU TO DETERMINE AN OBJECT'S TEMPERATURE:

Panel: A sheet of paper (partly overlapping a diagram with an arrow) shows handwritten work:
T = 2.73 K
(assume well-mixed Cosmos)

Votey:
Handwritten note: Anyone who actually does this shall receive Internet Points equivalent to the number of test points that were lost as a result of doing this.

Alt text

A yellow caption banner reads: "PRO TIP: THIS IS THE ANSWER TO ANY THERMODYNAMICS TEST QUESTION THAT REQUIRES YOU TO DETERMINE AN OBJECT'S TEMPERATURE:" Below, a sheet of paper partly covering a sketched diagram with an arrow shows handwritten work: "T = 2.73 K" with a note underneath, "(assume well-mixed Cosmos)." The joke: 2.73 K is the cosmic microwave background temperature, so glibly claiming every object sits at that temperature is technically a universe-wide answer but useless on an actual test. Votey (aftercomic): a handwritten note in a box reads, "Anyone who actually does this shall receive Internet Points equivalent to the number of test points that were lost as a result of doing this."

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.