What is the coldest it has ever been on Earth?

The coldest temperature ever measured was -126 Fahrenheit (-88 Celsius) at Vostok Station in Antarctica.
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How cold was the ice age?

A team of scientists has nailed down the temperature at the peak of the last ice age, a time known as the Last Glacial Maximum, to about 46 degrees Fahrenheit.
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What is the hottest it has ever been on Earth?

Official world record remains 134°F at Furnace Creek in 1913

In 2013, WMO officially decertified the official all-time hottest temperature in world history, a 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit (58.0°C) reading from Al Azizia, Libya, in 1923. (Burt was a member of the WMO team that made the determination.)
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How cold is it on Pluto?

It's about 3.6 billion miles away from the Sun, and it has a thin atmosphere composed mostly of nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide. On average, Pluto's temperature is -387°F (-232°C), making it too cold to sustain life.
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Does anyone live in Death Valley?

It is sparsely populated, with just 576 residents, according to the most recent census. Brandi Stewart, the spokeswoman for Death Valley National Park, said that the valley is so hot because of the configuration of its lower-than-sea-level basin and surrounding mountains.
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Can humans survive an ice age?

Humans were (and still are) definitely alive during the Ice Age. Scientists and anthropologists have found evidence of human remains existing nearly 12,000 years ago. The current interglacial period began around 10,000 years ago. Before then, most humans lived in the Southern Hemisphere.
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How long will the next ice age last?

We're Due For Another Ice Age But Climate Change May Push It Back Another 100,000 Years, Researchers Say.
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How cold is space?

The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite has refined temperature measurements taken way back in 1964. According to data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, the temperature of space is 2.725K (2.725 degrees above absolute zero).
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Is absolute 0 possible?

Physicists acknowledge they can never reach the coldest conceivable temperature, known as absolute zero and long ago calculated to be minus 459.67°F.
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What temp is absolute zero?

At zero kelvin (minus 273 degrees Celsius) the particles stop moving and all disorder disappears. Thus, nothing can be colder than absolute zero on the Kelvin scale.
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Can 0 Kelvin be achieved?

At the physically impossible-to-reach temperature of zero kelvin, or minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 273.15 degrees Celsius), atoms would stop moving. As such, nothing can be colder than absolute zero on the Kelvin scale.
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Do you stop aging in space?

In space, people usually experience environmental stressors like microgravity, cosmic radiation, and social isolation, which can all impact aging. Studies on long-term space travel often measure aging biomarkers such as telomere length and heartbeat rates, not epigenetic aging.
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What does space smell like?

A succession of astronauts have described the smell as '… a rather pleasant metallic sensation ... [like] ... sweet-smelling welding fumes', 'burning metal', 'a distinct odour of ozone, an acrid smell', 'walnuts and brake pads', 'gunpowder' and even 'burnt almond cookie'.
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How hot is the moon?

Taking the Moon's Temperature

Daytime temperatures near the lunar equator reach a boiling 250 degrees Fahrenheit (120° C, 400 K), while nighttime temperatures get to a chilly -208 degrees Fahrenheit (-130° C, 140 K). The Moon's poles are even colder.
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How long will the Earth last?

The upshot: Earth has at least 1.5 billion years left to support life, the researchers report this month in Geophysical Research Letters. If humans last that long, Earth would be generally uncomfortable for them, but livable in some areas just below the polar regions, Wolf suggests.
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Were there humans in the ice age?

Almost all hominins disappeared during the Ice Age. Only a single species survived. But H. sapiens had appeared many millennia prior to the Ice Age, approximately 200,000 years before, in the continent of Africa.
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Was there dinosaurs in the ice age?

Dinosaurs have always been featured or mentioned in the Ice Age film series: in the first movie, Sid finds a frozen T-Rex (that looked similar to Momma) in a ice cave, alongside with his ancestor forms.
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Did humans and dinosaurs live at the same time?

No! After the dinosaurs died out, nearly 65 million years passed before people appeared on Earth.
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When was the first human born?

The first humans emerged in Africa around two million years ago, long before the modern humans known as Homo sapiens appeared on the same continent.
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What is the hottest city on Earth?

In terms of extreme heat, no place holds a candle to Dallol, the hottest place on earth. Located in the sizzling Danakil Depression (a geological landform sunken below the surrounding area), it can reach a boiling 145 degrees in the sun.
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What is the hottest thing in the universe?

The hottest thing in the Universe: Supernova

The temperatures at the core during the explosion soar up to 100 billion degrees Celsius, 6000 times the temperature of the Sun's core.
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Where is it hottest right now?

Heat wave 2021: World's hottest places right now
  • Nuwaiseeb, Kuwait. ...
  • Iraq. ...
  • Iran. ...
  • Jacobabad, Pakistan. ...
  • UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia. ...
  • Lytton, Vancouver. ...
  • Portland, US. ...
  • Delhi, India.
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