Because cooling scales as a square with body surface area, but heat generation scales as a cube with body mass, there is an upper limit to the size of a whale before it gets so hot that it overheats even in near-freezing water!

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Jesse Peltan
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The physics of heat transfer are way cooler than you think. If we designed homes with them in mind, they'd be a lot more resilient and energy efficient, and people would be a lot more comfortable. Insulation standards and HVAC systems are designed around maintaining the air

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Elon Musk's whale thermodynamics musing sent crypto markets into a mild but measurable identity crisis. ETH took the deepest dive: down 0.7% in 1 minute, 1.24% over 5 minutes, then a partial recovery to -0.9% at 10 minutes. DOGE wobbled less dramatically: -0.53% (1min), -0.97% (5min), -0.45% (10min). GORK, ever the drama queen, swung -2.84% twice with a brief -1.72% intermission. Volatility was tame by crypto standards—no whales were actually overheated, though GORK briefly flirted with spontaneous combustion. Historical context is absent, proving once again that Musk’s tweets occupy a unique niche between astrophysics and financial roulette. The real takeaway: markets will panic over anything, even when the only thing burning is a hypothetical whale.