Re:On the Trail of the Denisovans
by rhelz on Saturday March 02, 2024 @05:23PM
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// I spent fifteen minutes in a 112 deg F shower...I spent fifteen minutes in a 112 deg F shower //
Did you measure your body temperature? Were you able to cool yourself by sweating, or was your body temperature monotonically rising?
Recall, it is recommended that you go to a doctor if you have a fever of over 103 degrees, and over 108 degrees you risk brain damage.
Soaking some nice heat into your sore muscles in a 20-minute shower is one thing; but 24/7 your body is absolutely, positively not able to cool itself down is quite another.
// They don't control for so many things, let alone acclimation. //
Hey man, I gave you a source as requested. Whether or not evaporating water can cool down a body of a certain volume and surface when that body is internally generating heat--that isn't a matter of acclimation, its a matter of thermodynamics.
// after which I'll probably be dead // And why think about extinction after I'm dead, eh? :-) But far before 60 years passes, you'll find yourself in the age demographic for which death from hot weather is a risk. The body's ability to thermoregulate degrades as we get older, alas...
// worried about a lack of cheap energy //
Wind farms are already cheaper to build than coal-fired plants. And if you factor in all the externalities, fossils fuels don't even come close to being a cheap source of energy.
// we're teaching Gen Z and Gen Alpha to just give up... this hysteria is ridiculous //
Worrying about how the media affects "kids these days" is a normal, expected part of the aging process :-) ....maybe, perhaps, the thought that Gen-Z and Gen-X are just giving up is a bit, well, I won't say hysterical, but perhaps a bit hyperbolic? And inasmuch as they are going to be here longer than we are, they do have a bit more of a stake in the future than we do.
Did you measure your body temperature? Were you able to cool yourself by sweating, or was your body temperature monotonically rising?
Recall, it is recommended that you go to a doctor if you have a fever of over 103 degrees, and over 108 degrees you risk brain damage.
Soaking some nice heat into your sore muscles in a 20-minute shower is one thing; but 24/7 your body is absolutely, positively not able to cool itself down is quite another.
// They don't control for so many things, let alone acclimation. //
Hey man, I gave you a source as requested. Whether or not evaporating water can cool down a body of a certain volume and surface when that body is internally generating heat--that isn't a matter of acclimation, its a matter of thermodynamics.
// after which I'll probably be dead // And why think about extinction after I'm dead, eh? :-) But far before 60 years passes, you'll find yourself in the age demographic for which death from hot weather is a risk. The body's ability to thermoregulate degrades as we get older, alas...
// worried about a lack of cheap energy // Wind farms are already cheaper to build than coal-fired plants. And if you factor in all the externalities, fossils fuels don't even come close to being a cheap source of energy.
// we're teaching Gen Z and Gen Alpha to just give up... this hysteria is ridiculous // Worrying about how the media affects "kids these days" is a normal, expected part of the aging process :-) ....maybe, perhaps, the thought that Gen-Z and Gen-X are just giving up is a bit, well, I won't say hysterical, but perhaps a bit hyperbolic? And inasmuch as they are going to be here longer than we are, they do have a bit more of a stake in the future than we do.