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With the invention of air conditioning and an abundance of solar power during the desert day, it's pretty stupid to let the weather dictate your behavior. Peop
by hueving 9y ago
With the invention of air conditioning and an abundance of solar power during the desert day, it's pretty stupid to let the weather dictate your behavior.
People exist in Chicago despite the fact that it would be completely inhospitable without heating sources. The only difference is that air conditioning is a newer invention so people like you view it as some kind of opulent luxury rather than a technological tool like anything else.
- pm90 9y agoYou're comparing 2 different things though. Heating/AC is required for people's survival whereas green lawns in the middle of an arid desert... not so much.
- hueving 9y agoNo I'm not. I'm literally comparing air conditioning to heating. Read my comment again.
- jylam 9y ago> With the invention of air conditioning and an abundance of solar power during the desert day, it's pretty stupid to let the weather dictate your behavior. Not everyone works in an office, though.
- hueving 9y agoSame thing applies to the cold in the North.
- mrkrabo 9y agoTry to go out with 45 degrees, with direct sunlight, etc. Some people will even faint within minutes. Because remember you don't get teleported to the shop, you have to walk.
- baddox 9y agoI'm from a much milder but still hot climate, and while the summer weather probably wouldn't make you faint in minutes, people spent very little time outside of air conditioned homes, cars, and shops, and the towns were designed around that fact.
- valuearb 9y agoIt was 48 degrees in Phoenix a couple weeks ago. We all walked around outside successfully without fainting.
- Moru 9y agoI congratulate you to a good health. Here in sweden people drop dead when temp goes above 25 C. All depends on your health...
- point78 9y agoPhoenix is not even in the same conversation as Spanish cities when it comes to walking. Madrid, Barcelona and others you walk everywhere to do anything.
- Aloha 9y agohave spent much time in 110+ degree weather - you just have to hydrate.
- throwaway7645 9y agoWhat's the humidity there though? In much of the Southern US, we get temps well above 100 with very high levels of humidity. Even with hydration it is dangerous.
- CydeWeys 9y agoAs they say about Phoenix, "it's a dry heat". It's near 20% humidity during peak sunlight during the day. I've been there in really hot summer weather and I was surprised by how really high temperatures didn't feel as hot as I was expecting. To give you an idea of how much this matters, in a gentle breeze, 39.5 C at 20% humidity feels like 57.3 C at 90% humidity. People definitely don't faint within minutes in a typical Phoenix sunlight. The biggest risks are sunburn and dehydration, both of which take a lot longer.
- FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago> With the invention of air conditioning and an abundance of solar power during the desert day, it's pretty stupid to let the weather dictate your behavior. You do have to go outside to get anywhere. We don't have completely domed cities yet.
- wang_li 9y agoWe sort of do. My 20 mile commute in Seattle involves about 100 feet of walking outside the "dome". I go from my house to my attached garage into my car. To the park-n-ride. From there I walk to the bus. Then ride the bus downtown, where i then walk half a block to my office.
- hueving 9y agoSame thing applies to the cold in Chicago/New York.
- FullMtlAlcoholc 9y agoSounds like a decent chunk of the population could deal with living on a Mars colony :)