3 ms·
Well... people are resourceful. I mean, we may have gotten soft living in civilisation... but we still have some survival instinct. Shade, bathing, burrowing et
by dalbasal 5y ago
Well... people are resourceful. I mean, we may have gotten soft living in civilisation... but we still have some survival instinct. Shade, bathing, burrowing etc.
Still, that factoid is troubling. These are conditions that exceed humans' operating conditions. We're used to that on the cold side. Plenty of people thrive (miserably) in places that get cold.
But, there are actually far fewer good cooling options. Air conditioning is more complicated than heating. You can heat with fire, warm clothes. Even exercise, though this is not sustainable. A sauna is nice, but people don't live in their saunas until temperatures get tolerable.
Also, the heat cutoff is more of a universal. A lot of organisms seem to start failing at temperatures like this.
- gilbetron 5y agoThe human body can generate heat by eating food, it's just a matter of insulation to stay warm. Our bodies can't generate cool at a wet bulb of 35C. That's a huge difference.