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guy who survived 482 degrees F for 4 minutes Can you give some more details about this?
by Keyframe 13y ago
guy who survived 482 degrees F for 4 minutes
Can you give some more details about this?
- kens 13y agoI messed up °F/°C and it was "only" 250°F. I don't have the book "Space Medicine" available, but I found a different reference† explaining that it was Dr. Charles Blagden and other researchers in 1774 who went into a room heated above 250°F and cooked steak and eggs in there, proving the importance of perspiration in maintaining body temperature. It has to be dry heat; if there is humidity, the tolerable temperature is much lower. The original paper ‡ is also online; in order to read it, note that "ſ" is a "long s", not a "f". † http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19560213&id=4VQaAAAAIBAJ&s http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19560213&id=4... ‡ http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/65/484.full.pdf+html http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/65/484.full.p...
- e12e 13y agoThat news.google-link appears to be broken?
- kens 13y agoI can't edit the expired link above, so search for "hot mutton cool magician" or try http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4VQaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZSUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3190%2C1843142 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4VQaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZSUEA...
- wazoox 13y agoFor people of the world, that's about 121°C. BTW, I've been in a sauna in Sweden where the thermometer displayed 100°C. The women sauna, according to my mother, was only 96°C.