Normally I wouldn't make fun, but he even typed the word Celsius in his reply. It's almost like some small part of his brain was trying to throw him a clue.
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I saw the Β°C, but my depressed brain intepreted as the imperial system because I'm just so used to it, and the immenent collapse of society doesn't help my brain function better
F in chat
C in question
How curiously pertinent in more than one wayβ¦
98.7 is likely close enough to boiling point that there'd surely be some bubbles. I'd expect your bubbles per minute to be more than 0.
In many places around the world, it would be outright boiling. But I imagine internal organs would need a larger temperature.
A bunch of boiled meat? Must have been British.
How many bubbles before the pump fails and needs to be re-primed?
Please don't boil your pump
Keep it to a light poach.
Usually 1 I think
F not C, red name dude.
98 fahrenheit is normal. 98C is 208F.
Infernal body temperature
In a Sauna it can be 98ΒΊC, not the same extern temperature and body temperature. You'll die when your body temperature is over 42ΒΊC, but you can support way higher extern temperatures (for a certain time)
The hottest you should have a Sauna is 90Β°C.
I was in one the other day that was 118. My first time being in one so hot, and it was... surprising.
Surprising how?
They died
Just never been in that kind of heat before. It was oppressively hot, breathing felt heavy, and sweat was pouring out like a dripping faucet. Interesting sensations
Sounds like a sweat lodge. I don't know how hot they get those normally.
Did that at summer camp as a kid, but memories are distant so it's hard to compare. Prob similar, I vaguely remember sweating like crazy
Most also less, but it also can get higher. Always important the preparation before and after the session a cold bath, apart of an strict time control to avoid accidents, sometimes deadly.
Huh why do they have 105C saunas in spas then?
Because they're crazy I guess? Over 90Β°C the risk of lung damage gets pretty high I think.
To be clear, do you stay in the sauna the entire time? Because around these parts it's common to get in, splash some water every now and then ("leil" in Estonian or "lΓΆyly" in Finnish) and then get out after like 5 min to take an ice bath. At 100+ you probably skip the water.
I bet if you stay like 15+ minutes at once it's way worse for you because your internals have more time to heat up.
Holy fuck I did not know they were so hot, how does a human body even survive that for any amount of time.
Dry air doesn't conduct heat as well as humid air, and allows evaporative cooling through sweat
The term is "warm-blooded" but if the outside temp is above 37C then it'd technically be more accurate to say "cool-bloods" or something.
Endotherms vs ectotherms!
A cool burn!
Almost boiling... burn
98.7K - ice cold
98.7F - a-ok
98.7C - first degree burns for your first responders
98.7 KFC FOR ALL YOUR FAVORITE SOUTHERN FRIED ROCK WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI!
KFC! OMG I GET IT NOW!!!
First it's frozen, then it's thawed, then it's extra crispy!!!
(Psst, you need another letter! It would indeed be west of the Mississippi though, east of the Mississippi start with W. Fuck I'm a nerd!)
I adore the level of non-malicious pedantry that came from your joke
Ah so it's KKFC, got it.
Somebody alert the KGB(-FM San Diego) Arcane slime can't take a joke.
I'm really happy to have learned that. Thanks.
If your ice is 98.7 K it would be Ice Ic with a different crystalline structure. It would probably taste like intense hot sauce turning your tongue black and causing it to fall out of your frostbitten mouth because you tried to lick Ice Ic you daft bastard.
Soβ¦technically correct. The best kind of correct.
Also, who licks ice? Ice cream, sure. Ice pops, absolutely. But just ice? Give us some wild description of what ice Ic would do in a glass when room temp water or soda was poured on it.
You never fellated an icicle on a cold winter day?
This must be the reason for that spontaneous human combustion people talk about
The person who comment is from US right?
Venus, actually.
I missed the joke too, I thought the joke was that 98F temperatures were hot enough to kill the average Brit
