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Would you rather be stranded in extreme heat or extreme cold?

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  • #52
    Capt'n Midnight
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    TheBrinch wrote: »
    i dont think many people would have a spacesuit handy...especially if stranded :o
    TBH you are fairly likely to have a space suit handy if you are somewhere where you could be stranded in a near vacuum at absolute zero


  • #53
    Sindri
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    Cold
    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    In extreme cold you can put on clothes , use insulation , run about to keep warm

    in extreme heat you dehydrate , so game over


    for very short times you can stand extreme heat - human salamanders - better than extreme cold - falling into the ocean

    I take it if it's extremely cold your going to die, likewise if it's extremely hot, but if you're stranded, and do not have a chance to prepare the extreme cold will kill you quicker and if your stranded the effects of hypothermia certainly will.

    Whereas if it's an extremely hot environment, and your stranded and not given time to prepare, you can bury yourself, in the cool earth, to keep cool during the day, where in a environment where it's extremely hot, there is a very good possibility that it will be extremely cool at night, when you could travel, you have fluids, for a very short time, in urine, and you could come across vegetation which would offer fluids, or insects for nutrition.


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