From: Mxsmanic on 29 Jul 2006 12:02 Dave Frightens Me writes: > In fact it's easier. Humans can tolerate sustained periods of high > temperatures if they are educated as to how to survive. No, they cannot. The only education they can receive concerns how to avoid high temperatures and heating up. If they are exposed to high temperatures and they heat up, they die, with or without an education. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 29 Jul 2006 12:04 TOliver writes: > Whiile the evidence is often not conclusive near the Equator, the Coriolis > Effect is worth a few moments of your attention..... It is not significant with respect to water running down a drain. > (So substantial can it be that at higher latitudes, battleships' main > battery fire control systems were designed with it as an input to firing > solutions) Battleships can fire shells over distances of dozens of miles. Water running down a drain travels only a few centimetres. And even for battleships, the effect is most significant at high latitudes, as you observe. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 29 Jul 2006 12:04 Dave Frightens Me writes: > I suspect a flu or pneumonia would increase the chances of death, > don't you? Yes, but this is independent of temperature. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Miguel Cruz on 29 Jul 2006 12:33 Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dave Frightens Me writes: >> I suspect a flu or pneumonia would increase the chances of death, >> don't you? > > Yes, but this is independent of temperature. Poor physical fitness increases the chance of death due to hypothermia; does that mean you will now write off those deaths as a consequence of physical condition and leave the heat alone? miguel -- Photos from 40 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu Latest photos: Malaysia; Thailand; Singapore; Spain; Morocco Airports of the world: http://airport.u.nu
From: Miguel Cruz on 29 Jul 2006 12:38
Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dave Frightens Me writes: >> I suspect a flu or pneumonia would increase the chances of death, >> don't you? > > Yes, but this is independent of temperature. Poor physical fitness increases the chance of death due to hyperthermia*; does that mean you will now write off those deaths as a consequence of physical condition and leave the heat alone? (*) I erroneously wrote this as hypothermia in another copy of this message which I tried to cancel. miguel -- Photos from 40 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu Latest photos: Malaysia; Thailand; Singapore; Spain; Morocco Airports of the world: http://airport.u.nu |