I've never been able to figure this out. Is it the other 30% that cools us back down?
I've never been able to figure this out. Is it the other 30% that cools us back down?
Check your units. Not that unit, the other units.
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El Mastero wrote:
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No I mean 100 degrees, not 010. Gotta check your typing dude.
Haha, I don't know if you are serious or not, but if you are, water boils at 100 degrees CELSIUS, and your body temperature gets over 100 degree FAHRENHEIT. If your fever was so bad that you got to 100 degrees centigrade, you would be dead. Water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit, well short of your body temperature, even with a fever.
thought police wrote:
I've never been able to figure this out. Is it the other 30% that cools us back down?
That is only at sea level. Most of your body is well above sea level, and thus cooler.
However, this is why your feet feel like they're burning when running really fast. That much friction elevates the foot temperature quickly. Luckily, your feet are moving exceptionally fast and the air flow cools them.
For further info, google Coreolis Effect and you'll get more info on why your blood doesn't boil at 100 degrees.
can you imagine in the summer when it's well over 100 degrees some days, and as you run by that little pond down the street it is boiling.........all the lakes in Florida would be crazy in the summer....
Wendell Gee wrote:
That is only at sea level. Most of your body is well above sea level, and thus cooler.
However, this is why your feet feel like they're burning when running really fast. That much friction elevates the foot temperature quickly. Luckily, your feet are moving exceptionally fast and the air flow cools them.
For further info, google Coreolis Effect and you'll get more info on why your blood doesn't boil at 100 degrees.
Oh ok I get it now. Is this why altitude training works so well? You can run farther before boiling yourself?
Also, what if you run below sea level, like Death Valley? I guess that's why they named it that, huh?
OK. I'll bite.
Water boils at 100 Celsius, not not 100 Fahrenheit, which is a common temperature of a fever. Please tell me you are trolling and not a cretin.
apostrophe crimes wrote:
OK. I'll bite.
Water boils at 100 Celsius, not not 100 Fahrenheit, which is a common temperature of a fever. Please tell me you are trolling and not a cretin.
There was a novel, I can't remember which, and a young character (maybe 8 or 10) thought he was going to die because his temperature climbing into the 99s.
thought police wrote:
Oh ok I get it now. Is this why altitude training works so well? You can run farther before boiling yourself?
No, the boiling point is reduced at altitude. At a little over 60,000 ft (about 1 PSI) you would boil when your temperature hit 100.
thought police wrote:
I've never been able to figure this out. Is it the other 30% that cools us back down?
And yet we wonder why the Chinese are kicking our asses
Humans do not die because they have evolved to survive many hard things. So even though some of their body might end up boiling at 100 degrees (i'm not even sure that's true), they do have other bones and tissues in there body that help keep a person from overheating too much. Its just basic physics really. I hope that helps...
Fishing Instructor wrote:
thought police wrote:Oh ok I get it now. Is this why altitude training works so well? You can run farther before boiling yourself?
No, the boiling point is reduced at altitude. At a little over 60,000 ft (about 1 PSI) you would boil when your temperature hit 100.
Then why is it called Death Valley? I'm really confused now!
Thought police i think you are just overthinking this. You can still probably boil to death in death valley (if your temp it 100 degrees ferenhite or greater) but its just easier if you are in an airplane or at altitude. thats why you shouldnt travel when you are sick.
At the lower altitude the Earth's rotation moves you more slowly; thus through relativistic effects time passes more quickly. So even though your blood boils at slightly higher temperatures, once you cross the threshold it kills you that much faster.
0/10 next time don't reply to your own thread so much
You remind me of a runner my old coach once told me about 'she's too stupid to get injured'
Solute causes boiling point elevation, so really the water would boil at a temperature higher than 100 degrees.
Well, by your logic regarding Death Valley, I suppose everyone in Penn State's Happy Valley should be overjoyed and ecstatic.