• helenslunch@feddit.nl
      12·
      8 months ago

      Not really hot enough to burn you instantly if you fall on it, usually only if you lose consciousness. Could be a heat stroke or something else.

      • RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
        12·
        8 months ago

        This guy was in Phoenix, AZ. The pavement he fell on was bare minimum that hot this summer. Multiple people, including kids had severe burns after falling this year.

        The biggest problem is it isn’t instant. Every try to stand up by pushing your hands down on 100°C pavement? How about when you fall hard on your side and then the skin on your leg, as you try to stand, sticks and doesn’t come up with the rest of you? It’s pretty fuckin brutal.

      • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
        8·
        8 months ago

        You think can there be anything much worse than being in a motorcycle crash? Yeah, being seriously injured in a motorcycle crash, stuck laying on the asphalt in Phoenix in the Summer. Like cooking in a frying pan.

      • Knusper@feddit.de
        1·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, I was wondering as well, if there’s something more to it.

        If my cup of tea is at 70°C, that does burn my tongue, but that’s in particular, because water conducts heat very well. I guess, if it’s very smooth asphalt and he gets full contact with naked skin, then it would conduct heat well, too…

  • awnery@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    8 months ago

    i once walked around in the desert barefoot for so long i couldn’t feel it anymore on the soles of my feet. my feet were like shoes. i was miserable otherwise. can’t recommend it.

  • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    8 months ago

    I can deal with standard cold and the snow. It’s the lack of sun and extreme colds that get me. Minnesota’s a good place, but Colorado looks awful tempting.

    • Followupquestion@lemm.ee
      2·
      8 months ago

      This is literally Russia’s current plan for Siberia. They want access to the vast mineral deposits under the permafrost, and if they wait, getting at those minerals gets a lot easier.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        Releasing millions of tons of trapped carbon deposits frozen in the ground … what could go wrong?

  • Fosheze@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Yeah no. I’ll take cold over heat any day. At least when it’s cold I can just add a few layers or do something to mitigate it. When it’s hot theres only so many layers I can take off without becomming a sex offender.