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It's not the heat that kills you, it's the humidity.

Oh, OK. It's the heat.

 

It's not the heat that kills you, it's the humidity.

Oh, OK. It's the heat.

100% humidity will also kill you ...

 

100% humidity will also kill you ...

Only if it's condensed. And you're submerged more than 5 minutes. Without scuba gear.

 

yeah ... that was more or less the scenario I had in mind ...

 

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So, half the time at 1.43x the temperature....

 

Only if it's condensed. And you're submerged more than 5 minutes. Without scuba gear.

And you aren't one of the many people that can hold your breath under water for more than five minutes.

Five to eight minutes is achievable by most people with training. The record is about twelve minutes. If pure oxygen is used beforehand, the record is over 29 minutes.

 

And you aren't one of the many people that can hold your breath under water for more than five minutes.

Five to eight minutes is achievable by most people with training. The record is about twelve minutes. If pure oxygen is used beforehand, the record is over 29 minutes.

Many, perhaps.

But most would pass out at around 5 minutes and then subsequently drown unless rescued by a third party that I assumed was not present.

And, yes, I know what happens when you assume.

 

And you aren't one of the many people that can hold your breath under water for more than five minutes.

Five to eight minutes is achievable by most people with training. The record is about twelve minutes. If pure oxygen is used beforehand, the record is over 29 minutes.

My dad could do 5 easy when I was a kid. It was scary as hell to people that didn't know him. He was a Navy diver clearing mines after WWII in Sardinia.

 

And, yes, I know what happens when you assume.

Assumption is the mother of al screw-ups

 

Assumption is the mother of al screw-ups

Who's Al?

 

"Any sufficiently efficient means of propulsion is also a weapon of mass destruction." - Larry Niven

 

Too much of a good thing.
https://www.energyconnects.com/news...om-in-pakistan-helps-millions-but-harms-grid/

As many customers curb their consumption from the grid or even abandon it completely, Pakistan’s power companies are permanently losing a major chunk of demand and revenue. State-owned utilities have accumulated losses of 2.4 trillion Pakistani rupees ($8.6 billion) between 2014 and 2023, according to government data. The IMF has said retaining demand should be a key objective of reforms.

“Pakistan’s distribution companies are losing every day as solar becomes attractive,” said Salahuddin Riffai, who was chairman at Islamabad Electric Supply Co. until 2022. “The burden is ever increasing on the customers who are left.”

The country was already struggling financially after borrowing heavily from China under the Belt and Road Initiative over the last decade to build up power generation capacity. Pakistan is now in negotiations to try and lengthen the maturities of that debt. The government is also in talks with local power producers to revise or end purchase contracts and is considering privatizing some utilities as cost-cutting measures.

 

I doubt this very, very much ... but then again, NS is not IE :

We will soon be able to talk with other species. Which will be first?


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Scientists have long and studiously avoided claiming that other animals have language. Now, using the power of AI, they are on the verge of deciphering one

 

I doubt this very, very much ... but then again, NS is not IE :

We will soon be able to talk with other species. Which will be first?
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NS is clickbait popsci. IMO, at times worse than IE because NS has a thin veneer of trust.

Now we can just add AI to our fantasy to make it seem like real science.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...gence-could-finally-let-us-talk-with-animals/

 

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/famed...all-movie-implicated-wifes/story?id=125126955


It was long believed that Pauline Mullins Pusser, the wife of the legendary Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser, was shot and killed in an ambush meant for her husband, but new evidence suggests that it was the late sheriff who killed his wife.

A Tennessee Bureau of Investigation report uncovered "inconsistencies in Buford Pusser's statements to law enforcement and to others," District Attorney Mark Davidson said at a press conference Friday.

 

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https://www.kgw.com/article/news/lo...sing/283-3cbbb149-ab1e-467a-95e7-cb734fa1f049

PORTLAND, Oregon — This week, about 20 people, including three city councilors and their chiefs of staff, are heading on a taxpayer-funded work trip abroad to see how social housing works in Vienna, Austria.

20 people? The grift is strong in that junket.
Can they pay for my study trip to Vegas then too?

 

20 people? The grift is strong in that junket.
Can they pay for my study trip to Vegas then too?

No, but you can pay for theirs.

 

Bringing back memories of being a young sailor walking those streets at night.