Celsius was designed for water, we should have a scale where 100 = maximum temperature human is expected to be alive and 0 = minimum temperature human is expected to be alive (and 50 normal human temperature). That’s a humane scale.
Humans in different areas are used to and can survive different temperatures. There’s this buddhist guy who goes out in the snow naked and meditates to produce body heat.
But all humans are made of water, and can relate its chemical processes to their comfort and survival.
I should have specified minimum and maximum body temperature. Doesn’t matter where you are from, if your body temperature is like 15ºC or 45ºC you will hardly survive
So 0H is like 35C and 100H is 40C? That kinda sucks.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Humans are mostly water though.
And your scale makes even less sense because you are ignoring time and air moisture (for the maximum temperature). You would probably die very quickly in a 120°C hot sauna if it had 100% moisture.
Same with the cold: I’d not survive much longer than a minute in -50°C without clothes but with adequate protection several hours seems possible.
PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
minimum and maximum body temperature (we are measuring humans, not environment)
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Ah, that makes a bit more sense.
Maximum body temperature should be pretty obvious - at least with one or two degrees (Celsius) of wiggle room.
Though, with minimum body temperature, do you mean minimum while conscious or minimum survivable? Because there have been cases where people were successfully resuscitated after being submerged in freezing water for a very long time:
www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jaccas.2025.104885