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Comment on 15 degrees fahrenheit feels almost the same as 5 degrees. However 35 degrees feels WAY colder than 45 degrees.

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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.

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PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
minimum and maximum body temperature (we are measuring humans, not environment)

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- 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:
  
  An 8-year-old boy fell through pond ice and was submerged for ≥147 minutes. Nadir peripheral body temperature was 7 °C (45 °F). After rewarming with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, prolonged hospitalization, and neurorehabilitation, the child recovered.
  
  At 6-month follow-up, he was giving short commands, standing without support, riding a tricycle, eating soft foods, and relearning simple tasks.
  
  www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jaccas.2025.104885
  
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