'100 degrees is when the last of the water in your dessicated corpse will vapourize' is also a useful heuristic.
Especially compared to '100 is when most people will have already been very sweaty for at least 10 degrees.'
Especially compared to '100 is when most people will have already been very sweaty for at least 10 degrees.'
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Though it also kind of feels like the kind of experiment which finds that a person can live the rest of their life under water or in the vacuum of space.
But it was actually how we formally discovered that sweating was a form of thermoregulation.
It’s a fun read:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experiments-and-observations-in-a-heated-room-1774/