> (20 or so minutes, even for healthy, fit adults).
As someone who enjoys sitting in a sauna I wonder what physics are at play here. Heat stroke trying to work in >100* heat I get, but death even at rest?
As someone who enjoys sitting in a sauna I wonder what physics are at play here. Heat stroke trying to work in >100* heat I get, but death even at rest?
That's why steam rooms peak at ~110 and saunas at ~150. A steam room at 110 is almost unbearably hot, it's hard to last more than 5 or 10 minutes in one.
Think about a human having a fever of 108—that's the temperature at which you'd start to have convulsions.
I've tried to look for better statistics about how much folks in Finland can actually tolerate, but all I found was this spectacular batshit: https://www.reddit.com/r/finlandConspiracy/comments/op97qm/t...