On 15 Sep 2005 04:31:38 -0700, IClast@JPS.Net wrote:
>>> Hatunen said:
>>>
>>>> In Chicago and Paris they die from these heat waves, but not here
>>
>>
>> Icono Clast wrote:
>>
>>> Heat, as you know, is the greatest killer of all natural phenomena. I
>>> think quite a few people would die there if you lost electricity during
>>> one of those 113°F days.
>>
>>
>> There were quite a few people living here before there was
>> electricity.
>
>
>Yes, there were. But through thousands of years of evolution, they have
>bodies adapted to their homes. The people of the Altiplano, for
>example,
>have larger chests and lungs than people elsewhere. My guess is that
>Inuit peoples have genealogical adaptations for where they live.
I didn't mean just the Indians. There have been Europeans living
here since Spanish colonial days. Tucson was established as a
Spanish presidio in the late 18th century.
>Your ancestry is from one of the northernmost parts of the planet.
>You're genealogically not as well equipt as the indigenous people to
>cope with the weather where you live now.
I'm doing fine, thank you. I originally mvoed here in August 1966
from Montreal, where I found the winters unbearable.
>Further, you're of an age that makes you more vulnerable to the
>unpleasant consequences of non-sauna heat.
Saunas, which routinely run about 80C/180F, have, like Tucson, a
dry heat. A sauna at 113F would be a piss-poor sauna indeed.
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