Hatunen wrote:
> On 15 Sep 2005 04:31:38 -0700, IClast@JPS.Net wrote:
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>>>>Hatunen said:
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>>>>>In Chicago and Paris they die from these heat waves, but not here
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>>>Icono Clast wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>
>>>There were quite a few people living here before there was
>>>electricity.
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>>
>>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.
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> 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.
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>>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.
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> I'm doing fine, thank you. I originally mvoed here in August 1966
> from Montreal, where I found the winters unbearable.
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>
no more smoked meat and poutine for you....that's worse than a disaster. |