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  • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Why would a person ride their bike so fast that they end up dripping in sweat? Is there a reason for that?

        • shortrounddev@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          If you were in a car you wouldn’t be hot. 103 is very hot, not safe for old people to be outside for very long. It’s 103 degrees, so quite hot

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            2 months ago

            “103 degrees” means that it’s hot enough for water to boil. Water boils at 100 degrees, unless you’re deep underground.

            But okay, it sounds like that’s a very rare temperature, then?

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                  2 months ago

                  Not my experience. I spent some 4 months at Goa in India, and it was usually around 40°C. I rented a bicycle there and rode it for distances of over 100 km in a day. And I did not sweat.

                  That temperature should not be a problem for a person living in an area where that’s a common temperature. And if it’s not a common temperature, then it’s not common, and it’s not really a problem to have to pay the taxi if you need to go to an important meeting precisely on the one scorching hot day :)

                  I was assuming from the context that it would translate to more like 50°C or so.