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Do you have a source for this?

With some AI-assisted searching:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3257884/

e.g., "An explanation of the mechanism of action for the effectiveness of concentrated heat in this study can be found in the activation and suppression of receptors. A rapid temperature increase to a maximum of 51°C leads to an activation of transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 1 (TRPV1) via C- and Aδ-fibers."


Germany does in fact prosecute severe crimes done in foreign countries. It will not act if Australia does, but it will act if Australia doesn't.


That would be roughly on par with Germany's deaths related to infections contracted in a hospital. That doesn't make it into headlines.


That's just the UK (high latitude), at tempretures lower than current tempretures in Death Valley / Marble Bar.

Give it time for higher tempretures to reach dense urban centres, look to India and equatorial countries that'll experience both high temp and high humidity and you'll see heat exhaustion deaths rise to well past those anglocentric numbers.

The more serious numbers will come from climate related conflict and migration in any case (assuming no change in increasing emmissions, even assuming a flattening to a steady human annual addition).


The 'Wilhelm Gustloff' had at least 4000 casualties in 1945. I believe the memorability of the Titanic is only loosely coupled to the number of casualties .


I included the casualty count as a response to the article quote in OP's comment:

> So why did the Empress tragedy, which claimed even more passenger lives a little over two years later, fail to embed itself in our collective national consciousness?

The Titanic sinking caused ~50-60% more casualties. But casualty numbers alone are probably not enough to make either of them memorable. But an "unsinkable" ship, biggest ever, carrying the worlds richest, inexplicably sinking on maiden voyage and disappearing for decades is a very powerful story.


Titanic happened in peace time. In WW2 many ships went under with thousands on board.

And after 1945 people were encouraged to forget about everything and not ask any uncomfortable questions.


In my experience this requires overbuilding by a factor of 10. That's not a good allocation of money.


For goods we consume, though.


Most heat pumps in Germany are air to water which can't be used as air conditioner. Mainly, the existing plumbing is used.


Why wouldn't air/water be able to cool the air? It'd just output hot water instead of hot air


Because either they heat radiators or under floor. Radiators would condensate a lot of water so risk of mold. And underfloor can be used for cooling, but it needs more modern control for similar issues.


Some scin medicines contain Urea. It's not that we're much better.


To add: urine is rich of phosphorus salts. Contained in...washing agents.


Which aircraft don't land in one form or another?


Spacecraft are aircraft. Voyager hasn’t landed.


Voyager hasn't landed yet.


Touchdown on water, on an air carrier, rapid disassembly in air


Infinite flight with in air refueling

Get stuck in trees or sufficiently big building

Change ID while flying and land as a new aircraft (also makes "aircrafts take off" a falsehood)


Seaplanes, loitering munitions ("suicide drones")


One of my first C programs wrote straight into the BIOS memory (1989 iirc). The machine froze and refused to reboot. We had to remove the BIOS battery to reset the BIOS. Luckily, the battery wasn't soldered to the main board.


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