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timschmidttoday at 3:45 PM1 replyview on HN

> Our bodies won't be able to handle a temperature regime that hot overall. The factor to research is Wet Bulb Temperature Effect.

That's a problem at the Equator, but not at the higher latitudes.


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SAI_Peregrinustoday at 5:14 PM

It's a problem anywhere, just that the dry bulb temperature needed to reach a given wet bulb temperature goes up as humidity goes down.

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