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Slab City reaches its boiling point
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#22On mobile, won't let me view till i put my email in a popover
Adblocker seem to do it on my side, not sure if ublock or pihole did it though.
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#23Anybody here ever been to Slab City? I'd love to get the HN perspective on it.
I drove through once; my feeling is that it takes a fair amount of guts to live in the desert-that desert, in the summertime. 120F+ is lethal to the unprepared who are out in in it for more than a brief period.
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#25I visited Slab City and the Salton sea with my family on a day trip from LA. It was a memorable experience, and I would recommend to anyone who is interested. We were inspired by this travelog [0], the history of the area is a cautionary tale.
[0] http://www.wanderingboozebag.com/salton-sea-road-trip-itiner...
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#26> The California Energy Commission estimates the sea [Salton Sea] might produce 600k metric tons of lithium carbonate per year. > The land under the lake is a patchwork of ownership spread across three primary entities: the federal government – mostly the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Land Management, the Imperial Irrigation District (IID), and the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians. Should be interest…
I’m not sure the drying of a man-made lake quite qualifies as an environmental disaster, though the smell certainly isn’t pleasant. But it’s definitely not the largest environmental in California. That would be the destruction of millions of acres of wetlands in the Central Valley from the dry and vanished Tulare Lake northward. Next is the desertifying low Sierra as forests are replaced by chaparral and grasslands somewhat permanently. Third is the desertification of the Owens Valley. Fourth is air pollution which continues to be quite deadly. Fifth is DDT, which is mostly gone but still poses a risk in offshore birds near an undersea dumping ground.
Anyway Salton Sea doesn’t even crack the top five anthropogenic natural disasters in California.
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#27Anybody here ever been to Slab City? I'd love to get the HN perspective on it.
I drove through once; my feeling is that it takes a fair amount of guts to live in the desert-that desert, in the summertime. 120F+ is lethal to the unprepared who are out in in it for more than a brief period.
I read hyperbole like this all the time and it shocks me.
Have you never been outside in 120F+ temps?
I have spent many years of my life in those temps (Australia, all around Africa). Shade and plenty of drinking water and it's completely fine. Millions of people live their lives in those temps with no AC, no fridge, etc.
I hear the same thing about the cold like "Frostbite in a matter of seconds past -30F". I used to regularly ride my bike to work at -48C (-54.5F) and enjoyed it. With the right layers it was completely fine. By the time I got to work I would take off my jacket, gloves and touque and stand outside with a ton of exposed skin for 2-5 minutes in attempt to cool down. (though my legs were usually numb because I couldn't be bothered wearing more layers)
Please go out and explore and enjoy the world rather than fearing it.
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I drove through once; my feeling is that it takes a fair amount of guts to live in the desert-that desert, in the summertime. 120F+ is lethal to the unprepared who are out in in it for more than a brief period.
I read hyperbole like this all the time and it shocks me. Have you never been outside in 120F+ temps? I have spent many years of my life in those temps (Australia, all around Africa). Shade and plenty of drinking water and it's completely fine. Millions of people live their lives in those temps with no AC, no fridge, etc. I hear the same thing about the cold like "Frostbite in a matter of seconds past -30F". I used t…
Did you read the part about "unprepared"?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I drove through once; my feeling is that it takes a fair amount of guts to live in the desert-that desert, in the summertime. 120F+ is lethal to the unprepared who are out in in it for more than a brief period.
I read hyperbole like this all the time and it shocks me. Have you never been outside in 120F+ temps? I have spent many years of my life in those temps (Australia, all around Africa). Shade and plenty of drinking water and it's completely fine. Millions of people live their lives in those temps with no AC, no fridge, etc. I hear the same thing about the cold like "Frostbite in a matter of seconds past -30F". I used t…
If you generate a crazy fuckton of body heat and then stand outside in those temperatures for only a few minutes, obviously you're gonna be fine. That's not controversial, and NBA players routinely spend a minute or two surrounded by temperatures of -200 degrees as part of whole-body cryotherapy.
Doing that without having sufficient warm clothes or a warm space nearby is very dangerous, because once you've radiated all your stored heat, you will freeze to death.
Likewise, 120F is totally fine if you're well hydrated and in a dry environment.
If you're dehydrated or it's humid, you will die. The wet-bulb temperature that will kill a human being is just 95F.
You SHOULD fear extreme temperatures - if you don't treat them with respect and make sure you're prepared, it's very easy to end up in a terrible situation.