Man who dissolved in boiling Yellowstone hot spring slipped while checking temperature to take bath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjvLIvnrTvU

do you ever get the impression that the people who originally lived in these places would be aghast that people are still walking on the eroded staircases instead of patching in better stones?

Just makes me think of Klaus Kinski lurching about while Popol Vuh plays in the background.

we need so many more people to die this way soon

lol xp

heh, as I mentioned in one of the Popol Vuh threads, I forgot to put Aguirre on my phone so I had to listen to Seligpresung instead as I was climbing up Huayna Picchu. I think I also listened to the first Verve album?

I hiked in Peru when I was 15 too ; )

Not in the same ballpark as most of these but back when we went to the top of Sigiriya (15 years ago) none of the metalwork or barriers were there - if you look at e.g. 2:30 when he's point in back up the walkway you can see what the 'stairs' were like when we did it to the left of the tourists coming down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0oC-qH64CQ

but natural selection is making them better and better and we're slowly evolving toward a supermule

― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin)

I hiked in Peru when I was 15 too ; )

― velko, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 2:29 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark

; )

MatthewK, thank you for getting my dumb, rather pointless biology joke.

https://68.media.tumblr.com/6d6fc2252a60cae0bb0c8f6900808f00/tumblr_o05kgpRHcu1rznn4wo1_1280.jpg

okay lol

lol dayo

I get IA about people swimming when there are riptide warnings ffs; stuff like Yellowstone makes me despise humanity.

but on the upside maybe we have now reached the point, evolutionarily speaking, where we are self-culling

darwin awards was so 2003

Mourning in America - Trump Year One: November '16 to

is that a hot spring you're trying to get us to click on and fall in

Got to be honest, this thread has been curiously calming to me.

<3

like a warm bath

^____^

Also prompted me to read about the Dyatlov Pass Incident again, featuring one of my favourite weird things that humans do, namely paradoxical undressing in hypothermia.

Thank you. I'd forgotten about that one.

When I am experiencing panic or anxiety, the survival stories in this book always calm me down:

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Survival-Who-Lives-Dies/dp/0393326152

Consequently I've read it dozens of times, at least some chapters. I'm not sure why. It's way outside the categories of my normal reading.

emil.y otm re dyatlov pass

http://www.outsideonline.com/1926316/freezing-persons-recollect-snow—first-chill—then-stupor—then-letting-go

At 85 degrees, those freezing to death, in a strange, anguished paroxysm, often rip off their clothes. This phenomenon, known as paradoxical undressing, is common enough that urban hypothermia victims are sometimes initially diagnosed as victims of sexual assault. Though researchers are uncertain of the cause, the most logical explanation is that shortly before loss of consciousness, the constricted blood vessels near the body's surface suddenly dilate and produce a sensation of extreme heat against the skin.

All you know is that you're burning. You claw off your shell and pile sweater and fling them away.

Was reading about Dyatlov Pass recently, after listening to this post-rockish concept album about it: https://open.spotify.com/album/2vYSKNZsE3R7pBbCFZKrOd

These students from the Dyatlov Pass incident would probably have been youngish or born during the '37-38 great terror, and then their formative period would have been the Barbarossa years. They were probably thinking no probs when they set off.

http://www.outsideonline.com/1926316/freezing-persons-recollect-snow—first-chill—then-stupor—then-letting-go

This was great and terrifying, tempered slightly by the fact that I'm clueless about temperatures in Fahrenheit.

32° ... Just take off your clothes no matter what thermometer you're using.

lol

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4032438/Death-chocolate-Mother-two-dies-falling-vat-molten-confectionery-Russian-sweet-factory.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/31/death-yosemite-travel-blogging-couple-perishes-foot-fall-they-may-have-been-taking-pictures-relative-says/

More than 250 people have died worldwide in the last six years while taking selfies, according to a recent study from researchers in India published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care.

... almost a third of them Indian, strangely enough.

turns out the guy reappeared but had magical powers