Alpha71@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days agoCurrent day America has proven beyond a doubt, humanity is the only animal that wouldn't jump out of a slowly boiling pot of water.message-squaremessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down115
arrow-up1109arrow-down1message-squareCurrent day America has proven beyond a doubt, humanity is the only animal that wouldn't jump out of a slowly boiling pot of water.Alpha71@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days agomessage-square69fedilink
minus-squareintrovertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·21 days agoIsn’t it for all animals. If you keep slowly increasing temperature their body temperature will more easily come to equilibrium with outside temperature than it will if you just put them to hot boiling pot?
minus-squareRhaedas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·21 days agoNo, it’s a fallacy. What is true is called “creeping normality”, and it’s absolutely what humans do to large scale and/or slow changes.
Isn’t it for all animals. If you keep slowly increasing temperature their body temperature will more easily come to equilibrium with outside temperature than it will if you just put them to hot boiling pot?
No, it’s a fallacy. What is true is called “creeping normality”, and it’s absolutely what humans do to large scale and/or slow changes.