[TML] Low Berths

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 2 Aug 2008 at 22:16, Jerry W Barrington wrote:

> On 8/2/08 9:36 PM, "Robert O'Connor" <robocon at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > By reducing metabolic rate by a factor of 60, body temperature falls
> > over 4-6 hours, eventually equilibrating with room temperature. This is
> > a consequence of physiology and physics, and kind of hard to handwave away.
> 
> All your comments following this seem to be derived from the body
> temperature problem...
> 
> Never heard of blankets & heating pads?!?

Not practical if you are going to be moving around.

*Years* back the list's resident medic did a rather thorough 
breakdown of all the things that would happen with fast drug. Most of 
them even worse than the listed items.

I do recall that if you raise the body temp without increasing the 
metabolic rate the body is apt to *rot*.


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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com