Shirtless Heat Loss Experiment In Freezing Conditions #Winterwatch - Earth Unplugged

Using the military spec Selex Merlin thermal imaging camera, Oli Martin vividly shows how the human body loses heat when exposed to the blistering cold of the Scottish highlands.

Earth Unplugged are with the #Winterwatch team up in the beautiful Cairngorms in the east highlands of Scotland. During the week we'll be releasing videos from Scotland showing some of the breathtaking animals found here as well as highlighting the intrepid production crew that bring the Winterwatch show to life!

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+11 1. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

"Cool" science and then some.. <3
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0 2. Judge-Jake commented 8 years ago

I don't even know the guy but I was so relieved when he put his clothes back on :|
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+2 3. martynbiker commented 8 years ago

*Filmed in MY HOUSE ( yes its THAT COLD!!!!)
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+2 4. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

#2 Had you known him, you would've been more comfortable with his clothes off?.. >:) :squirrel:
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+2 5. s1nn0cence commented 8 years ago

Hey, what do you know? If you remove your clothes in cold weather, YOUR BODY GETS COLD. Mindblowing.
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+1 6. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

#5 Yeah, but the imaging is awesome...
#3 You have a heater in your house? I sure hope so :(
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+1 7. Judge-Jake commented 8 years ago

#4 I wasn't uncomfortable I just wanted him to be more comfortable >:)
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+1 8. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

#7 Okay, fair enough, I'll shut up now.. ;) >:) :squirrel:
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+2 9. kirkelicious commented 8 years ago

It is clearly a case of paradoxical undressing, a bizarre phenomenon that makes people with hypothermia discard their clothes. This is actually quite common and seems to occur in about 25% of cases of lethal hypothermia.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7632602
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+2 10. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

#9 Geez...had never heard about that one before..
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+1 11. snotraddict commented 8 years ago

#9 are you sure 99% of that 25% aren't drunk? >:)


That's interesting, I had to look it up. This tries to explain why which kind of makes sense. http://www.livescience.com/41730-hypothermia-terminal-burrowing-paradoxical-undressing.html

What amazed me is how high the temp is for the term hypothermia, only 95F core temperature. I would have guessed it much lower. It's amazing how fragile we really are yet seem so robust overall.
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+4 12. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

We are warm blooded organisms, our window of normothermia being very narrow, compared to cold blooded organisms, reptiles for instance, whose range of normothermia is very wide..