- nieceandtows ( @nieceandtows@programming.dev ) 41•7 months ago
It’s more like people curiously exploring and taking pictures of a receded beach just before the tsunami.
- qjkxbmwvz ( @qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ) 40•7 months ago
Not really though — from NPS:
The hottest air temperature ever recorded in Death Valley (Furnace Creek) was 134°F (57°C) on July 10, 1913. During the heat wave that peaked with that record, five consecutive days reached 129° F (54°C) or above.
I think the dinosaur moment would be more of a global phenomenon, e.g., rising ocean temperature. My understanding is that Death Valley is obscenely hot with or without humans. The rising ocean temperature and melting ice caps, on the other hand…🦖🌎💥
- Hawk ( @Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English10•7 months ago
There’s doubt about that 1913 temperature being reliable. More likely the 130°F in July 2021 is the actual record.
Also, what’s remarkable is not the record high temperature, but the fact that these temperatures are consistently returning each year.
Not even Death Valley is spared by global warming.
- wise_pancake ( @wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ) 33•7 months ago
I would be so sweaty standing there that you could white water raft down my ass crack.
- AVincentInSpace ( @AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ) English4•7 months ago
This will look great in my unusual-but-highly-descriptive metaphor collection next to “yes, you fart in your sleep, and it is not subtle at all. You sound like a saxophone full of Doritos”
- _MusicJunkie ( @_MusicJunkie@beehaw.org ) 2•7 months ago
Please share more of your collection. I’m enjoying these.
- tegs_terry ( @tegs_terry@feddit.uk ) English2•7 months ago
That’s a simile.
- Holzkohlen ( @Holzkohlen@feddit.de ) 1•7 months ago
I’d just skip past that and just keel over. I can’t even handle 35°C
- thefartographer ( @thefartographer@lemm.ee ) 15•7 months ago
How’s that ranger on the right smiling??? She’s got a fucking cable through her leg!
(I know, confusing perspective, but it took me forever to figure out what I was looking at.)
Diabetes usually leads to numbness in the extremities.
- BarqsHasBite ( @someguy3@lemmy.ca ) English3•7 months ago
What is it? I know it’s not a cable.