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People Are Fascinated By This Video Showing Human Body Losing Its Heat When Exposed To The Blistering Cold Conditions
People of YouTube have proved many times that even the most ordinary things can appear extremely cool and exciting when showed from some kind of a different point of you. This video created by a YouTube channel BBC Earth Unplugged is a really good example of that.
One of the creators of the channel named Oli Martin has filmed a video using a thermal imaging camera to show how the human body loses its heat when exposed to the cold.
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“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,” reads the description of the video.
Image credits: BBC Earth Unplugged
At the beginning of the video, the guy stands in front of the camera wearing a full-on winter outfit. Then he starts taking off his clothes bit by bit, showing how the temperature of his body is changing.
“The spots on my skin are caused by falling snow hitting my body and cooling it down”
Image credits: BBC Earth Unplugged
In the beginning, you can see that his body is all red which means that it’s warm. But then as time passes and snow hits him, his body turns yellow and then green, indicating that the body is cooling down.
Image credits: BBC Earth Unplugged
“This thermal-imaging camera allows you to vividly see how cold conditions could be so perilous”
Image credits: BBC Earth Unplugged
Later, he takes a handful of snow, forms a snowball out of it and put his cold hand on his chest. After the man removes his hand from the skin, you can see that it has left a green handprint on his chest.
And it looks oddly fascinating
Image credits: BBC Earth Unplugged
Image credits: BBC Earth Unplugged
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Kerless Wispa 4 years ago
So taking off your shirt in the blistering cold leads to heat loss. Who knew.
Peter Kelly 4 years ago
I really loathe it when people quote the nonsense that you lose 90% of body heat through your head and hands, using it as an excuse for wearing gloves and a hat while running in a vest and shorts. My answer is to challenge them: We must both go to the Antarctic and stand outside. They can't wear anything except as many hats and gloves as they like, while I'll not wear a hat and gloves but as many layers as I like on my body. Let's see who dies first...
Astrid Nineor 4 years ago
Yup. If I remember correctly it is about 10% (due to surface ratio) I prefer warm clothes all over though
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Kerless Wispa 4 years ago
So taking off your shirt in the blistering cold leads to heat loss. Who knew.
Peter Kelly 4 years ago
I really loathe it when people quote the nonsense that you lose 90% of body heat through your head and hands, using it as an excuse for wearing gloves and a hat while running in a vest and shorts. My answer is to challenge them: We must both go to the Antarctic and stand outside. They can't wear anything except as many hats and gloves as they like, while I'll not wear a hat and gloves but as many layers as I like on my body. Let's see who dies first...
Astrid Nineor 4 years ago
Yup. If I remember correctly it is about 10% (due to surface ratio) I prefer warm clothes all over though
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