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Great, so we'll still be getting ripped off on international shipping 250 million years from now
I haven't contributed much here and enjoyed this. I also feel like a deserve a gold star for avoiding the urge to make NZ map joke...
Here ya go: ⭐
In saying that, I reckon a c/MapsWithoutNZ would be nice to have on this server.
Humans are pretty good at withstanding high heat compared to other animals, considering we can sweat and don't have fur. I think we'd be okay.
I've been in 45.5 degrees and it's right at the edge of what I could cope without air conditioning. I definitely couldn't farm, construct, or do any manual labour required for society to sustain itself at 60 degrees.
I once had to check a sensor that was above a boiler, the air temperature was just over 50 degrees. I walked up steps to about 10m above the ground, the temperature rising the whole time.
I by the time I was around 7m up the air was above 35 degrees and the sweating started in force. The total time in the high temperature area was probably less than 3 minutes. But FFS, 50 degrees is not sustainable for even walking up and down steps, just being there and reading the instrument wasn't too bad (for 2 minutes) as the air is super dry; but any form of exertion isn't doable for people.
I imagine we'd become a fairly nocturnal society if this happened. That, or operate all the farm equipment remotely from our subterranean bunkers.