Question: How come 98° feels hot when your body temperature is 98°?

Because at that temperature most of the water that your body need to run properly starts leaving your body.

That's why a Hot Tub lowered to about 99-100 degrees feels fine... because you don't dehydrate as quickly.
 
Because your body is literally combusting food at all times and generating heat. It needs a somewhat cooler environment in order to transfer that heat away at the same rate it’s accumulating, or else the temp will rise and your body will use evaporative cooling (sweat) to reign it in
 
2manband said:
Because your body is literally combusting food at all times and generating heat. It needs a somewhat cooler environment in order to transfer that heat away at the same rate it’s accumulating, or else the temp will rise and your body will use evaporative cooling (sweat) to reign it in
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This is the right answer. Metabolic breakdown of food is not super efficient and most of the energy in the food is 'lost' as heat
 
2manband said:
Because your body is literally combusting food at all times and generating heat. It needs a somewhat cooler environment in order to transfer that heat away at the same rate it’s accumulating, or else the temp will rise and your body will use evaporative cooling (sweat) to reign it in
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Ah yes... that's a much more accurate way to describe evaporative heat transfer than the way I bumbled through it with the hot tub reference. :baimun:
 
All's I know is that 72 degrees is the perfect temperature to walk around completely naked in. Just be sure to get sunblock everywhere.
 
I was asking myself a similar question this morning. Why does 70° water in Maui feel so perfect when my body temperature is 98°? I have 5 more nights at this ocean front resort to figure it out.
My travel guitar joined the 38,000 feet club.
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yabba said:
Panting, licking the skin, and peeing on the skin are some other effective ways that animals use evaporative cooling!

Just some helpful suggestions for senor smurfco.
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I just saw the food poisoning thread and would like to add that flamingos will dribble shit down their legs for evaporative cooling purposes as well.

Food for thought.
 
36-38 is internal.

I have my hot tub set to 36 in summer, 38 in winter. If it's up even half a degree you feel it going in ( like climbing in a too hot bath). It's your body telling you wtf are you doing you're going to boil yourself slowly.
 
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