Showing posts with label cave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cave. Show all posts

Sunday, January 24, 2010

The crystal cave


BBC article with video

It's a very beautiful cave. What struck me was the conditions inside it:


It's about 50C in there, but it's the virtually 100% humidity added on top that makes it a potential killer.

That combination means that when you breathe air into your body, the surface of your lungs is actually the coolest surface the air encounters. That means the fluid starts to condense inside your lungs - and that's really not good news. Link

Now there's a story waiting to be told.

Thanks to Derek at Our-Local for finding this.
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