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Aliens have placed you in a tub of hot water. The source of heat has been turned off, but if you do not act quickly you will lose consciousness and die from the heat. Within your reach are numerous large bags of sugar, a huge plastic statue of a religious figure, a paper fan, and a jar of peanut butter. Your captors will not allow you to leave the hot tub for five minutes. What is your best strategy for survival?
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Reach for the sugar bags. Tear them open and dump the sugar into the water since energy is used in the dissolving process. Additionally, if the statue is large, you can place it in the tub and displace some of the water, providing you with some relief. You may also be able to climb on the statue to get some relief.Hide Answer Show Answer
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or i said you could also use the statue to dig out the peanutbutter from the jar and use that to scoop out the water.
Or you could leave the tub for more than five minutes
or start praying to the religious figure's statue.
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could have been a lot of stuff (or you could have shoved the peanut butter up your nose and sneezed all the water out of the tub and then asked the statue to bless you).............waste of time
Why couldn't you just fan yourself? I might be being thick, but isn't 40% of your body heat lost from your head? and your head presumably isn't underwater so you could loose the heat energy by sweating, keeping your head cool and you conscious.
If the water is boiling, you're gonna get burnt to a speck anyway. If it's not boiling, sit back and enjoy the hot tub experience.
Oct 03, 2002
Leave the tub for four minutes at a time. Leaving it for five minutes means you did leave it for four minutes.
or you could ask the aliens to turn you into a horsefly so you could win a million dollars
Steph, a fan doesn't actually make you cooler, you just feel that way because of the moving air. It might work if you fan the water, I don't know. I like this teaser, but I'm not sure why.....
great teaser....for once we have one that is ORIGINAL
I agree with style89. If the water is so hot that it would eventually kill you, your skin would be scalded almost immediately, you will pray for a quick death and you would probably loose conscienceness from the extreme pain long before you actually die.
Actually, fanning yourself with a paper fan makes you HOTTER than if you didn't use one at all. Sure, your face feels better, but your core body temperature raises at least 1-2 degrees Fahrenheit!
Sep 28, 2007
Why wouldn't you just splash all the water out of the tub using your hands?? You don't need any tricks or tools. Sometimes the simplest answer is not so obvious.
frankenweoburger -- A fan can't make a room or a dog cooler, but it *can* make a human cooler by increasing the rate of water evaporation. The effectiveness in this type of situation depends on how well you're hydrated at the beginning.
But, being as this is a paper fan, you're probably making things worse because of the exertion needed to wave it (I assume that's the source of temperature increase referenced by cyberstar5150).
But, being as this is a paper fan, you're probably making things worse because of the exertion needed to wave it (I assume that's the source of temperature increase referenced by cyberstar5150).
Ithought the source of heat is suppose to be turn on NOT off...
I thought the source of heat is suppose to be turn on NOT off...
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