At work there used to be a sign on a few things that would say like "if this bubbles, run for your life" and "if you hear thumping run for cover" and "bears can and will kill you" and really in general I wish the park service was more willing to say "you are not at home, you are not at disneyland, you can die here and you can die so badly your family will have to bury an empty casket because no one will risk their own life to collect your idiot corpse."
If we're gonna make people more scared of something, it should probably be cars, infections, and heart conditions, not "outside".
THESE FACTS WILL BE RELEVANT I SWEAR:
Boiling point of water: 212°F
Crock pot temperature: 140°F-180°F
Crock pot depth (commercial, 100 gal): 3 feet, could not submerge most humans.
Meat begins to cook: 105°F
Water burns skin within 3-6 seconds: 140°F
Steak/chops/roasts are safe to eat: 145°F
Collagen melts into gelatin, meat "falls off the bone": 160-180°F
Average tourist: 30% collagen
Stomach acid: pH 1.5-3.5 (lower is more acidic)
YELLOWSTONE FACTS!
Max recorded temp of a Yellowstone pool: 280°F in Norris Basin
Depth of spring that dissolved a man: 10 feet, Norris Basin, could and did submerge an adult human
Lowest pH (most acidic) pH of a Yellowstone pool: pH 2-3 in Norris Basin
Yellowstone pools: crock pots full of stomach acid
I think if people ARE outside -- say, tourists near a spring -- they should be warned that the spring will cook them, then dissolve what is left. Because you CANNOT tell by looking.
We should be a LOT more afraid of some parts of Outside, actually.
