I seem to remember that the time quoted for aircrew who bailed out into the North Atlantic during wintertime was four minutes, after which they were no longer capable of self-help.
There is a HUGE difference between freezing to death in ice-cold water, and freezing to death in a freezer.
They were only in the freezer for a few minutes, and it takes time to cool down. There's not going to be any wind in there either so it could take a good half-hour, if not more like four hours to actualy DIE from the cold, depending on just how cold it gets in there.
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StoneGriffin
16 years ago
Correct. The heat transfer from cold air is much slower than the heat loss from being immersed in cold water. I think from a science oriented show that talked about the subject of how long it takes to die in cold weather, at a preexisting temperature of 10 degrees Fahrenheit (which is what many commercial meat lockers have since they want to make sure large cuts of meat get frozen before they have time to spoil), one would be dead in about 90 minutes - 2 hours, but you'd go insane and take off all your clothes just before you die since the body reacts strangely to cold. When you are close to dying of hypothermia, your body actually feels really HOT so many freezing victims actually become delusional and take off their clothes thinking that they are roasting to death.
They just turned down the temp in the freezer where they locked Charli so it would take several hours for her and her daughter to freeze to death. But the time is affected by many factors, weight, mass, efficiency of the freezer, other heat sources, etc. etc.
Dr. Kila Marr was right. Kill the Crystalline Entity.
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StoneGriffin
15 years ago
hahaha. I was actually just recently watching a show about ALASKA (well two shows if you count ICE road Truckers) and these people routinely seem to step out in temperatures colder than 20 below Zero (Fahrenheit) and seem to be okay. Sure they're all bundled up. But People near the Arctic circle seem to take the cold pretty well. I kinda remember Timothy turning the dial way down, so I don't know what the exact temperature was supposed to be, but it was supposed to be really cold.
You are right. the little girl WAS wearing a winter jacket so she did have some protection, but it was Charli who was wearing a thin T-shirt and who probably would have frozen to death sooner.
Dr. Kila Marr was right. Kill the Crystalline Entity.
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donalob87
15 years ago
I'll never let go Jack!
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StoneGriffin
15 years ago
Yes, and since we're remembering Titanic, If you fall and get immersed in the waters of the North Atlantic, you have about fifteen minutes before you're dead, (I've heard about 4 1/2 minutes before you start losing your ability to think or move correctly). Since you're immersed in water and there is no air near your skin to insulate you from the cold, you lose your core body heat almost immediately.
Dr. Kila Marr was right. Kill the Crystalline Entity.
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SonicAndy
15 years ago
"Hmmmm, 10 degrees Fahrenheit. That's about -12 degrees Celsius. In that temperature, I'm sure it would take a lot longer than 2 hours to die if you are wearing pants and a shirt and you keep moving yourself."
-12 Celsius wouldn't kill anyone anytime soon. Certainly not a trained assassin. If they went down to -25 - -30, then maybe something would happen, but it would still take time, even if she was stark naked.
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