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3:57 Okay but Simon what about the tiktok of the dude stuxk in a cave filming a bear standing like 7ft away waiting to get in
If you jump just before the elevator hits the ground you will land soft as a falling leaf, well-proven by physics.
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Don't eat snow… That's why hospitals give you ice chip instead of water….. Ok I get the calorie premise, but you can eat snow to hydrate
I don’t know if my son watched this video, but we were in an elevator (which he hates anyway) and as we were stepping out of it he told me that if it fell we shouldn’t jump. 😂
He is on the ASD spectrum, so it’s not unusual for him to pop off with things that seem to come out of nowhere. Anyway, he explained it pretty well. I’m impressed! 💜
i don't know, It my just be my age, or my training as an EMT or maybe my own desire to find out what works best… But as regards these "myths" my own view is that if you haven't given enough thought to doing what you need to do to survive, then you may be too dumb to understand what is needed even if you were told. And, that ultimately, you can't fix stupid.
A big cave fire may wake up bats? Hardly life threatening is it?
Anyone that thinks jumping while falling would help is a complete moron that was meant to live in a cartoon.
I think that the funniest thing about the "jump in the elevator" thing is that you'd be working against everything your body is telling you. It makes no sense. There's a reason why we reflexively pull our weight together and hunker downwards when we lose our footing or the ground shifts.
Jump in the elevator? You're working against 100k years of evolution, my dude. Stop.
YOU SAID SOMETHING WRONG :O 2:00 bears dont hibernate!
6:52 Birds can also eat the hottest of hot peppers without any discomfort. This is because capsaicin– the chemical that gives peppers their heat– only triggers the pain receptors in mammals. The plants on which peppers grow evolved their fruit to grow this way to ensure that only birds– who can reliably disperse the pepper's seeds, while mammals cannot– would dare to eat the fiery fruit. Of course, mankind (and apparently, chimps as well) took it as a challenge…
One can assume that certain berries are toxic to mammals, but not birds, for the same reason– the plant only trusts birds to disperse its seeds, as a bird capable of flight can take the seeds much farther from the parent plant than a mammal would.
Animals being able to safely eat things that we can't works both ways, there are things we can eat that some other animals cannot… most famously, chocolate vis-a-vis dogs. Heck, even within our own species there are things that one person can safely eat that another would have a fatal reaction to.
Building a fire at the entrance of the cave is also a bad idea, all the smoke blows in. Best place would be the end of the cave, so incase a cave in does happen you have a higher chance of escape or atleast the rocks dont fall on you.
I’ve seen YouTube videos where Russian instructors tell new soldiers to shove tampons into bullet wounds. They tell the soldiers to ask their mothers, wives and sister to sent them tampons as the Russian Army doesn’t provide them.
Combat gauze, chest seals, tournaqet, Israeli bandage.. all great things to have in your first aid kit.
I WILL NOT lay down in a falling elevator, give me another tip
Also remember that if you’re able to make a fire to melt the snow to drink. Drinking warmed water will help your body to fight off the feeling of cold.
The jumping in a falling elevator – it's inertia that everyone's forgetting about, right?!
Take a bite out of that particular mushroom featured in the video, and you'll be dead within a minute.
For a fire in a cave you need to avoid smoke and the ideal location for that is in the middle of the cave with room to walk around it. Also caves sometimes have flammable gasses which can explode, which seems more likely than a cave in from a fire.
build fire in BACK of cave against wall so smoke circles up & out. a fire @ entrance jst means yu gnna die when all tht smoke flows back inside
Put snow in a bottle, then put the bottle in your jacket. I’ve done it on backcountry snowboard tours. It works but takes some patience.
The tampon part is interesting because there is a recent video of Russian soldiers going to fighting in Ukraine being instructed to use tampons to plug bullet wounds. I could see a sanitation pad working though combined with pressure.
Many likely come from movies. People tend to watch a lot more movies then read books which hold far more accurate information than movies.
Me too😅
Wouldn’t it be the same thing with gauze? You’re still not stopping the bleeding at its source. You’d still get the cavity filling with blood, the same as packing the wound. What’s the difference between packing the wound and applying pressure, and covering the wound and applying pressure?
Anyone who thinks jumping in a falling elevator or airplane quite literally has the intellect of a really stupid 5yr old.
The cave thing actually happened where I live several years ago. I live in Minneapolis/St. Paul (Minnesota, USA) and the Mississippi River cuts through both cities, with sandstone bluffs on both sides. Of course there are caves. Some were even used by famous gangsters of the 1920s and 30s for their criminal activity, but that a whole history unto itself.
Some kids were partying in one of those old caves. They lit a fire. Three died from the CO poisoning and two survived. Two other young men had to be rescued when they went into a different cave entrance down one of the bluffs, but the cave itself was 100 feet below that entrance. Fortunately they survived. There’s many more stories of incidents involving the caves in this area going back to before Minnesota was a state.
not so long ago i learned that putting a fire close to a entrace is a fatal mistake. you block air ventilation and will suffocate. best is to put it in the center because this way the hot air can vent out of the upper half of the entrance and fresh air can flow in on the bottom half. this won't happen if you put the fire at the entrance. you will block air flow in the cave while smoke from the fire will still enter it.
at least that is what i learned about the perfect fire placement in a cave, but i am no expert
As an amateur mycologist (study of fungi), besides the obvious problem of mushroom identification being difficult, even for experts sometimes, a less well known reason not to eat any mushrooms you find is because even most "edible" species are only fully edible once cooked . Many perfectly "edible" [when cooked] species are at least going to give you GID (gastro intestinal distress, like gas or diarrhea) which wastes energy and/or hydration to fight, and there are even some mushrooms that are commonly eaten all over the world that are seriously poisonous if eaten raw. As good as they taste cooked, and as fascinating as I find them in general, mushrooms are just always going to be a truly terrible choice compared to just about anything else for anyone starving in the woods.
I mean technically, if you hit it at the right split second in the right elevator fall, you can lessen your impact from fatal to nonfatal, but not only is there not enough information to know precisely when to jump, but even with the precise information, you're significantly more likely to bounce off the ceiling and hit the ground even harder. You can think of it as like those chuck-e-cheese ticket games where, if you hit it at the precise moment, you win the jackpot, but just like these games being completely rigged, you don't know to know how far below the bottom-level of ground-floor the elevator stops at.