If suddenly exposed, what is the highest temperature a human could survive?

Question

I mean, before dying instantly.

Answer 1

a human can only servive 106 drgee temperature.

Answer 2

The nomads of Kalahari desert can survive up to 65 celsius up to 68 celsius  

Answer 3

Probably about 60 degrees!

Answer 4

* The Following Are Internal Body Temperature's

*

* 39°C (102.2°F) (Pyrexia) - Severe sweating, flushed and very red. Fast heart rate and breathlessness. There may be exhaustion accompanying this. Children and people with epilepsy may be very likely to get convulsions at this point.

* 40°C (104°F) - Fainting, dehydration, weakness, vomiting, headache and dizziness may occur as well as profuse sweating.

* 41°C (105.8°F) - (Medical emergency) - Fainting, vomiting, severe headache, dizziness, confusion, hallucinations, delirium and drowsiness can occur. There may also be palpitations and breathlessness.

* 42°C (107.6°F) - Subject may turn pale or remain flushed and red. They may become comatose, be in severe delirium, vomiting, and convulsions can occur. Blood pressure may be high or low and heart rate will be very fast.

* 43°C (109.4°F) - Normally death, or there may be serious brain damage, continuous convulsions and shock. Cardio-respiratory collapse will occur.

* 44°C (111.2°F) or more - Almost certainly death will occur; however, patients have been known to survive up to 46.5°C (115.7°F).

Answer 5

lewis , that's the internal temp limit.

It depends on the skin color and other things that come with adaptation

but this is kmclean48's answer to the same question:

" Energy is Power * Time. so if the human body can withstand

500 degrees F for say 10 seconds(guess).

it can withstand 1,000 degrees for 5 seconds and

2,000 degrees for 2.5 seconds

and 4,000 degrees 1.25 seconds

and 8,000 degrees for .625 seconds

and 1,000,000 for .005 seconds

and 10,000,000 for .0005 seconds

now you are not going to find an air temp that jumps from normal to 10,000,000 degree instantanously and stay there for only .0005 seconds and instantanously drop to normal again...but theoretically it is possible. "

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

Answer 6

Experiments show that IF, and only if, a person has ample quantities of water, and a dry atmosphere, a human can survive air temperatures of up 86 C (as high as tested may be higher), as sweating prevents the core temperature rising above 37 C.

Amazing sweat huh?

Answer 7

It is impossible to answer the question as asked. What material are they being exposed to (i.e. what is its heat capacity and thermal conductivity)? How much material is going past them? Are there convective effects? Is there radiative heating?

Fire walking is a good example: people can walk over coals radiating at 500C but don't even get burns on their feet because of low thermal conductivity of coals and the air above them.

To additional details: Dan, there still isn't enough information in your addition to answer accurately; sorry.