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  • PDFuego@lemmy.world
    71·
    1 year ago

    deserves to be frog stew (as in that boiling frog metaphor). I’d love to be proven wrong though.

    https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/12/07/3085614.htm

    Professor Hutchison says: “The legend is entirely incorrect! The ‘critical thermal maxima’ of many species of frogs have been determined by several investigators. In this procedure, the water in which a frog is submerged is heated gradually at about 2°F per minute. As the temperature of the water is gradually increased, the frog will eventually become more and more active in attempts to escape the heated water. If the container size and opening allow the frog to jump out, it will do so.”

    • megane-kun@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’m aware. Not every metaphor has to adhere to scientific fact, though it’d be neat. Thanks for the elucidation though.