Visiting the HOTTEST place on earth (70°C, 159°F), quickly realizing I wouldn’t last here | reaction

[@davidbrock1565]

Thanks! Not a fan of the heat but am a fan of the channel. 👍

[@OriginalBaconPancakes]

You are my favorite reactor by a mile.

[@NoProtocol]

So glad you’re liking the videos!

[@AAAbatterye2]

The 70 or 80C temps recorded were surface temps not air temps? I don't think that can dethrone Death Valley. Needs more data. I've been to Furnace Creek when it was the same temp as what the guy showed in this video ~129F, can confirm breathing gets difficult, and it's extremely bright. I was only out in the lake bed for about 20min so nothing was melting and my electronics didn't stop working.

[@HowardMoon56]

Right now, there's a heat wave in my country, 35°C, and humidity is enormous. I'm sweating like a pig for weeks now, and I'm irritated most of the day because of it, and this video came at the right moment, it humbled me a bit. That picture behind you is great btw.

[@NoProtocol]

Good luck with the heat wave!

[@earthwormandruw]

@@HowardMoon56 I dunno why this reminded me of my an ex. She used to say, you know it's hot outside when you go outside and it's hot outside.

[@-RoyBatty-89]

People laugh at the UK weather, a running joke, but we have it really good in reality. Nice moderate temps year around. 4 distinct seasons, but never reaches extremes. Us, New Zealand and the Nordic countries are best placed to handle climate change. I have Celt genes so I'll always take the cold over the heat.

[@seanodwyer4322]

what ever is wrong with the new zealand climate ahh not sure as allways wake upp a 7 a.m. with a blocked nose , and sinus problem, - Have too reach for all the treatments Doctors gave me - inhalers/ salt/water mixed solution , and sinus squat treatment in a plastic bottle where ahh have too shoot liquid upp nose holes for urgent damn relief. How long ahh can keep upp with the torture ahh do not know but may have too get a passport too fly too a better climate for my 24/7 sinus hellish problem.

[@mortensen1961]

35°C. . . . A typical Bullhead City, AZ summer evening. . . .

[@JMise]

As a Finn, last time I was in +70C temperature was in a sauna that hadn't yet warmed up :)

[@abruemmer77]

Best comment!

[@jonothandoeser]

You Finns and your damn saunas!!!

[@PittbuII]

Sauna and a lot of 60 proof homemade liquor then straight into a hole in the ice on the lake 😂 Did it once and never again..

[@jonothandoeser]

@@PittbuII THOSE CRAZY FINNS!!!

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

lol.

[@Outland9000]

Thanks for the celsius conversions... I'm lost with fahrenheit. This place is basically a little piece of Arrakis, so obviously book recommendation would be Dune. Music suggestions? Well... There is Darude - Sandstorm! 😂 or perhaps Desert Plains - Judas Priest.

[@EdMac40]

Before moving to The Philippines, I asked an acquaintance who had worked in Jakarta for 3 years how he dealt with the weather. He said that the first year was tough, but then he acclimated to the heat. We'll, I've been here for 13 years. Sorry. No. I'm with you. I'd rather be in the coldest place than the hottest. Great video. As always, love ya.

[@DAM13N996]

The coldest place in the world requires your car to run year-round just so the liquids don't freeze

[@CarlosRenfroe]

I remember stepping off the plane in Dubai and the heat just assaulting my face and that's nowhere close to this. Living in the South US makes me hate humidity worse.

[@christopherwalker9118]

I'm a fan of the heat as long as water is available. I grew up in it so can acclimate quicker than most. I'd gladly rather spend my time dealing with that as opposed to the cold. Hat tip to the humidity in the South. It makes it harder for the sweat on a person's skin to evaporate, and thus makes a person feel the apparent temperature to be higher. I guess because of my acclimatization, I'm not a big sweater and thus the heat + humidity doesn't seem to be an issue for me.

[@idot3331]

25:26 I would assume that when cars melt in hot weather, it's usually because of a window or other reflective structure magnifying the sunlight and causing much higher temperatures than would occur naturally. It famously occured in London, which only has a record temperature of 40C / 104F, due to a concave shaped glass skyscraper which perfectly focused the sunlight onto the street below, but I assum it can happen in hotter climates with less extreme magnification.

[@FutureAbe]

As a Nordic man, who can barely stand 30 degrees Celsius… this may as well be Mars.

[@polskisernik8470]

mars average temperature during the day is -27 celcius

[@FutureAbe]

@@polskisernik8470 In that case, I would prefer that

[@Svensk7119]

Venus. May as well be Venus. Mars is cold. Venus... is not.

[@Pterodactylus548]

The temperature in Finnish saunas is 80 to 110 °C (176 to 230 °F), usually 80-90 °C (176-194 °F), and is kept clearly above the dewpoint despite the vaporization of löyly water, so that visible condensation of steam does not occur as in a Turkish sauna. Luckily we are in there less than 15 min. and get out in snow or cold shower - and go back... "Sauna culture in Finland" kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4rCkIKFmNtgY68

[@earthwormandruw]

I took my van that was infested with termites to the Mojave dessert. Termites can't survive 120°F. No more termites (:

[@NoProtocol]

This is a good fun fact to know

[@earthwormandruw]

@@NoProtocol It's a non chemical way of termination. You can tent a house and just raise the temperature instead of fumigating with chemicals.

[@Stogie2112]

I won’t ask about the stench coming from dead termites….😱

[@earthwormandruw]

@@Stogie2112 No need to since there isn't and wasn't any.

[@cybercat1531]

Dead insects in general just don't smell.

[@brianofphobos8862]

That was insane. Well done!

[@iohn8688]

Hottest temp i've been in was around 50C, doing road work in the outback.. The summers were brutal and the winters were.. well brutal lol 35C felt like a nice winters day when compared.

[@wescraven2606]

He needs one of those stillsuits, from the Dune books, to recapture his water.

[@module79l28]

7:07 - The hottest temperature I had to go through here where I live in Central Portugal was 46ºC (~115ºF) and it wasn't a one-off, temperatures ≥ to 45ºC (~113ºF) happened at least in 5 years between 2003 and now and in some places around the country they lasted more than one day in a row. That might not seem much but never before 2003 we had temperatures above 40ºC (~104ºF) so often during the Summer or temperatures above 35ºC (~95ºF) in March/April or October.

[@Yarenoglu]

Ayyy it's my favourite reactor with one of my favourite documentary channels Ruhi! Pls more Ruhi videos pls! Also, I don't know what it is but you look super cute today. The dress really suits you and I like your hair. I don't know if it's the Ruhi effect but you're just gleaming :D

[@FortniteTOM]

9:57 He drinks Fizzy Bubbly. like in "Don't Mess With The Zohan"

[@hesketh1965]

That was brilliant, I'd love to hear a biologist explain how complex life can thrive in such a harsh environment.

[@mattsmith5421]

Because they're built like that. Look up extemeophiles there's lots of types. What I find mad are the fish at the bottom of Mariana trench the pressure pushing their body's inwards is like having 144 jumbo jets on your big toe.

[@boris---]

6:45 In EU... Air conditioning in the office is listed as a 'bonus' for job applicants.

[@deucedaprodeuca]

This is amongst my favorite videos you reacted to.

[@Stogie2112]

One year in my Wisconsin city, I had 108 F in the summer and -36 six months later in the winter. That was one crazy year. 😲

[@kenhobbs8565]

Hottest temperature I've been in was Death Valley Badwater Basin 55 deg C / 131 deg F. It felt like my eyeballs were boiling after being outside the air conditioned car for only 5 mins. Can't image a temperature higher than that.

[@davidashe6532]

124 degrees in Phoenix AZ and I did not have A/C , true if you open the window it's like a hair dryer on high, I rolled my window back up. Also one Christmas Eve a guy selling trees in a t- shirt was on the news when it snowed after dark, someone brought him a coat.

[@alolkoydesigns]

Something I remember about being in Death Valley is that people will disappear into the waviness as the heat distorts the light after a few hundred yards. I can see how a person could easily get lost that way

[@PittbuII]

Yeah if you go to a place called “death valley” and isn’t careful enough i would say Darwin Award is pretty accurate.

[@JRush374]

Cold can also burn. I once got a co2 tank filled for paintball and they filled it up too much. On the way home I was holding it between my legs and had my hands around the valve. Suddenly it vented and filled the car with opaque gas immediately and no one could see anything. It burned my left hand badly, thumb and forefinger and the space between which was exposed to the gas coming out. For about a decade I had no feeling in the space between the fingers. I could pinch it with my nails as hard as possible and felt nothing. It's now 20 years later and I can feel there again.

[@MrTjonke]

Was 119.4F in Las Vegas yesterday, was hottest I'd experienced.

[@guyfrape687]

Desert music: Blues For The Red Sun, second studio album by Kyuss, particularly the tracks Thumb, Green Machine (written by Bjork) and Mondo Generator. Essentially the sound of being spaced out in the desert. They later morphed into Queens Of The Stone Age then Eagles Of Death Metal, but before that there were the interim Desert Sessions albums which were tripped out AF

[@nathanacosta8654]

Just last year parts of Arizona in the Sonoran Desert where I live had 31 straight days higher than 110f

[@icfrac8481]

i just moved to south east of Spain, tomorrow its 45c here.. i'm dutch can barely handle a little walk to the town and back.. 70c is crazy

[@dquanissavage6287]

No Protocol Awesome Video Today!!🔥🐐🐐💎

[@jhold7553]

I've sat in a 140degree sauna but I'd imagine it's a way different heat, especially with the sun. I would think it's very oppressive. Ill take the cold

[@deucedaprodeuca]

Thank goodness it's only been between 103° & 117° where I live for the past 2 weeks.

[@stevep2430]

Surface temp. is not the way temperature is measured, it must be measured at least 2 meters above the surface for a true temperature.

[@vogel2280]

5 years ago the Netherlands was hit with 40C (first time in recorded history) This year we have been in some kind of 'monsoon' from september 2023 up to july 2024, some kind of year-round Autumn. Western European climate seems to be destabilizing. The warmest I ever encountered was either Budapest of Southern Spain (Grenada) at approx 43C

[@joeb2487]

The hottest place I've been was Egypt where it regularly got above 45°c and I couldn't be outside for more than 20 minutes at a time. In 2022, it reached 38°c in Yorkshire where I live and it was hellish. The heat in the UK is different to the high temperatures in other places. You literally feel like you're melting.

[@earthwormandruw]

Imagine being able to have a medium rare stake just by setting it outside for 30 min.

[@dingleberrysnigglefritz]

Yeah, 160 is well done. Not sure how long it would take, but it would get there.

[@c_n_b]

You shouldn't eat wood though

[@earthwormandruw]

@@c_n_b We shouldn't do a lot of things, but when the stakes are high I'm willing to to give it a go.

[@e1123581321345589144]

or becoming a medium steak by just by setting it outside for 30 min

[@pkleo73]

@@earthwormandruw Jiimmy McGill drank pee 'shrugs' lol

[@EricJacobson1990]

Hottest temperature I've ever seen was 48 Celsius in the Dead Sea Valley. But the hottest I've seen at home was in June 2021, in Victoria BC, during the "heat dome" we had - it was 45 Celsius! So dang humid! I was at work (im a carpenter, so outside with a tool pouch on and my beer belly) just dizzy with the heat! My safety guy found me at about 11am and was like "why the fuck are you still here!" Not having AC at home that day sucked! Thankfully the pacific is cold as fuck (at least it always is in the Juan de Fuca Straight), so I went and cooled down at the beach by Albert Head Lagoon.

[@thewhat6219]

I enjoy the heat over the cold, but that's ridiculous. It's a toss up for me between hottest and coldest. I think I might actually pick coldest over hottest in this case for the same reason you say, easier to protect yourself... But if protection isn't a factor, I guess I'd rather overheat than freeze to death 😅 all I can say is I hope I never have to find out what either experience is like.

[@NoProtocol]

I’m with you: may we never find out 😂

[@thewhat6219]

@@NoProtocol Getting to the end, I changed my mind too. I think hypothermia is far more peaceful than literally melting and hot sandpaper wind. This was a great video, I never imagined anywhere harsher than the bottom of the ocean, and even worse there's still bugs! Go figure.

[@jeremys7882]

I've been in 115 F (46.1C) temperatures with a heat index of 127 F (52.8 C). I've maybe been in slightly hotter outside conditions, but that's the highest I know for sure. I worked in a warehouse for a few years, and rarely in the summer the trailers we would unload would get up to about 140 F (60 C) while sitting on the yard before we got in there. When it's that hot, it feels like walking into a sauna.

[@Nickm32797]

99 might not be bad where you are, but in Ohio with the humidity it would feel like almost 115 at least lol

[@mortensen1961]

I live in Bullhead City, AZ. It's close enough. . . . .

[@louhill5448]

I loved the words to Siavash Ghomayshi. Or the translation, at least. Beautifully written.

[@ravenward626]

I'm more of a cold weather person, but either extreme can be survived with precautions. There's an opal mining town in the Australian outback where the locals live in the mines to stay out of the heat. The miners set up a an underground village of sorts.

[@Ekrub54]

Desert song: A Horse With No Name - America.

[@Outland9000]

100%

[@JIMRECURVEGUY]

Yep was gonna comment "it looks like mars" good place for a spin off of "Fly me to the Moon" 🤣 "Fly me to Mars" I was in Iraq in 91 and it was 153 degrees F for a bit that afternoon. It was not pleasant...

[@brobaklat]

It was not 153 degrees. The hottest place ever on earth was in 1913 in Death Valley at 134 degrees

[@JIMRECURVEGUY]

@@brobaklat oh blah blah blah, I was there we had orders to stay in our gp large tents out of the sun. We got an all clear around 8pm. 3rd armored division. Also I've done the NTC in death valley. 117 degrees was the highest that first week.

[@brobaklat]

@@JIMRECURVEGUY I don't think the Guinness book of world records lies

[@JIMRECURVEGUY]

@@brobaklat no one from Guinness was there in the middle of a military campaign.

[@daveffs1935]

I lived in the UAE for a while, mid to high 50s were a thing in summer. If you've ever taken a lungful of hot air from the hair dryer, breathing is like that, just constantly. You try to move from aircon to aircon, anything that happens outdoors happens after sunset.

[@stimpsonjcat26]

Worked in a plant that heat treated parts and it was common for the building to reach 135 degrees. You would go outside in 90 to a 100 degrees and get chills and goosebumps. Didn't work there for long.

[@Svensk7119]

I remember when I was in Daharan, in the Khobar Towers in '92. We'd come out of them at night when it was 80°s, and those of us wearing glasses would have them fog over from the air conditioning inside the buildings, and we were not too far from the Persian Gulf. During the day, it was 120°s.

[@360SquadronFrodo]

Other than firefighting hot wear training, which is really warm...😄 I've worked on a a US Navy flight deck where at points of the day with the aircraft operating it was around 60°C 🥵

[@80s_kid]

2:20 IMO even the 99°F is much for many of us. Sitting on the beach under an umbrella is okay but if you want to do any productive activity (not to mention work), it just makes your life difficult. (I'm obviously referring to situations without AC.)

[@abruemmer77]

The warmest temp in Hamburg or Lower Saxony was just over 40°C

[@nNicok]

I wonder if a pcm would help in that climate. There is an interesting video a salt based pcm that "nighthawkinlight" creates in his newest video. He also has an interesting one about radiative cooling paint that he DIYed. And if you want another recommendation he has a video on him making a special handheld firework from japan that he learned from a master.

[@AndrewNinov]

@NoProtocol Here's a quote from Rumi for you: "You are not just a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop."

[@JustinB-123]

My dream is to live somewhere that stays about 75°F year round. I don't like extreme temperatures at all, but I would take extreme cold over extreme heat if I had to choose.

[@KaiSellgren]

Madeira, Portugal

[@DreadnoughtMetal2006]

Or the Azores..?

[@SimonJM]

Considering, with just a little exaggeration, that after around 80F I need to stand in a bucket and melt gently I can say, about the Lut desert: "sod that for a game of soldiers!" I am fully with you about preferring the cooler end of thingsand have, many times, used a similar statement to you regarding just how much you can take off in hot weather. Book(s); the first 3 in the Dune trilogy which stretched to 6 or so? (not read the rest so can't be sure of them) by Frank Herbert. Music: as bird migration was mentioned: "Flight of the Snow Goose" by Camel

[@geoffaustin9141]

I'm from Ireland and around 21°C with minimal wind is enough for most of us natively here

[@PhantomoftheFruits]

The hottest I've ever been in was anywhere from 117-120°. Tomorrow, it's 113° and temps wont drop below 110° until friday. Arizona is fun.

[@1fortheroad1]

Yeah, anything over 20C and my ac is on. I don't control the AC/heat and it's usually 18 inside, 20+ outside

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

A music recommendation will always be Epica, symphonic metal from my Netherlands:) They also have softer music and some inspired by middle eastern and Indian sounds and philosophy. Funny enough, their band started out as 'sahara dust' which seems appropriate here ;) To pick a song that matches this clip i think: Code of life - afas concert. i love this band, my all time favorite. Greetz from the Netherlands 🇳🇱

[@kahnzilla]

that is not a desert, that is a outdoor convection oven .

[@AnotherPointOfView944]

aka air fryer

[@ahmedsalim571]

I visited fam in Cairo and experienced the worst heat of 127f and now I love winter 😂

[@Osirisoasis]

I love that black and white shirt. It reminds me of the yin yang symbol. Lightness and darkness 🎭

[@will4us]

Hey ❤ Your hair wow 😍

[@NoProtocol]

Hi again

[@ROBOTRIX_eu]

under 47ºC Sun i worked in, many years ago.. When we're younger, we tolerate it better, i think..maybe that's why i hate Summer now..at least here, in Portugal ... ..the guys who want to move to Mars, should move to this place in video..

[@mortensen1961]

Of course Furnace Creek, CA, in Death Valley would have a surface temperature of 201 °F, recorded in the Seventies. . .

[@grantbowers1186]

The hottest I was in was in 2007 Iraq, it got to about 124 degrees Fahrenheit, plus relative heat on top. And driving a vehicle with to AC. I prefer extreme cold versus extreme heat

[@ThePunisher014]

26:50 like most persian and turkish vocabulary, it stems from Arabic. Persian in comparison to Arabic is much much easier though obviously. An Iranian colleague has once told me that south west Iran still speaks Arabic till this day.

[@southbeatz8441]

I couldn't imagine how brutal deserts like that would be. Here in FL we have the ocean breeze making it more pleasant outside. 100F or even 105F doesn't bother me at all but I still wouldn't want to experience 150F and higher.

[@Terji]

definitely taking the cold over the heat

[@sparkyfromel]

Can't compare , ground temperature is a bad measure but I've worked in Saudi Arabia by 53 D centigrade ( there was no shade ) it was during a sand storm with sand in your mouth , nose and eyes and worked outside for twelve hours drinking 20 liters of water a day and yes screens go black also worked in Northern Russia by -35 , in both cases the locals were telling up it could get worst

[@Lexy-O]

I live in a hot place. Yesterday was 113 degrees Fahrenheit and I’ve experienced as much as 126 Fahrenheit but it was in a car that overheated and I had to turn on the heat to cool the engine so it was probably double that in the car. There is no cold shower in hot places. The cold water comes in over 100 degrees

[@foccalabindella2]

im dealing with sunburn and watching this makes me feel like im in a fridge 🤣🤣🤣

[@greenyoshi48]

this is why I love the winter over the summer.

[@NoProtocol]

I like that the sun is out longer in summer, but winter weather

[@CarlosRenfroe]

Interesting burn story, but a cold burn. I was servicing liquid oxygen into a B-52 and a drop of LOX got past my leather glove and touched the wool insert covering my hand. Liquid oxygen BOILS -297.3°F. Even though it didn't touch my skin, it made my entire arm ache up to my elbow.... won't do that again.

[@J_P1]

Like sands through the hour glass, So are the days of our lives. ⏳️🔥🔥

[@ezraanderson1190]

It feels like the hottest place on earth where i live sometimes, but i know its not true. This place is another level. Hello 😁

[@juliusperseus8612]

Fahrenheit degrees will never make sens to me. _"99 degrees is Normal temperature"_ 💀

[@leolex1289]

Real life DUNE

[@toecutterjenkins]

I was at firebird International Raceway outside Phoenix, 126 f, it was brutal , I was hiding in the shade of light posts. When the sun went down, the hot , dry air was actually quite nice without the sun trying to kill you.

[@keithkearns93]

It’s a wonder he didn’t meet an Aussie enjoying a few beers on a warm day . 51.8 c is the highest temperature at my place and the thermometer died when we tried to measure ground temperature .

[@seanodwyer4322]

keith- Must be Marble Bar.

[@JC-tq8gm]

This is not the official world record air temp. That is an analysis of surface temperatures, not recorded air temps, which is usually done in the shade I believe.

[@philipdavison6523]

You found another good one for us. Now compare with the Astrum video about our sister planet Venus and the extreme, (by our standards), conditions that exist there.

[@FuzzCheck]

NP... You leave me speechless. I love your videos. Your content is quite specific and of high quality. Your appearance and knowledge are pure phenomenon. I mean it well, but I would like to know people like you in my social vicinity. Keep up the good work, otherwise I'd have to look for it in both the hottest and coldest places on the planet. 👍

[@charlesf2804]

I would opt for the coldest place. I remember playing basketball in a neighbor's back yard as a youth in November; temperature was perhaps upper 40s/low 50s. I was the only one sweating. I overheat easily, so give me cold.

[@MikeHanson-xi5iu]

Those tires are entirely to low unless they're specially designed for that region. Even that wouldn't convince me. 🌞

[@sentinel1597]

The hottest temperature I can remember was 45 °C (113 °F). Temperature here is around that during Summer (Brazil)

[@mattsmith5421]

35c and im sat in my kecks sweating like a pregnant nun. Last year or maybe the year before we had 3 days at 40c and 99 humidity it was awful no ac and some houses in London went up in flames.

[@davidb1630]

Death Valley holds the record for the highest air temperature on the planet: On 10 July 1913, temperatures at the aptly named Furnace Creek area in the California desert reached a blistering 56.7°C (134.1°F). Average summer temperatures, meanwhile, often rise above 45°C (113°F).

[@AgentDynamic]

Outfits? I recommend a Stillsuit from "Dune".

[@TheGabrielPT]

Damn, the highest I've experienced was 45°C and it was absolute hell, I cannot imagine what 70 feels like

[@DPCDARK]

Officially the earth can miss me with both locations! If I had to choose hand me a loincloth and a shemagh.🙃🙃

[@mortensen1961]

"The World's On Fire". . . .Strawberry Alarm Clock. . . .

[@hapa817]

And I'm complaining about 90°F weather 🥵. My music recommendation is George Benson - Breezin.

[@mikkohapponen5728]

I'll take cold every day. Suffering when closing 30c/under 100f. Only been in -40c but i think i would survive better in cold

[@dependent-wafer-177]

In extreme cold temperatures, everything freezes including the layers of dresses you are wearing.

[@fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617]

Highest tempratue this year was 27° Celsius in the UK. We have broken the record coldest and wetest year for three years in a row!

[@idot3331]

And yet at the same time the ever recorded UK temperature of 40.3 C occured in 2022. The weather is getting more unstable and extreme in all ways - higher average global temperature means not just more intense heatwaves, but more intense atmospheric disturbance, precipitation and disruption of the usual season cycles.

[@caribbeanman3379]

The human body is better adapted to cope with extreme cold than extreme heat. In fact, we function best between the upper 60s and low 70s Fahrenheit.

[@tprnbs]

I would choose extreme cold over extreme heat, I'd rather freeze to death than burn alive Music: Def leppard - "Desert song", Bananarama - "Cruel Summer"

[@Svensk7119]

Despite everything we hear about global warming, hypothermia kills far more people every year than hyperthermia.

[@module79l28]

That ground is what I would call "the floor is lava" but "lava" that you can stand on. 😄 I wonder what the soles of their footwear was made of to be able to sustain those temperatures... Edit: Nevermind, I hadn't yet reached that part of the video (7:58). They should've known better than to go to such a place wearing normal footwear. Also, do you know why they deflated the tyres? Let me know by replying to this comment. 🙂

[@grumpyboomer61]

I've been to places where the daytime temperatures averaged 120°+, and that was manageable. This, on the other hand, is too much.