(just look how long it took them to find the Malaysian airline that crashed last year, 90days)
That was because the owners refused to pay to have it tracked. If they did they would know exactly where it ditched into the ocean almost instantly. This will not be forced onto aircraft owners to prevent this in future.
you can't get Salmonella poisoning from raw food, you only get it from off/decomposing food.
Just like you do not get AIDs if you take a shower! Um no...
It is a bacterial gut infection. As such no matter how fresh the food is you can still get it. This is why you cannot eat industrially raised eggs raw because they might be covered with salmonella bacteria that contaminate the contents during extraction. Since this is a gut bacteria it breaks down very quickly with heat, which is why well cooked food is safe from it.
The bacteria does not particularly release harmful bi-products during break down of food. Instead if it is ingested it starts to interact with your gut and your immune system. It tries to get rid of all competing bacteria in your gut (which you need to digest food) by a variety of different processes. Particularly it tries to modify your immune system to target the other bacteria and parts of your gut where they live, which is why you become incredibly sick very fast as your body literally attacks itself. It can also release compounds to achieve a similar effect.
Various strains of it are harmless to a variety of animals. Mostly reptiles and
birds carry it as part of their gut bacteria. Some mammals also carry it but due to the vast differences between gut bacteria most mammals will die from it. Birds and reptiles are also known to die from it from time to time, but that is usually the result of particularly nasty strains or interactions between strains and other gut bacteria.
Of interesting note is that Salmonella is mostly harmless if you have no gut bacteria. In experiments conducted with rats they found that infecting a rat with normal gut cultures was always fatal yet infecting ones which had their gut cultures forcefully cleared resulted into no Salmonella related sickness and they survived.
you can survive for 40 days without food and for a few years on salt water before your liver gives out and dries up
As far as I am aware you cannot live on salt water. Not only is it not safe to drink (lots of nasty microbes in it) but our bodies are not designed to cope with the extreme salt gradient. Most people will throw up after ingesting sea water due to the high salt gradient, which makes matters worse.
It has to be drunk in very small quantities over a long time, and even then its benefits might not be worth it.
the human body is water resistant, so yes removing your clothing is both sexy smart and fun. it will be able to get dry enough without your cloths and when your cloths are rung out they will be drier too.
Except if it is cold you massively increase heat loss.
the oceans are not running out of fish. that is the stupidest idea ever.
Someone needs to watch more TV. Global fish populations are down to under 1/10th of what they were even a few decades ago.
and... in this situation it is very possible to catch both birds and fish.
Except do you want to catch birds? It has the potential to go a similar way to eating open clams.
Back in 1950 odd it used to be safe to eat raw bird products, but not anymore. All you need is a few of the bacteria in you and you will die in such a situation.
because your on an iceberg not an island
Then you are as good as dead already. Wet cloths and sub zero temperatures with no shelter.
Did you read my post well DSG? Wet clothes dramatically increase the cooling down of the body. It would take more to freeze naked than with wet clothes.
Depends on evaporation rate as that is where the extra heat loss comes from. If there are strong winds the clothing will almost certainly be better to keep on as despite being cold and wet, it still can trap air and help reduce heat loss from wind chill. If the outer layer of the clothing freezes (very cold) it is even better as then evaporation stops.
Getting out of cold wet clothing is only really helpful if you have warm blankets or clothing on standby to get into as that immediately warms you up again. It is also useful if the water temperature is significantly colder than the air temperature since you will lose a lot of heat warming the water up.
Let us be frank. If you are cold and wet, stranded on a piece of very cold ice possibly being blasted by very cold and strong winds you are as good as dead. Only extremely fit, well trained and adapted people could survive that, of which most of the world, and most certainly you, are not.
Every year here in Scotland several people die due to swimming in loches. How? Well below 2 feet or so of warmish summer water (15 degrees or less, enough of it to fool a lot of people) the water temperature drops to freezing or below. They hit that cold water, get into difficulties due to the cold shock and then drown or die from the cold.
I can assure you that if you crashed into the cold water and managed to get on shore of your piece of ice, you would be so stuffed at that point that you will probably die shortly afterwards.
