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PHLdyPayne
at Fri Jun 18 17:25:22 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by PHLdyPayne ]
Heat is a form of energy which is generated by many methods. Rub your hands together vigorously and you will see heat doesn't need any ultraviolet light to occur.
The sun puts out all kinds of radiation, most of the harmful kinds are filtered out by the Earth's atmosphere. Sure there is still plenty of UV light coming in and it does excite the molecules within air to produce heat. But the point is, UVB, no matter how intense it can get on the equator during noon in direct sun, will be sufficient to kill a dragon alone. Heat will do it much faster.
The sun does produce heat, no denying that, but heat comes for many sources and all produce the same results if its too intense. So all your jumping up and down trying to prove UV kills dragons if they are exposed to high levels of it, really is pointless, if the levels alone are not sufficient to kill an animal, when the heat produced in a box in direct sunlight with no air flow and being reflected all over the place due to being fairly light in color, raising the ambient temperature within the box to lethal levels.
Heat and UVB play a factor in increasing heat inside an animal to dangerous levels, but by far the greater cause of heat stroke, is just that, heat.
Being a fair skinned person myself, I can suffer heat stroke in my apartment, in the dark, if I don't do something to prevent it. ----- PHLdyPayne
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