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The Annoyed Man wrote:

puma guy wrote:I was watching a History Channel show about Neanderthals. I didn't catch it all but they were showing some pools of water from a volcanic source and said the water temperature was 300 Degrees F. Like new math I guess that's the new physics.

Maybe they meant a nice balmy 300º Kelvin......which would be a comfortable 80.33º F.

That's probably it, TAM, they just forgot to mention which scale they were using.

I often quote the speed my vehicle will achieve in furlongs per fortnight.

ShootDontTalk wrote:With all due respect, if you're watching the History Channel and expecting to find real history, or anything else accurately portrayed, you'd be better off watching Bugs Bunny. They have, pardon the pun, a pretty sad history of gross inaccuracies.

MONGOOSE wrote:Your assumption that I want to belittle others is rather presumptuous . I have no desire to do that. Since pressurized water can obtain temps of 700 degrees F, I don' think finding 300 degree water is too far a reach.

The problem being that they stated that it was a volcanic pool at the surface under normal atmospheric pressure and as you have stated, the water must be pressurized in order to reach higher temperatures. Water lying in pools, even fed from volcanic vents, is not pressurized.