After a long day, isn't it nice to hop into
a warm, relaxing bath?
You can soak up some suds and
spend an hour or so in there.
Now, what about spending 167 hours more?
While resting in the water,
your hands and feet start to become wrinkly,
compared to the rest of your body.
We used to think that the skin in hands and feet
absorbed water, and that's what made them wrinkle.
But research has shown that vasoconstriction,
a narrowing of the blood vessels
in our fingers and toes,
is the real cause.
It takes about five minutes
for skin to start wrinkling,
but how much more intense would those wrinkles become
if you stayed in the water for a week?
Could they become dangerous?
Before we get to those scary scenarios,
you can rest easy for a bit.
Enjoy yourself!
After all, this is a bath,
and that's kind of the point.
For the first couple of hours, you can
bring your rubber ducky and
play in this nice warm water.
Yeah you'll notice wrinkles starting to form,
but there's nothing to worry about
yet
Although they might look a little strange and
gross, they actually might be helpful.
According to a handful of studies from 2011 to 2013,
these wrinkles might
actually be giving us a better grip in the water.
So if you happen to lose your soap in the bathtub,
the wrinkles might be able to help you.
Okay now, it's coming up on
24 hours out of your 168-hour experience,
and you're getting a little bored.
Your rubber ducky has deflated,
your laptop's dead, and
you're starting to feel some pain.
You'll start to notice
bubbles forming on your skin.
These are known as vesicles.
In this case, they're caused by the water in the tub
getting trapped between your outer
and middle layers of skin.
These bubbles will continue to form
the longer you're in the bath,
creating bubble filled skin, all along your body.
And as that happens, you're starting to get hungry.
Well it's unlikely you'll have
access to servants while you're in this bath,
so your best bet for getting fed
would be with a tube
filled with all the nutrients you'd need.
But then, you know what comes next.
You'd inevitably have to go to the washroom.
You'd either have to do it in the bathtub,
which would cause a number of disgusting consequences no one wants to know about,
or you could have a tube that disposes of all this.
So yeah let's go with that.
But as you've been thinking of all these
crazy ways to cope with your bodily functions,
you've been ignoring those
bubbles forming on your skin.
As time has gone on,
they've been slowly festering and growing bigger.
This will keep happening
until a couple of days into your bath marathon, when
they begin to burst.
Okay so, now your skin is starting to peel away.
And if you haven't been disposing of your waste,
you'll be in a pool full of fecal matter
with open sores all over your body.
Yes, this is the perfect way for you to get infections all over your skin.
Glad you asked.
Now if this isn't enough to worry about,
a couple of days into your bath, you'll start developing
bath sores.
These are similar to bedsores,
which happen when you lay in bed for far too long.
Since there's not much space to move around in your bath,
it could also tear your new skin bubbles,
creating even more sores.
As you're stuck in this bath,
most likely in incredible pain,
you'll realize that these sores
have been distracting you from something else that's happening.
The water has been getting colder the whole time.
If you haven't been adding in any more hot water,
and you don't have any way to sustain the temperature,
your bath could get dangerously cold.
If your bath temperature gets down between
21 to 26°C (70 to 80°F), then
spending just a couple of hours in the tub could make you pass out.
Luckily it can't kill you, as the
temperatures just aren't low enough.
But if it goes any lower,
you could end up dead.
Sounds like unless you're heavily monitored
with proper nutrition, consistent fresh water,
and some way to go to the bathroom,
this will end very badly.
I got to admit, this is a pretty awful way
to spend a week.
I mean who planned this?
Well definitely not our friends over on Monday.com.
If we were using their website,
maybe we'd be able to
coordinate the building of a spaceship rather than
suffering in a bathtub for a week.
What I'm trying to get at is,
we could be more productive.
And Monday.com significantly boosts productivity.
Not just for you, but for your entire team.
Look at this, they've got a beautiful interface
that shows who's working on what, when it's due,
it allows other team members to collaborate
and helps everyone to create their best work.
Listen we get deadlines, we all do
and if you work in an industry with a ton of them,
Monday.com can make it so much easier.
It empowers your team to work their best, completely stress free.
Now even if you did manage to survive the stress of all this,
you'd come out a very different person.
I mean with your skin ripped all along your body
and most likely infected,
it's unlikely you'd survive
what would come shortly after you did get out of the bath.
Something you'd have a better chance of surviving
is if you fell into a pool of spent nuclear fuel rods.
Ya, really.
But we'll leave that story, for another WHAT IF.