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