I don’t know, you tell me.

Aww that sounds sweet.

I did do that. I have a poor judgment when it comes to the difference between bugs. Google Lens is an AI tool, so it too is not perfect. The best thing to do is to have one AI source and one human source. Had I not adopted this method, I may have gotten tick infections by now.

What do you think this post is for if not to cross check?

The Northeastern great lakes region of the US.

That doesn’t sound too bad. I’ve been around cats with a greater potential for damage to the handler.

Google Lens is often mistaken. It once thought a tick was a rare form of aphid, and everyone was like “ooh we gotta see more of those”.

What’s to warn about regarding that one?

Thanks.

You didn’t have to answer.

You mean a burner phone, right? Those are good for verification but not if you regularly need something to log in with.

That’s what I mean, we had a family computer way back then and YouTube assumed once and remembered its assumption forever. By “makeshift DNA” I mean a set-in-place identifier. I never said it was true two factor authentication if it didn’t text someone, I was asking if, when you choose to be texted, if it’s normal to assume the number chosen to be texted on is property of the person setting it up, versus, for example, a family member lending a number to use. I for one don’t even have a phone number right now.

I guess I underestimate the insulation power of ancient architecture.

Not every one in every part, no. It’s just a hazard per section.

I mean, there were cave dwellers in Europe and Asia too. The richest cave culture finds were in France.

I can attest all threats are considered to the best of one’s ability (minus the “things everyone is willing to risk”), even with everyone’s REI vests/jackets, which is why everyone often takes different routes based on what they’re good at (for example, one is bad with slopes, the other panics at puddles, though they insist this is “fun”). Once a cave even had classic stereotypical radiation in it (I should note one unspoken con of caves is they have an extremely high radon composition, which is natural in caves even though hearing it might be a mind changer). Every cave is different.

It isn’t just the smoke though, it’s the heat, as I was explaining here when I got this reply. As an on-site out-observer, that much from all of this I do understand (which formed the basis for what I don’t).

Yes, so basically picture a cave like a giant jawbreaker. When a jawbreaker is left in the sun (and yes, Mythbusters proved this), the different layers of candy expand at different rates. This causes pressure buildup and eventually explosion.

A cave isn’t all just one solid type of mass, it’s not all a single boulder like many people depict due to the limited coloring of old cartoons. You’ll have many different forms of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock all around the cave. And a fire is hotter than depicted on TV, that’s the whole point of a campfire (a part of why the original question in the OP intrigued me). So the simple act of starting a fire can cause a chain reaction which destabilizes a cave section and causes a collapse. And with caves being as intriguing as they are, you don’t want to ruin humanity’s chances of finding a cave section.

People upvoting a lot of the confusion-based replies shows both sides here have things they never expected they didn’t know (while downvoting my own confusion-based replies, for whatever weird reason).

Yes, it really is the case. Different stones react differently to fire. I know my stuff.

I thought when they said don’t light a fire in a cave they meant everywhere in the cave.

Where did they usually live then, and how did they stay warm?