So even if you managed to survive the blistering heat, the solar flares, and the crushing pressure, you'd now have to climb out of the solar system's biggest nuclear reactor.
It was a world that knew how to slow down and sweat through the dog days, making the best of life before the miracle of air conditioning changed everything.
Today we've been giving some tips to parents for surviving the coronavirus lockdown, an unprecedented situation – meaning a situation which has never happened before.
And although people started the '20s hoping to ignore that profound truth, even after the first pandemic, the great heat waves of 2023 torched any such hope.
You could reflect back on that small group dinner that the two of you first met at, or maybe that 8AM accounting lecture that you struggled to drag yourselves through.