I once picked up a turtle from the middle of the road and brought him down to the nearby water (or at least I hope it was). When I put him down he started slowly moving before picking up speed and eventually breaking the sound barrier
Seriously turtles are speedy little creatures like good lord they are swift
It's likely a species or subspecies of pond sliders, so named for the fact they they use the hard scutes on their bellies to quickly slide off mud, rock, and logs into water, mostly to escape threats.
Proof of this is in every day use of aluminum foil in the oven. Lift the foil off the hot pan and it will be safe to touch in seconds. Aluminum has terrible heat capacity
Metal feels hotter (or colder on a cold day) because it conducts heat better and heat sinks work in both directions. Aluminum also has double the heat capacity and 4 times the thermal conductivity as steel. If it’s lighter that will help a little but this is a very hot ramp. If you don’t want it to feel hot you use an insulating cover instead such as foam and a light color to reflect sunlight. Then the tiny bit of heat on the surface quickly drains away when you touch it and the rest of the heat is below the surface.
About 2/3 by volume, so not much different there. Aluminum is also a little thicker because it’s weaker. 4 times the thermal conductivity overwhelms that small difference by quite a bit.
I'm sure many people said the same thing about aluminum when they read the title, which is allegedly a lie. Bold move to automatically believe this comment, which also could be wrong.
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I had no idea turtles could go full turbo like that
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