The best way to prevent a body from freezing is to have a warm-blooded living organism around you. The average body temperature is about 98.6°F. It can drop to 55°F in below-freezing conditions, like being in the ocean during an ice age. At about 36°F, muscles are stiff. At about 60°F, a person can't move. At freezing temperatures, the human body is a can of worms. An ice cube melts into a puddle; it doesn't become a liquid until the water reaches 32°F. But the human body gets stiffer, and more susceptible to damage, as the temperature drops.
It's logical to assume that something that's already cold should be easier to freeze than something that's warm. But, as we see in the movie, that's not always true.
On a chilly morning, you are a sitting duck.
# VI. FUJITSU'S SPEAKING VOICE
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The voice-over in the **Fujitsu-made** commercial begins with a man's voice announcing the company's name, then the man reads from a script.
The voice's pitch is higher at the beginning of the script than toward the end. This has to do with the way the human voice works, and it seems strange to me that it would be any other way.
But the pitch isn't as high on the first line of the script as it is on the last line. This is because the first line has a pattern of repeated sounds, which isn't nearly as interesting as a monotonous and jumbled sentence. The last line is, on the other hand, a series of short, sharp syllables.
**Fujitsu**'s speaking voice. The pitch is even higher when talking about itself than when talking about electronics.
So it's safe to assume that when the man says "Fujitsu," the pitch is in the high range. But when he says "Worlds," it's in the low range.
The pattern of pitch can be heard very clearly on this record:
The sounding of the **Worlds** becomes almost a musical phrase.
**The world**'s in the high range of pitch when it is talking about itself, and
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