• Question: What and where is the most dangerous place on earth?

    Asked by Kim-Jommy-un to Angela, Claire, Ian, Robert, Sarah on 13 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Robert Bowles

      Robert Bowles answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      There are lots of places which have lots of different ways to kill you.
      At the bottom of the sea it’s pressure and lack of oxygen:
      http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/pressure.html
      You wouldn’t last long in the middle of an active volcano either.
      You’ll die there straight away.
      At the arctic or antarctic it will be the cold, but you won’t die straight away.
      The Atacama Desert, is the driest place on Earth so you’ll die of thirst there, it’ll just take a bit longer.
      And the middle of a war zone isn’t that healthy a place to be either.

      I guess it depends how you want to die, although it’s great that our ingenuity and science has allowed us to develop ways to survive in most of these places.

    • Photo: Angela Stokes

      Angela Stokes answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      The interesting thing is that the most common accidental deaths are those which happen just about anywhere…..
      1) being struck by a falling object – could happen anywhere
      2) drowning in a swimming pool
      3) drinking too much alcohol and dying from either choking on vomit or through alcohol poisoning

      So anywhere could be the most dangerous place on earth!

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