• Question: Can people really implode?

    Asked by dandelion to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 27 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      People who want to travel to the depths of the ocean have to have suitable protection to save them from imploding, but I don’t see how it could happen otherwise.

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      If you’re somewhere where the pressure outside is much higher than normal, then you would be squashed into a smaller volume, but I don’t think people actually implode.

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