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theklub
on May 17, 2020
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Whale fall
So if they sink into a trench I wonder if they just completely explode from the pressure.
steve_adams_86
on May 18, 2020
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If any air was in the lungs it would be replaced with water, otherwise our bodies wouldn't respond much. We're mostly water and other matter that's very hard to compress.
herpderperator
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External pressure causes the opposite of an explosion: implosion.
ioseph
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I'd imagine any gasses would be squeezed out but it wouldn't look like an explosion.
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