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Nightmare Doom

Prehistoric Shark found alive

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Dr. Zin said:
Uh, no.

An animal is not like a pop-can, to explode it would have to be a sealed system unable to vent pressure, which it is not. Decompressing presents huge physiological problems, but there is no bodily explosion!


[size=1]*mumble*Lousy Dr.Zin ruining my funny morbid mental imagery*mumble*[/size]

That is like the myth that a person exposed to vaccum explodes. In reality the lower pressure bring the boiling point down so far that all of the liquids in the body begin boiling off. Three Russian cosmonauts were killed when the atmospheric seals on their space capsule failed on reentry, and the bodies looked fairly normal, with the exception that their blood boiled away.

The reason dead deep sea animals are not commonly found on the surface is that most die in the deep sea and merely sink to the bottom to be consumed by scavengers. It is the rare creature that is terminally afflicted and begins ascending in its disorientation (possibly to get into warmer water) that leads to these finds.


<-PWNT.

(dead bodies... sink?)

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Raikoh_Minamoto said:

(dead bodies... sink?)


Yes. Remember that not all organisms are positively bouyant like humans (and humans can make themselves negatively bouyant by expelling the air from their lungs, as anyone who has sat an the bottom of a pool has figured out).

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They say it was hauled from the challenger deep, but I know this creature didn't swim in terrestrial waters until a week ago!

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