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I guess the debate over whether liquid breathing is comfortable enough to survive will only be solved when someone actually breathes liquid.
Any takers? :hmm:
As far as I understand it, the way such immersion works is, by immersing the subject in a non-compressable fluid, distributing the force over the entire body. To prevent the lungs, for example, from collapsing, they too are filled with fluid.
I'm not entirely sure of how it's supposed to work, but I have a feeling it's at least vaguely comparable to how whales and other such large aquatic creatures can attain huge bulk in the oceans, whereas they would crush themselves on land.
Any takers? :hmm:
With only the fluid, you'd not really help it much. Sure, it can absorb short shocks, but not prolongued acceleration. The only way out of that problem is to counter the force of body weight by a force from inside the body. Don't ask me how that's supposed to work, I suck at medicine, but it would be the only way I can conceive to prevent the body from getting mashed...
As far as I understand it, the way such immersion works is, by immersing the subject in a non-compressable fluid, distributing the force over the entire body. To prevent the lungs, for example, from collapsing, they too are filled with fluid.
I'm not entirely sure of how it's supposed to work, but I have a feeling it's at least vaguely comparable to how whales and other such large aquatic creatures can attain huge bulk in the oceans, whereas they would crush themselves on land.