So...if you were thrown out of a spaceship into vacuum, your internal pressure would blow you apart as your blood boiled and killed you instantly, right? Wrong.
Well, pressure gradients can have an astonishing effect; This film shows what happens to a crab when it encounters a 3mm hole in a 0 PSI pipeline at a pressure depth of 2700PSI.
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Date: 2003-02-11 07:08 am (UTC)I wonder what would happen if we did it with a tortoise??
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Date: 2003-02-11 07:23 am (UTC)It's not quite a tortoise, but it's fairly crunchy...
http://crustacea.nhm.org/~dean2/crab.html
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Poor crab.