• Prehensile_cloaca
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      16 months ago

      Yep, saltwater has more buoyancy, and the higher the salinity, the more buoyant the water.

    • @[email protected]
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      46 months ago

      I don’t recall the full episode but a few things stood out.

      • it would be cold as hel, so properly strapping a lifevest around some flotsam seems iffy
      • isn’t saltwater more buoyant or is that old fishwife’s tale? Also idk if that test body of water is salty.
      • Prehensile_cloaca
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        16 months ago

        Yep, saltwater has more buoyancy, and the higher the salinity, the more buoyant the water.

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      Only if they had the knowledge and abilities (and time to come up with a plan) of two people whose job it is to come up with exactly this kind of thing.

      Sure, it was possible. That doesn’t make it probable.

      • Flying Squid
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        46 months ago

        “Climb on the door” seems like something within their knowledge and abilities.

        • @[email protected]
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          06 months ago

          I take it you didn’t actually watch the mythbusters episode, then. If they both just climbed on the door they would have both died. They would have had to jury-rig a contraption using the life-preserver Rose was wearing to survive… barely.

              • Flying Squid
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                06 months ago

                So you’d think she would have tried to get him on the door. What with him being her one true love and all.

                • @[email protected]
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                  06 months ago

                  And he probably would have said “no, I want you to live” her being his one true love and all.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    06 months ago

                    Okay? She still didn’t try. You don’t seem to be realizing that as an obviously silly flaw in the whole idea that they’re each other’s soulmates.

        • @[email protected]
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          06 months ago

          It would somewhat undermine the core of their narrative being a tragedy within a larger tragedy though.

          • Flying Squid
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            16 months ago

            I mean there were other ways of doing that without making it look like she just didn’t let him on the door.