From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 11:41:27 MDT
Spike Jones wrote:
> Someone said something about the body may not be able to
> withstand enormous pressures. Perhaps bones would break, etc.
> Recall that the volume of a bone does not actually decrease when
> broken, so I wouldnt think the bone would care what pressure
> the body was seeing. Same with the heart.
Well...true for *cryo*, since the insides are no longer moving. The
concern was for still-living tissue under high pressure (pressure
fluctuations, heart straining to pump blood through compressed tissue,
et cetera).
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