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Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I think there was a science experiments book for kids that dared me to drink water upside down through a straw while hanging from monkey bars or something. It was meant to show how our body deliberately moves food towards the stomach instead of solely relying on gravity, but instead it showed that I my legs were too weak.
A shame these experiments are deemed to dangerous nowadays and people have to show their ignorance online, simply because the new metal straws have pierced the brains of anyone who did them.
craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
rooroo@feddit.org 8 hours ago
And they never skipped leg day ever again.
Avicenna@programming.dev 11 hours ago
I mean I can totally see kids choking on water while doing this too. Yes muscles but I am sure gravity helps too.
notabot@piefed.social 12 hours ago
I am confused by this, straws go in the mouth, if people are sticking them in their brains, they’re doing it wrong, or are you saying there is a crack team of assasins out there who’ve vowed to keep this knowledge secret in a particularly gruesome manner?
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I implied that I fell from the monkey bars, and since I was drinking through a straw, I fell head first onto my water glass with the straw in my mouth that was below me. A common misconception of metal straws is that they are dangerous and can pierce through the mouth into the brain.
I guess I could specify where the glass is in the experiment.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
I mean it depends on the diameter of the straw. If the straw is thin as a needle, i imagine it sure can. I mean it’s only about the pressure, not the total amount of force. And pressure is force per area, so if the cross-section area of the straw is small, it will generate enormous pressure and that can surely pierce your skin.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
No need to pierce the skull if you’re coming from underneath.