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LTK:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 25 Oct 2012, 22:18 ---Would it be possible to swim in gold coins? You know, like Scrooge MacDuck?
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Water has a density of one kilogram per liter, or cubic decimeter. Assuming that filling one cubic decimeter with gold coins fills about 75% of the space, that gives it a density of 19 kg/dm3*0.75=14.25 kg/dm3, which is still fourteen times denser than water. And that's ignoring the vast increase in friction between the material if you actually tried to swim in it.
For reference, honey has a density of 1.4 kg/dm3, and I'd wager it's already impossible to swim through at that point.
Gnomes2169:
--- Quote from: lepetitfromage on 26 Oct 2012, 06:48 ---It's about as cliche as you can get, but I've always really wanted to swim in a pool full of jell-o.
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Also not to sound cliche, but you would drown. Large quantities of Jello work much like quicksand, it's just solid enough to not let air in, but not the right mixture of solidity and mass that would allow a non-micheal-phelps human to swim in it. Rather unfortunate, really. :-\
I would like to swim in a pool of apple cider. Mmmmmm, apples...
lepetitfromage:
Hmm.....what if it was shallow enough to sit in and mushed up a bit to the point of...chunky? Then I could just kind of flop around in it. Better than nothing?
......Man, I really gotta find other ways to occupy my brain.
nekowafer:
On a dubiously related note, watching scantily clad ladies wrestle in jello is the best thing ever.
Gnomes2169:
--- Quote from: nekowafer on 01 Nov 2012, 11:26 ---On a dubiously related note, watching scantily clad ladies wrestle in jello is the best thing ever.
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Absolutely agreed.
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