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020 = Filling Up and Falling Down

A Problem Squared

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How Much Pressure Can a Human Survive?

There's no point solving global warming if the pressure then kills us all. The record free human I think is about 71 from what I could find in my terrible research. Pressure is only really dangerous if there's a pressure differential. And vice versa, which is why divers get the bends. They will ultimately be fine when they come back up to normal atmospheric pressure. If they change from one to the other too quickly, gases come out of blood and all sorts of horrible things happen. It would take a long time to increase the Earth's atmosphere by 85 times. But I don't think it'd be pleasant. We wouldn't necessarily feel heavier because the pressure would be pressing in from all directions

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