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Edited by Raw Sugar:
2/5/2014 8:55:33 PM
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If snow is crystallized water can you drown in it?
If snow is crystallized water can you drown in it? I remember one winter my sister and I were lying in the snow, watching it fall around us. Then she curled up and started hacking like a maniac. I started laughing and she's like "Sugar! Stop! I could have died." I said "Greene, stop over reacting what did you do this time?"
"Inhaled a snow flake! I could have drowned!"
[spoiler]i used our screen names because I don't want anyone knowing mine and I know she feels the same way.[/spoiler]
I was laughing so hard I was crying. This story still sticks with me after all those years. It's too funny.
So do you guys think it's actually possible though? Is death by snowflake a legit danger?
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I think the snow would melt inside you and you would just drown the boring way.
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2 RepliesEdited by Horseman of War: 2/10/2014 9:02:31 PMGreens not a dude? Duuuuude. -- That is a danger of being buried in an avalanche... suffocation.
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4 RepliesYou can be buried and suffocate in it so technically you can "drown in it."
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Here's a question. Do people buried under tons of snow in an avalanche die from water in their lungs?
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Instead of making a thread on a website that generally dislikes you, google it.
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You can drown just by [i]drinking[/i] water..
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Yaaaaar! Go try for yourself!
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[quote]I started laughing and she's like "Sugar! Stop! I could have died." I said "Greene, stop over reacting what did you do this time?"[/quote] AND THEN I WAS ALL LIKE "CINNAMON! [b]F[/b]UCK IS WRONG WITH YOU BITCH!?"
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The ratio of the volume of water to ice is about 1000:1091. The average human male's lungs are 6 liters, so it would take, on average, 6.546 liters of compact snow to drown a human male.
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7 RepliesA single snow flake?
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Bad sister is bad.
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No, but you can suffocate in it. /logic
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Sure if you get it into your lungs and your body temperature transfers its thermal content to the snow causing the snow to gain thermal energy via heat transfer, and then melt into water. But usually you would just get surrounded in it and without oxygen, wind up suffocating to death from hypoxia instead.
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6 RepliesHmm... :/ ... I think it would be drowning. you would have to inhale a lot of it.and if you get said "A lot of it" in your lungs then it will kill you for sure, but it would have to be WAY worse then double pneumonia.
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47 RepliesI already died from this before.
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7 RepliesAssuming there's enough overing you, yes. But it wouldn't necessarily be called drowing.
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2 RepliesWhether it's drowning or asphyxiation is probably based on whether or not it's a liquid as it's killing you. Assuming frostbite doesn't get you first.
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1 ReplyYea I think
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12 RepliesEdited by Light: 2/5/2014 8:44:59 PMSure, if you say so.
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1 ReplyYou can asphyxiate, yes.
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2 RepliesActually, drowning is just suffocation. It is an inability to breath due to an obstruction. If you inhale a enough snowflakes to block your breathing, yes you could technically drown.
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3 Replies>if snow is crystallized water But it's not. Snow is plastic. Haven't you been watching the news?
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2 RepliesIt takes a lot if snowflakes
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6 RepliesI thought I muted you already.
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1 ReplyAmused Answer: It is most likely you will suffocate, feel free to find a lake and test this yourself.
