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- From: dubuf@sicsun.epfl.ch (Hans DU BUF)
- Newsgroups: sci.misc
- Subject: Re: Walk on Mercury?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.123759@sicsun.epfl.ch>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 10:37:59 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.144611.23703@access.usask.ca>
- Sender: news@sicsun.epfl.ch
- Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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- In article <1992Jul29.144611.23703@access.usask.ca>, goldie@herald.usask.ca (Hugh Goldie) writes:
- |> I hope this is a new question --I haven't been on the net long. I heard this
- |> on a local radio station, but have not heard a good answer yet:
- |>
- |> If your swimming pool was filled with mercury, could you walk on it? (What
- |> would happen if you tried it?)
-
- I guess that walking upright would be impossible because you can't maintain
- your balance.
- Apart from that, mercury is a normal but heavy fluid so you might sink
- up to your ankles or a bit further.
- It would be very difficult to drown, but before starting to experiment I
- advise you to put on a hermetically closed diving suit.
-