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[10ebbor10]

I'm trying to find the compressive strength of human flesh. Nothing yet.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

The fish down there are built for that preasure, humans are not. At bare minimum it would compress the whole body and they wouldn't be able to walk because not even super human strength would be able to hold up under that weight

[smjjames]

Has anybody ever brought a corpse down there just to see what happens to it (besides the scavengers getting at the free meal)?

[Sergius]

It isn't like those weird psychics who use "100% of their brain when people only use 10%" which is not only factually incorrect... but seemingly gives them abilities FAR beyond anything the mind is capable of.

That's because they got it backwards. Zombies use only 1% of their brain, and that is what gives them superpowers.

We need to learn how to use 1% of our brains. We should start by studying reality show stars.

[Sheb]

Cryxis, you don't understand how pressure work. The water above you is pushing you down, but the water below you is pushing you up with the same force. Otherwise you couldn't float underwater.

10ebbor10: It's mostly water, so it can be assumed it's the same as water, aka not much.

[10ebbor10]

In that case, we'll most likely deal with only minor compression issues, ie 2%.

The temperature would be a bigger problem, not to mention the fact that you would float.

[smjjames]

Also not to mention the scavengers down there that would make short work of the zombies to trying to treverse the depths.

[Sheb]

Well, I don't see why scavengers would be more of a problem at the bottom of the sea than on land. Temperature is 2-3°C, so the zed woud be sluggish, but it should be okay.

However, suggesting it's walk is silly. Have you ever tried walking at the bottom of a pool? You have very little traction, and lots of drag. Maybe they drag themselves on all four on the muddy bottom.

[smjjames]

You just said that theyre going slowly, so that kind of solves the issue.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

They wouldn't be able to stand though, their legs wouldn't be able to handle that kind of load. What was it 440 atm? That's a lot of weight on zed

[Parsely]

Animals are said to instinctively avoid zombies hostile or pacified in the books, I'm pretty sure their flesh isn't potable besides.

[Il Palazzo]

They wouldn't be able to stand though, their legs wouldn't be able to handle that kind of load. What was it 440 atm? That's a lot of weight on zed

Cryxis, you don't understand how pressure work. The water above you is pushing you down, but the water below you is pushing you up with the same force. Otherwise you couldn't float underwater.

To reiterate, you don't get crushed from above. There pressure from above is actually lower than from any other side. The difference is the source of buoyancy and what allows balloons to fly.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

sigh... can we agree its just impossible for zed to be moveing about a mile underwater

[Sheb]

Well, if they don't need to breathe, I don't see why not.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

You know what someone needs to start dropping bodys into a trench and see what happens now