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Re: [Phys-L] [SPAM] Re: Nice question on buoyancy and balance



Actually, no. It should be understood that the person remains alive. Or
just use an inanimate object, and then there will be no ambiguities!

You may have heard that a good rule of thumb is that a human can survive
three minutes without air, three days without water, and three weeks
without food.


Phys-L@Phys-L.org writes:
It would go down. You would quickly die and collapse, thereby removing
your weight from the scale.

Paul

On Jan 29, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Anthony Lapinski <Anthony_Lapinski@pds.org>
wrote:

Another related question. If you stand on a bathroom scale and remove
all
the air in a room, what would happen to the reading?

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