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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 11/01/2022 02:49:37

Title: What would happen if someone's exoskeleton suddenly disappeared while standing?
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 11/01/2022 02:49:37

A very gruesome site? There's a story that Merlin performed such a spell on someone that offended him in the 5th century AD, which was witnessed by a child. He didn't know a spell to mentally heal the child, but after a month or two he eventually came around and started talking again.

Title: Re: What would happen if someone's exoskeleton suddenly disappeared while standing?
Post by: Kryptid on 11/01/2022 03:37:48

Humans don't have exoskeletons, so I presume you just meant "skeleton". I believe a spontaneously-disappearing skeleton would result in death by asphyxiation. Without a ribcage for support, I imagine the lungs would collapse and the diaphragm wouldn't have a sturdy surface to work against.

Title: Re: What would happen if someone's exoskeleton suddenly disappeared while standing?
Post by: evan_au on 11/01/2022 10:39:31

Medieval knights had an exoskeleton (of sorts)...

Losing your armour in a battle would probably shorten your life expectancy by a considerable amount...

Title: Re: What would happen if someone's exoskeleton suddenly disappeared while standing?
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 11/01/2022 11:48:03

I once found a skeleton in the woods. When we called the authorities they sent an apb out for a boneless person.

Title: Re: What would happen if someone's exoskeleton suddenly disappeared while standing?
Post by: Bored chemist on 11/01/2022 17:01:41

Quote from: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 11/01/2022 02:49:37

There's a story that Merlin performed such a spell on someone that offended him in the 5th century AD,

Fairy tales are not physiology and medicine.