You'll only sink halfway, no matter how badly you freak out.ĭisturbing quicksand makes it flow like a liquid, but gravity acts against you. However, the average human has a density of about 1 gram per milliliter, while the average quicksand density is about 2 grams per milliliter. The sand around you also settles into place.Ĭontinued movement (like thrashing around from panic) keeps the mixture more like a liquid, so you sink further. If you stop after the first step, the sand particles beneath you get compressed by your weight. Stepping on it initially lowers the viscosity, so you sink. Undisturbed quicksand appears solid, but it's really a gel. What this means it can change its ability to flow (viscosity) in response to stress. Technically speaking, quicksand is a non-Newtonian fluid. If you have to rescue yourself, wriggle your legs to make the quicksand more fluid while trying to sit back into the quicksand to increase your body's surface area. The best way to prevent a fatality is to keep a charged cell phone with you so you can call for help.Death can come in the form of suffocation, dehydration, hypothermia, predators, crush syndrome, or drowning from a river or incoming tide. Even though you can't sink all the way into quicksand, it's a killer.However, a person or branch can be used to help reduce the victim's weight, making it easier to work free and float. A rescuer can't simply pull a victim out of quicksand.Really, the only way to drown from the quicksand is to fall into it head first or face first. You can only sink into quicksand up to your waist.It changes its viscosity in response to stress or vibration, allowing you to sink, but making it hard to escape. Quicksand is a non-Newtonian fluid made of sand mixed with water or air.Related: The 6 Most Bizarre Safe For Work Fetishes Get the Cracked Daily Newsletter! Subscribe to our YouTube channel, and check out ASMR YouTube Videos (aka Soren's Creepy Fetish), and other videos you won't see on the site!įollow us on Facebook, and let's be best friends forever. Get your tickets for this LIVE podcast here!įor more insider perspectives, check out 6 Realities Of Life When Your Fetish Is EXTREMELY Weird and 4 Unexpected Things You Learn When Moderating A Fetish Chat. This October, Jack and the Cracked staff are back with special guest comedians Ryan Singer, Eric Lampaert, and Anna Seregina to share more unsettling and unexplained true tales of death, disappearance, and the great beyond. history who years later went all Jack Nicholson in The Shining on his family. Last Halloween, the Cracked Podcast creeped you out with tales of ghost ships, mysteriously dead people, and a man from one of the most famous paintings in U.S. Have a story to share with Cracked? Email us here. Robert Evans has a book about how kinky fetishes and insane ancient drugs built civilization. That's why we got into this whole business in the first place: To help sex deviants find one another. as a kid I just remember feeling really really weird, and as an adult I recognize that was arousal." Continue Reading Below And yet it wasn't the movies that got to Carl: "I remember reading stories in National Geographic or various educational textbooks about quicksand, and some of them had stories or personal accounts, they tell the story of how such and such was out in the wilderness and came upon deadly quicksand. He likes to see me completely mackintoshed and though at first I must own I did not like being dressed up in rubber clothes, I am now an ardent mac fan, and I realize that macs have a fascination all their own."Īny time you create something new, odds are somebody out there just found out they have a fetish for it. He is a great big he-man, and loves to dominate me. "I am awfully keen on mackintoshes, and so is my boy friend, who is a sailor in the Merchant Service.
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