After plane or space craft crashes, what happens to the bodies? Do they implode because of the pressure? In plane crashes, clothes and pieces of the aircraft are found, but no bodies.
After the challenger explosion there weren’t any bodies either.
What happens to them?
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I am under the impression of “no bodies”, because:
A. They never go into detail about bodies (yes it’s morbid, but it’s also an unanswered question….hence why I’m here) on the news/documentaries, only about the vehicle and crash site information.
B. I do not understand force and the fragility of the human body on that scale, —which is funny because I have been in a life altering car accident so I do have *some* understanding of how damaging very high speeds in heavy machinery can be. You’re crushed like bugs, basically. Just needed some eli5 to confirm it with more dangerous transport options.
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In: Physics
So, if you have a rotted old pumpkin, and you were to just slap at it, claw at it, grab at it, your hands would go into it with little effort, and you could leave it unrecognizable in pretty short order.
Now, imagine WE’RE the pumpkin, and the seemingly superhuman power is the outside forces in a crash, such as metal parts, environmental objects, force from explosions, etc.
If our erratic pawing is way, way stronger than the integrity of the pumpkin, the forces in a crash are way, way stronger than the integrity of our bodies (essentially a big leather bag of bones and spaghetti)
So, while there are..uh..*remains* found…I’m not sure you could describe as “bodies”
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