• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    I dunno, can the stomach digest you, or smother you, before you pull out a knife and slice your way out?

    I feel like “being comped to death” beats “swallowed whole” on the total chance of dying.

    • groet@feddit.de
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      8 months ago

      The stomach isn’t like a big cave with a pool af acid in it. It is compacted by muscles around it so if you are swallowed whole, you would have to fight against those muscles to even be able to move at all. If your arms are above your head it’s likely you would die before you are able to move them to your hips to draw your knives. If they are at your hips, good look moving the knives to point outwards. Also the stomache is lined with thick mucous to protect it from sharp objects… Also it’s completely dark and disorienting.

      It’s almost certainly you’d drown, suffocate and get crushed VERY quickly after getting swallowed alive.

      • SeabassDan@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        You can blame the Magic School Bus for my incorrect perception of how the stomach works. I know they cleared things up at the end, but as a kid I remembered only the adventures.

      • nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        The stomach isn’t like a big cave with a pool af acid in it.

        Unless your predator has been eating a lot of air or drinking a lot of soda/beer. Although one burp would quickly get rid of all that headroom. And the CO2 from carbonation would quickly suffocate you as well as it’s heavier than air.