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That's about the size of my torso, but I'm fat as hell. I suspect the average ancient swimming warrior was in better shape.
by jessaustin 5y ago
That's about the size of my torso, but I'm fat as hell. I suspect the average ancient swimming warrior was in better shape.
- Retric 5y agoUnless your short your estimate seems odd. The torso is about 1/2 the volume of the average adult and people are close to the density of water of 1kg/l or 2.2lb/l. So 30l would be the expected torso volume of someone weighing ~60kg or ~130 lb. Edit: “47% trunk and neck” so 40% torso would be 75kg and 165lb seems reasonable as a smaller person would also need less air.
- jessaustin 5y ago30L is 8 gallons. The average torso is somewhat longer than a five gallon bucket, but of course it's much slimmer than a five gallon bucket. An eight gallon bucket, if it existed, would be larger yet. I would question both the assumption that a torso is half the volume of a human and the further assumption that the density of humans is uniform. Obviously the thorax, which contains the lungs, is less dense than the legs, which just have muscles and massive bones with a thin layer of fat. Sorry it took a while to respond; I got rate-limited this morning.
- Retric 5y agoOk in anatomy the torso is shoulders to anus. Various other places use shoulders to top of hip bones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torso vs https://www.wikihow.com/Measure-Torso-Length https://www.wikihow.com/Measure-Torso-Length I never realized it was ambiguous, but the image shows roughly chin to balls so whatever term you want for the longer one. https://twitter.com/FedeItaliano76/status/1435295257437028352 https://twitter.com/FedeItaliano76/status/143529525743702835...