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And for the other readers: It wouldn’t be applying twenty pounds of force, it would be applying… My rule of thumb calculation came to 3,000 lbf, which seems li

And for the other readers: It wouldn’t be applying twenty pounds of force, it would be applying… My rule of thumb calculation came to 3,000 lbf, which seems like a lot, but perhaps that’s actually accurate.

potato3732842 1y ago
Seems spot on to me. Figure half that to start since most of the loop is gonna wind up laying flat and only the half of it is prevented from doing so by one's neck. Then maybe cut it by 2/3 again since the sides aren't gonna do a ton of direct squishing. That still leaves you with hundreds of pounds, which roughly aligns with the timeline of suffocation in the article High hundreds low thousand likely would be neck snapping or otherwise instantly incapacitating.