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Would you not be able to float on Neptune without being crushed?

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Borek:

--- Quote from: dblake on December 21, 2020, 05:22:44 PM ---Ah yes. So if we assume that a person has a space suit with warm gases, or a boat, he will float on top the colder liquid surface at a pressure of less then 1 bar. However, without a space suit, the gas in the lungs of the astronaut would liquify and he, being more densely composed, would sink frozen to the layer where he would find a buoyancy equilibrium and be crushed by the pressure.

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No. You got it right for the second scenario, why do you think it is different for the first scenario?

Unless by a "space suit with warm gases" you mean a balloon ;)

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