berael t1_iuio4j0 wrote
Take the amount of water that's inside a human body and just pour it all into a big bag. It sloshes around a lot and feels like a liquid, right? Your question is asking why people don't feel like that.
Well, take all of that water, and split it up among several billion teeny tiny boxes. Put all those boxes together in the shape of a human, and it'll contain the exact same amount of water as the big bag did, except now it'll feel solid because the water is all held within objects which have shape and structure.
In an actual human, those billions of teeny tiny boxes are all of the cells in the body.
PrionBacon t1_iuiqfmu wrote
>HK-47 : Query: Don't I? I was under the assumption that organic meatbags such as yourself enjoyed such forms of address.
>Player : "Organic meatbags"?
>HK-47 : Retraction: Did I say that out loud? I apologize, master. While you are a meatbag, I suppose I should not call you as such.
>Player : You just called me a meatbag again!
>HK-47 : Explanation: It's just that... you have all these squisy parts, master. And all that water! How the constant sloshing doesn't drive you mad, I have no idea...
>Player : Neither do I, come to think of it...
From Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Djuulzor t1_iuj4lqe wrote
I can also add that all these teeny tiny boxes are highly pressurized. In most cells, the pressure is around 3 bar, three times the pressure of our atmosphere. This means if you would take all the water in a body without this pressure it would probably be larger in volume than the actual body. Adding further to this, this pressure should also make all the structures in the body more rigid and less fluid.
00zau t1_iujpb2g wrote
Think Bubble Wrap, but with water instead of air.
Bubble wrap is probably 50% air by mass (though you can't feel it because air is weightless in air) and like 75-90% air by volume... but you can't just waft it around like 'normal air' because the plastic gives it structure.
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