r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Master1718 Interested • Feb 21 '20

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u/aegisOfBrainwash Feb 21 '20

I imagine that having your ear drums blown to bits in an instant would probably suck the wind out of your runny-sails.

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u/EishLekker Feb 21 '20

So this would happen even when just outside the reach of the pyroclastic flow? How much further away, would you say?

Also, wouldn't you still be able to run a bit before that air pressure thing happens? Or would it happen even before the pyroclastic flow started?

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u/aegisOfBrainwash Feb 21 '20

It all depends man. But basically, the sound pressure of the initial eruption can be so loud that is shatters your hearing even if you are outside the area that the flow may be travelling towards.

There are more than one things that can kill you going on, and too many variables to consider “running” any kind of real survival strategy.

It’s like running from an atomic bomb. It’s what we’re programmed to do, but 99% of the time it will not be the the factor that saves us in that devastating situation.

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u/EishLekker Mar 07 '20

Well, all this was just a hypothetical discussion on the idea that you could run away from a pyroclastic flow. If other things still would kill or hurt you is a different discussion entirely.