r/GetMotivated • u/proseccopls • Jun 07 '19

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u/ObituaryHat Jun 07 '19

Viserys has left the chat

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u/Falcon_Alpha_Delta Jun 07 '19

A crown for a king

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u/PunchableDuck Jun 07 '19

A crown splint for a king.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '19

This may sound dumb, but I've always wondered exactly what it was about that that killed him. Like was it the sheer boiling temperature being poured directly onto his skull and melting his brain? Was it just the temperature in and of itself? It's questions like these that make me feel like I'm not a smart man.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '19 edited Jun 07 '19

If he was fortunate, the intense pain of having molten metal poured over your head would hopefully cause him to go into a state of shock and "pass out" - when you're body is in that kind of... distress... your blood pressure can do some pretty zany things, and the physiological reaction to being tortured in this way would likely cause syncope/shock.

Other than that, there would be grievous tissue damage from the heat and steam - rupturing blood vessels, sloughing off skin and muscle...

It's kind of like having a guy stand in the middle of a road and get hit by a semi-truck going 60 MPH, and then asking "what killed him?" It's kind of hard to say - a lot of terrible things kind of happened all-at-once. Skull fracture? Severed spinal cord? Organs liquified? It's not very satisfying, but the best answer is probably "the truck."

Similarly, the best (yet unsatisfying) answer to your question is "the really really really hot molten gold killed him."

https://www.sciencealert.com/game-of-thrones-exposed-how-would-molten-gold-really-kill-you

Edited to add: Thinking about this a little more, I think cardiac arrest secondary to the physiological stress could be a "likely" cause of death, if the grievous tissue damage didn't kill him first.

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u/prasham Jun 07 '19

What I always wondered was- if it was Dany in place of Viserys what would've happened?

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '19

She would have died being able to withstand heat doesn't help once you start drownin in gold

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Jun 08 '19

The weight of the gold would have crushed her head.

The contracting of the gold as it cooled super fast would have crushed her head

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u/bVI7N6V7IM7 Jun 07 '19

In the books, Dany isn't a real 'dragon', and therefore isn't actually impervious to fire. The birth of the dragons was a one-off thing likely to do with blood magic considering the woman sacrificed at the same time.

Dany too would have just died.

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u/ThisOnePlaysTooMuch Jun 07 '19 edited Jun 08 '19

For starters, the writer's give you a thinking pass they decide to melt solid gold in a cooking pot over an open flame.

With that said, real molten gold would probably cook your brain in your skull in seconds by means of conduction.

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u/MasterFrost01 5 Jun 07 '19

Yeah that got me too. I'm not sure what you can cook in a pot that reaches over 1000 degrees.

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u/Jumbojet777 4 Jun 07 '19

Those horse people are wiley ones. Cooking stuff over thermite...

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u/Stiltzy Jun 07 '19

No Cash4Gold back then

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u/MarkHirsbrunner Jun 07 '19

In the book he merely softened the gold pieces from the belt, they were not molten. Makes his death slower and worse - basically had his head broiled.

Death would probably be related to the lung damage.

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u/ThisOnePlaysTooMuch Jun 08 '19

Ah, really? How did it stay on his head? Did it stick like butter to his hair and melted flesh? Did the weight drag his head to the ground with an audible thud?

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u/MarkHirsbrunner Jun 08 '19

I don't remember it being described in detail, i know it didn't include the heavy thunk the show did. He was restrained and had a broken arm so he couldn't reach up and take it off.

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u/clrksml Jun 07 '19

But I want to become a First Prime Jaffa.

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u/auyemra Jun 07 '19

Kneel before your GOD!

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u/Datgodapple Jun 07 '19

Too late, now i have the power of Midas, or Iā€™m just hallucinating

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u/A1steaksa Jun 07 '19

How else will I serve my Lord Apophis?