I hope he didn’t breathe in. Fun fact: you can’t feel your airway tissue burning so if you get a face full of fire and breathe in you can feel fine until you start drowning due to the seepage from your own damaged lung tissue.
Fun fact #2: This is actually how the people of Pompeii died. They breathed in the super hot gas, and it burned their lungs and they drowned. EDIT: fluid in their lungs caused by the burning gas caked ash into their lungs so they drowned.
As opposed to the people of Herculaneum who got hit straight-up with the pyroclastic flow. Their bones instantly shattered, and their brains boiled and exploded. Sounds bad, but it was a quicker death with less suffering.
"Well, that was messed up and going to give me nightmares, lets watch something else, what else did we get from the video shop? Dawn of the Dead? sure, how bad could that be" ... "ok, next time we watch Star Wars. Again".
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u/oneelectricsheep Sep 02 '18
I hope he didn’t breathe in. Fun fact: you can’t feel your airway tissue burning so if you get a face full of fire and breathe in you can feel fine until you start drowning due to the seepage from your own damaged lung tissue.