When they shook it only a little, the bead stayed floating on top. At rest, the bead remained on the surface, despite aluminum's higher density.īut then scientists started shaking the container. But a piece of aluminum will float on top of quicksand until motion causes the sand to liquefy.ĭuring their study, researchers placed an aluminum bead on top of a container of laboratory-created quicksand. Aluminum, for example, has a density of about 2.7 grams per milliliter. You would descend about up to your waist, but you'd go no further.Įven objects with a higher density than quicksand will float on it-until they move. At that level of density, sinking in quicksand is impossible. But human density is only about 1 gram per milliliter. Quicksand has a density of about 2 grams per milliliter. The reason is that humans just aren't dense enough. This causes a trapped body to sink when it starts to move.īut a person moving around in quicksand will never go all the way under. At rest, quicksand thickens with time, but it remains very sensitive to small variations in stress.Īt higher stresses, quicksand liquefies very quickly, and the higher the stress the more fluid it becomes. Researchers in the Netherlands and France studied quicksand, a combination of fine sand, clay, and salt water. Real quicksand is certainly hard to get out of, but it doesn't suck people under the way it always seems to in the movies.Īccording to a study published in the current issue of the journal Nature, it is impossible for a person immersed in quicksand to be drawn completely under. You won't sink in-at least not all the way. Stuff this mixture into the cavity of the chicken.If stumbling into quicksand ranks on your list of worries, don't panic. Remove the leaves from two stems of the rosemary, and combine it with the onion mixture. Mix together the onion, orange, celery and brown sugar.Sprinkle the entire chicken with the salt, pepper and poultry seasoning, including the inside cavity of the chicken.Combine the bacon fat and butter, and rub this mixture over the entire chicken.John at Rosemary Roasted Chickenġ small yellow onion, peeled and cut into eight wedgesġ small ripe orange, cut into eight wedges Anyone have a chimpanzee I can borrow?Ĭontact Robert St. In the meantime, if you ever run across a patch of quicksand, give me a call. Afterward, people will say, "It tastes just like chicken." I say just fry up some chicken and save the alligators so Tarzan will have something to wrestle. It has to be severely pounded to reach some semblance of tenderness. I believe alligator is like chitterlings - people like talking about eating alligator/chitterlings more than they like eating it/them. I have never wrestled an alligator, either - though I have served alligator. Just in case you haven't heard, Tang sucks. Thankfully that never happened, though we did get Tang. In 1969, the "future" also included pills and tablets as substitutes for full meals. Whereas that is a very cool invention, in 1969, had you given me the choice between having an untethered telephone that can hold thousands of songs or a flying car, I would have chosen a flying car. Instead, we're walking around with telephones that aren't plugged in to anything. Smith's fourth-grade class, I would have bet a year's worth of lunch money that we'd be riding in flying cars by now. By the year 2000, we were all supposed to be riding around in flying cars. The worst thing that could happen in a patch of mud is that someone might lose a sneaker.Īlmost as baffling as the world's lack of quicksand is the absence of flying cars in the 21st century. But South Mississippi mud is a poor substitute for quicksand. There was a lot of pine straw on the ground, some dirt and, after a rain, a little mud. Problem solved.Īs a kid growing up playing in the woods of South Mississippi, my friends and I never walked up on a patch of dry sand on the ground, much less a patch of wet, slushy, sure-to-die-a-slow-death quicksand. If there isn't a long root available, call out for your faithful chimpanzee sidekick to bring a rope. Remain calm look for a long, rope-like root to pull oneself out of the muck. I know that the worst thing to do is struggle. I feel like I would know what to do when faced with the dreadful fate of slowly sinking in a gurgling, gooey patch of quicksand. I watched dozens of Tarzan movies and television shows and have virtually graduated from Quicksand 101.
It's a little disappointing because I feel like I'm prepared. I am 53 years old and have traveled to dozens of countries on a few continents, and I have still not encountered quicksand.
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