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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: (SPOILER) After the credits of YSH (SPOILER)
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Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 01:04:25 EST
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In article <850@rlgvax.UUCP> jsf@rlgvax.UUCP (Steven Fritzinger) writes:
>Never mind that he would have been dead in 30 seconds after falling through
>the ice.

Actually, hypothermia tends to slow down the metabolism.  For instance,
if you were to be knocked unconscious in room temperature, you would
probably drown within a few minutes.  People have been known to last a
half-hour or more under icy water.  In neither case would you be dead in
30 seconds.  Extreme cold will eventually kill a person, probably due to
frostbite, although I am not sure that this will set in underwater.  It
takes a long time and subzero (Fahrenheit) temperatures to freeze to
death.
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    Barry Margolin
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