lostonearth35 wrote:
utterly absurd wrote:
Since molasses is so thick I would think you would float on the molasses, so you would probably be fine.
It might be hard to get to shore though. Swimming in molasses would probably be very hard.
Btw I think this thread is a great idea.
You would sink in molasses if it was deep enough. In fact there was an incident in Boston in 1919 where during an unseasonably warm winter day a big tank filled with molasses blew up and it sent a literal tsunami of the stuff into the town and many people and animals were injured or either suffocated or drowned in it. Someone said they saw many horses dying struggling like flies stuck to fly paper. It was an horrific disaster but while reading about it I couldn't help thinking dumb jokes like, "now that's what I call a sticky situation". Also, so much for the phrase "slow as molasses", the molasses rushed into the town so fast.
Wow I've never heard of that. That's really weird.
It sounds horrible but also the idea of a molasses explosion is so absurd it's kind of hard not to laugh. Sorry...
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