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sifterandrake t1_ityrch5 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in How can the chicks breathe in their shell? by You_Smiled

Now, for the important question. If I surrounded myself in chicken eggshell, would I be able to breath? (assuming it was egg shaped, just big enough to fit my body and a reasonable air pocket.)

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VictorVogel t1_ityuc13 wrote

According to google, a newborn chick weights about 38 grams. Lets assume an adult male weighs 80kg, so that's 2105 times as heavy. The third root of 2105 is 12.8, so an adult human sized egg would have sides of 12.8 times a normal egg, the surface area would be 12.8*12.8 = 163.84 times as big, and the amount of surface area per mass is roughly 12.8 times as small. It will be a lot harder for the human to breathe. This all assumes that the human egg shell is equally thick.

I'd say it is unlikely.

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