From: freemand@cosmoslair.com   
      
   On 6/13/2014 12:43 PM, Lewis wrote:   
   > In message    
   >    S. Checker  wrote:   
   >> Lewis  wrote:   
   >>> In message <53873346$0$63201$815e3792@news.qwest.net>   
   >>>   George Cornelius  wrote:   
   >>>> UL:     Person stuck in quicksand, pulled in, drowns.   
   >>>>          [actually very little urban about this]   
   >>>   
   >>>> Vector: Samuel Clemens   
   >>>   
   >>>> OK, I'm too busy to look it up.  But if sand is mixed   
   >>>> with water, the usual rules of buoyancy apply.  You   
   >>>> will not sink into water containing sand any deeper   
   >>>> than you would sink into the water by itself.   
   >>>   
   >>> AIUI, you will be far more buoyant in 'quicksand' than in water. You   
   >>> only sink until your weight is displaced, and wet sand is very heavy.   
   >>>   
   >>> You can get stuck in quicksand, especially if you panic, but you can't   
   >>> sink in it very easily.   
   >>>   
   >>> Lightning sand, on the other hand, is entirely different.   
   >   
   >> What is your position on ROUSes?   
   >   
   > Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think they really exist.   
   >   
      
   Capybaras don't exist?   
      
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