[ExI] How long can you survive without water?

spike spike66 at att.net
Wed Jan 27 01:11:18 UTC 2010


On Behalf Of Max More
> Subject: [ExI] How long can you survive without water?
> 
> I thought you couldn't survive more than a few days -- a week maximum
> -- before dying of dehydration. This guy is alive after two weeks:
> 
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35086799/ns/world_news-haiti_earthquake/
> 
> The details are minimal, so perhaps he did absorb some 
> moisture somehow. Anyone know if surviving this long without 
> water is unprecedented or not?
> 
> Max

Also, can we confirm he wasn't trapped by one of the aftershocks?  That
would be a hell of a note, give up on finding survivors because the quake
was ten days ago, then find out your rescue team farted around while someone
perished, having been trapped four days before by an aftershock.

I would hate to be a Haitian.

spike






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