An interesting question of science
Euro Disneyland
22-07-2004, 20:25
This question has bothered me since the first time I thought of it. Maybe you guys can help me out, you're smart.
If someone were to die and say.. get washed up on a beach... can they get sunburnt?
Weird question, I know.
Iztatepopotla
22-07-2004, 20:32
This question has bothered me since the first time I thought of it. Maybe you guys can help me out, you're smart.
If someone were to die and say.. get washed up on a beach... can they get sunburnt?
Weird question, I know.
No, no melanine reaction to get a sunburn.
Conceptualists
22-07-2004, 20:50
Wouldn't the lack of the ability to tan meant that the skin gets burnt?
Gods Bowels
22-07-2004, 20:59
It seems to me that it would. The cells are still alive after death is it not? Maybe it also would depend on how long the person has been dead.
Santa Barbara
22-07-2004, 21:02
Let's kill somebody and leave their body on a beach for a few days and find out.
Berkylvania
22-07-2004, 21:36
No, no melanine reaction to get a sunburn.
Burnt, yes. (No melanin needed for ultraviolet light damage to occur to the skin).
Tan, no. (Melanin needed, although it may still be present after systemic death for a time)
Dried out and dessicated before either of these things happen rendering the whole question pointless? This is where I'd put my money.
_Myopia_
22-07-2004, 22:00
Yeah I'd guess burning could occur but a tan would be impossible.
Cannot think of a name
22-07-2004, 22:03
Nothing cool to add, I just like the idea that your nation name proposes, that EuroDisney is a sovern nation seperate even from regular Disneyland and DisneyWorld.
I'll go now.
Ashmoria
22-07-2004, 22:12
it would be affected by the sun but it wouldnt be burned in the same way that it would with a living person
much of what happens in a sunburn in the biological reation to the sun's damage. without life the damage occurs but the skin does not react to it. so no redness, no blistering, no swelling, no pain.
Euro Disneyland
23-07-2004, 07:29
it would be affected by the sun but it wouldnt be burned in the same way that it would with a living person
much of what happens in a sunburn in the biological reation to the sun's damage. without life the damage occurs but the skin does not react to it. so no redness, no blistering, no swelling, no pain.
Sweet... so all I have to do is die and that will be the end of my sunburns! Yay!!!.... stupid red hair and pale skin....
-Allison
Euro Disneyland
23-07-2004, 07:31
Nothing cool to add, I just like the idea that your nation name proposes, that EuroDisney is a sovern nation seperate even from regular Disneyland and DisneyWorld.
I'll go now.
lol, Why of course it is. It's full name is The Happy Dictatorship of Euro Disneyland, just because it was fun.
I'll go now, also.