Are surgically augmented breasts more boyant…
than normal ‘god-given’ breasts?
I recently saw a photo of a model in a t-shirt floating in a pool and her breasts seemed to be floating much higher in the water than the rest of her.
As a follow-up/complimentary question are large natural breasts reletively bouyant? And if so/not are implants moreso? Silicon v. saline any difference?
Breast tissue is made up of mostly fat which is lighter than water. They would be “technically” bouyant but not significantly so. Implancts of saline and silicone are heavier than water, thus they would not be “technicall” bouyant. The reason I stress “technically” is that even though what makes up the breast has bouyancy properties, they are not of sufficient mass or bouyancy to actually help a maiden tread water effortlessly. They will not help dolly parton keep her face above water or keep her from drowning.
This is why all the actresses on baywatch still carried floats.
thanks, though i wasnt envisioning their use as a flotation device, my question was more towards that they seemed to float higher in the water, then the rest of said “maiden”, un-naturally so, and i was wondering if it was due to their bouyancy, or just to the fact that implants tend to remain more vertical even when their host is lying prone. im guessing based upon the logical fat more bouyant than silicon or saline its the latter.
Them floating higher in the water is because even though they dont float they are still subject to the support of the water and are rendered almost weightless.
forgive my dumb question, but I have next to no schooling in physics,
but isnt “…subject to the support of the water…”
synonymous with float?
What Sock Munkey meant is that any object in water is subject to buoyancy, and its effective weight is reduced. If the effective weight becomes less than zero (buoyancy > weight) it floats to the surface. If not, it sinks to the bottom but it’s still lighter (i.e. easier to lift) than in air.
Saline implants would have a density slightly greater than 1 g/cm[sup]3[/sup].
The silicone breast implant described here: http://www.pessimistic.com/implant/ has a density of 0.962 g/cm[sup]3[/sup]. ( Copy and paste the link to get to the site, It was created by an Engineer, and there are NAKED BOOBY pictures ! )
The density of fatty tissue is ~0.9 g/cm[sup]3[/sup].
The density of seawater is 1.02-1.03 g/cm[sup]3[/sup].
So saline filled implants will sink in fresh water, and possibly be neutrally bouyant in salt. Silicone implants will be slightly less bouyant than natural breast tissue, but will float in both fresh and salt water.
Well, speaking from personal experience, I can only say that I’m sure I don’t float as well as I used to before I had implants. I seem to sink like a stone unless I really concentrate - of course, that could just be lack of practice as I’ve only recently taken up swimming again!
No, naturally breasts, at least sizable ones, are significantly bouyant. I was forced in a pe class to don a foam flotation device that strapped around my back and then jump into the pool. My breasts already make me float in about the ideal position. That damn thing floated so high it pulled my waist forward and threw my head back causing me to very nearly drown before I could remove the thing. Without this device, I float effortlessly in about the same position at my flatchested friends wearing the device. So natural breasts are significantly bouyant in the same way that life vests are.
Both silicone implants and saline implants will be significantly less buoyant than natural breast tissue. This has nothing to do with what you’ve witnessed. In case you’ve never noticed, enhanced breasts don’t move; in the water, in the air, it doesn’t matter – they stick out as if gravity weren’t there (makes mammograms really fun :rolleyes: )
In other words: yes, the model’s breasts were higher in the water, but they weren’t floating.
Her tits weren’t floating, they were just jutting upwards. They don’t flop back like regular tits do,
Lousy plastic. Give me real tits (big, little, flat, sagging, what ever) any day. If the size of your tits is a problem (other than for nursing) then you’ve got psycholgical problems elsewhere that need to be taken care of first.
Attacking someone’s choice of breast size is hardly sporting, and outside of the real of GQ.
There are a number of legitimate commercial reasons for a lady to choose breast implants. There are also a number of perfectly acceptable social reasons for a woman to choose implants.
There is no reason to assume that a given SD poster has psychological problems because of her desire for breast augmentation. Perhaps her problem was breast cancer. You really can’t know based on the post in question.
Amend “real” in the first sentence of my last post to “realm”.
I think it would be really funny to have only one implant. I don’t know why.
I have no problem with a woman who has had a mastectomy or lost a breast in an accident having an implant. I feel that way about all “cosmetic surgery.” To restore something that got damaged - yes. But not just to match some fad concept of beauty. I don’t see a problem in corrective surgery for birth defects, either.
I just think (seriously) that if you want to modify your body to go with the latest fashion (I count piercing, branding, and tatooing in here as well) then you either have a very low sense of self esteem, or else you are terminally shallow.
As for commercial reasons, that is a load of crap. If you aren’t physically suited for a job, then you have no business doing it. A midget wouldn’t be well suited as a fireman, and a flat chested woman is just not suited as a model for clothing for large breasted women. Tough luck. Get over it.
Speaking from ahem personal experience, natural breasts do have a certain buoyancy to them. I’ve never noticed them holding me up like a life vest (well, maybe I just don’t know the difference, having lived with them for so long), but they do float a bit. It’s more noticeable in, say, the bathtub than in the pool while wearing a swimsuit, but there is an effect. I would also think that there would be less of an effect on augmented breasts due to their ability to “defy gravity” on dry land. They probably wouldn’t look much different in the water.