How about a pool full of cafeteria Jell-O? Green or red one inch cubes from top to bottom?
Or diabetes.
Diving is a subset of jumping.
Maybe if you mix batches in layers. Make up a bottom layer ~3 ft thick, with extra gelatin, to make it thick. Let it set. Then pour the next layer, use less gelatin, let it set. Then put the top layer on with less gelatin. Have a gelatin sandwich with water on top and gummibears at the bottom.
I’m not sure if that would work. Anybody tried layering jello before?
Except for the part about being sliced to ribbons. While steel wool is flexible and thus compressible, steel is sharp. Seriously, a guy at work nearly took a finger off trying to remove strands from a lathe job. Turning metal means shaving off thin strips. When done, he had a clump of thin steel strips on the tool, tried to remove it by hand.
Aerating your gelatin… would gelatin set up if bubbles were flowing through it?
Stack of cubes has potential, more like hitting a box of foam bits than a single slab. Of course, it doesn’t take a very deep layer to start squishing out the air. I don’t think the gelatin would reset on the creases, which might give less resistance to flow. Hmmmm.
Layering gelatin, and aerating the top layers so they’re less dense, is a standard practice in making it for dessert. I see no reason it couldn’t be done here, too.
It doesn’t matter how deep you make it. There’s always room for Jell-O.
What if it was the old Jello 1-2-3? When you made it, it separated into three layers… The top one somehow seemed to be like whipped cream… It’s gotta be nicer hitting nice soft whipped cream before you get to the jello!
Jello splats.
- Those were rooted, so they had purchase to cut into him (if I understand your description correctly). A steel wool that was engineered for this purpose would be on the edge of falling apart.
- Those were edged by the slicing process, whereas steel threads in wool are rounded off. Otherwise, you’d get cut every time you try cleaning your dishes with it.
- If you get something fragile enough - like a super, super thin thread - then even though that allows it to be very sharp, it won’t have enough strength to cut.
How about if you dive into a vat of Jello and then Jello-wrestle with a couple of scantily clad lasses. How dangerous might that be?
Breathing apparatus or no breathing apparatus?
My wife would kill me, that’s how dangerous it’d be
(if I had a wife, that is. Since I don’t, I’ll take one for the team and volunteer to test your hypothetical, cuz that’s the kind of guy I am).
Whipped Jelly! Which used to be done sometimes with straight jelly, (without cream or milk or substitute)
Yes, it can set with bubbles in it. Which is actually a sensible suggestion.
If you are jumping of a bridge, bubbles in the water softens water too. And they do the same thing with cardboard boxes (bubbles of air trapped in cardboard) for jumping off buildings.
You will decelerate quicker in jello due to it being more viscous. It won’t get out of your way as easily as water. So you would not go as deep into it. It would be a complex calculation to tell how much it would hurt. A belly flop might cause bad internal injury. What I remember from making jello, it seems the density would be close to plain water. It does not expand much, if at all. But it is now longer cross linked molecules. Much harder.
Incorrect.
Steel wool is in fact sharp on the edges, at least when “new.” That’s how it works. The interface between your fingers and the steel wool has more “give” in it than the interface between the steel wool and the burnt-on crud on the pan.
Friction from use blunts the edge, and oxidation during aging might.