Does anyone know if this is true?
From what I've read about quicksand, it is seldom more than 3 or 4 feet deep, and since humans are less dense than wet sand, you can float in it if you don't flail around too much.
I read before the scene in the film is real. The actor was nearly killed by the quicksand even...
shareNo personal experience
but I needed to look it up as well
I first started looking under Quicksand
which is a combination of Sand and Water
However after finding out about Dry Quicksand
I found some interesting background
>Dry quicksand is loose sand whose bulk density is reduced by blowing air >through it and which yields easily to weight or pressure. It is similar to >regular quicksand, except that it does not contain any water. Dry quicksand is >an interesting example of a granular material.
and they actually mention Mount Patrol Kekexili
>Perhaps the most well-known instance of dry quicksand in popular culture is >the movie The Princess Bride, in the form of the "Lightning Sand", one of the >three horrors of the Fire Swamp. Dry quicksand was also featured in the movie >Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome and in the 2004 Chinese film, Kekexili: Mountain >Patrol.
This info per Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_quicksand
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You can also see it in Lawrence of Arabia
sharehttp://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1369194,00.html.
http://www.answers.com/topic/dry-quicksand?cat=technology
Here's something a bit more reliable than wikipedia.
People are so worried that Wikipedia is not reliable.
But your second source here is a reflection of the wikipedia article, and cites it as its source.
I would never cite or accept a Wikipedia article as a source for a scholarly paper, though I use it all the time when all I want to do is to learn something.
But just finding something somewhere else than Wikipedia does not make it a better source nor necessarily an independent source. Tons of websites (like this one) just mirror Wikipedia.
Quicksand exists, and you can get stuck. If you're stuck long enough without water and food you will die. But killer quicksand that drags you down under the sand is a myth which Mythbusters busted in episode 6 on season 2.
I don't think you should base your entire opinion on experiments done by Myth Buster's alone. Sure, their results suggests it's not possible but if science has taught me anything is that experimental results are meant to be taken with a grain of salt. Besides, it's not like people have explored every square inch of the Sahara or Gobi Desert. Who knows what other mysteries lie within our natural world.
shareDid you read the wikipedia article on Dry Quicksand mentioned above?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_quicksand
Quicksand is true in Xinjiang, the Uyghur Autonomous Region (to the north of Tibet), or Inner Mongolia, but not true in Tibet.
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