Re: Air mattress
I'm not sure why I didn't think of this before. Using goggles I've seen the underside of someone large sitting in a swim ring, and the part under their legs is flattened. Not sure why that surprised me, since I've experienced it myself.
This summer I want to see what the underside of a double air mattress looks like with someone very large on it. How much will be flattened? I kinda don't even know, even with experience.
For me, the thrill of overloading an inflatable is the expectation that it might pop, except that it doesn't. I love single chamber floats that are loaded unevenly under normal use, because it stresses the thing unevenly. For example, the pillow end of an air mattress. The most lightly loaded part of the float. Air from under someone heavy goes to the pillow. That's why the better floats have the pillow as a separate chamber. That's why I like the cheaper floats lol.
I should make a separate post about the non-obvious physics of stressing inflatables!
I'm not sure why I didn't think of this before. Using goggles I've seen the underside of someone large sitting in a swim ring, and the part under their legs is flattened. Not sure why that surprised me, since I've experienced it myself.
This summer I want to see what the underside of a double air mattress looks like with someone very large on it. How much will be flattened? I kinda don't even know, even with experience.
For me, the thrill of overloading an inflatable is the expectation that it might pop, except that it doesn't. I love single chamber floats that are loaded unevenly under normal use, because it stresses the thing unevenly. For example, the pillow end of an air mattress. The most lightly loaded part of the float. Air from under someone heavy goes to the pillow. That's why the better floats have the pillow as a separate chamber. That's why I like the cheaper floats lol.
I should make a separate post about the non-obvious physics of stressing inflatables!
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