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wow! thats even better than the MTV verion that was all over youtube years ago

this looks hot! I love how shes all afraid and nearly gonna explode!

hmmm, tried their vids and I can't seem to get them to work.

Didn't mythbusters do a show about this and disproved it?

Gah, if only it would work for me :(

Yep.

Will breast implants explode at high altitude?

In short the answer is no, implants won't explode on an airplane. They injected air into the implants, and it made little difference. They even tried decompressing the inserts from an inflatable bra, and they wouldn't pop.

I'll give the Spike writers credit for specifying that this case involved "substandard" implants with air bubbles in them; it provides enough vague doubt to persuade people that this could happen. But there really aren't any plausible scenarios where a breast implant would expand explosively on an airplane.

That, and their biochemist fails at physics.

Honestly it's just hot :P It is possible to pop breast implants of a certain kind since you can make someone explode from rapid decompression, the minor version is called the bends. real science guys

i cant get the video to work along with a few others here, anyone want to help us out?

http://rapidshare.com/files/316260364/3300001_700.avi.html

Yeah, the ending kind of sucked. It was so over the top it was hard to take it seriously though. A lot of chunky redness thrown directly in people's faces and terrible reactions by C actors and actresses.

The expansion itself was cool though. The actress had good reactions and there were even some cool noises :D Too bad the expansion was the old "let's put her in a high neck shirt so no one can tell that these are just balloons" approach. At least there were nipples to add to some of the realism.

This myth was disproved LONG before the days of Mythbusters. XD

I remember seeing a documentary on Urban Myths back sometime around the late 90s or early 2000 which addressed this myth. The scientist concluded that the minor changes in cabin pressure encountered on most commercial passanger jets was nowhere near sufficient to cause a woman's breast implants to significantly expand, let along rupture. A partial or complete loss of cabin pressure would have been required to induce any significant expansion, and even then, the implants would have to have been either insanely fragile, or filled well beyond that maximum safe limit, or both, in order to rupture. Implants that unstable would have popped under any significant pressure (such as a gentle squeeze), so it's likely that her boobs would have burst long before she made it to the plane.

Even if her implants had lasted long enough to burst onboard the airplane, they wouldn't have splattered her bosom across the inside of the cabin like they did in the clip. She'd have experienced considerable pain - no doubt about that - but her breasts would, in all likelihood, have remained in one piece, though there would have been internal damage to the surrounding breast tissue, and air bubbles (among other things) would have been released into her bloodstream, resulting in a potentially fatal embolism.

I've heard of women with especially large breast implants experiencing a gurgling sensation in their breasts during high-altitude flights - due to the slight expansion of air-bubbles trapped within the implants - but that's the most I've ever heard substantiated. I'm pretty sure the show's 'scientific experts', are just random, respectable-looking men they dragged in off the street and fed pre-prepared lines to, in order to lend a veneer of credibility to their otherwise outrageous yarn.

Call me a cynic, but I have serious doubts concerning the journalistic integrity of SpikeTV's writing staff. :P

The clip was fun though, right up until the ending anyway. I don't mind an explosive conclusion every now and then, but I could have done without all the salsa.

I liked the suspense build up involved, very nice tough. While I'm a fan of popping, I am not a fan a gore. Heck I hate horror flicks like Saw for that exact reason. Bleh! But very neat scene none the less!

Now, I agree that it is highly unlikely that this could happen under normal circumstances. In fact, if the pressure were to drop lough enough to endanger the integrity of a saline or silicone implant I think inflating boobs would be the least of the passengers problems at that point. I'd be a bit more concerned about say...crashing at that point???

In either case, there is something I would like to point out that people seemed to be missing here. The assumption by Mythbusters (all hail the guys that blow shit up!) and other people who have studied this myth is that the implants involved are commercially produced. Meaning that if they were used/implanted here in the US they were approved by the FDA or whatever department of government handles this sort of thing. 1000 Ways to Die pointed out that she 1.) Looked for a bargain basement plastic surgeon, and 2.) He gave her implants that were sub-standard.

Now, supposedly the show pulls their stuff from the news and such. I would guess the headline for this one was something like "Woman Dies After Implants Burst". So, what I think might actually have happened is this girl ended up with implants that
had 2 major flaws. They were for the most part filled will air, either silicone with a very large series of air pockets/bubbles in it or saline that was only about 1/2 to 2/3 fluid content. The other flaw would be the implant shell itself, the wall of a typical implant these days seems to range from 1/16 to 1/8 inch thick from what I have seen. I'm no expert and Ive only handled these things a couple of times, so I could be wrong. The point is, they make these things pretty damn sturdy all in all. Now going back to our explodee here, her implants might have been made of something a lot less durable like cheap neoprene or latex of some kind.

These cheap ass implants are basically something you would find on the shelf at a novelty store, a gag gift from a porn shop. So she gets on her plane, it flies up higher and they burst. Now, even I know enough about the human body to know that a pair of water balloons bursting is not enough to cause a bloody mess like they did on the show. I'm sure she felt pain though as they swelled up inside, particularly if she was only a few days post-op. Most likely they burst inside her, causing significant internal damage and hemorrhaging.

And she might have died, simply because she, the other passengers, and crew had no idea what was going on much less how to administer first aid for ruptured implants! If this is based on a true story of a woman dieing from burst implants, then in all likely hood she died from internal bleeding. Maybe not immediately, but perhaps later on during the flight or at a hospital.

Ok, that's my 2 cents worth.

never mind its decided to behave now lol

I actually like that! :)

I wish there was more breast expansion that had bloody explosions, all that boob meat must be delicious. It's so hot. It's also hot to see her scream as she's gonna burst.