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clubseal's avatar

I bet he thinks Pocahontas is too woke because not everyone is white.

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Aquaman, Real estate investor.'s avatar

Ok ok ok.

So some science?

How does Ariel get oxygen? Hmmm?!?

She clearly spends greatly extended periods of time under the sea, human physiology can't support that for several reasons. But she's clearly not coming to the surface to breathe.She can't breathe the water, you can't cycle water fast enough to do the necessary gas exchange (we'll ignore all the other issues like water loss and salt uptake).If she has gills we never see them, although if she's warm blooded (a reasonable assumption given that that guy isn't creeped out by her being cold, also her ability to swim at speed for reasonable periods indicates that she's probably a thermo-regulator) she's burning a lot of oxygen just to stay alive. If she stopped swimming she'd probably die.Oh and those gills would need to be quite large, not the kind of thing you can hide.

I for one am deeply disappointed with Disneys casual relationship with science and will be boycotting this movie as a result.

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