What would happen if you had your hand soaking in a bowl of water continuously for several years? I illustrated just in case you were confused.
Has anyone ever done this? Should I do this?
>>8611715
It'll get bloated, ultimately.
You would most likely damage it.
I imagine your flesh would neatly slide off the bone when you pull your hand out. It's such a gradual process that it probably wouldn't even be very painful.
>>8611715
Super trench foot, hand edition
it would develop scales
Cells would start to die after being submerged for 8 hours
>>8611715
Believe it or not, this is actually how fish evolved
>>8611840
That's bullshit but I believe it.
>>8611840
Checkmate christfags
>>8611798
Trench hand you idiot
>>8611715
Your hand would absorb all the water into your body and you would die of water poisoning.
>>8611715
You would evolve to have really dry hands so it cancels out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB4SkfgvQ98
>>8611715
It would look exactly like your picture.
>>8611715
the water would dry out
>>8613193
>>8611821
That can't be right
People stay almost fully submerged for 20 to 24 hours swimming across the English Channel
>>8613228
English Channel is of comparable salinity to the human body.
>>8613269
Doesn't really matter, because
1. Nothing says the water in the bowl can't be also.
2. Skin is actually almost impenetrable by water, unless damaged. The wrinking you see after a bath? Turns out it's a neurological response rather than simple soaking, since it was found that a patient with damaged nerves never got wrinkly skin from water on the afflicted hand (but he did on his other one). So there'll probably be some skin peeling after a while, but no significant fluid exchange or penetration.
>>8611715
HE ONCE HELD AN OPPONENT'S WIFE'S HAND
IN A JAR OF ACID
AT A PARTY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7iVsdRbhnc
I can't believe i'm talking about that champagne I vomited while I was changing my brother's diapers
>>8613191
Severely underrated, fucking kek
it would be extremely painful
None of these cowards got no heart
you'd piss yourself every time you fell asleep
>>8611715
You'll be fine, the skin of humans is not much different from other aquatic mammals.
>>8611715
If the water is cleaned and replaced regularly and you didn't keep your hand lifelessly still, probably nothing besides it being super mega wrinkled and it being possibly painfully sensitive.
>>8615019
i like that