Can a human really expand and explode?

Question

like that girl in cloverfield?

Answer 1

yes if the pressure around you was significantly less than the pressure inside you the inside of your skin would move outward making you expand and if the pressure is a vacuum it is possible that you would explode

Answer 2

If placed in a pressurized tank, and the tank is suddenly dumped, yes, they can, lol. It is amazing way to kill a person.

Answer 3

uh no i don't think so cuz when a person expands the skin expands as well so they won't explode but they could die

Answer 4

no hair is not an explosive

Answer 5

No, not like what happened in cloverfield.   But you could pump pretty much anything into a person to make them explode, as long is you pumped in enough of it.

Note: a person could not explode due to exposure to low pressure, or a vacuum as one of the answerers here has stated.  However, they could suffer lung overexpansion injury.

Answer 6

No.

The difference between air pressure at sea level and an absolute vaccum is only 1 atmosphere.

If you swim underwater, the pressure increases by 1 atmosphere per 10m underwater you go. Rising too quickly will give you the bends, but it will not make you explode.

Similarly, being dumped in a vaccum will cause rupture of blood vessels in your nose, ears, eyes, etc. It might burst your eardrums, and it will give you severe bends (which might kill you by stroke or heart-attack), but you will not explode.