• @towerful@programming.dev
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    4730 days ago

    Not a concrete expert, but dead bodies. They decompose, can create pockets of pressurised gas, and leave a hollow cavity of no structural strength.

    Source: Me. I made it up, but seems plausible.

    • @atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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      1430 days ago

      There was an episode of MythBusters where they buried a couple pigs in concrete to see what decomposing bodies do in exactly that case. They indeed leave a gross hollow space.

    • Kualdir
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      830 days ago

      According to the netflix series called High Tides that I watched the rich bury dead bodies in the buildings they build to hide them and Netflix would never lie to me