I didn’t believe the hype nonsense about Whalefall, but I’m not a marine biologist. Maybe a marine biologist would see a way that a whale could swallow a man who would survive for an hour? I’m willing to be persuaded.

This sane, sober, well-informed video doesn’t do it for me.

I am interested in the tactics the defenders of the movie take. One event is improbable, unlikely but well, maybe possible; another event could only happen under rare circumstances; yet another event could happen if a confluence of different conditions occurs; add them all up, and presto, declare it could happen. That’s not how things work.

I learned something I hadn’t really thought through. Whales have a complex ruminant stomach that is muscular and crushes and tears food before passing it on to an acid-filled forestomach. I don’t care how many faint “maybes” you stack up, once you hit a single “impossible,” you’re done.