#through the eye

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[scriptmedic]

Hi! Could a spear potentially reach someone's brain by being thrust through the eye socket? Even if the anatomy didn't comply for this to be possible for a human, do you think it's possible for this to happen to an animal? Thanks! Love your blog 💙

Hey there! 

So we looked at the skull a few asks ago, which lookie like this: 

As you can see, the ocular fissure, the hole where the “eyeball nerves” come out is very small. The previous ask specified a pin, and I said it would be unlikely. 

A spear, however, is a fully different animal. A spear has large amounts of mass and  force. 

A spear -- especially one which isn’t particularly wide at the tip, like a sharpened stake or javelin -- could go straight through the eye and into the brain. It would simply have to shatter the sphenoid bone -- the yellow one in the pic -- on the way through. Not a huge problem for a spear, dealbreaker for a pin. 

The accuracy required is the purview of a different blog.

Hope this helped!

xoxo, Aunt Scripty

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