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All living things have evolved under this very heavy mass of air, and as a result, they have all evolved to exert an equal and opposite pressure internally. It requires no effort and no one feels this, of course; the body does this quite naturally.

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I believe that you mean to ask why the atmospheric pressure of 24 pounds per square inch does not crush living organisms. That pressure exists both inside and outside of living organisms; air is inside us as well as outside, since we inhale it. And the parts that have no air are permeated by water, which is relatively incompressible. An organism would only feel the air pressure as a crushing force if it had a section of its body which contained a vacuum, and there is no living organism which does.


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