The Deep Sea
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The Deep Sea
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#3As cool as it is, this link is probably being posted a little bit too often:
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#4The site mentions the Trieste reaching Challenger Deep and how a window cracked on the way down. I can't imagine wanting to reach it so badly that they'd risk the implosion. I guess death at that depth has the benefit of being instant.
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#5As cool as it is, this link is probably being posted a little bit too often: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=neal.fun
On HN, an article doesn't count as a dupe if it hasn't had significant attention yet. One user isn't allowed to repost the same article more than a small number of times (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), but when the same article is posted by many different submitters, that's often an indication that it's interesting. Because of that, we invited Yuval_Halevi to repost it, since he was the first user to submit it in the first place. Invited reposts get put in the second-chance pool (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380), which is why this one made it to the front page.
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#6It reminds me of another scrolling experience, "If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system" (https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....).
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#7I guess humans cannot stand suspense. I wanted to see what is in the end but gave up after 1.5K meters.
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#8Huh, penguins can dive deep.
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#9The site mentions the Trieste reaching Challenger Deep and how a window cracked on the way down. I can't imagine wanting to reach it so badly that they'd risk the implosion. I guess death at that depth has the benefit of being instant.
If you are interested, one of piccard books, Au Fond Des Mers en Bathyscaphe, explains everything from a personal perspective. It contains many engineering details that are deeply interesting
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#10I wonder what prevents a fish that goes down to 100 meters from going down to 300 meters or 3000 meters. Does it feel an internal pressure that tells it to not dive further, or is it the amount of light or availability of food it seeks? Since fish wouldn't suffer from decompression sickness, I wonder if they could dive much deeper if they wanted to.
Now that I think about it, I've scuba dived to 130 feet and it didn't feel any different to me than being at 10 feet. The only reason I didn't go deeper is because the depth gauge, divermaster, and training told me not to go deeper, and not because I was feeling the pressure.