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Debris Field Confirmed as Titan

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Re: Debris Field Confirmed as Titan

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What can we learn from this? Don't go in pressure vessels; don't go in confined spaces.

Do airplanes count?

As Futurama famously said, airplanes are rated for a pressure differential somewhere between zero and 0.7 atmospheres. With the positive pressure being inside the plane.

This submersible needed to survive a differential of ~350 atmospheres. With the positive pressure being outside the craft.

Re: Debris Field Confirmed as Titan

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No idea why every single journalist kept forcing the "air remaining" theme. It was far more likely that the sub suffered a catastrophic implosion at the time contact was lost. Glad to see it confirmed, and finally people stop posting the nonsense about air. Shame about the passengers though.

I hate how everything journalists do has to be framed so negatively. "Forcing"? "Keeping the audience engaged" (from the replies)? They were just reporting how much air is left, in the case that they were alive - not insisting that they definitely are alive. It's an obvious thing to want to know, and an obvious thing to report. I'm sure some outlets ham it up, yeah of course. But anybody would report that information.

Re: Debris Field Confirmed as Titan

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The outcome everyone knew would happen. I don't understand the desire to go to that depth to see a sunken ship when I presume there is camera footage of it available. You can't get out and do anything, your view is probably pretty crappy given the thickness of any see through material. I see the allure with Everest and the view for your 60 seconds at the top must be impressive and it is a physical feat. But a sunken…

> when I presume there is camera footage of it available. Not sure if this is sarcasm...

The camera footage is probably better than whatever you could see through a few inches of porthole

Re: Debris Field Confirmed as Titan

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The outcome everyone knew would happen. I don't understand the desire to go to that depth to see a sunken ship when I presume there is camera footage of it available. You can't get out and do anything, your view is probably pretty crappy given the thickness of any see through material. I see the allure with Everest and the view for your 60 seconds at the top must be impressive and it is a physical feat. But a sunken…

> It would be pretty cool to send down a camera to get footage all around it at various angles and then build an app for a VR headset.

Recently they published a full 3d scan of the Titanic wreck constructed from 700,000 images taken.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65602182

Re: Debris Field Confirmed as Titan

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No idea why every single journalist kept forcing the "air remaining" theme. It was far more likely that the sub suffered a catastrophic implosion at the time contact was lost. Glad to see it confirmed, and finally people stop posting the nonsense about air. Shame about the passengers though.

Probably because there have been rescues of explorers nearly running out of air while trapped in a submersible.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12220565/The-nerve-...

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In a weird way, this is almost relieving. The speculation that they were suffocated and entombed in their own filth somewhere on the ocean as they died slowly seemed so, so much worse.

Somewhere a redditor did the math and I believe it would have taken 24ms for the glass to break and the water to rush in. Instant death if it was indeed the glass.

Re: Debris Field Confirmed as Titan

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In a weird way, this is almost relieving. The speculation that they were suffocated and entombed in their own filth somewhere on the ocean as they died slowly seemed so, so much worse.

Then again, the rover would have found the sub from the location even if it were intact, and there could have been a small chance of survival since they had the equipment. Hope is more important than agony.
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