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Debris Field Confirmed as Titan

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Re: Debris Field Confirmed as Titan

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Post by tacotime »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #42
giarc wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Just how instant is that death? Do you die from quickly drowning in the water or is the water pressure enough to also crush your skull quick enough to make sure you die without having the chance to feel anything? Guillotined people can still be alive and feel about 30 second safter their head has been removed from their body.

I have been in a car accident that, in the instant of impact, felt indistinguishable from an explosion, too fast to process anything. I imagine the massive pressure change would cause near-instant incapacitation if not death.

Re: Debris Field Confirmed as Titan

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Post by bhtru »

legitster wrote: post #10

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.

What would be worse a catastrophic collapse deep down in the sea or a sudden depressurization high above in the sky around the Armstrong limit?

Re: Debris Field Confirmed as Titan

#53

Post by elliekelly »

yabones wrote: post #3

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

I think it’s more along the lines of “learn from the experiences of others”. It’s my understanding that there are quite a lot of very smart people who have spent decades figuring out how to build these things relatively safely. This company decided to ignore the existing knowledge base entirely because what the industry had learned was expensive and inconvenient for a fledgling tourist company.

What’s that analogy about taking down a fence without understanding why someone put it up in the first place?

Re: Debris Field Confirmed as Titan

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Post by officialjunk »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #42
giarc wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Just how instant is that death? Do you die from quickly drowning in the water or is the water pressure enough to also crush your skull quick enough to make sure you die without having the chance to feel anything? Guillotined people can still be alive and feel about 30 second safter their head has been removed from their body.

i would expect the impact of the water rushing in that quickly to knock everyone out.

Re: Debris Field Confirmed as Titan

#57

Post by Merad »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #42
giarc wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Just how instant is that death? Do you die from quickly drowning in the water or is the water pressure enough to also crush your skull quick enough to make sure you die without having the chance to feel anything? Guillotined people can still be alive and feel about 30 second safter their head has been removed from their body.

The pressure at that depth is something like 5000 psi. You're literally dead before your brain has time to comprehend what's happening.

Re: Debris Field Confirmed as Titan

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Post by Maxion »

bhtru wrote: post #52
legitster wrote: post #10

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.

What would be worse a catastrophic collapse deep down in the sea or a sudden depressurization high above in the sky around the Armstrong limit?

The latter clearly as you’d definitely have a longer time of being conscious.

Re: Debris Field Confirmed as Titan

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Post by troupo »

yabones wrote: post #3

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

There are exactly two lessons to learn from this:

- safety regulations, especially for high-risk low-margin-of-error endeavours are there for a reason, and we've already learned all these lessons the hard way

- the probability of any given billionaire being dumb as rocks is close to 1

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