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I tried a ~1x1cm cube of it when I was in Iceland... that assessment is pretty spot-on.
Did you keep it down? The pictures alone make it look very unappetizing, but I have to assume there is a significant aroma to the dish as well.
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I think it is just that gravity happens to be 9,81 m/s^2. On other hand 1kg being equal to 1 litre of water is by design in metric system. Other happens stance is that pressure on surface is about 101 325 pascals. So things work out that way...
I'm reasonably sure they're not identically accurate any more, but good enough for the kitchen. The kg was initially defined by the mass of the water, but as the kg has been redefined it's drifted a tiny bit.
It infuriates me when they bring these fish up to the surface, killing them painfully as the decompress into disgusting blobs.
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Is this why they expect this fish is near the depth limit? Does this mechanism stop working at higher pressures?
Yeah, the cited depth limit of ~8.5km appears to be based on “fish use an osmolyte called TMAO to protect their proteins from pressure, and below 8.5km the concentration of TMAO required is so high that it inhibits cell function”. Apparently crustaceans get deeper by using five different osmolytes at once instead of relying on TMAO. (Info from helpful comment by mytailorisrich in this thread https://news.ycombinator.…
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Another commenter posted a link to a 2014 article that explains how the fish can survive so deep. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26423203 It says that fish use the TMAO protein to protect themselves from pressure. But other organisms use a combination of multiple proteins and that apparently lets them survive higher pressures. So it seems the fish would basically need to re-evolve how to handle pressure…
If they're born and live at that depth isn't the pressure equalized inside and outside of them?
So while there may not he mechanical stress on the fish, their proteins may not function correctly at high pressure.
Surprised no one shared this one yet. In case you've never seen it: https://neal.fun/deep-sea/
It infuriates me when they bring these fish up to the surface, killing them painfully as the decompress into disgusting blobs.
Your affectionately, a regular, concerned, human.