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To: I-ambush

I would like to see an AI simulation of what the implosion looks like.


273 posted on 06/22/2023 3:17:51 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: mosaicwolf

Here is a good video and article about implosions due to pressure variants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM-k1zofs58

https://www.progressiverailroading.com/mechanical/article/AllTranstek-tackles-imploding-tank-car-legend-on-MythBusters-TV-show—47621

In this MythBusters episode they were trying to recreate what supposedly happened to a tanker car that was being steamed cleaned on the inside and then sealed up while hot steam was still inside and then exposed to a cooling rain. But what it really showed was the pressure variant between the atmospheric pressure inside the tank vs the atmospheric pressure outside.

While not a 1:1 analogy as to what happened on the Titan, it helps visualize what can happen.

But the pressure variants at the depth they reached, as I understand was like an Empire State building made of lead being on top of every inch of the vessel and ultimately on the humans inside.

Even the tiniest of flaws, cracks, any failures of the hull results in a catastrophic implosion many times greater than this rail car experiment.

Fortunately for the people on board, they likely died instantly. In an instant they would have been squished like a 200 pound man stepping on an ant.


276 posted on 06/22/2023 3:41:25 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: mosaicwolf

Someone will make one.


354 posted on 06/22/2023 6:44:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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