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Old 06-22-2023, 12:13 PM   #544
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A lot of my interest is in the extreme conditions...so I did some napkin calculations.

In the case of a rapid catastrophic breach at the depth of titanic, assuming adiabatic compression, the air in the submersible would be almost immediately heated to over 1000 degrees C as it was compressed to less than 1/350 its initial volume. The amount of energy transferred from ocean to air in that process would exceed the energy in a kilo of TNT. By my napkin calculations, over 5 MJ.

That would not leave much intact, either bodies or carbon fiber.
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