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Re:Missing Titanic Sub Faced Lawsuit over Depths It Could Sa... by Ruthalas on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @05:45PM (#36411117)
This is likely less the case when the pressure differential is ~480 bar.

Failure is going to occur on the order of fractions of a second at those huge pressures. (Fortunately?)

Here's a pressure vessel failing at only 1 bar:

https://youtu.be/Zz95_VvTxZM

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Re:Missing Titanic Sub Faced Lawsuit over Depths It Could Sa... by anigbrowl on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @05:59PM (#36411280)
Agreed on the likely short timescale. I am imagining having just enough time to think 'something's not right...' Musicians are sensitive to latencies on the order of 10-20 milliseconds; I doubt there was time for a conversation about it.
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