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After falling about 0.15 kilometers (0.002% of the way to earth's center), you encounter about 20 atmospheres of air pressure and die from hyperoxia. This fool
by causi 4y ago
After falling about 0.15 kilometers (0.002% of the way to earth's center), you encounter about 20 atmospheres of air pressure and die from hyperoxia.
This fool is mixing up atmospheric pressure and water pressure. If you're going to speak with authority on something maybe you should spend more than five seconds thinking about it.
After falling about 1.1 kilometers (0.02% of the way to earth's center), you encounter a temperature of about 320 Kelvin
No. The temperature at 1.1km is about 36c. Uncomfortable, but not fatal. Certainly not so instantly fatal you die before passing the 2km depth on your fall.
your dried up bones and remnants of flesh encounter a temperature of about 1200 Kelvin and are completely incinerated into dust.
Burning a bone to dust requires temperatures over 1100c. He is mistaking the temperature inside a crematorium for the temperature required to incinerate bone. 1200 kelvins, like a crematorium, will produce chunks of calcified bone, not "completely incinerated into dust".
God this is a lazy article.
- leereeves 4y agoTIL that incineration in a crematorium leaves chunks of bone (bone fragments) that are then ground into the ashes we're familiar with in a device called a cremulator. Thank you.
- Simon_O_Rourke 4y ago> God this is a lazy article It's an crazily inaccurate article, with some variables turned on and off and others like mascons/average surface height ignored. Since gravity drives a lot of atmospheric pressure, I'm not sure that the "soup" of air at the center would be valid.
- thot_experiment 4y agoI was honestly wondering if it was a parody or joke of some kind after that first sentence. This guy is apparently a doctor? I wonder what the thought process looks like for this guy, I get that people make mistakes but also it's obvious that 150m holes don't instagib people.
- Ekaros 4y agoThere are many mines which are much deeper than that. And even some natural formations... Statement like that leads to think that they don't know very much about the world in general.