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What would be worse a catastrophic collapse deep down in the sea or a sudden depressurization high above in the sky around the Armstrong limit?
by bhtru 3y ago
What would be worse a catastrophic collapse deep down in the sea or a sudden depressurization high above in the sky around the Armstrong limit?
- dogma1138 3y agoImplosion at 400 atm probably takes a fraction of a second, with catastrophic decompression of 1 atm you’ll be conscious probably for about a minute.
- LorenPechtel 3y agoAbove the Armstrong limit you're looking at 9-15 seconds of useful consciousness. (The time you are conscious enough to take actions to save yourself.) When a deep sub implodes you're going to be hit by water moving at the speed of sound in said water (1,500m/s, considerably faster than in air.) That's far above the speed of nerve impulses, there's no way a pain signal could reach the brain before there isn't a brain left to get the signal.
- dogma1138 3y agoI’ll still take about 1/1000th of a second or so over upto 10 seconds of contemplating my faith. Especially in the case where I’ve drugged one of my children to come with me.
- Maxion 3y agoThe latter clearly as you’d definitely have a longer time of being conscious.
- accrual 3y agoOne would survive at the Armstrong limit for much longer indeed: > Exposure to pressure below this limit results in a rapid loss of consciousness, followed by a series of changes to cardiovascular and neurological functions, and eventually death, unless pressure is restored within 60–90 seconds. [0] [0] http://www.geoffreylandis.com/vacuum.html http://www.geoffreylandis.com/vacuum.html
- belltaco 3y agoThe pressure difference between complete vacuum and sea level is one atm. At the depth of the titanic, the difference is about 375 times that.