Water pressure and you

AVGWarhawk · 03-27-08, 01:21 PM

This is very interesting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/sc...ce&oref=slogin

Sailor Steve · 03-27-08, 01:23 PM

A new wrinkle for the 'Shrunken Heads' business.

SUBMAN1 · 03-27-08, 01:27 PM

Salty eggs are good!

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...But the experimentally minded on such expeditions were also tempted to see what might withstand the pressure, and in at least one instance sent down a raw egg.

Filled with incompressible fluid, Ms. Kaharl wrote, the egg returned to the surface “perfectly intact and edible, but salty.”

AVGWarhawk · 03-27-08, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Salty eggs are good!

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...But the experimentally minded on such expeditions were also tempted to see what might withstand the pressure, and in at least one instance sent down a raw egg.

Filled with incompressible fluid, Ms. Kaharl wrote, the egg returned to the surface “perfectly intact and edible, but salty.”

The egg makes perfect sense as to why it did not crush. The salty taste? As the article reads, the water attempts to penetrate every thing so the egg is not resistent to the salt looking to get it's way in. So, if we fill a sub with egg whites/yoke can she go to depths 2 miles down or more? :hmm:

August · 03-27-08, 01:51 PM

One thing that never ceased to amaze me during my SCUBA diving days is how you can begin exhaling as you ascend from 100ft and still be exhaling as you broke the surface a couple minutes later.

Tango589 · 03-27-08, 02:22 PM

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So, if we fill a sub with egg whites/yoke can she go to depths 2 miles down or more? :hmm:

You can, but one on-board explosion and you would have one hell of a omellette!

Ps. I have now turned into one of the Village People!

StdDev · 03-27-08, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

So, if we fill a sub with egg whites/yoke can she go to depths 2 miles down or more? :hmm:

I'm pretty sure that under those conditions the sub could go all the way to the bottom!!!!

03-27-08, 01:21 PM	#1
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,254 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Water pressure and you This is very interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/sc...ce&oref=slogin __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

03-27-08, 01:23 PM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	A new wrinkle for the 'Shrunken Heads' business. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

03-27-08, 01:51 PM	#5
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,197 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	One thing that never ceased to amaze me during my SCUBA diving days is how you can begin exhaling as you ascend from 100ft and still be exhaling as you broke the surface a couple minutes later. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

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