You can’t overcome the influence of currents without propulsion and guidance. Speed can limit the effect of currents, but 7 miles is going to take a good long while no matter what you do (note that the density of concrete is only about 2.5 times that of water).
I would go with a glass coffin poured to fit your dimensions that is then sealed with molten glass.
The concrete encasement plan seems sound. Will a foot of solid concrete surrounding the entire coffin do the trick?
To get around the drift problem, could I pay the Russians to take me down four or five miles and let me sink from there? I figure the whole thing will weigh about 4 tons. Can a sub handle that?
I’m thinking guidance fins, but something a little more active, almost an underwater down-plummeting missile. But if you want your remains to last, don’t just seal them up. Your coffin will be a sloshing Cooler of Death bearing anaerobic soup inside six months. You need to be embalmed or fossilized or taxidermied first, then inserted into the deep.
My vote is for cremation, then inclusion of the ashes as an aggregate in the concrete mix.
To frustrate the worms/microrganisms, have yourself freeze dried before the concrete encasement.
You make a “begining” sphere with the inside big enough for the body to fit. 6 feet inside, more like 3 feet if you dont mind being folded in half.
After your body is in the sphere, you fill it with a liquid, formaldahyde would seem to be the standard. Seal the sphere. Things are easy here because you don’t need any hatch or windows. Then you start laying up layers of fiberglass till the shell skin is somewhere between between a few inches and foot thick.
You then put a net mesh around this. Tie THAT to the biggest hunk of steel/lead/depleted uranium your vessel can get out there. Put an “aerodynamic” shape around the whole thing around it if you want to sink really fast.
You’ll get it in the trench. With the sphere liquid filled, with not hatches or windows, will just compress a bit. IMO it should be good for hundreds of thousands of years at least.
But looking at it over the long term, that would be one of the worst spots to stash your remains. The reason why that trench is there is because the pacific plate is being subducted under the Marianas plate and chances are in a couple of millions years you’re going to end up in the mantle. A little more glamorous than worm food perhaps, but posterity it ain’t!
Just wondering, but does the thread title have any relevance whatsoever to the content?
I’ll probably go to hell for this but oh well.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=283407
Probably Tony Soprano would be my first choice. He has a boat. I think he has done it before.
Excuse me, but what does the title to this thread mean? Maybe I am missing something, but can you explain what the title of this thread has to do with the actual OP question?
As for me, I want to understand the thread title, and its relevance to the OP’s question.
Yeah, and what I want to know is just how many times someone has even BEEN there?
ETA: Couldn’t you old guys at least FIND a new guest to ask these questions? I want to see a Guest-Dec09 ask what it’s all about.
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I thought it was pretty self-evident, since the original mission to the trench …
What is with this weird convergence of vermicular themes today?
This morning when we woke up, before we ever saw the newspaper, my wife said she had dreamt about a catastrophe caused by concrete-eating earthworms. Then when we did open the paper, about the first thing we saw was a feature about a Compton worm farm.
And now this!