"Titan" submersible investigation begins [28-June-2023]

[Dr.Strangelove]

Here’s what I said in a different thread:

@Dr.Strangelove

The amount of energy involved is exactly equivalent to the mass of displaced water dropped from a height of whatever their depth was (in a vacuum). Several tons of water (given that the volume was several cubic meters) dropped from a couple of kilometers up.

At a certain energy scale, it really doesn’t matter what the materials are. The end result is just a roughly homogeneous mass of the component molecules.

“Molecules” was perhaps very mild hyperbole, but not by much. The result was still a thin meat soup.

The energy was equivalent to perhaps 6 m^3 of seawater dropping by 3500 m. That’s 200 MJ, or about 50 kilograms of TNT. A few human bodies aren’t going to put up much resistance.