(noun,
unit): The specific measurement of catastrophic convergence where the weight of the ocean (Phydro) perfectly equals the weight of a CEO's mounting debt and ego (Pego), resulting in an instantaneous phase-shift from "Visionary" to "Cautionary Tale."
The Math™️:
-> Pressure in water increases by roughly 1 atmosphere (
atm) every 10 meters of depth.
-> Titan imploded at ~90%+ of its descent to
Titanic, so that's ~350 - 360ish
atm give or take a dozen more. This means the hull turned into confetti under about maybe 380 atmospheres atmospheres of external pressure maximum, when it imploded.
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In other word:
1) Earth (Sea Level) is 1
atm - or 1/350th of the pressure Stockton felt.
2) Surface of Venus is ~92
atm under its hellscape acidic
sky, and The Titan was under nearly 4x the pressure of Venus’ surface.
3) The Implosion Point is ~350+ atmospheres - AKA, The weight of the Empire State Building, made of solid lead, resting on one's chest.
flash-vaporization so fast in the inverted pressure-cooker, their 🧠 didn't have a chance to
fire a single neuron processing a thing.
So? While Venus’ atmosphere is incredibly dense for a
gas (about 65 kg/m^3), liquid water is incompressible and far heavier. Stockton
Rush managed to find a place on Earth far more crushing than the surface of the "Evil Twin" planet.
Stockton of Pressure (StP) - "Stockton tried to build the first sub made entirely from the sleeve material, but sadly it was too good, and would cost too much... so in the end he had to go for the carbon fiber instead.
The sleeve is intact, but Stockton was under a Stockton of pressure and sadly he could not be revived."
- u/IsraelKeyes
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"I’m a materials engineer…this whole thing just has me banging my
head against the wall."
- "don't bang your
head too
hard, you might break the hull"
-- "he'd have to bang his
head with a stockton of pressure/force to do that"
(Courtesy of OceanGateTitan Subreddit - Google
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