Look what they found!

[Hincapiej4]

Sorry don't know where else to post this...OMG!

Coral reef taller than the Empire State Building discovered in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

The reef is located off the coast of North Queensland, in the area around Cape York. Seven other detached reefs have been discovered in this region since the late 1800s.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Pistondog]

My initial thought was, no way the coral skeletons on the bottom can support that, but maybe corals are neutral weight in nsw.
Nature is metal.

 

[Hincapiej4]

My initial thought was, no way the coral skeletons on the bottom can support that, but maybe corals are neutral weight in nsw.
Nature is metal.

I used to spend hours watching submarine dives in the ocean before I got a tank. It's so interesting, wish I could live forever so I could explore the ocean wish I had become a marine biologist and had a chance to be out there

 

[Pistondog]

I used to spend hours watching submarine dives in the ocean before I got a tank. It's so interesting, wish I could live forever so I could explore the ocean wish I had become a marine biologist and had a chance to be out there

Perspective for inhospitable environments:
Space is a near vacuum, the max delta pressure that spacecraft must withstand is 1 atmosphere, 14.5 psi, inside craft vs outside
In the ocean, every 33 feet, the pressure increases 1 atmosphere.
At 330 feet, 10x
At the bottom of that reef, 50x or 700 lbs per square inch.

At one time more men had been to the moon than to the Marianas trench, the deepest spot in the oceans.
Mind boggling pressures.

 

[Pistondog]

Perspective for inhospitable environments:
Space is a near vacuum, the max delta pressure that spacecraft must withstand is 1 atmosphere, 14.5 psi, inside craft vs outside
In the ocean, every 33 feet, the pressure increases 1 atmosphere.
At 330 feet, 10x
At the bottom of that reef, 50x or 700 lbs per square inch.

At one time more men had been to the moon than to the Marianas trench, the deepest spot in the oceans.
Mind boggling pressures.

Just looked it up, Marianas trench, 36000 feet deep.
36000/33 = 1050 atmospheres
14.5 psi × 1050 = 15000 lbs per square inch.
For the portholes, would that be 12mm or 10 mm glass?

 

[Hincapiej4]

Hmm, I would imagine the more thicc (haha) they are the better.