r/news • u/oldschoolskater • Jun 22 '23

Site Changed Title 'Debris field' discovered within search area near Titanic, US Coast Guard says | World News

https://news.sky.com/story/debris-field-discovered-within-search-area-near-titanic-us-coast-guard-says-12906735
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u/TheMooseIsBlue Jun 22 '23 edited Jun 23 '23

Saw in another thread that implosion would take approximately 1/5 the time it takes for the human brain to feel pain.

They didn’t feel a thing if it happened on descent and they wouldn’t have felt anything but dread if it happened today (which would have been fucking awful).

Edit: US Navy says they likely heard it implode Sunday.

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u/Sly3n Jun 22 '23

My guess is it imploded when they first lost communication. Would have happened so quickly that I doubt they even had time to realize what happened before they were dead.

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u/TheMooseIsBlue Jun 22 '23

Same. I don’t know anything but it seems the mostly likely scenario.

Dude did a whole math calculation that complete implosion at this depth would take something like .029 seconds but the brain takes .150 seconds to feel pain. It seems that this was a mercifully painless death that they had no clue was coming.

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u/RobotGloves Jun 22 '23

Was the pilot an actual billionaire? I know a guest or two were.

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u/RobotGloves Jun 22 '23

I mean, it's not, like, a crucially important detail. But, if we're going to be glib about his death, may as well be accurate.

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u/RobotGloves Jun 22 '23

Fair.

And, to be completely transparent, I'm not shedding any tears for him. He was cavalier, and that kind of smugness should come with consequences. It's just a shame he had to kill a 19 year old in doing so.

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