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Don't worry, it didn't. The front separated too quickly for gravity to be a factor.

Fair enough. "Large amount" being enough to affect the cooling and mixing dynamics of the collapsing air bubble over the timescale of the event and its immediate aftermath. I'll publish my results.

Why what? Why do I want to know? Because I have enough curiosity to rip all 9 lives from a million cats.

It's much shorter than the relevant timescales here, but the point is that we're nowhere near the time resolution limit for the universe for this kind of event. There's an actual sequence of events, not just a jump from one timestep to the next. Even if most of our sensors don't have the...

So one thing I'm interested in here is roughly how much of the air bubble collapse can be attributed to deformation of the hull (or inward movement of fragments), and how much can be attributed to water moving ahead of solid material. Also, how much is the water itself going to heat due to...

If you look at it with high enough time resolution, there's a dynamics problem sandwiched between the two statics problems. If you don't know what that looks like, it's OK to say so; if I knew, I wouldn't be asking, and I'm sure it's a difficult problem. I would be interested in an educated...

A millisecond is 2*10^40 Planck times, so "by all means instantly" doesn't describe the situation. A millisecond is a really long time. I wouldn't even accept "in a light crossing time for the volume in question" as "instantly" (though I don't expect anything to be moving relativistically in...

I'm aware of the timescale involved. But there is still a sequence of events over that timescale and the question of what the collapse looks like on a microsecond scale. Fluid isn't going to exactly "flow" under these conditions, but whenever the failure produces the first opening in the hull...

"Fail in tension" meaning to actually tear, or just to deform without tearing? In the former case, I wonder how much flattening you'd actually get before fluid dynamics through the hole dominated the event. In the latter, I suppose the point of first water entry would be when the seal between...

Of course. Paper gets soggy in water.

It's not quite that grim. I'm quite pessimistic about location and recovery in the time available, but they've been banging on the hull every 30 min, so they're known to be currently alive or only very recently dead.

Traditionally "navigation", though that tends to mean "determining your position and charting a course, regardless of mode of travel" these days.

I don't think he's an evil capitalist (modulo the universality of human evil), merely an overly optimistic capitalist. An evil capitalist wouldn't eat the dogfood and trust his life to his own sub, and would thus be less likely to autodarwinate. This guy truly believed he could cut corners...

In this case, he'll autodarwinate and be left with no organization. It's hard to run a company from Davy Jones' Locker.

There's apparently banging been heard in the area at 30 minute intervals. This would indicate that they're alive and that a pressure vessel failure is not the cause of the accident (a pressure vessel failure would likely have been accompanied by some very loud noises, so I feel the search would...

I think most submarine tourism has tended to be shallow-water tourism. At this depth, it's more akin to space tourism (cheaper than space tourism, but also possibly riskier). But even for non-tourism, I'm not sure I've heard of fatal accidents involving research submersibles. Even in peacetime...

This is something I've never understood. Why are Orbiter ephemerides DLLs in the first place? This seems like something that should be data, not code.

Are there any text error messages when it stops booting, or does it just hang on a splash screen? I take it that the /home directory for each partition is on the partition itself and not on a separate partition?

Stumbled upon this comment 10 years later. In light of the developments of the last decade, there's a certain irony to it.

Harder? Rock tends to be quite soft at the temperatures in question.