US medical professionals will conduct a formal analysis of presumed remains, the coast guard said.

US medical professionals will conduct a formal analysis of presumed remains, the coast guard said.

  • Drewsteau@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I want to know what they mean by presumed remains, I thought for sure they would be vaporized when the implosion happened. Like, is this a bone fragment or something? Surely there’s nothing identifiably human right?

    • swope@kbin.socialEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Probably not a lot of examples of a composite pressure vessels imploding with humans inside, so even the expert speculation may be flawed for some unknown reason.

    • TheThirdStrike@kbin.socialEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      It meat that has gone through a hull implosion.

      It could be human, it could be half a can of Spam… Would be hard to tell the difference without a DNA test.

          • Nougat@kbin.socialEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I know enough to understand that that should be really funny, but not enough to understand exactly why.

              • Nougat@kbin.socialEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                Yes, that’s what I was plenty aware of. I failed to make the connection between spam (unsolicited email) and SPAM (the Hormel potted meat prduct), which was mentioned in the parent comment.

                I’m just not always on my toes, it seems. I appreciate your apt hint.

                Edit: Oh, I know why I didn’t connect. I was thinking of those as ways to verify a sender’s identity. By that operation, a consequence is that spam is prevented, but I was only focusing on the primary function.

    • thekerker@kbin.socialEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      That’s been my thought as well. What, exactly, would there be? Are we talking about a whole human body? A fragment like a torso, leg, arm, etc.? My understanding was also that the occupants were vaporized during the implosion.

      • FlowVoid@kbin.socialEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s the ocean depths, not the surface of the sun.

        Gas is compressible. So if you stepped into the water without any protection at extreme depth, every gas-containing part of your body would be crushed. That includes your nose, mouth, ears, throat, lungs, bowels, and most of the bones of your face.

        Liquids are not very compressible. So the liquid parts of your body, like your eyes, brains, blood, and limbs, would not be affected very much. Maybe they would shrink almost imperceptibly. The same is true of the bones not in your face.

        The final result would be a an oddly-smushed looking corpse, not a cloud of vapor.

        Incidentally, this is why deep sea divers can swim at depth. They breathe very high pressure gas into their gas-containing parts, which thus remain inflated despite the pressure of the water.