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The Netflix documentary was great and the thing that I took away from it most was that in fractions of a second all the passengers literally blinked out of existence: They were here and then within a ms, they literally vanished (I assume... they didn't elaborate on it but I can guess!)

The temperature and pressure in that tiny fraction of a second was probably 10s of thousands of degrees and hundreds of jumbo jets smashing into them so fast that their bodies didn't even register the trauma.

Blew my mind.

Nearly forgot that they heard the explosion on the surface ship, 2 miles above the sub... that kinda screws with my head tbh!

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It is quite interesting. The implosion took about 10 milliseconds.

It takes the brain 13 milliseconds to register an image.

It takes the brain 100-200 milliseconds to register pain.

They could have heard some cracks but most likely had no knowledge of the implosion. Their bodies just turned into mist.

Mist is kind of the exact opposite of what their bodies turned into. Compression does really, really interesting things to meat and bone sacks with lots and lots of tiny airspaces. They wouldn’t have been conscious of anything, but they would have been more mince / paste / goo / frothy clot than anything as clean and homogenous sounding as mist.

I found it wild that fragments of their clothes were found, plus a pen and Rush’s business card.

Can you think of a better way to die? The only thing missing here is knowing it beforehand.

The only better way is going to bed and dying of old age. The Titan way is quite harsh on families though.

You're missing the "laying in bed" time that varies between 10 hours and 20 years. My grandpa chose the latter. No thanks.

tbh I think I prefer the 10 ms death over dying of old age. The months leading up to a death-by-old-age are still usually pretty unpleasant. Agreed that the toll on the family is rough though

*Months/years/decades

I'm angling to die in bed of old age, but at full cognition and perfect awareness of what lies ahead I'm sure a lot of people would pick the Titan over the toll slow death and it's related miseries takes on a family (this is a very weird sentence to type about the Titan, lol)

"Dying of old age" is often an agonizing death from multiple organ failure.

This would be pretty fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster

> Nearly forgot that they heard the explosion on the surface ship, 2 miles above the sub... that kinda screws with my head tbh!

Water carries sound really well. Whale songs can still be detected what, thousands of miles away or something ridiculous?

It is kinda freaky to think about.

All of that was already familiar to people who had seen The Abyss (1989)

this also happened rapidly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin

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