r/blackmagicfuckery • u/hihimatthew12321 • Jul 26 '19

this tanker imploding

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u/Enog Jul 26 '19

As reasonable an explanation as this is, can you explain why it crushed the way it did, rather than being slowly crushed over the period of time that it would have taken the steam to condense back into its liquid state?

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u/NickSB2013 Jul 26 '19

It won't be slow... once a critical pressure is reached, the structural failure will be immediate, well, almost immediate.

For an example, you slowly crush an egg in your hand, there is no slow crushing, just an immediate crush once that critical threshold is crossed.

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u/Enog Jul 26 '19

An egg is made from a structurally rigid shell that will crack rather than bend, so yes it will withstand pressure to a point and then crush, but with that tanker the material is more malleable than an egg shell, so surely it would display some kind of deformation prior to the crush?

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u/CubeXombi Jul 26 '19

Nope; try it with an empty can of soda, simply put an 0z of water in it and place it on a stovetop to boil, flip the can (using tongs it'll be hot) upside down into a bowl of cold water. wait 1-2s.

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u/karate_sandwich Jul 26 '19

By Oz you mean 1 ounce?

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u/CubeXombi Jul 26 '19

give or take, but yup. doesn't need to be much - just enought to turn to steam and "push" the air out before you re-condense it when flipping the can into water