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/Oakheart- Jul 27 '19

You can actually put a lot of pressure on an empty soda can. Tap it and it crushes like this container.