What If You Throw a Steel Ball into the Mariana Trench
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Published 2020-06-18
All Comments (21)
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very impressive that you stretched a simple answer called "literally nothing" up to 10 min....
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That one kid who writes a thesis for a 1 mark question.
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“If you’re a fish, you probably wouldn’t try to figure out how the pressure in the trench is affecting the steel ball” this is amazing insight! So true.
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When you're trying to hit the word count on your English assignment:
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The answer is nothing. Here, I saved your 10minutes
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This video in a nutshell: Drop a steel ball into the Mariana Trench and it will sink in about 12 minutes, then over the years bacteria will oxidize it and it will break down into the silt. Throw a 15lb bowling ball in and it will sink in around 2 hr 20 min. It won't break down because its plastic, rubber and ceramic. There, now you know what you already kind of knew
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"Few are ready to live in darkness, cold, and under tremendous pressure." My life
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I’ve actually sailed over the deepest part of the Mariana Trench when I was in the navy. I tossed a quarter in. I wonder what it looks like after almost 20 years??
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"What If You Throw a Steel Ball into the Mariana Trench" Steel ball will sink and nothing will happen. The end.
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"I won't bore you with formulas" No, you'll just bore us with 6 minutes of pointless buildup instead
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Who watching this after the Titan vessel, went missing
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This video was basically me stretching out my dissertation from 500 words to 15,000
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This was the most oddly written script. Almost like someone who doesn’t speak english wrote it and hired a native speaker to read it aloud
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0:41 " I wouldn't recommend doing this" I was just about to drop a steel ball into the Mariana trench. Such a Party pooper.
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1000 years from now; a family on vacation in their personal submarine at the bottom of the Mariana Trench: "What are all these bowling balls doing here?"
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I've always wondered if the fish are down there on their writing pad doing all these complex calculations, so thanks for clearing that up 🤔
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Long story short: It sinks.
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"Littering the Mariana Trench with steel balls isn't a good idea, and I wouldn't recommend doing it." Well dammit there go my summer plans
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I'm not bored with formulae. I want to know how you figured out the fall times. I also want to know what would actually happen to a steel ball dropped into the trench. I was, however, astounded to learn that the fish and other creatures in the depths would not wonder about the math...
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Am I the only one that would love to be "bored" by the details of how he calculated the terminal velocity of the steel ball descending through the water? I'm sure it would be extremely enlightening...
