Re: Whoops - that stupid villain theory!


In article <ip1cc2peolmcithap9prpvbk9t2nl7thk4@xxxxxxx>,
Toon <toon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

10,911 meters. Which makes it ... hm ... something over 1000 times more
than at the sea surface. What would that do to an iron ball exactly?
Melt it? The bathyscaphes survived there, didn't they?

No, they don't. Thye never go down that far, because they'll be
crushed. Also, very dark down there too.

Bullshit.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathyscaphe
Piccard's second bathyscaphe was Trieste and was purchased by the US
Navy in 1957. It had two water tanks and held 120,000 litres of petrol
in eleven tanks for bouyancy [1]. In 1960 Trieste set a world record by
diving to a depth of 35,810 feet (10 915 metres) at the bottom of the
Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the Mariana Trench and believed
to be the deepest point in the world's oceans.

Or, if you don't trust Wikipedia,
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007DP27Q/qid=1153847863/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-1571956-9025759?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

As for the dark issue, they managed exterior illumination somehow.
Probably by a method similar to the windows, which were ingenious.

The bottom of the ocean, like the moon, is a place that mere muggles
used to be able to reach.

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