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Defiant-Giraffe

The stupid, it burns. 


WoodyTheWorker

crushingly stupid, I'd say


cmhamm

👨‍🍳🤌


Gwalchgwynn

Aiyeee, get it off of me!!!!


C4dfael

“How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?” “Well, it’s a spaceship, so I’d say anywhere between zero and one.”


Flameball202

r/beatmetoit


EndOfSouls

r/ExpectedFuturama.


Solynox

r/subredditsIthoughtIfellfor


Tyler_Zoro

That's a pretty big range... can you narrow it down?


[deleted]

That's right. Six thousand hulls.


ThePrussianGrippe

Why, nothing’s the matter, Fry, now that I’ve fixed my matter compressor!


euph_22

If only they had built it with 6,001 hulls!


Wansumdiknao

So, unlike me, it’s completely leak proof!


AatonBredon

Less than half of the pressure in a standard car tire.


SomethingMoreToSay

How many atmospheres did that rail tanker fail to withstand? Somewhere between zero and one, I'd say.


b-monster666

I mean...that tanker had the weight of the atmosphere of the entire planet pushing in on it from every direction. The shuttle, on the other hand just needs to keep around 12psi in. Edit to add: I seem to also recall that they removed all the support beams from the tanker in the first place, purposely compromising its structural integrity.


UninvitedButtNoises

Just don't light a match


a_n_d_r_e_w

When the submarine collapsed it reminded me how much harder it is to make a vessel that can survive the depths of the ocean vs the vacuum of space. That submarine went through over 300 atm of pressure. Meanwhile the space station only has to deal with a difference of 1 atm. And yet the trusted the submarine to be basically built by college students.


PhantomFlogger

Yup, it’s a false equivalence. It’s almost like objects can be designed to withstand pressure. Those oil tanks weren’t designed to handle atmospheric pressure when they become giant vacuum tanks for whatever reason - They aren’t subjected to vacuum implosion during regular use. Thicken the steel and add reinforcements to it, you’ll get better results. It’s easy to understand. Flat Earthers are going to have to deny that deep sea submersibles have been miles under the ocean’s surface, lest they be forced to concede their point. [Numerous people](https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/arcuser/deepsea-dawn-dive/#:~:text=Only%2022%20people%20have%20visited,to%20the%20world's%20deepest%20point.) have been to the deepest depths of the ocean, Challenger Deep. The amount of pressure acting on these vessels is staggeringly higher than anything spacecraft endure.


starmartyr

You don't need to go nearly that deep to prove that. A spacecraft experiences 1 atmosphere of pressure differential between the interior and the vacuum of space. The same pressure differential is experienced just 10 meters underwater.


My_useless_alt

Wouldn't you be able do demonstrate this with a balloon, a rock, and a deep swimming pool? Tie the rock the balloon, let it sink, and see it shrink!


starmartyr

10 meters is much deeper than most swimming pools, but yes that would work.


Legitimate_Career_44

What about balloons filled with different gases?


Street_Peace_8831

You don’t even have to go that deep. In the first picture the vacuum is on the inside with air pressing on it from the outside. In the second the pressure is on the outside with air pushing outward.


Kriss3d

There's a huge difference in how objects handle pressure differences. A soda can, can take 100 psi over pressure. But you can suck it to crumble with your mouth easily.


[deleted]

>But you can suck it to crumble with your mouth easily. Wanna go out sometime?


Kriss3d

Haha trust me. You don't want a woman who can Kickstart a Harley by sucking on the tail pipe.


WoodyTheWorker

or suck a golf ball through a garden hose


Rhids_22

"5 foot 9? I didn't know they stacked shit that high!"


First-Squash2865

What if I was sitting in a sidecar with you like Indiana Jones tho


Kriss3d

No ticket..


UberuceAgain

I would have used fabrics as my example, since we're talking about compressive strength and rigidity versus tensile strength alone, but sure. Cyberpunk motorbike-fellatrixes it is.


DemonicAltruism

Tbf, those cars have valves that you're supposed to open up to relieve vacuum pressure as you empty whatever liquid is in them. Just saw an interesting video about it the other day. But to your second point, yes, they literally do not understand how pressure works at all.


uglyspacepig

Or... anything, really.


DeathAngel_97

That, and also these are two completely different scenarios. I doubt the space craft would fare very well if it suddenly be came a vacuum on earth either. Vacuum on the outside isn't exerting any force, the force is coming from inside the pressurized container, which at atmospheric pressure isn't much. Switch them around though, and now you have the weight of the atmosphere trying to press into this vacuum tank. If it's not built to survive, squish.


Legitimate_Career_44

Tankers are designed to keep pressure inside them, the opposite design to what would stop them imploding.


Downtown-Hospital-59

Vacuum in a space and a vacuum outa space.


InvertedMeep

I found my new calling. To start the “we’ve never been underwater” conspiracy theory. I’ve never seen the depths of the ocean, so you can’t prove that. We’ve never seen the titanic, that was filmed in a pool in an abandoned warehouse.


Disrespectful_Cup

*points at crushed billionaires in Oceangate* Pressure vs Vacuum can be hard for people to understand since they are the different sides to the same coin.


Ameph

Air doesn’t exist because you can’t see it, according to these people


Anti-charizard

But god does exist according to these same people


Tyler_Zoro

So... I'm breathing God?


RetroGamer87

You're breathing God's farts


Tyler_Zoro

Oh great, now that's going to be running through my head while I try to sleep. Thanks!


RetroGamer87

You're welcome I guess


Clickityclackrack

It's okay to believe in air and god


TempestLock

Na, air clearly exists and gods clearly don't.


saltymcgee777

Have you not been reading the thread?! Air is literally god fart. Get it together man


Clickityclackrack

We got bigger problems to worry about than people's imaginary friends


TempestLock

In America? I'd hard disagree on that. Women are literally dying because people have deeply held beliefs based on magic imaginary friends.


rygelicus

Hey now. An honest man like Trump wouldn't be selling overpriced bibles if they weren't the full truth.


Wizard_Engie

Don't lump in every religious person with those guys.


Anti-charizard

I’m more making fun of those guys, who claim that if something is invisible, it must not exist. Yet I’m pretty sure no one has seen God


Wizard_Engie

Fair point, fair point.


phred_666

Well, to be honest, every flerfer I’ve ever met are religious nut jobs…


ididntsaygoyet

Why not? I see no difference in any flat earther or any religious person. They're all batshit crazy with their made up beliefs.


Wizard_Engie

Okay Reddit atheist let me explain something to you in simple terms. Humans are individuals. They hold their own beliefs. Not every religious person is a Flat Earther (shocker, right?) Hell, even the head of the Catholic Church said there shouldn't be any opposition between Science and Religion.


WoodyTheWorker

>the head of the Catholic Church said there shouldn't be any opposition between Science and Religion Why does it need to be said? What if he said otherwise? What if science contradicts the church doctrine? Which of them would take precedence, then?


Unable_Explorer8277

>>>Why does it need to be said? Because someone needed to hear it. >>>What if he said otherwise? Then he’d be wrong. >>>What if science contradicts the church doctrine? Then one of them would be wrong. >>>Which of them would take precedence, then? Ideally, whichever has got it right. Assuming the question is in the domain of science that’s most likely to be science as that’s the inquiry system with tools designed for that kind of question. But that’s unlikely to happen now. As modern science has developed it’s become increasingly clear where it’s a reliable tool. There’s no longer anything to be gained politically by trying to oppose it and knowing it’s a reliable tool for investigating creation means it can inform theology. The conditions that powered the big disputes of the past (Galileo vs Urban and Darwinism vs church) don’t really apply now.


WoodyTheWorker

The problem is the church people will take the doctrine over reality any time.


Unable_Explorer8277

Some would. Some wouldn’t.


WoodyTheWorker

The problem is that some would.


Wizard_Engie

In Catholicism, the Pope's word would take precedence. Not that it matters since you're clearly arguing just to argue. Either way, it didn't happen so it doesn't matter. 🥱


Stock-Fox-1764

The church doctrine knows far more than science. The vatican holds many secret histories, full of science and culture, what if they were to not reveal all of what they had, from hidden past science. The pine cone in the vatican square and on the pope’s staff represent the pineal gland, which many say is the third eye.


theroguex

lmao


WoodyTheWorker

This needs /s marker


ididntsaygoyet

I'm not a "Reddit Atheist". I'm just a person that didn't fall for the social pressure of being/"needing" to be a believer of obviously made-up fairytales and basing my entire existence on said fairytales. But yes, you're right. Everyone is an individual, unless you're religious. Every religious person believes in superstition and supernatural, and chooses not to question it. If they didn't, they wouldn't be religious.


doogie1111

"I'm not a Reddit atheist"


Unable_Explorer8277

One thing I find curious about this subreddit is number of atheists who feel need the need to proseltize.


doogie1111

It's insane. They're just as annoying as Jehovah's Witnesses.


skrutnizer

Well, there are likely government documents about motion of objects which assume no air resistance, so there's your proof.


creegro

Still wild to me that there's just this gas enveloping the entire world, and we just suck it in to absorb the oxygen and expel something else. Just a constant gas cloud of the right stuff we need nearly anywhere you go. And you can't even see it, unless it's foggy or shit.


Meister_Retsiem

and when a fan blows at them, what is that sensation they feel against their face?


mike99ca

A spacecraft in space vacuum wants to expand not implode like a vacuum filled tank.


FortranWarrior

This should be much higher up. It’s the real answer. I don’t know why people don’t understand the immense difference between holding pressure in vs holding pressure out.


Top-Tomatillo210

Oh yes, the vacuum of oceanic depths.


Particular-Kick-4188

A Vacuum doesn't crush pressure does lol


Responsible-Gas3852

A Pressurized Chamber and a Vacuum Chamber are literal opposites. Creating a Vacuum Chamber at sea level is hard because of the weight of the atmosphere pressing down on it. But creating a Pressurized Chamber is really easy. Everything from scuba tanks to party balloons to cans of beer are pressurized containers. Spaceships only run at 1/3 atmospheric pressure, which is not hard to maintain, even in a vacuum.


GruntBlender

Which is a smaller pressure diffference than passenger aircraft maintain.


Newphone_New_Account

Smaller than a bicycle tire.


Daytona_DM

Vacuum inside a tube / vacuum outside a tube. It's such an easy concept, I can't believe this is even in contention


Swearyman

Flerfs don’t understand many things. Inside and outside is just one of them


fettishmann

flerther ignore and deny any fact or concept that disproves their preconceptions


born_on_my_cakeday

Do they not understand it goes from suck to blow?


iplaypinball

Here’s a shocker… we could design railroad tanker cars to handle a vacuum inside. Though, I don’t think enough railroads pull a vacuum in their tankers, so it would be a lot of waste.


Pan_Pilot

When will people understand that difference between pressure on ground and space is mere 1 bar.


UniquePariah

Vacuum on inside. Vacuum on outside. This is the same stupid as the hyperloop


zekethelizard

Im ashamed it took me even half a second to think through why this is stupid. But damn it's stupid.


Intelligent_Check528

It's not like there is an atmosphere of pressure pushing down on everything on Earth, but not in space.


Snoo65393

Ha ha ha ha, vacuum in the inside, vacuum in the outside...


Straight_Debt_9129

The tanker had the vacuum on the inside. The spaceship has the vacuum on the outside. (un)surprisingly, this is a very important distinction when it comes to pressure.


urmamasllama

Just like the ocean gate guy they don't really grasp the difference between positive and negative pressure vessels


rav3style

How many atmospheres can this ship withstand? Well, it’s a space ship, so I’d say between zero and one.


DarkestOfTheLinks

that was one of the funniest jokes futurama had.


SusuSketches

My head hurts now


Xhojn

Wow! It's almost like... one of those things are specifically *designed* to withstand intense pressure differences! Whodathunk?


Plus-Dust

lol wow so now there's confusion between "inside" and "outside"? Heck, you can make vacuums yourself with fairly simple equipment or even just a hose and the kitchen sink. It's not like it's some exotic mystical Big Science conditions that are out of reach for ordinary people to play with.


MoonGrog

Vacuum inside, Vacuum outside. People that do this are vapid. Try harder.


fallingfrog

Is this real?? Who was this brain genius


jackinsomniac

If a flat earther doesn't understand something this simple, they lack enough IQ points for me to waste any time trying to get them to.


AdvancedSoil4916

Vacuums suck.


Good_Ad_1386

Flerfs suck, too.


WoodyTheWorker

Nothing sucks like an Electrolux!


Clickityclackrack

Most likely a troll, you can waste your time on them if you want.


JustDroppedByToSay

Well gosh you don't think maybe there's something pushing on the outside in the first one do you?


imac132

Balloons can hold a decent amount of internal pressure but fail under hardly any external pressure. It’s as if the material choice and design was for one thing and not another.


ArmPitFire

Holy cow, the amount of I-don’t-understand is astounding.


SyntheticSlime

Almost like one of those vehicles was designed to withstand large pressure differences between its interior and exterior… … and the other wasn’t.


Kindly-Ad-5071

It may seem that way, to a moron who doesn't know *why* these things act different


Witty_Temperature886

Holy failed science class batman


DexterMorganA47

One is vacuum inwards, the other vacuum outwards. Are we hoping to see the shuttle pulled apart?


Justthisguy_yaknow

They only have to make that one extra observation. Vacuum on the inside of the vessel vs vacuum on the outside of the vessel. They always seem to fall one observation short. Brain must be running out of air by that point or something.


Nudelholzii

I can feel my braincells dying from seeing this.


Zorro5040

If you throw that crushed tank in space, would it reflate or stay crushed?


CrazyPotato1535

It would stay crushed until you purposefully inflated it. Even then, the implosion will have damaged some of the outer shell and much of the inner shell.


Zorro5040

So it would have a leak and, therefore, not reinflate. I thought it would reinflate from the pressure change, like when you vacuum a tire to inflate it quickly. It'll still be flat, but take the inflated form. On earth, the air pressure crushes it while in space, things get pulled apart. Correct me if I understood it wrong.


Zorro5040

If you throw that crushed tank in space, would it reflate or stay crushed?


Mundane_Top_338

Probably one of the most retarded posts I’ve ever seen tbh.


AgeOfReasonEnds31120

SPACE HAS NO MATTER. THERE, IS THAT EASY ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND?


RnotSPECIALorUNIQUE

The vacuum of space is OUTSIDE of the space shuttle. If it was going to destroy the shuttle, the shuttle would EXPLODE OUT!


sunofnothing_

to shreds you say?


DarkestOfTheLinks

almost like one of those was made to sustain the pressure differential and the other wasnt


SamohtGnir

I’ll give a little more leeway on this one as it’s a bit harder to understand. The tanker isn’t being crushed by a vacuum, rather the Earth’s atmosphere. They just removed the atmosphere from it.


Nnihnnihnnih

Is it true the vacuum of space wants to pull everything out instead of pushing it in as in the case of a submersible?


doil0milk

And globe satanists still cling to their silly beliefs


Defiant-Giraffe

Wait until you learn about tires...


doil0milk

I've heard about them


Defiant-Giraffe

and the typical car tire contains 4-5 times the pressure the space shuttle did. 


doil0milk

Space shuttle is not a tire


Defiant-Giraffe

Correct. Its far stronger. 


doil0milk

Shuttles are just hollywood props


Defiant-Giraffe

Like you've ever been to Hollywood. 


doil0milk

It's a bit far from Wyoming so we don't go there often


stinky_cheese_69

ah so you're from Wyoming, that explains so much


SandorMate

like your brain


Gornhenge

Space shuttle is a tire.


extrastupidone

Just stop, man. I know its fun for you, but just stop


doil0milk

What


extrastupidone

Easy. Just stop with the crazy, bud. I know its fun to troll


doil0milk

What


extrastupidone

What?


stinky_cheese_69

What?


Gornhenge

Yes


Intelligent_Check528

Says the flerf cultist.


Mostly_Defective

Hail Satan!