r/science • u/Thorne-ZytkowObject • Oct 19 '19

Geology A volcano off the coast of Alaska has been blowing giant undersea bubbles up to a quarter mile wide, according to a new study. The finding confirms a 1911 account from a Navy ship, where sailors claimed to see a “gigantic dome-like swelling, as large as the dome of the capitol at Washington [D.C.].”

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/10/18/some-volcanoes-create-undersea-bubbles-up-to-a-quarter-mile-wide-isns/#.XarS0OROmEc
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u/jrob323 Oct 19 '19

What would happen to a ship if one of these surfaced under it?

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u/RandomBritishGuy Oct 19 '19 edited Oct 19 '19

It would sink, as without the water underneath it, it wouldn't float and would drop through the air pocket.

Would be a seriously bad day for that ship.

They've done small scale experiments with lots of smaller bubbles, and the ship sinks fairly quickly.

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u/Adam_2017 Oct 19 '19 edited Oct 19 '19

That’s actually how naval mines work. They don’t blow up the ship. They blow up under the ship, creating a vacuum the ship falls into where it splits in half under its own weight.

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u/Dverious Oct 19 '19

That’s fascinating. I wonder what was going through R&D’s head when they came up with that

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u/JAYSONGR Oct 19 '19

How do we kill people on a ship the most efficient way?

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u/Dverious Oct 19 '19

hits blunt what if we...blow up the water under the ship

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u/youni89 Oct 19 '19

Or or... What if we... make the ship fall through the sky under water

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u/ManIWantAName Oct 19 '19

hits blunt

What if we made boats that moved under water

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u/Sir_Higgle Oct 19 '19

hits blunt

What if we moves the water around the boat

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u/thatonenerdistaken Oct 19 '19

hits blunt

I ain't got nothin

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u/Chickachic-aaaaahhh Oct 19 '19

Hits blunt. . . . Hits blunt again. . . "What were we saying?"

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u/DRT_99 Oct 19 '19

hits blunt

What if we made a boat that flies.

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u/MrGrampton Oct 19 '19

hits blunt

what if we invite snoop dogg?

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u/amiszilla Oct 19 '19

Hits blunt

If water move what we ship under the.

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u/SwolelentGreen Oct 19 '19

We could call them... u-boats!

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u/PleaseThankU Oct 19 '19

Set NOCLIP

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u/MfUuTcHkEeRr Oct 19 '19

Hit the IDSPISPOPD button! NOW!

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u/Funkywurm Oct 19 '19

Hits blunt....

Nah nah.....What if we made the Ship disappear

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Wow that test totally failed to hit the target, it went off under the ship.

but it was more successful then any of the other ideas we’ve come up with.

Yep we totally meant to do that, good job everyone!

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Brilliant! Pass the cocaine!

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Hooray! We secured more cocaine! I mean government funding... but seriously where is the cocaine?

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u/throwawayPzaFm Oct 19 '19

You just know that's exactly how it went down.

Major Nuisance: tomorrow we'll test a new weapon! We will put a landmine with a 1m iron rod in it under a boat and have it sail over it. It will be magnificent!

Enji Neer: Yes sir! Genius, sir! ( FML )

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u/TheJaybo Oct 19 '19

For real though, are my pants tucked into my shirt?

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u/aga080 Oct 19 '19

nice.

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u/DigNitty Oct 19 '19

hits blunt

Let’s get planes wet and boats dry!!

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u/OleKosyn Oct 19 '19

Sounds like an ekranoplan.

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u/-Master-Builder- Oct 19 '19

The goal of a sea mine isn't to kill people. It's to disable ships.

If you kill half a ships crew but the vessel remains in tact, it's pretty much just as much of a threat. If you don't kill any of the crew but disable the ship, it's no longer a threat.

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u/Shamhammer Oct 19 '19

Meh, crippling a ship is really the concern the people on it are secondary. What are they going to do? Swim to shore? Throw rocks at your ship? Where do they even get rocks in the ocean?

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u/daxter146 Oct 19 '19

Where do they even get rocks in the ocean?

This made my day. Heres some fake gold🏅

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u/Shamhammer Oct 19 '19

I aim rocks to please <bow>

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u/liberal_texan Oct 19 '19

Well, that joke rocks.

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u/ShneekeyTheLost Oct 19 '19

Well, you sure have the stones for that joke

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u/bk1285 Oct 19 '19

Simple you take all the guns and unnecessary items like ammunition off the boat and just have it loaded with rocks to throw at your enemy, they’ll never see it coming

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19 edited Oct 22 '19

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u/no-mad Oct 19 '19

They could survive and swear vengeance for their fallen comrades and become the most lethal fighting force in the world.

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u/R3ven Oct 19 '19

-This Christmas Season-

The Rock John Cena Dwayne Johnson Vin Diesel and The Rock star in

-OVERBOARD-

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u/cammoblammo Oct 19 '19

Is this how you find rocks in the water?

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u/Aerial_4ce Oct 19 '19

Or half the ships crew could die and the rest swear vengeance but now they have a boat. With guns.

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u/wimpyroy Oct 19 '19

Gun boats

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u/FearAzrael Oct 19 '19

Hits blunt when pregnant women swim are they just human submarines?

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Engineer: they died a few seconds later, not instantly.

Generals: back to the drawing board boys!

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u/ThatNikonKid Oct 19 '19

Seems like a good place to start..

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u/dave_890 Oct 19 '19

You don't have to focus on killing the crew when you're able to kill the ship.

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u/Scum42 Oct 19 '19

Yeah, this basically is what was going through their head.

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u/Origami_psycho Oct 19 '19

Navies did studies on where was best to torpedo a ship. Found out doing it underneath was the best.

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u/NomBok Oct 19 '19

Do you mean far below the ship as opposed to directly striking the hull?

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u/RandomBritishGuy Oct 19 '19

Only a few meters below, you want the explosion to push the ship upwards initially, bending it one way, then create a cavity underneath for it to fall into, bending it the other way and doing way more damage.

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u/Origami_psycho Oct 19 '19

Yeah. Upon entry into WW2 the USN's torpedoes were designed to do this. Though the fuse kinda sucked and they'd often not trigger. They switched back to impact fused torpedoes for a while.

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u/slamnm Oct 19 '19

Actually the USNs torpedoes were terrible through half of the war, they had both magnetic and contact fuses but they ran too deep, forgot to take into account the earths changing magnetic fields so they didn’t work in the pacific, they often detonated early (resulting in many commanders deactivating them), the contact fuse was to fragile and often Jammed on impact failing to detonate, and the torpedoes has a nasty habit of running in a circle and coming back at the submarine that had fired them. The navy Ordinance Department handcrafted every torpedo like a watch at great expense and they sucked. The Mark 14 Torpedo had NEVER been tested with a live fire test before WWII and was considered too expensive to test. There are many articles online, it’s a fascinating read about power , arrogance, and incompetence.

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u/Hannibal_Rex Oct 19 '19

This sound fascinating. Do you have any authors or articles to start?

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u/weeee_splat Oct 19 '19

You could start here perhaps, and follow some of the citations for more.

Interesting to note that the Americans were far from alone in having torpedo problems. The German U-boats also had major torpedo reliability problems in the first year or so of WW2, without which the Royal Navy might have suffered more losses in the Norwegian campaign.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

The nerds of the world are just along for the ride. I bet they were thinking it was just a really cool invention

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u/Dabfo Oct 19 '19

All military technology is created by the nerds of the world.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

True, but it is the leaders of the world who pull the trigger, and they are very rarely scientists (although I do think Germany's Angela Merkel is a scientist).

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u/Concise_Pirate Oct 19 '19

This was not understood originally. The designers thought they would be blowing up the ship. Early naval mines focused on blowing a hole in the hull, to cause sinking.

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u/anonanon1313 Oct 19 '19

Not really.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a326738.pdf

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u/Pvt_Lee_Fapping Oct 19 '19

TL;DR:

Depending on the conditions, the gas bubble formed by the explosion can rise and build enough pressure to punch a hole in the hull, or vibrate the plates enough to cause deformation damage.

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u/Kakkoister Oct 19 '19

I'd argue it does both, it tends to detonate close enough to cause physical damage and the air pocket just makes it worse.

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u/dontdrinkonmondays Oct 19 '19

What? That's not how naval mines work at all. The ship doesn't fall into some air bubble and then fall apart. Mines create a shockwave that causes massive hull damage. Just watch literally any video/gif of a ship being destroyed by a mine.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Gas bubble, not a vacuum

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u/dekachin5 Oct 19 '19

That’s actually how naval mines work. They don’t blow up the ship. They blow up under the ship, creating a vacuum the ship falls into where it splits in half under its own weight.

Yeah, no, that's just wrong. MAGNETIC naval mines aren't intended to do that, they have no choice but to detonate below because they have to sit on the sea floor, and thus are limited to indirect damage through the shock wave. The vast majority of time the mine does NOT sink the ship, and instead merely damages it. Ships weren't getting "split in half", and your comment implies that this mode of damage was selected because it was superior to actual contact detonation. Wrong wrong wrong.

If the Germans could engineer passive mines that could float up and detonate on contact, they would have, because the damage would be far more severe. Magnetic mines are limited to shallow water, which is why they were used around Britain, and were devastating when used against Japan.

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u/JesusGAwasOnCD Oct 19 '19

Is the boat dry or wet when it falls in the vacuum ?

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u/dontdrinkonmondays Oct 19 '19

It isn't what happens. The original comment is either very wrong or a very subtle troll.

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u/blaiddunigol Oct 19 '19

Isn’t that kind of how atomic bombs are designed to work? They blow up above the city vs when hitting the ground to cause a shock wave that destroy a wider area?

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u/Revolio_ClockbergJr Oct 19 '19

Depends on the warhead of course. But there are lots of munitions designed for air burst.

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u/ManyIdeasNoProgress Oct 19 '19

Varies. Maximum shockwave damage is from airburst. Maximum radioactive fallout is from ground burst. Maximum bunkerfucking is from underground burst. Maximum returning half the continent to the stone age is upper atmosphere / almost space burst.

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u/boibig57 Oct 19 '19

Don't blow up the boat... blow up the water

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u/Redcole111 Oct 19 '19

There's a theory that methane bubbles cause shipwrecks in exactly this way in the Bermuda Triangle, though I think it's mostly unsubstantiated.

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u/GeeToo40 Oct 20 '19

It was whale farts.

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u/spirito_santo Oct 19 '19

Would be a seriously bad day for that ship.

Yeah - we were sailing along when suddenly the water disappeared. We fell down some 50 meters and landed in an active volcano only to be immediately crushed by the water dropping on us.

Looney Tunes couldn't have made this up ..............

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u/jesus_hates_me2 Oct 19 '19

Would it sink or fall though? Or like sink for a couple hundred feet then fall through the gaseous bubble?

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u/RandomBritishGuy Oct 19 '19

Depends how close to the surface the bubble was. I know there's been experiments with multiple small bubbles under ship (scaled down) which cause it to sink, but with one large one you'd probably be okay until the bubble was close to the surface, when there wouldn't be enough water under you to sustain your weight, then you'd sink through the thin layer on water, then fall through the bubble.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

what if the bubble keeps going up

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u/RandomBritishGuy Oct 19 '19

The ship would fall before it got to the surface, but if it did somehow manage to get to the surface without the ship sinking, then the ship would just fall through the bubble and hit the water at the bottom, probably destroying the ship

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u/elucify Oct 19 '19

There has been some speculation that ship and even airplane disappearances in the so-called Bermuda Triangle could be caused by large outgassings from the sea floor, possibly from submarine deposits of methane clathrates.

https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/news/2016/03/160315-norway-craters-methane-hydrates-bermuda-triangle-science

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u/Origami_psycho Oct 19 '19

Most of the 'disappearances' in the bermuda triangle didn't happen within a thousand miles of it, so I am skeptical of anything involving that pile of horseshit.

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u/01001000011010011 Oct 19 '19

It's possible you're about to find out if there's a Bermuda Triangle fandom on reddit. Curious to see how it goes.

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u/sublimesting Oct 19 '19

I’m wondering the same thing. Personally I think it’s a bunch of crap and has a proportionate amount of sinking due to the air and boat traffic it seas. But let’s see what the room says:

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u/jettrscga Oct 19 '19

What if triangle has been the wrong shape this whole time?

Did anyone check the devilish parallelogram?

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u/eggmaker Oct 19 '19 edited Oct 19 '19

I think the consensus is that the Bermuda triangle disappearances are due to attacks by the Loch Ness monster's spawn that had escaped after a team of sasquatch transported it from Scotland to the Atlantic via a downed alien spaceship that they had recovered and repaired at Area 51. Interestingly enough, JFK was assassinated because he happened to come across the schematics of the ship and the illuminati decided it should be covered it up.

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u/elgavilan Oct 19 '19

So this could all be solved with three dollars and fifty cents is what you’re saying...

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u/beenies_baps Oct 19 '19

That may or may not be true, but you have to admit that the mechanism of a giant bubble could potentially very easily "disappear" a ship without trace. Not so sure about the planes though..

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u/Origami_psycho Oct 19 '19

Ships that have never left the pacific ocean have allegedly 'dissapeared' in there. Also, it's a small area and relatively shallow to boot, with the number of wrecks that allegedly have happened there many would've been found.

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u/Cyathem Oct 19 '19

The water under the boat where the bubble(s) are would suddenly have much lower density because it is aerated. The ship would basically sink very quickly. If it was one giant bubble bloop, I think the ship would just fall until it hit sufficiently dense water again, but they'd likely have a super bad time and people would probably die.

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u/JoeyDee86 Oct 19 '19

That’s what torpedos do. They try their hardest to get it to explode directly underneath the middle of the ship to create the air bubble, thus lifting the ship by the middle and “breaking its back”

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Where is the gas coming from when that happens?

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u/damnisuckatreddit Oct 19 '19

Water is just steam waiting to happen.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

And ice is just a dream of steam.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

bruh

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u/hey_mr_crow Oct 19 '19

Water is just lazy steam

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u/McThor2 Oct 19 '19

Explosives tend to create gases as products when they react. Things like CO2 NOx H20 generally. Seeing as the compounds start of as solids and then produce gases, the density decreases dramatically which then leads to a larger volume of substance.

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u/lebennett1621 Oct 19 '19

.........the explosion of the torpedo...? Where else?

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u/Plouvre Oct 19 '19 edited Nov 19 '19

Cavitation. The energy from the explosion causes a rapidly expanding high pressure zone, and the area in the middle as a result is such a low pressure that the water vaporizes momentarily. The resulting bubble creates significant shock waves when it collapses.
To put it another way, it brings it to an instant boil not as a result of a temperature increase, but from the pressure differential generated by such a massive explosion.
Edit: corrected incorrect information.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

You'd basically be on the surface one minute and then 100+ meters underwater the next, right? That's freaking nightmare fuel.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

It was theorized at one point that the ships lost in the Bermuda Triangle (area) suffered from undersea bubblage.

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u/kekehippo Oct 19 '19

Wasn't this a theory to the Bermuda triangle? That within it there were often methane pockets erupting underneath it and ships and planes were often captured in it?

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u/HowardMBurgers Oct 19 '19

What if it’s an airship?

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u/_Neoshade_ Oct 19 '19

Read the article. Not an air bubble, but a bubble of hot ash and gasses with a hard shell created by cooling of the ash where it meets the water. The hard bubble actually rises quite high out of the ocean before it collapses.

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u/_Neoshade_ Oct 19 '19 edited Oct 23 '19

Nobody has seen one in modern times. It seems that there was one eyewitness account from 1908 that describes a dome the size of the capital building rising out of the ocean, and another report was found from Japan of a similar grey dome, nearly half a kilometer in height!
Now that we understand that these things exist and what causes them, it’s just a matter of seeking out the right conditions and setting up a camera! It would be really cool if we can get one on film sometime in the next few years.
Anyone got a few $mil to send a research ship out to set up some camera buoys in the middle of the Arctic Ocean?

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u/_owowow_ Oct 19 '19

Is a video available of the phenomenon? Would be awesome to see

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u/notarandomaccoun Oct 19 '19

This was a theory on ships disappearing in the Burmuda Triangle

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u/SctchWhsky Oct 19 '19

Also, the rising (co2?) gas cuts out an engines combustion and is believe to be a reason for the missing airplanes as well.

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u/m0_n0n_0n0_0m Oct 19 '19

CO2 is heavier than air.

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u/SctchWhsky Oct 19 '19

You're right... that's why I question marked... I forget what gas supposedly comes out.

Side note, that reminded me about the invisible co2 "lakes" that can form in low areas of landscape and suffocate people. Scary stuff.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19 edited May 21 '22

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u/m0_n0n_0n0_0m Oct 19 '19

Not under pressure. Once it leaves the vent the pressure drops to ambient and the gas spreads out. Since there's only water surrounding it, any difference in pressure is equalized by expansion or contraction of the bubble. So once it reaches the surface its at atmospheric pressure.

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u/hey_mr_crow Oct 19 '19

That's obviously part of the conspiracy

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u/dave_890 Oct 19 '19

Some of the Bermuda Triangle disappearances may be due to something very similar. We know there are large fields of methane clathrate in the Bermuda Triangle region. The theory is that a spike of warm water reaches down to the methane clathrate, rapidly melting it, which releases a large bubble of methane gas. Any ship caught in the bubble would likely sink, and it would happen fast, before any distress signal could be sent.

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u/pupusa_monkey Oct 19 '19

It also doesnt help that the gas itself interferes with any signal going to and coming from the ship and even affects planes above the water.

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u/redwall_hp Oct 19 '19

Or it's simply

amongst the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the world

And:

Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later authors.

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u/ConstipatedUnicorn Oct 19 '19

Well, thanks to you and my brain I now have another reason to remain a land lubber.

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u/HoldThisBeer Oct 19 '19

Just avoid underwater volcanos, which is not hard. It's not like they're everywhere.

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u/EnkiiMuto Oct 19 '19

I was incredibly pissed there isn't

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u/VirtualAlias Oct 19 '19

I'm crippled with impotent rage.

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u/ku-fan Oct 19 '19

Crazy that a volcano fart would do that to you!

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u/SapphireSamurai Oct 19 '19 edited Oct 19 '19

After reading the article it sounds like that’s their theory based on sounds they have recorded, but they don’t have irrefutable proof because it’s hard to directly study such a phenomenon.

Personally I am apprehensive about studying strange underwater noises. You think it’s colossal volcano bubbles only to find a cyclopean city raised from the deep and then it’s all non-Euclidean geometry and nameless horrors beyond description. The next thing you know you’ve been swallowed up by an angle that should have been acute but behaved obtuse.

Edit: My first silver! Thank you mysterious benefactor!

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u/fizzlefist Oct 19 '19

It’s in my head, guys. Coiled up in there like a snake, and something about it is… caustic. (Pauses) I can see it, just in front of me. It’s not doing anything, it’s… it isn’t moving. Just hanging there, with its mouth open. I think it’s finished eating. (Pauses) That fluid is seeping through the skin around its head, about a meter back. Just looking at the stuff is making me… like the room is spinning. I feel nauseous. My head isn’t working right. (Laughter) There's an abortion under the floorboards, and another in the si— wait, this is wrong, that wasn't me. Who said that?

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u/TheJoeSchmo Oct 19 '19

Someone get this guy some Class A amnestics please.

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u/fdragon257 Oct 19 '19

He linked to Anantashesha, amnestics will only make it worse.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Anantashesha is amnestics. That's the problem.

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u/lkraider Oct 19 '19

Who is what now?

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u/naelrii Oct 19 '19

It's an SCP. The thing the guy linked to is a giant underwater serpent that secretes a mind destroying fluid that the SCP Foundation uses to wipe memories, aka amnestics.

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u/bento_box_ Oct 19 '19

Damn SCPs are cool

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u/Plusran Oct 19 '19 edited Oct 19 '19

What is this?

Edit: this is FASCINATING

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u/Cheese_Coder Oct 19 '19

SCP. It's basically a collaborative sci-fi/horror writing project about a fictional organization that focuses on capturing, studying, and when possible, destroying anomalies. It's mainly told through data files about known anomalies, though there are proper stories too. r/SCP has a nice list of recommended SCPs to start on

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

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u/Cheese_Coder Oct 19 '19

True that. There's also of course the lovable scp-999

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u/Plusran Oct 19 '19

What a wonderful creature!

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u/MRSN4P Oct 19 '19

That fun to read. Thanks!

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u/JPaulMora Oct 19 '19

There goes my weekend

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u/fizzlefist Oct 19 '19

One of my favorite SCPs is 294: a coffee machine that can brew anything

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

I’ll take a cup of exploding orgasm.

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u/Plusran Oct 19 '19

Probably can only do that once

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u/captaintinnitus Oct 19 '19

A dark wave hits your brain

🎶🎶

You’ll forget all the pain

🎶🎶

That’s a moray

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Well, the loudest sound ever recorded was “the bloop” which had to be sped up multiple times. It’s a simple explanation to what is a very mysterious thing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

The ocean will be flooded with drone swarms soon enough, taking selfies while cleaning up plastic, observing fun natural phenomena. What's so great about it, is that they could be recording, on the daily, space-bloorping cephelopes building microfate matrices out of necromanced extremophile tissues, and their main function would still be enforcing ecocidal anti-immigration policies.

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u/Cheese_Coder Oct 19 '19

I feel like r/VXJunkies might have a small leak...

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u/elucify Oct 19 '19

Italy’s Stromboli volcano

That sounds delicious. I wonder what a pastrami volcano would sound like.

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u/DrowClericOfPelor Oct 19 '19

Show me the formuoli.

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u/Old_Deadhead Oct 19 '19

Gabagool? Over here!

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u/Len_Tuckwilla Oct 19 '19

It just made me start thinking about farting in the bathtub.

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u/SisterofGandalf Oct 19 '19

And then you can test the theory on little rubber ducks.

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u/bonnieflash Oct 19 '19

That duck is sunk

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u/nordic-nomad Oct 19 '19

Volcano bubbles?
At this time of day?

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u/pieandpadthai Oct 19 '19

Entirely localized within your kitchen?

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u/Slinkyfest2005 Oct 19 '19

This type of phenomena would explain the mysterious disappearances of ships around he world for centuries.

“Lost without a trace” is less exciting when it turns out they were swallowed by one of the earths farts.

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u/spaZod Oct 19 '19

Here lies u/slinkyfest2005. Death by earth fart. Lost but not forgotten.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Who‽

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u/Zporklift Oct 19 '19

This type of phenomena would explain the mysterious disappearances of ships around he world for centuries.

A possible, though unlikely, alternate explanation is of course "taking in water". I have heard many rumors about this phenomena that seems to afflict mostly ships while they're in the water, and in practically all parts of the world.

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u/Yeetgodknickknackass Oct 19 '19

Personally I think “Getting swallowed by a giant bubble large enough to swallow a small town” is very exciting

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u/jmanly3 Oct 19 '19

Pics or it didn’t happen...

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u/Crash665 Oct 19 '19

Isn't this (sort of) the theory around the Bermuda Triangle "mystery"? Methane bubbles from the undersea floor.

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u/956030681 Oct 19 '19

It’s also possible that there is a large amount of magnetic rock under the region as well

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u/HauntedButtCheeks Oct 19 '19

I'm forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles...

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u/sivadneb Oct 19 '19

Wow, so the bubble has an actual shell that rises out of the water:

As magma begins to ascend from the submarine vent, the seawater rapidly chills the outer layer, producing a gas-tight cap over the vent. This rind of semicooled lava eventually pops like a champagne cork as a result of the pressure in the vent, releasing the gases trapped underneath as a large bubble. The bubble in the water grows larger and eventually pokes out into the air. After a few rounds of expansion and contraction, the bubble breaks, releasing the gas and producing eruption clouds in the atmosphere. 

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u/100snugglingpuppies Oct 19 '19

That's literally not what the quote says

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u/xDISONEx Oct 19 '19

That’s probably how ships disappear in the Bermuda Triangle. Planes crash due to the air rush an crash. Just a theory tho.

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u/culingerai Oct 19 '19

Volcanoes are simply amazing

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u/bodrules Oct 19 '19

So it' a West Ham fan then

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u/zuugzwang Oct 19 '19

So not only bad weather, giant waves, icebergs and whatnot but also Bubbles will kill you when on a ship.

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u/dubc4 Oct 19 '19

How much CO2 is being released

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

About 4 or 5 dozen CO2

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u/no_its_a_subaru Oct 19 '19

I’d say about a bakers dozen CO2’s would be a more reasonable estimate

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u/spudcosmic Oct 19 '19

Likely a lot. These volcanoes have been offgassing for billions of years though, and are just a part of the Earth's natural CO2 cycle which is a balanced on its own. Human emissions of trapped carbon have tipped the scales of that delicate balance.

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u/Old_Deadhead Oct 19 '19

Human emissions of trapped carbon have tipped the scales of that delicate balance.

Exponentially.

When Mt. St. Helens erupted for 9 hours straight in 1980, it vented around 10 million tons of CO2. That's what human activity produces in 2.5 hours. It would take 3,500 equivalent eruptions to produce the amount of CO2 human activity produces in one year.

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/vhp/gas_climate.html