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#cammys vault of environments

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The Realms, 14.

#cammys vault of environments

segamascott

otteroflore

alright everyone is being sassy but nobody has brought up the actual reason why scientists are interested in the titanic in the notes

Per wikipedia:

The Titanic was made of steel, presumably to resist corrosion (i mean. thats why boats are made of steel i assume) but even when iron/steel rusts people did not expect to find like. decomposition. bacteria are EATING the titanic.

and there's wood furniture from the titanic that isn't decaying. hell, there are wood ships at the bottom of the ocean that archaeologists study. so the expectation people have for the titanic is not that the steel would decompose at the bottom of the ocean. Even in 100 years, since there are much more ancient preserved wooden ships iirc.

(im not particularly knowledgeable about ships, i just had heard about the science going on around the titanic so i wanted to clarify that on this post for people)

shoresoftheshadowlands

sailor-arashi

The Titanic is an exceptionally weird whalefall basically.

claraschaos

Not a marine biologist but biologist enough to weigh in on this. The reason we have iron eating bacteria but not wood eating bacteria at the bottom of the ocean is simple. Hydrothermal vents release a cocktail of different mineral ores into the ocean. And bacteria and other organisms evolved alongside those so they evolved to digest these, like iron or other metal ores

Wood however does not exist at the bottom of the ocean since it basically never sinks down, even when logs are flushed out into the ocean they basically never end up at the ocean floor. So there's no bacteria that evolved to decompose lignin, which is already complex enough to decompose on the surface. And that's why wooden ships or the furniture on the Titanic stay intact for hundreds of years or longer.

lobo-cansado-de-ojos-rojos

Okay, but I remember reading a magazine stating that the titanic would basically be gone by now because of the rust eating the ship.

The sister ship HMHS Britannic is still perfectly preserved because of the way it sank, and partly in due to the coral that has grown around it keeping the structure in tact I believe was the reason.

theminingdwarf

Coral acting like a living fossil specifically for sunken ships is the coolest thing I've ever heard

kyraneko

So lemme get this straight, the Titanic is a whalefall, the Britannic is a biological mummy, and all the wood ships that sink into the deep ocean are preserved incorrupt because nothing can eat them.

Zombie, mummy, lich, respectively.

coin-goofball

And as for the sister of both the Titanic and Britannic, the Olympic.

"They pulled her down in Jarrow town, still striking to 'til end"

mckitterick

rip-quizilla

losingmyshrimpmind

Shrugging idk more nothing bad ever happens to kriselle au

juwugo

Who will call the girl who snows?

losingmyshrimpmind

Go my "nothing bad ever happened no one went missing Dess is at college" kriselle slop

izendochs-blog

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squeakitties

sentenced to 15 minutes in the girl wiggler

squeakitties

released fully refreshed and revitalized with pep in her step also a huge bonar

galactic-mayhem

saw this on pinterest but i think it belongs here too

comfort-character-central-deact

AWW NO WAIT BUT IMAGINE YOUR F/O GIVING YOU THE BIGGEST, CUDDLIEST, MOST SUPPORTIVE HUG EVER WHERE THEY'RE GRINNING REAL WIDE AND Y'ALL ARE ROCKING BACK AND FORTH AND GIGGLING AND IT SOOTHES YOUR SOUL AND THEN THEY FOLLOW UP WITH A "It's so great to see you!"