Originally posted by: MrWizzard
You know the sub launching room with the pool of water. In theory if the underwater habitat were deep enough, wouldn?t jumping into the ?moon pool? or ?sub launching pen? be instant death? The water in those pools would be the pressure of whatever depth the base was at right. So you would jump in and be crushed? Or at least have all the air in your lungs pushed out.
If there were enough pressure from the water the air in the whole habitat would be higher pressure than air at the surface of the ocean because it has to be enough to keep the water out right? Unlike a fully enclosed sub having a launching pen that is exposed like that would cause the air to be 2 to 3x as dense?
Do my ramblings make sense? Any divers able to offer wisdom?
Man, you failed hard at comprehending the movie. They weren't at an "insane" depth for equalizing the atmospheric pressure, thus it *was* equal. The underwater rig is beyond the scope of current endeavors, but that was a given, being "experimental" and all.
Anyway, you can't significantly compress a liquid under pressure but you can compress a gas until the pressure matches the force exerted against it* thus, without any sort of chamber-locking systems, the air MUST be equalized or else the water would rush in and fill the habitat. Obviously there were no chamber locks (they would swim in and out) and they out-right reference the higher air pressure, "bends" and other effects, decompression, etc, many times.
*this is the principle in effect in a Larami Super Soaker water cannon and why they say to leave the reservoir tank ~1/3 empty when filling.
Originally posted by: her209
I couldn't get over the whole breathing liquid oxygen thing.
It's not liquid oxygen. It's oxygenated liquid. My teacher told me about that stuff before the movie existed and it blew my 9-year-old mind.
Originally posted by: tboo
Great flick.
When are they going to release The Abyss & True Lies on DVD in anamorphic widescreen? Or have they already?
I'm pretty sure Abyss SE has had anamorphic all along. IIRC, it was selectable in the menus or on one of the other discs. IIRC, you had to dig DEEP to a second set of menus or something. I had multiple versions including the first edition that was $40. Bought it in the '90s. Probably never watched it since it was lost and before that it was on a Sigma Designs REALmagic Hollywood+ decoder card (did not watch it anamorphically).
True Lies though? Wouldn't know, though I'd like to grab that "You're fired" clip from it.
Anyway, despite JC's typical "cheesy over-stated characters," the movie was well acted and pretty ground-breaking in many ways (practical effects, special effects, etc), so I don't know why anyone would be concerned about the "quality" of the story itself, especially the SE.