Dear Jim, Thanks for the ocean floor value. Consider it collected!
Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia on 2002/03/04 02.52, James Frysinger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the 2002 February 22 issue of Science a couple of articles caught my eye > that I thought worthy of comment here. The first is one on bacteria and tests > that they were subjected to in order to see how much pressure they could > endure. > > The experimenters used diamond anvils to study various bacteria at pressures > of up to 1.6 GPa. Even at this tremendous pressure, 1 % of the bacteria still > lived. The reviewer notes that the deepest points in the oceans are at a > pressure on the order of 100 MPa -- a nice little number for your collection, > Pat. Of course, we know that atmospheric pressure at sea level is on the > order of 100 kPa. (Scientists often use 101.325 kPa as a "standard > atmospheric pressure".) So the pressure at the deepest point in the ocean is > about 1000 times the pressure in the deepest part of the atmosphere. > > Jim
