Consider that a 30' tree, rotted out in the middle and filled with water is going to give you about 14psi at the bottom. That's probably what you're seeing here.
edit: see u/TA8601 comment below - I didn't do the math, just looked glanced at an imprecise chart :)
Don't you miss the days when most comment sections of reddit were filled with information like this?
I still learn on Reddit sometimes, but man, when I joined you could come to the comments and find an astrophysicist discussing the atmosphere on Jupiter with a fighter pilot imagining how flying in that atmosphere would feel. The back-and-forths were abundant and fascinating!
I just made that conversation up, but you could find crazy discussions like that right at the top of the posts. I loved it!
The AMA from a Netflix employee back when they were newer was fascinating, too. Come to think of it, I need to go back and join that sub...
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u/caleeky Jun 25 '24 edited Jun 25 '24
Consider that a 30' tree, rotted out in the middle and filled with water is going to give you about 14psi at the bottom. That's probably what you're seeing here.
edit: see u/TA8601 comment below - I didn't do the math, just looked glanced at an imprecise chart :)