soyagi@yiffit.net to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 年前Australia baffled as unidentified mystery object washes up on beachwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1120cross-posted to: highstrangeness@lemmit.onlineaustralia@aussie.zoneworld@lemmy.world
arrow-up1120external-linkAustralia baffled as unidentified mystery object washes up on beachwww.bbc.comsoyagi@yiffit.net to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 年前message-square30fedilinkcross-posted to: highstrangeness@lemmit.onlineaustralia@aussie.zoneworld@lemmy.world
minus-squareAFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 年前If it’s an empty or near-empty fuel tank, it’s going to float, whether the inside is a vacuum or pressure is equalized with a gas.
minus-squareDogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 年前the “object” in the picture is not sealed, or doesn’t appear to be.
minus-squareAFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 年前Hard to say what’s inside what we can see, but if nothing else the upper visible part must have been intact and enough air still in it to keep it buoyant.
If it’s an empty or near-empty fuel tank, it’s going to float, whether the inside is a vacuum or pressure is equalized with a gas.
the “object” in the picture is not sealed, or doesn’t appear to be.
Hard to say what’s inside what we can see, but if nothing else the upper visible part must have been intact and enough air still in it to keep it buoyant.