dye request - spriggan black

[tdb]

I feel the need to repeat that the tumblr account that wrote up the "exploding pool" thing was named facts-i-just-made-up. if you read the whole thing, it goes on to talk about how the vaporizing chlorine in the pool water would create an airborne zombie gas. The whole thing was a joke.

I'm not sure if this is directed at me, but I'm well aware of the nature of that tumblr post. I just took the joke and applied copious amounts of science to it. I've tried to remain true to scientific facts, though the temperature stuff is based on some gross simplifications due to the number of variables involved. And the 500 °C value I pulled out of my hat just to demonstrate that the power input from the sun is simply not sufficient to keep the water in a pool boiling indefinitely.

[Iscah]

To throw a little more science on this very non-sciencey claim about the pool, the size of the pool wouldn't really be relevant, just the depth (as each square metre of the floor needs to boil the column of water directly above it, regardless of the overall size).

The amount of energy reaching the bottom of the pool would also be lessened by some of the sunlight being reflected off the water rather than ever reaching the bottom.