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Presumably it was open & empty, so it's just a piece of glass surviving...

• dmurray 9mo ago
  Even so, wouldn't you expect that you could crush an open empty beer bottle by putting a heavy enough weight on it? A human can't do it, but I would expect an elephant can.
  • jdmoreira 9mo ago
    That's not how pressure works if it's opened. The forces balance out
  • bracketfocus 9mo ago
    The pressure inside the bottle is the same as the outside. So it’s not the same as stomping on an empty bottle.
  • FL410 9mo ago
    But the forces are the same all around the bottle (again assuming it is open)
  • rags2riches 9mo ago
    The bottle wouldn't be empty though.
  • RajT88 9mo ago
    There is quite a lot of pressure put outside from the beer of a full bottle, but that little bit of air is probably enough to cause it to implode at some point. I'll be honest; I have no idea how to estimate that. I'm sure there are folks on here who can (and might). It's probably not as deep as you'd think.
    • wolvoleo 9mo ago
      I'd imagine the cap will fail under the pressure long before the forces get high enough to implode the bottle.
  • mihaaly 9mo ago
    no