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Okay, I need to ask, and I figure it is a good thread to do so.

Let's say I make a U-shaped "capsule" (as in, a, open room with no ceiling). Let's also say I want to drop it down something I know has a solid ground (as opposed to semi-molten rock or pure emptiness), and I know how many z-levels it is deep. Like, say, a sea.
If I carve a sufficiently tall U-shaped capsule in such a way the top goes over the water/magma once the floor touches said solid ground, will the walls become incorporeal during the fall and let the water/magma leak inside? Or may I hope to launch stuff and living beings down there, while also hoping they stay relatively whole and undrowned/unburnt?
Which of these am I more likely to see? (Side views, ~=liquid, #=walls)

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Yes, I know this question is relative to dwarven !!SCIENCE!!, and, as such, should require me to test it myself. However, since I'm waiting for the new version to play again, and I haven't encountered any proper sea, magma-infested area, or whatever... and that I'd rather go vanilla, without modding/use of DFhack or anything... I'd just like to know if someone has tried it already. If nobody else did, then I know what I'll be experimenting next time.

I'll definitely be using this in my next fortress. Thanks a lot! 

And this game is turning more ultimate with each update.
You're welcome.

Bollocks!

Sounds actually like a viable concept. You might also want to not enroll any woman, so they can't give birth, drag their children to unsafe places, and get depressed when the logical conclusion ensues.

I have visions of dropping the subject in there with no way to get it out. They can get out when they've trained swimming high enough to swim up the waterfall. (Almost certainly wouldn't work, but it's a great image!)

As in, once they've turned into bearded salmons?

Water? It should cry booze.