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06-22-2023, 10:05 PM | #89 |
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06-22-2023, 11:03 PM | #90 |
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While this may be true... I have found that certain stories just have something more to them that make people interested. It's like that one story with the guy who ended up killing his girlfriend and they were driving around in an RV and everyone was trying to figure out where they were. Crazy fucks kill people everyday... why did this one go so "viral"?
The sub story has mystery are they still alive? What happened to the sub? Where are they? Then you have the secondary plots of the crazy CEO and how shady all that was and these crazy rich guys spending all this money to go down in some makeshift sub. 500 people in a capsized boat... definitely worse than 5 dudes in a tin can... but I'm sorry to say it's not as intriguing of a story. It's like most disasters that happen where lots of people die. It sucks, but there's usually not much else to say or discover to keep people's attention. |
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In terms of the sound of that implosion, I would think that it would have been dismissed as a large whale fart or some other natural cause.....
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The position, time, depth, and duration were triangulated immediately. |
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Downside of all that high tech is all the false positives, and the potential human error involved in deciding what they are, if they are significant. Same for above ground - the folks watching air defense have taught me some new off-color terms for seagulls and geese.
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Probably a lot easier to design a craft that only needs to maintain 14lbs/sqin inside and has zero pressure outside, than it is to make one to maintain 14lbs/sqin inside with 5500lbs/sqin outside. The hard part about space travel is getting the damn thing up there and back down safely. Plus there is the possibility of long term habitation in space or on the moon. Not so much at any major depth in the ocean.
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The number of lessons that go along with how this unfolded are very abundant.
But I’m curious what you think - was it ego, hubris, greed or pride that ultimately killed these men? Obviously it was a flaw in the carbon fiber design - but the builder of the Titanic itself made very similar claims about the strength of the ship in order to attract the wealthiest patrons of that time. What is it about the Kobe Bryant’s and the Stockton Rush’s who think they are above regulations and the advice of those with more experience that they end up killing not just themselves but taking others with them? |
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Until further investigation of the debris from the Titan is examined, everything is speculation. The thing everyone needs to understand about carbon fiber is that it's only strong with tensile loading. Carbon fiber doesn't do well with bending moments. Carbon fiber also fails catastrophically. There's no gradual failure. Then you have to take into account load and temperature cycling of the materials and adhesives used. Titan made three successful dives to the Titanic. The fourth one was what did the submersible in. |
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That and a completely unsuitable Captain, that an idiot chose, who had no idea what an iceberg alert was and the reduced speed that the ship had to slow from the maximum to proceed with such an alert. The same thinking could be said of Rush's haste to do that final Titan dive. |
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