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by calyth2018
1099 days ago
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Aaron Amick called it. An engineering student said that in the video of OceanGate wrapping carbon fibre, they were making a 2nd year engineering mistake of not doing a cross weave. It's basically unidirectional and likely to fail when force is applied to the right angle. Front glass is only rated for 1300m, not 4000m. CEO seems to think the way to test something like this is to take the thing down to 4000m, hear horrible creaking noise. Came back up, and did it again, only to discard the null when it was creaking on the second time. https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/lawsuit-insufficient-prototy... I bet the CBS reporter that went down with them in a previous trip is thanking his lucky stars... |
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