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by danielbln 185 days ago
The Titanic wasn't crushed, it was sliced, wasn't it?
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The titanic was advertised as unsinkable and we know its history.

Advertising this capsule as uncrushable is a commensurate gamble.

Just make it out of carbon fiber. That's what they did with that uncrushable submersible that went to the Titanic.
I'm pretty sure the issue was with 'move fast and break things' and not using carbon fiber.

I think it was on the youtubes I was watching a story about how they built that thing and it was <spoiler alert> not really fit for purpose. I mean, no big surprise in hindsight.

Carbon fibre has poor compressive strength and good tensile strength.

That makes it inherently bad at holding pressure from outside in a submarine and good at holding pressure inside a spaceship or airplane.

Designed, paid for, and piloted by a complete jackass, but... He never claimed it was uncrushable. He claimed it was safe.

Still completely wrong about that, obv.