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Snopes Tries to Pin Titanic Sub Disaster on Elon Musk, But a Basic Science Fact Makes Their Ruling Impossible
thefederalistpapers.org ^ | June 22, 2023 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 06/22/2023 6:52:50 PM PDT by lowbridge

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To: lowbridge

(Snopes)

Do liberals ever stop lying?

(rimshot)

Thanks, I’ll be here all week!

Try the ribeye steak 🥩!!


21 posted on 06/22/2023 7:41:09 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Brandonmark

Yeah but he got rid of the big wife and got one that occupies less space


22 posted on 06/22/2023 7:42:45 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: midwest_hiker

He should sue them


23 posted on 06/22/2023 7:43:39 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Responsibility2nd

It is amazing how lying leftist a-holes mange to dominate 90% of public facing entities. Even so called fact checkers who MSM refer to are some of the worst of the propagandists.


24 posted on 06/22/2023 7:51:55 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: lowbridge
I think I saw this. Well, the budget reveals very easily who it was.
25 posted on 06/22/2023 7:52:26 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Jonty30

Nor is starlink even capable of functioning 12500 under water. Or even 12.5 feet underwater


26 posted on 06/22/2023 7:53:18 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: NWFree

Isn’t Elon one of those 50(ish) old guys the CEO hated?


27 posted on 06/22/2023 7:54:10 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: Tupelo

I’m blaming Reagan. I mean, the original Titanic wreckage was found in 1985, on his watch. If it hadn’t been discovered, this billionaire guy wouldn’t have founded his company and led people to their deaths.


28 posted on 06/22/2023 7:54:53 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Yup. Carbon fiber is an extremely strong material. Until it isn’t. From strong to failure happens in the blink of an eye.


29 posted on 06/22/2023 7:56:38 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: Beowulf9

He was in the Navy during WW1. And thanks to him, not a single German U-Boat got past Waukegan.


30 posted on 06/22/2023 7:58:05 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: Paleo Conservative

“it was made out of carbon fiber composite”

That’s what I don’t get. Wouldn’t carbon fiber composite be better suited for keeping something CONTAINED under pressure so that the carbon fiber would be under tension? Not the other way around?


31 posted on 06/22/2023 8:01:01 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: lowbridge

Who reads Snopes anymore?


32 posted on 06/22/2023 8:05:12 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: mikey_hates_everything

Carbon Fiber is a great composite material, but it’s strength is limited. I would trust it to make a bicycle, but I would not trust it to build a rocket ship out of. It’s great for car frames, but not so hot for tanks.

Within its range, it’s great material. If he was still going to build his sub out of carbon fiber, he would have been better off to divide its structural structure by 5 and figure out how deep he can take it at that point, instead of assuming he would be safe at 2.5 times the strength of the expected atmospheres.

He could have then plowed his profits into creating a real sub that can withstand the pressure of 500 atmospheres by a factor of 5 or 10.


33 posted on 06/22/2023 8:22:57 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: mikey_hates_everything

Carbon Fiber is a great composite material, but it’s strength is limited. I would trust it to make a bicycle, but I would not trust it to build a rocket ship out of. It’s great for car frames, but not so hot for tanks.

Within its range, it’s great material. If he was still going to build his sub out of carbon fiber, he would have been better off to divide its structural strength by 5 and figure out how deep he can take it at that point, instead of assuming he would be safe at 2.5 times the strength of the expected atmospheres.

He could have then plowed his profits into creating a real sub that can withstand the pressure of 500 atmospheres by a factor of 5 or 10.


34 posted on 06/22/2023 8:29:14 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: lowbridge

A complete lack of honesty makes a Snopes’ ruling impossible to believe. On any subject.


35 posted on 06/22/2023 8:34:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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To: lowbridge

I love that guy.

Man, I wish there were more of these guys.


36 posted on 06/22/2023 8:36:47 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: lowbridge

I didn’t know anyone relied on snopes after it faked stories to support John z Kerry’s stolen valor


37 posted on 06/22/2023 8:37:57 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: lowbridge

Things don’t talk under the sea at the depth without a cable. To even suggest this was a satellite link is perhaps the dumbest thing ever.


38 posted on 06/22/2023 8:42:39 PM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: cableguymn

I can’t vouch for the veracity of it but I heard somewhere that a signal from Starlink could only penetrate 8 cms of water. ie 3.1 inches.

Sounds about right to me.


39 posted on 06/22/2023 8:52:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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To: Brandonmark

“Wasn’t Snopes started by a couple of old liberal hacks that had nothing better to do?”

yep, and they named the site after their cat ... AND they got into a nasty public divorce fight after their website achieved a spot of fame ...


40 posted on 06/22/2023 9:00:40 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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