Posted on 06/22/2023 6:11:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
As one would expect in this day of “facts don’t matter”, estimates on the oxygen seem all over the place. No one really seems to know how long the air will hold out. Maybe it’s already gone. Maybe they have a few hours left. Maybe they imploded at the start of this fiasco.
Nothing is real anymore. Nothing is true.
IMHO, They are dead............
Sounds like they will send the French ROVs down there. If nothing is found, the Coast Guard will end this thing.
The REAL reason all 5 lives are/will be lost - not enough lifeboats. If only we regulated the number of lifeboats aboard this sub, this tragedy could have been averted.
With 5 souls aboard, this sub had 0 (zero!) lifeboats.
If there was even one lifeboat, the woman and children aboard could have been saved.
I do too. I question a catastrophic hull failure. Titan’s hull was made of a combination of carbon fiber and titanium. Which nautical engineers advise against, yet the CEO championed it a “innovative”.
Eventually I guess we’ll find out.
I th9ink here, ‘Innovative’ = remarkably cheaper and conducive to faster cost recovery and profit margins.
I do not KNOW but suspect the casual 96 hours thrown about does not take into consideration that panicking trapped people use up available oxygen 2 or 3 times as fast as that nominal number of hours suggest. These are/were normal people, not Shaolin priests who can control their bodily functions to reduce oxygen needs by sheer power of will.
Waste of taxpayer resources.
Well, something is real but we don’t know what. We have few facts and an avalanche of speculation.
Carbon fiber has a habit of creating tiny stress fractures that you cannot see.....................
The original Titanic is a gravesite in the cold dark depths. When you go snooping just remember not all of the dead may still be dead.
Titanic Part 2 - Jack’s Revenge
utterly insane design: GLUING titanium end rings onto a 5” thick carbon fiber tube to act as attachment points for the titanium end domes ... carbon fiber, glue, and titanium: utterly dissimilar materials with massively different deformation behavior at their junctions when under extreme pressure ...
REAL engineers would have started with computer simulations of the stresses at those junctions with those materials, and then, assuming simulations showed it might work, would have proceeded to pressure test an actual vessel at its maximum depth with dozens of attached telemetric stress gauges ... assuming THAT testing didn’t fail, then they would have proceeded to cycle a vessel between maximum pressure depth and atmospheric pressure until the vessel failed (or not) ... and no doubt, Stockton Rush did none of the above standard materials engineering and testing ...
Stockton proudly hired only neophyte DEI children for his engineers, instead of experienced submarine engineers, eschewing experienced sub engineers as fuddy duddy “old white men” ... after all, he said, fuddy duddys engineers wouldn’t “appreciate” (approve) of his “revolutionary designs” [where have we heard that before? oh yeah, from Elizabeth Holmes, who just started an eleven year Federal prison sentence related to her “revolutionary” medical testing scam ... ]
Stockton Rush rushed to join the ranks of true revolutionaries, Musk and Bezos ... instead, Stockton Rush joined the Elizabeth Holmes sociopath category: he killed customers with a bogus submarine, while she killed customers with bogus medical tests ...
“If there was even one lifeboat, the woman and children aboard could have been saved.”
Oh, so, you’re one the “them”. You think you can misgender people and save them. Just great.
It’s a range because oxygen consumption is based on behavior and that can’t be predicted or known.
It seem ridiculous in this day and age that such a sub doesn’t have a dedicated locater to sound its position. Too high tech I guess.
He was a cheap bastard.......................
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