What could possibly go wrong?
-PJ
“OceanGate’s lawyer” should be charged with something that holds him/her responsible for negligent homicide.
Maybe they wanted to demonstrate why bolted flanges are used on high pressure tanks and pipelines (when welding can’t be done). If so they were successful.
Now he’s like peanut butter. Hubris.
Maybe he felt he had nothing to lose because he'd collected a combined million dollars from the passengers if the excursion was successful. If it wasn't, well, he wouldn't have to personally deal with the financial consequences anyway.
Lochridge has one of the biggest "I told you so" moments in recent history.
>> “It’s a lemon,” Lochridge replied tersely. <<
And in that moment, he lost the ability to communicate to CEO Stockton Rush, if Rush ever got wind of that conversation. “What we’ve learned from this is that such an expedition could cost a multiple of initial budgeting, and this could be a good moment to reassess our commitment to the project.” Rush then becomes presented as someone who can learn from the situation. Instead, Rush would have to swallow his pride and be called a fool.
One has nothing left to say about the dead narcissistic psycho from Princeton.
All of us have known at least one type like this Rush guy, a salesman/confidence artist who blows off any concerns with a “Yeah, yeah, everything‘s gonna be FINE. Why are you listening to the naysayers? Relax, trust me.”
—Me, back when this happened.
This jerk’s “guests” (other than the poor son wanting to please his Dad) gambled on his adventure and lost.
““The glue’s very thick, so it’s not like Elmer’s Glue; it’s like peanut butter.””
This is TRUE. The Hysol (Loctite brand) used to bond carbon structures is about the consistency of peanut butter once it is mixed.
If they went in a millisecond, they were lucky. Too many failure points that could have tortured them to death prior to the catastrophic failure. At 5000 psi, any leak through that glue could have been like a salt-water cutting jet on the inside of that tube.
According to James Cameron the whole cylindrical design was wrong and dangerous and they knew it. It should have been round to equalize pressure on the hull. But they wanted room for paying passengers. They were warned about this multiple times.
What could possibly go wrong?
-PJ
Now he’s like peanut butter.
In a picture where they loaded one of the rings on a trunk was it still round ?
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the idiot used Gorilla Glue in certain areas.
The head of OceanGate was surnamed Rush [ראש], like at the head of the Torah, which always begins "in a 'Rush'".
The topic is the shattering of the vessel, so it has generated a lot of attention.
On Father's Day, no less, which always falls on the first day which is the 3rd [Sun]day of the month.
It's been mentioned on this thread that the cylinder [גליל] shape was very wrong, that the appropriate shape for this deep-dive vessel would have been a sphere ("round to equalize pressure on the hull" ~ posted by circlecity @19).
If I had a time machine (Oh wait, I do!), I'd go all the way back to Saturn V.
Now follow with me here, one step. That's because Titan also goes by Saturn VI.
Go back one step:
Saturn V. That's the alt. name for Rhea.
And? There must be a reason so many verses begin that way, with a vav, the letter of connection. So here you go, more spheres:
Etymology
Some ancient etymologists derived Rhea (Ῥέα) (by metathesis) from ἔρα (éra, 'ground', 'earth');[3] the same is suggested also by modern scholars,[4] such as Robert Graves.[5]
A different tradition, embodied in Plato[6] and in Chrysippus,[7] connected the word with ῥέω (rhéo, 'flow, discharge'),[8] which is what A Greek–English Lexicon supports.[9] Alternatively, the name Rhea may be connected with words for the pomegranate: ῥόα (rhóa), and later ῥοιά (rhoiá).
The name Rhea may ultimately derive from a Pre-Greek or Minoan source.[10][11][12]
Saturn V.
"Flow". It's a familiar "pre-Greek" source:
Flow.. around a sphere.. to equalize pressure on the guf (the translation for the hull of a ship).Ohr ("Light" Hebrew: אור; plural: Ohros/Ohrot "Lights" אורות) is a central Kabbalistic term in Jewish mysticism. The analogy of physical light is used as a way of describing metaphysical divine emanations. Shefa (שפע "flow" and its derivative, Hashpoah "Influence" השפעה) is sometimes alternatively used in Kabbalah, a term also used in Medieval Jewish philosophy to mean divine influence, while the Kabbalists favour Ohr because its numerical value equals Raz ("mystery").[1]
It is one of the two main metaphors in Kabbalah for understanding God, along with the other metaphor of the human soul-body relationship for the sefirot.[2]
Just another day of simple observations. Easy. So easy to ride the wave [גל] that I'm beginning to suspect that the world slaves away all day under the Sun in order to "un"see everything under the Sun. Fear of surfing?
Strange how this Rush guy was seeking out the aerospace industry for inspiration and manufacturing, in order to go to the bottom of the Deep:
OceanGate announced in February 2020 that it had partnered with NASA and that the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, would 'serve as the facility where the development and manufacturing of a new aerospace-grade hull is completed'.The work was described as 'key to OceanGate completing its latest Cyclops-class submersible', which is understood to be a reference to Titan. But the pandemic struck a month later and thwarted the plan.
NASA said: 'For the safety of our team members during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as limited resources and availability, NASA Marshall engineers only participated remotely in technical interchange meetings with OceanGate, providing consultation for materials and manufacturing processes based on industry standards.
'We did not provide any approvals for the project as OceanGate was the technical authority.'
MSFC. Their pride and joy is the Saturn V, whose models are on display at and in Marshall's official Visitor Center, at the Davidson center. Pics or it didn't happen.
See, the connections connect themselves.
This really needs to be animated: 🦂
Then to add insult to injury, rockets are best designed in the shape of a cylinder [גליל].
Stockton Rush should not have been in such a rush, but the Dark Side never learns because it already knows everything already!
Seen.. my tagline yet? The stuff that just sits there.
Let there be light.
❤️
geez... they dropped weights (which I am not sure what are the weights in that image), AND they dropped the harness, and they still were only rising at 20 feet per minute?
I have a 35 year career in the adhesive business. One day some guy called and asked about a sealant for a submarine hatch.
I asked “If it fails how many people die?”
That was obviously a question no one ever asked these guys.
In my case, it was a non-structural seal. It was just to seal off some trim.