Posted on 06/26/2023 9:42:29 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
The title of this article is rather broad and audacious, so let’s do what all good engineers would do and set the boundary conditions for the analysis.
All calculations will be approximate given the time invested in this analysis and the purpose thereto. Some assumptions and engineering judgments will be made due to the lack of independently verified information and data. This analysis is meant to be brief and the intended audience is both engineers and non-engineers (for educational purposes). Why am I writing this – out of some sort of ghoulish focus on death? Well, engineers study the ghoulish consequences of the failures of other engineers as part of our profession. Consider the fact that most engineers can explain the cause of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse (if you can’t, you shouldn’t be an engineer), the Tacoma Narrows bridge failure, the Union Carbide Bhopal disaster, and the space shuttle Challenger disaster (where Morton Thiokol was told to take off their engineer hats and put on their manager hats when considering O-ring temperature certification). This is part of what we do to become better.
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Huh. Is “squished like a June Bug on a speeding semi’s windshield” an engineering term?
When the lead engineers on the project are uninspiring 50 year old White men, you don't get anywhere near this far down the rabbit hole without them saying "HELL NO!!!" (and backing it up with quantitative facts).
I did see a video where the assembly team was slopping some adhesive on the titanium ring or the hull using what looked like to be dollar store paint brushes. Ever had bristles come out of a paint brush?
Did not give the impression of a state of the art manufacturing process.
Who told you it had no viewport? What do you think that plexiglass dome on the front was for?
At least the billionaires died doing what they loved:
Spending extravagant money on stupid things to get their kicks
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Exactly my feelings. People want to go see the Titanic…big deal! I could care less. It was a non event as far as I and many, many others, were concerned..
Except for the poor kid who didn’t want to be there.
That’s part of what is puzzling about this circus. The man who knew what a death trap this was on board.
Got to wonder if he was suicidal but wanted company.
I read it somewhere. Perhaps like Bogie in Casablanca I was misinformed. That said is that viewport usable by everyone on board? From what I also read once you were inside it was a pretty tight squeeze. You couldn’t exactly shift around but again maybe this is wrong as well.
I suppose just skipping this thread didn’t occur to you then. It may be that that others don’t share your level of interest in the topic?
Later
Good catch, no serious engineer would make that mistake.
Seems that even a few mm would be unacceptable if it is carbon composite deforming, maybe ok for certain metal structures. Inches? And they continued to dive in it????
With all due respect, I don’t think you have to be an
engineer to realize that, and I didn’t sleep at a
Holiday Inn last night.
The guy that built it was as irresponsible as he
could be. Four other people bought the farm on his
word it would be safe.
The controllers alone would have sent me back home on
the day of launch.
Thanks for your post. Good to hear from someone who
is an engineer.
Adhesives, if properly selected and applied, would not be a reason for concern. As in Boeing 787, etc.
Works for me...
Good reading...
Problem one... Using carbon fiber in compression loads. It is great for pressure vessels. Compression... Not so much...
AND made with carbon fiber which was gotten cheap from Boeing because it was past its expiration date for aircraft manufacture.
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