Bkmrk
At least the billionaires died doing what they loved:
Spending extravagant money on stupid things to get their kicks
Is it because of the 1898 novel "Futility: The Wreck of the Titan", published by the U.S. writer Morgan Robertson? The 1898 Titan was the largest ship in the world and unsinkable. It sank 14 years (in print form) before the Titanic.
The novel that predicted the sinking of the Titanic, 14 years before it happened
Bkmrk
As an engineer I can say the Titan was a POS with lipstick on it.
“I would assess that it’s mostly likely that the catastrophic failure the Titan sustained was caused by the viewport. It was previously stated by the CEO that each time he descended to that depth, the viewport deformed several inches inward.”
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Yikes, several inches of deformation.
Excellent!
“...Thoughts on What Engineering Is and Is Not...”
It’s time to stop the Liberal habit of playing with definitions.
Go ahead and flame me here
Wow! The veiwport was only 21 inches across!
It wasn’t strong enough to withstand the pressure. Analysis complete.
The failure of a single part caused the Titan to implode. That part was the gray mass between Stockton Rush’s ears.
First error, the density of seawater is 64 lbs/ft3 not 62.4 which is the value for freshwater.
Who wants to read more about the submarine accident? It happened 10 days ago. The only reason we were hearing about it constantly for the five days after that was the need for news media to milk the story for more commercials and to keep people from talking about Biden corruption. The navy heard the noise of the implosion and told the coast guard. They kept the information under wraps to stretch out the news cycle. And here we are rehashing a comprehensive analysis of a fairly simple occurrence in the same way as we might analyze the crushing of a soda can, which has about the same value intellectually.
A profoundly true statement.
Huh. Is “squished like a June Bug on a speeding semi’s windshield” an engineering term?
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.
Later
Good reading...
Problem one... Using carbon fiber in compression loads. It is great for pressure vessels. Compression... Not so much...