Looks like The Titanic killed a few more people

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Indus

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Apparently wokeism and diversity blew them up (1:05) in the video..

everything to excuse the fact that they imploded themselves in a drainage pipe with a $30 game controller.

 

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Apparently wokeism and diversity blew them up (1:05) in the video..

everything to excuse the fact that they imploded themselves in a drainage pipe with a $30 game controller.

^^^ Love the presenter! "Submersibles are used by the US Navy which everyone knows is the gayest branch . . . at least they were until Trump made the Space Force!" :p
 

hal2kilo

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^^^ Love the presenter! "Submersibles are used by the US Navy which everyone knows is the gayest branch . . . at least they were until Trump made the Space Force!" :p
Well, there is the buddy system. (that's an old Navy joke). I won't leave you in suspense. It goes like You go out and get a blow job, you give me one.
And then their were the SNL sailors at sea in the olden days skits.
 
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Well, there is the buddy system. (that's an old Navy joke). I won't leave you in suspense. It goes like You go out and get a blow job, you give me one.
And then their were the SNL sailors at sea in the olden days skits.
Don’t forget this:

If you have your own Village People anthem…you are the gayest branch. /endthread
 
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Still trying to think how I'm going to broach this...anyway!
Son, despite what videos you may come across, most females don't ejaculate like males. So don't give any girls any grief in future, ok? Don't be like, why don't you ejaculate?????
 

skyking

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That's cool, we have used a lot of chopped carbon fiber over the years from Hexcel. I toured Trek many years ago when they were making their OCLV bike frames, which stands for "optimum compaction, low void". Anyway, if I were making any submersible regardless I'd chose to make it a sphere as that equalizes the load evenly throughout the hull, I'm not sure why they chose that shape. Maybe the lead engineer was a bicycle guy, carbon bicycle frames can be tuned directionally by aligning the fiber length to achieve the desired characteristics. They also handle millions of cycles of stress in certain directions, but never anything like what a submersible endures.
he chose that shape because he wanted to kill bring more people along on his adventures.
 
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Don’t forget this:

If you have your own Village People anthem…you are the gayest branch. /endthread

My first thought was to see if anyone had made an "In the space force" version. Closest I found was this (and anything with Trump in it is at least slightly camp - he seems to take a lot of his body-language and enunciation from Liberace)

 

skyking

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I've seen one picture of the titanium end cap with a choker passed through the porthole where the viewing window would have been.
That piece was long gone.
It is led some people to speculate that the viewing port failed first. My answer to that is don't get in hurry, they'll figure it all out about 6 months.
It also could have been blasted out of the hole by the forces of the implosion.
It was very violent down there!
 

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I've seen one picture of the titanium end cap with a choker passed through the porthole where the viewing window would have been.
That piece was long gone.
It is led some people to speculate that the viewing port failed first. My answer to that is don't get in hurry, they'll figure it all out about 6 months.
It also could have been blasted out of the hole by the forces of the implosion.
It was very violent down there!

Yeah, I've no idea. I do hope they figure out the course-of-events, if only because it increases one's faith in the idea that the world is explainable, that science and reason can, in general, tell us why things happened, even when there are no living witnesses to it. Mysteries are very frustrating.

Sounds as if there were multiple weaknesses in that design, though, the viewing-port being just one of them.
 
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It also could have been blasted out of the hole by the forces of the implosion.

I'd bet on that being more likely. These things are designed to withstand big forces from outside, but practically none from inside. During hull implosion it would almost be certain to blow out.
 

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I'm surprised that pieces are that big.

I haven't seen any pieces of what looks like the CF hull though.

A big chunk of the gear that was attached to the rear, some of the white plastic shell, Titanium Endcaps.

But nothing looks like a piece of CF hull. Those pieces are likely very small, and that was the part keep people alive.
 

Indus

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Everything Titanium looks to be in good shape but no sign of the carbon fiber composite material.
 

Indus

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I've seen one picture of the titanium end cap with a choker passed through the porthole where the viewing window would have been.
That piece was long gone.
It is led some people to speculate that the viewing port failed first. My answer to that is don't get in hurry, they'll figure it all out about 6 months.
It also could have been blasted out of the hole by the forces of the implosion.
It was very violent down there!

Yeah and I've seen it was only certified to 1300m depth. Stockton Rush didn't want to spend the money to get one certified to 4000m.

And yes the hard part is going to be finding out if it blew inward or outward.
 

skyking

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They have that whole end cap. It will be trivial to figure that out.
If it blew in there would be some telltale marks. Even in titanium.
 

hal2kilo

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I've seen one picture of the titanium end cap with a choker passed through the porthole where the viewing window would have been.
That piece was long gone.
It is led some people to speculate that the viewing port failed first. My answer to that is don't get in hurry, they'll figure it all out about 6 months.
It also could have been blasted out of the hole by the forces of the implosion.
It was very violent down there!
I'm going with your second theory. The window is shaped so that it will seal tighter as you go deeper like external hull fittings, pressure from the other side though is a problem.
 
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And yes the hard part is going to be finding out if it blew inward or outward.
Why would it blow outward? You mean like squeezing a mango so its seed shoots out? Wouldn't that require more pressure on one side than the other?
 

skyking

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Try picturing some projectile chunks of carbon fiber hull. I think that people are under the illusion that this was just a pressure event. When those materials were taken to the yield point and failed, there was a whole lot of complicated, stored energy going on now. That 5 inch hull was not going to collapse nice and neat.
If the pressure hull had survived the event, they would have easily found it with their ROV.
There's no account of that happening.
Maybe they left it there and brought all the little bits and pieces. But my guess is the pressure hull discombobulated.