> That and the fact that it actually made it to Titanic a few times and back without catastrophic failure. i've no idea what i'm talking about but my guess wou

> That and the fact that it actually made it to Titanic a few times and back without catastrophic failure. i've no idea what i'm talking about but my guess would be that they were sort of aware of the design shortcomings and then just tried to compensate by overengineering the static components. and then they just pretended the material wouldn't progressively deteriorate towards the inevitable demise.