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I'm interested in seeing the skids, and learning about where they were found relative to the rest of the debris. Were the skids totally mangled, implying that t
by EA-3167 3y ago
I'm interested in seeing the skids, and learning about where they were found relative to the rest of the debris. Were the skids totally mangled, implying that they were attached when the implosion occurred? Is the debris field pretty contained, or very spread out? The former implies that the sub was close to the bottom, the latter implies that whatever happened occurred at a depth which allowed for currents and drift to spread the debris. If the skids are mostly intact then maybe there was some warning of trouble and the people in the sub tried to drop ballast. If the skids are destroyed then whatever happened is more likely to have been sudden and without warning.
- KineticLensman 3y agoYes, this technique was critical to understanding the break up of the space shuttle Columbia as it re-entered. The debris track stretched across Texas and Louisiana, and in general objects to the west were those that had broken off first. Although things were confused because differences in ballistic number affected how far fragments travelled eastward, and in some cases modules broke off, travelled east and then disintegrated into sub-components.