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The Titanic wasn't crushed, it was sliced, wasn't it?

• vineyardmike 10mo ago
  The titanic was advertised as unsinkable and we know its history. Advertising this capsule as uncrushable is a commensurate gamble.
  • margalabargala 10mo ago
    Just make it out of carbon fiber. That's what they did with that uncrushable submersible that went to the Titanic.
    • UncleEntity 10mo ago
      I'm pretty sure the issue was with 'move fast and break things' and not using carbon fiber. I think it was on the youtubes I was watching a story about how they built that thing and it was <spoiler alert> not really fit for purpose. I mean, no big surprise in hindsight.
      • jjmarr 10mo ago
        Carbon fibre has poor compressive strength and good tensile strength. That makes it inherently bad at holding pressure from outside in a submarine and good at holding pressure inside a spaceship or airplane.
    • IAmBroom 10mo ago
      Designed, paid for, and piloted by a complete jackass, but... He never claimed it was uncrushable. He claimed it was safe. Still completely wrong about that, obv.