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Oceangate sub implodes on way to Titanic
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bingo!
There were a number of people in the field that told him it was a mistake, but he thought he was the next super engineer that is "innovating" something that no one ever thought of. The guy was wrong on so many things. It definitely had micro cracks....he even talked about the sounds it makes and that's how you know when to stop
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You know why Christa McAuliffe was such a good teacher?
She only blew up in front of her class one time.
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Is has that ring of authenticity.
That transcript plays out eerily similar to the USS Thresher implosion, 1963.
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During the 1963 inquiry into the Thresher implosion, Admiral Hyman Rickover stated:
(Wikipedia)
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Lemme guess, Admiral Hyman Rickover was an older white guy with zero inspiration?
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Couldn't be. He was Jimmy Carters mentor. Oh wait. Do Jews count as white?Lemme guess, Admiral Hyman Rickover was an older white guy with zero inspiration?
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Lemme guess, Admiral Hyman Rickover was an older white guy with zero inspiration?
He was a prick. An absolute dickhead.
But he was the man we needed to build our nuclear submarine force.
He did not suffer fools and demanded perfection.
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oceangate literally glued the carbon fiber tube to the titanium caps. the ceo described the glue as similar to peanut butter and said its not very sophisticated so they dont really have any room for error.
the more i read on the topic the worse it gets. just the idea of using carbon fiber in a compression application is absolutely asinine. carbon fiber is most like a tape. you can wrap something in it and it will be very strong when stretched and in tensile applications but it has very little compressive strength properties.
when i was fresh out of school and in my first year working as an engineer i was placed on a small test team to evaluate the strength modulus of a carbon fiber ramp prototype designed to be outfit at the bow and stern of an amphibious hovercraft. craft payload was an M1 Abrams - 62 short tons (if memory serves). so essentially the ramp had to withstand repeated drive overs of the tank. We received the thing from the OEM, integrated it into the vehicle platform, instrumented the ramp with sensors and gauges, then planned a test. First time the tank drove up the ramp there was a lot of cracking and creaking. The contractor lead engineer was sweating bullets
but the thing made it up without any catastrophic damage. After that it was like he had just done a line of coke. Absolutely ecstatic and talking a mile a minute, "i told yall it would work, yea, told yall. that was just initial settling in, we are good, this thing will hold no problem..."
Then we backed the tank back off the ramp and it snapped in 2 about half way down
You should have seen that dudes face. I'll never forget it. We never heard from him again.
Moral of the story is carbon fiber is great for certain applications, but high compressive forces are not one of those applications.
the more i read on the topic the worse it gets. just the idea of using carbon fiber in a compression application is absolutely asinine. carbon fiber is most like a tape. you can wrap something in it and it will be very strong when stretched and in tensile applications but it has very little compressive strength properties.
when i was fresh out of school and in my first year working as an engineer i was placed on a small test team to evaluate the strength modulus of a carbon fiber ramp prototype designed to be outfit at the bow and stern of an amphibious hovercraft. craft payload was an M1 Abrams - 62 short tons (if memory serves). so essentially the ramp had to withstand repeated drive overs of the tank. We received the thing from the OEM, integrated it into the vehicle platform, instrumented the ramp with sensors and gauges, then planned a test. First time the tank drove up the ramp there was a lot of cracking and creaking. The contractor lead engineer was sweating bullets
but the thing made it up without any catastrophic damage. After that it was like he had just done a line of coke. Absolutely ecstatic and talking a mile a minute, "i told yall it would work, yea, told yall. that was just initial settling in, we are good, this thing will hold no problem..."Then we backed the tank back off the ramp and it snapped in 2 about half way down
You should have seen that dudes face. I'll never forget it. We never heard from him again.
Moral of the story is carbon fiber is great for certain applications, but high compressive forces are not one of those applications.
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Do I have this correct?
Short Ton
Metric Ton
Long Ton
Sh!t Ton
Metric Sh!t Ton
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Yup... carbon fiber great for lightweight rifle barrels... where the pressure is opposite a submersible.oceangate literally glued the carbon fiber tube to the titanium caps. the ceo described the glue as similar to peanut butter and said its not very sophisticated so they dont really have any room for error.
the more i read on the topic the worse it gets. just the idea of using carbon fiber in a compression application is absolutely asinine. carbon fiber is most like a tape. you can wrap something in it and it will be very strong when stretched and in tensile applications but it has very little compressive strength properties.
when i was fresh out of school and in my first year working as an engineer i was placed on a small test team to evaluate the strength modulus of a carbon fiber ramp prototype designed to be outfit at the bow and stern of an amphibious hovercraft. craft payload was an M1 Abrams - 62 short tons (if memory serves). so essentially the ramp had to withstand repeated drive overs of the tank. We received the thing from the OEM, integrated it into the vehicle platform, instrumented the ramp with sensors and gauges, then planned a test. First time the tank drove up the ramp there was a lot of cracking and creaking. The contractor lead engineer was sweating bullets
Then we backed the tank back off the ramp and it snapped in 2 about half way down
You should have seen that dudes face. I'll never forget it. We never heard from him again.
Moral of the story is carbon fiber is great for certain applications, but high compressive forces are not one of those applications.
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And made of the precursor to carbon fiber, fiber glass. And paper mache'.I'll never forget my first ride in a submarine. It was amazing.
Alex.
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Not sure about any of those, but I do know as a young man, I was told a sh!t load was defined as 18. I believe the context was how many motorcycles a buddy owned.
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I'll never forget my first ride in a submarine. It was amazing.
Alex.
Kids today will never know….
I believe that was ripped out and replaced in the park.
