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| New Titan Sub Implosion Simulation, Cracked Porthole? Q & A |
| 2023-07-22 |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #12 ^ I meant once the catastrophic failure is under way. Horse > barn door. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-22 14:24 |
| #11 The problems of redundancy to prevent catastophic failure have been well studied for decades. Look at refineries. They've been dealing with similiar pressure and thermal issues for years, and largely successful at it. The peak fault occurence is usually in transition, i.e. start up or shutdown. Things are quite stable at each end of the curve, but it gets crazy in the middle. Almost like an inverse bell curve. Generally because the material it's made out of reacts to stress unevenly. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-07-22 13:41 |
| #10 Seriuosly, did we have to have bug eyes? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-07-22 13:30 |
| #9 Speaking of ghouls: |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-07-22 10:58 |
| #8 #6 All of this speculation on how precisely that submersible imploded is becoming downright ghoulish! The views of an engineer in speculating how this particular submersible collapsed, including computer modeling, is not ghoulish, IMO. YMWV |
| Posted by: badanov 2023-07-22 10:27 |
| #7 'single failure mode' It's nearly impossible to redundantize (awful usage, I know) a system against catastrophic failure. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-22 09:04 |
| #6 All of this speculation on how precisely that submersible imploded is becoming downright ghoulish! |
| Posted by: Roth LaDoad 2023-07-22 08:23 |
| #5 Whatever broke first at this point is actually irrelevant. The sub had what is refered to as 'single failure mode'. Any one fault would destroy it. There was nothing remotely resembling a backup, on anything. Any one failure, and it's all over. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-07-22 08:14 |
| #4 I think the fictitious court cases cited by an AI recently tell you all you need to know about "computer models." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-22 07:55 |
| #3 Computer modelers could illustrate how a Titan Sub could give birth. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-07-22 07:32 |
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| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-22 07:23 |
| #1 Isn't that what happened to the SpecOps guy who stole the H-bomb in The Abyss? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-22 07:20 |