Comment on OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet

• Corno@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Probably were using expired glue, as Stockton Rush boasted about using discounted carbon fiber from Boeing that was past its shelf life for usage in airplanes.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I know of at least a couple maintenance shops that will give their expired composite materials to a mechanic school for students to use in class projects. This usage is actually a good idea, completely unlike using it to build a manned submersible.

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  • curry@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Recycled parts? That’s simply being too dumb to be alive on this world. And I thought putting a wireless xbox controller for navigating the damn sub was dumb enough.

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    • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Frankly that controller was probably the most reliable part of the sub

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      • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If it was setup properly, you just us an if statement like, “if communication lost to control for t>5 seconds, release balast” or something like that. I had 0 issue with the controller being an ots consumer good. The rest was an idiotic design, I won’t even say it was engineered.

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• Bongles@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well, they did it just out in the open in some dusty warehouse. Comments I’ve read say that’s a pretty big deal.

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