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[–] [email protected] 232 points 5 days ago (15 children)

That submarine imploding near the Titanic will never be not funny. Especially since the guy who designed it believed in the "move fast and break things" nonsense.

Every person on board paid a pretty penny to be on that sub, so no pity from me either (except perhaps for the teenager who was reportedly terrified to go on, but did it to please his rich prick father).

[–] [email protected] 127 points 5 days ago (12 children)

It's the teenager that makes it sad.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 days ago (17 children)

I’ve seen some interesting YT videos about the engineering behind the sub. Turns out, that sub was a ticking time bomb, and many people had warned about it. The controller thing was perfectly fine, but the walls were not.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Their crack detector thing actually detected a problem on the previous trip.... Just nobody checked it....

[–] khannie 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What the fuck? That's mental. I'd never heard that little nugget before.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure it's this one: https://youtu.be/FAAQVntpk00

Goes through the photos to get an idea where it failed (towards one end). Then looks at manufacturing photos (milling down carbon fiber in a pressure vessel is crazy!) then looks at strain guage graphs.

[–] khannie 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah that's the one I just watched it through. Thanks for the link. Absolutely reckless behaviour from the owner after the previous crack event on dive 80 to go down again. Just so many bad choices.

Fascinating that they had the data to tell them it wasn't safe and just ploughed ahead without examining it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

OMG, that's just insane. It's not an overstatement to say that he had it coming.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Moving fast and breaking things can be a great R&D philosophy...when health and safety aren't a concern or have been addressed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And to add on that R&D thing. It's supposed to be move fast and break things to learn what things are not working good enought so you can deliver a finished not-breaking-stuff-thing.

[–] IndustryStandard 9 points 4 days ago

Break things not humans

[–] Sterile_Technique 46 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] Typhoonigator 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Sterile_Technique 3 points 4 days ago

Probably? Someone posted it shortly after the actual oceangate situation happened, and it went straight to my downloads folder, lol. No idea what the original source was.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago

The photo of the shitty Logitech controller will never not make me laugh... Anyone who has ever handled a controller before knows those things are absolute garbage lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

And he did break things

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