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Korkki@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

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

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

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Korkki@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago
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    Supposedly the glued on titanium is the same thing the US Army does for their small Submarines, though I’m sure they found some way to cheap out/fuck up.

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

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            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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      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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