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Stockton was a charismatic salesman. Him and Wendy personally convinced my brother, Shahzada about the Titan, so smoothly - he put his 19 year old child in a “seat” 😢
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that viewport did give us some amazing footage of titanic. shame they ignored the loud bang after dive 80 and the following deformation in the hull afterwards. their RTM actually worked and they just ignored it
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Nicely structured and explained. I've seen so many documentaries and hours upon hours of testimony with great interest. Keep up the good work 👍🏻
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Nice Video about the view Port
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It makes me wonder whether a spherical section window made to Stachiw's guidelines, but with the flat insert optically bonded to the inside of the sphere (but providing no mechanical support) might have been a better try? Still strain issues transferring across the bond I guess. Heck, use a corrective lens with an air or oil gap to the structural window.
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great work, well put together video. many thanks!
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@solareclipsetimer I hadn't noticed the jack but not surprised, also he used full (not Acme) thread 316 stainless fixings to manage a vertical load. M standard threads are problematic due to galling which could seize the fixture. The deck crew did not seem to follow a bolt sequence or use calibrated tools to prevent over tightening and asymmetric forces on the flange. As a retired 'Engineer' some things just look wrong, I don't need numbers or calculations they just look wrong and that contraption looked like it came from Disney land. Single point failure is to be engineered out of systems, you only allow when you have no other option and can mitigate the damage done by its failure. In one report they surfaced because a thruster was fitted in backwards, is it that hard to put an arrow pointing to the front, apparently so. The modified hemispherical window showed that Rush did not study Greek architecture, Leonardo or contemporary engineers papers calculation on balanced thrust and plastic deformation. Rush was no engineer, a bully yes and they are the ones that get people killed he ultimately got what he wanted and that is to follow his ancestors and have his name in the history books. He would not approve of this epitaph. "My Ego killed others " I do.
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I have a topic for your next video, “What if the Titan had not imploded on this mission “ where there more missions scheduled, where there other mission specialists already signed up for the next mission. I also heard there were four mission specialists on this mission, who was that 4th specialist
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@solareclipsetimer if on board electronics were damaged then the sub was hit hard. When an aircraft suffers a strike on the ground the maintenance people do checks. If the aircraft (or sub) was connected by ground cable then usually (not always) this is one attach points. Was the sub in its transport cradle with no services interface to the dock? Say it was not, but that adequately intimate submarine to cradle to local soil existed. Say the lighting attached to the local high point (catamaran mast), then the cat was on a cradle of high impedance to ground, so the sharp prop blade created a field, charge built up, and it jumped to the sub, then earth. We cannot know the peak currents in the pressure hull but by examining the catamaran prop the size of the pit gives some indication. Why did equipment die on the sub? Let’s say the electronics has their negative power and chassis tied to submarine chassis earth. The ground may have moved up to a large voltage able to cause breakdown within a unit between earthed items and items floating. By asking a lighting engineering company to investigate, they could have looked at damage, looked at the “ground model” of the sub, and commented on risk of plasma tunnelling into the stressed pressure hull. Lighting can be seen as very broadband power. From DC to GHz. Tiny reactance between items can result in buildup and discharge. You can do an experiment with AC where you take a block of resin, make it perfect, and stress it to failure with high voltage RF. Now make another with some bubbles. It will fail much sooner. The bubbles look like capacitors and instead of forming a linear voltage gradient through the insulator, voltage builds up at the bubble walls and much more RF current will flow. So your test article that measures 1 gig resistance at DC will arc through after a minute at 1 KV across it. I write this to help explain why lighting is so lethal to systems not designed to accommodate. If anyone is going to write up regulations for composite subs, they will want to talk to an EMI / Lightning person. Or, cover the boat with a metal net well earthed. Even now, an investigator might be able to find out what systems were lighting damaged and maybe someone saved items. By looking at the cradle, finding that cat prop, looking at the drawings of the sub, a sense of the risk for a plasma hole to have formed could maybe be established. The wreckage might show this damage. I think it’s possible a 0.001” carbon tracked hole maybe let water in, or cascaded to failure.
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@solareclipsetimer thx ill check it out, i was keeping up with the ssp diving vids following the trial and saw the released graphs tracking hull performance and it's crazy how they just didnt seem to care how the hull was performing significantly different after dive 80. i was amazed their rtm worked at all, and warned them multiple dives in advance. i wish they stuck to un-manned dives because the footage they gave us the last couple years is legendary
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Actually, one time NASA did take a shortcut on a spacecraft and the result was the Challenger explosion. Financial pressures and being in a hurry largely contributed to that too. And the USSR likewise repeatedly cheaped out and rushed things causing several disasters where lives were lost.
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@solareclipsetimer ah now I see what you meant. Use " " and we would understand you are just quoting someone
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22:00 sure that this isn't a stress singularity?
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@solareclipsetimer Exactly, if you modify a piece of equipment so that it requires new calculations for the code, you look at both and use the safer margin, not the other way around.
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@solareclipsetimer yes I really enjoyed stumbling upon your videos. You have made multiple videos going into great detail about different aspects of this event. This is definitely an event that many people should learn from. This event should not be for nothing. I still fully support people who want to explore & push boundaries BUT if you are, this should teach us that you should really put a lot of effort into designing & engineering things to be able to handle the kind of stressors & forces that you'll be putting it through, repeatedly.. OR just use a ROV to conduct your studies.. we don't always need to have a living breathing human being physically there in order to push the boundaries of exploration
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Super helpful. Thanks!
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Really great and informative episode. No one else gives such a good explanation. Will you be sharing your video of shadow bands from the 2017 eclipse in another episode? Also wondering if you received my PM I sent you several days ago? Thanks again.
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