@claralistensprechen3rd @ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com
Everybody is looking for a white cylindrical object, aren't they. I'll bet the reason they still can't find it is because it's no longer a white cylindrical object, if what the complaints were about the viewport are true.
Was revieewing USA Today's explanation of how the Titan works, and by the looks of it the viewport was mounted in a titanium nose, and, mechanically appears to be a good counter-pressure mounting, so if something would give way with pressures greater than it's rated for, the mounting would breach. And yet....
...the hull wasn't titanium; it was 5 inches of carbon fiber covered by an unspecified thickness of fiberglas...which would make the thing puncture-resistant, and certainly (relatively) light-weight, nose notwithstanding...so...another breach scenario would be where the titanium mates with the more malleable material. Smacking into something that the hull would yield to but the nose would not would be wrenching at dissimilar materials....
...and results would be just as instantaneous as the viewport popping loose.
@claralistensprechen3rd
Whether the viewport pops loose or the dissimilar materials pop loose at the seams, you're still looking at a crushing implosion.
@claralistensprechen3rd
Here it is, Thursday, and the USCG is talking about a field of unspecified debris near the #Titanic and if the #Titan was intact, it's out of breathable air. NOW talking heads are considering the possibility of an implosion.
Well, when you go down in a vessel that hasn't been safety tested, an implosion is the top of the list of possibilities.
@claralistensprechen3rd
Seriously--another day goes by and no Titan submarine, with all these outfits hunting for it with the highest of high tech equipment spending yikes-knows-what on fuel to get out there. I'll say this again: looking for a white cylindrical object intact is likely a big mistake.
Given the viewport situation, looks to me like that thing blew like a cork, all the air left the sub all at once, the thing imploded and looks more like a squished, crunched oversized beer can.
#Titan #Titanic