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vineyardmike 9 hours ago

The titanic was advertised as unsinkable and we know its history.

Advertising this capsule as uncrushable is a commensurate gamble.

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margalabargala 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Just make it out of carbon fiber. That's what they did with that uncrushable submersible that went to the Titanic.

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UncleEntity 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm pretty sure the issue was with 'move fast and break things' and not using carbon fiber.

I think it was on the youtubes I was watching a story about how they built that thing and it was <spoiler alert> not really fit for purpose. I mean, no big surprise in hindsight.

	▲	jjmarr 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Carbon fibre has poor compressive strength and good tensile strength. That makes it inherently bad at holding pressure from outside in a submarine and good at holding pressure inside a spaceship or airplane.