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In all seriousness how is the controller still in a recognizable shape under all that pressure? Damn PS4 controllers break if my cat farts on it.
 
djacobox372 said:
I did a quick calculation of the amount of energy that would have been released during an implosion... roughly equivalent to 230 sticks of dynamite going off in a very small space.

They aint going to find much of those people.
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If i had to guess, it probably looked like a Gallagher show.
 
Dream Evil said:
In all seriousness how is the controller still in a recognizable shape under all that pressure? Damn PS4 controllers break if my cat farts on it.
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Funny how people were making fun of the controller when it was the safest part of the operation.
 
Doughie99 said:
yup that's about it.
Like this dude attempting a world speed record down a VERY steep mountain on a carbon-fiber bike.

Everything was going fine, 107mph, until front of his carbon-fiber bike just disintegrated.
Give me titanium or steel alloy or aluminum alloy any day, you can keep your carbon-fiber.

Materials science basically has a general rule that the harder and stiffer a substance is, often it is more BRITTLE and when its undergoes excessive load, it doesn't deform or bend it simply breaks - it just fractures and shatters. Carbon-fiber is like that.

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Years ago I spent two hundred bucks on a carbon fiber badminton racquet. The first night I used it, it snapped in half when I flicked back for a smash. I returned it and they tried to refuse the return, saying I must have hit it on something, but I insisted and they gave me a replacement.

The next night when I played with the replacement the exact same thing happened. When I returned that one they started telling me they wouldn't give me any more carbon fiber and I cut them off with "titanium please".
 
Loiosh said:
Years ago I spent two hundred bucks on a carbon fiber badminton racquet. The first night I used it, it snapped in half when I flicked back for a smash. I returned it and they tried to refuse the return, saying I must have hit it on something, but I insisted and they gave me a replacement.

The next night when I played with the replacement the exact same thing happened. When I returned that one they started telling me they wouldn't give me any more carbon fiber and I cut them off with "titanium please".
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I have a friend who does serious long-distance 80kms or more Cross-country bike races (full blown racing mountain-bikes, like expensive 5000 or 6000dollar bikes) and when I talked to him about carbon-fiber etc for forks and handlebars he says "nope...too many of my friends said they break, and it's non-repairable and it's very expensive, so....aluminum alloy is what is preferred as it's not much heavier and it's far more resilient and reliable".

So...again...another story of people using carbon-fiber equipment and it just fractures catastrophically if it's put under too much stress OR at the wrong angle. It is susceptible as the way it is constructed makes it that way. Very stiff materials tend to be BRITTLE and carbon-fiber Io would classify as one of those.
 
Doughie99 said:
I have a friend who does serious long-distance 80kms or more Cross-country bike races (full blown racing mountain-bikes, like expensive 5000 or 6000dollar bikes) and when I talked to him about carbon-fiber etc for forks and handlebars he says "nope...too many of my friends said they break, and it's non-repairable and it's very expensive, so....aluminum alloy is what is preferred as it's not much heavier and it's far more resilient and reliable".

So...again...another story of people using carbon-fiber equipment and it just fractures catastrophically if it's put under too much stress OR at the wrong angle. It is susceptible as the way it is constructed makes it that way. Very stiff materials tend to be BRITTLE and carbon-fiber Io would classify as one of those.
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It would be interesting to know how the design process went. How did they come up with 5 inches thick, what glue they used etc....
 
djacobox372 said:
I did a quick calculation of the amount of energy that would have been released during an implosion... roughly equivalent to 230 sticks of dynamite going off in a very small space.

They aint going to find much of those people.
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Lol are you idiot this was implosion not explosion
 
mb23100 said:
It would be interesting to know how the design process went. How did they come up with 5 inches thick, what glue they used etc....
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I assume probably some type of very tough epoxy resin.
I saw the video of them laying the glue which bonded the carbon-fiber cylinder to the titanium rings.. It seemed awfully amateurish.
 
Doughie99 said:
I have a friend who does serious long-distance 80kms or more Cross-country bike races (full blown racing mountain-bikes, like expensive 5000 or 6000dollar bikes) and when I talked to him about carbon-fiber etc for forks and handlebars he says "nope...too many of my friends said they break, and it's non-repairable and it's very expensive, so....aluminum alloy is what is preferred as it's not much heavier and it's far more resilient and reliable".

So...again...another story of people using carbon-fiber equipment and it just fractures catastrophically if it's put under too much stress OR at the wrong angle. It is susceptible as the way it is constructed makes it that way. Very stiff materials tend to be BRITTLE and carbon-fiber Io would classify as one of those.
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When I was a little kid I rode my bike off a curb. The metal frame broke where it meets the forks and handlebars. Face plant into the asphalt. Took off some face.
 
emefer said:
When I was a little kid I rode my bike off a curb. The metal frame broke where it meets the forks and handlebars. Face plant into the asphalt. Took off some face.
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I did something very similar when i was maybe 12!!! I tried to mount a curb at a very shallow angle (from the road up to a curb) and.....down i went at some speed. Bikes will not mount or dismount curbs at shallow angles.... they just fall over. Damaged the bike a bit but i was ok.
I remember it vividly....when everything came to a stop I was lying on my back looking up at the clouds in the sky. It felt quite peaceful.
 
emefer said:
When I was a little kid I rode my bike off a curb. The metal frame broke where it meets the forks and handlebars. Face plant into the asphalt. Took off some face.
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bike come from kmart?
 
Loiosh said:
Years ago I spent two hundred bucks on a carbon fiber badminton racquet. The first night I used it, it snapped in half when I flicked back for a smash. I returned it and they tried to refuse the return, saying I must have hit it on something, but I insisted and they gave me a replacement.

The next night when I played with the replacement the exact same thing happened. When I returned that one they started telling me they wouldn't give me any more carbon fiber and I cut them off with "titanium please".
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I've got a carbon fiber head stem on my hybrid road bike. The whole rest of the bike is aluminum, and just the head stem is CF. I always thought that was weird. Like, it probably saves about 15 grams of weight - what's the point? and of all the pieces, the head stem probably endures the most torsional forces.

Strange. Does look cool though, I'll admt.
 
Doughie99 said:
I have a friend who does serious long-distance 80kms or more Cross-country bike races (full blown racing mountain-bikes, like expensive 5000 or 6000dollar bikes) and when I talked to him about carbon-fiber etc for forks and handlebars he says "nope...too many of my friends said they break, and it's non-repairable and it's very expensive, so....aluminum alloy is what is preferred as it's not much heavier and it's far more resilient and reliable".
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I'm a serious rider with a couple mountain bikes that are worth more than my car, some carbon parts can be just as strong & durable as metal ones BUT only in the right circumstances. As soon as you get a scratch past the top cosmetic layer it's on borrowed time, any sharp edges on the clamping surfaces and it's gonna crack, clamp it too tight and it's dead. I can get away with it since there's not many sharp rocks in my area to gouge up carbon parts when I crash, but if I lived in Quebec for instance there's no way I'd run carbon handlebars & wheels on my bikes.
 
Yes I know this story is old now, but there has been a tangenital story in the News.

- This guy co-founded OceanGate with Stockton Rush, but he left the company in 2013.

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OceanGate's cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn't stop pushing the limits of innovation
https://www.businessinsider.com/oce...e-venus-atmosphere-2050-titan-sohnlein-2023-7

OceanGate Co-Founder Wants to Send 1,000 People to Venus—What Could Go Wrong?
https://gizmodo.com/oceangate-founder-wants-to-send-1-000-people-to-venus-1850695687

OceanGate co-founder says he wants humans on Venus in face of Titan implosion: Report
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...e-co-founder-venus-colony-vision/70509578007/

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I think he should work with Elon
 
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