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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 05:23:35 JST Bread up, Bro
   I bet we can make a pretty good guess on that, and the last names weren't "Smith" or "Weber"
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 05:23:33 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Wolffkran
     @Wolffkran when their cars stop working, it's evil gremlins, not that they haven't been doing routine maintenance for half a decade.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 05:23:34 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Wolffkran because people don't know how shit works
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     Wolffkran (wolffkran@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 05:23:35 JST Wolffkran

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     @sickburnbro Yeah I was also extremely confused why people blamed the pilots for this
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     BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 06:11:33 JST BroDrillard

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     The whole idea of that sub was fucked up and unsafe from the get go. Shoddy manufacturing like making the carbon fiber section not in a clean room was just icing on the cake.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 06:11:33 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @BroDrillard @chud @Heil_Honkler speaking of the "managers that are excited that they can get indian developers for 20/hr " ..
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     Heil_Honkler (heil_honkler@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 06:11:34 JST Heil_Honkler

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     @sickburnbro oh shit, so it wasn't pilot error. fucking monkeys with wrenches.
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     chud (chud@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 06:11:34 JST chud

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     Like the brown people they hired to do maintenance on that Titanic sub that imploded a few years back. Tightening bolts with non-torque wrenches by hand for a sub meant to go more than 2 miles underwater
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 06:12:31 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @BroDrillard @chud @Heil_Honkler like dog, I wouldn't trust a mechanic to work on my car that was making less than 50.
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     Christmas Man (christmasman@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 06:29:43 JST Christmas Man

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     @sickburnbro @BroDrillard @chud @Heil_Honkler Only shops that aren't cutting corners at <$50/Hr are quick lubes, and even then I don't trust them.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 06:29:43 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @christmasman @BroDrillard @chud @Heil_Honkler indeed. the lubrication system in your car is the most critical. if you don't tighten a plug and the oil runs out at highway speeds, you're quite possibly fucked, and they will disclaim all responsibility.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 10:17:22 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @BroDrillard @wingedhussar @Snidely_Whiplash @chud @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Heil_Honkler you don't need titanium for a sub though? steel is pretty good under compression, iirc
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     BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 10:17:23 JST BroDrillard

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     >Forging and machining a titanium tube would have cost a fortune and it'd require expensive foam for buoyancy.
     
     Dying was cheaper.
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     Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD (dr_edgar_friendly_md@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 10:17:24 JST Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD

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     @Snidely_Whiplash @BroDrillard @chud @Heil_Honkler @sickburnbro The billionaire was an aerospace guy, so he wanted carbon fiber, ignoring the fact that the loads on a submarine are the opposite of those on an aircraft
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     Winged Hussar (wingedhussar@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 10:17:24 JST Winged Hussar

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     @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Snidely_Whiplash @BroDrillard @chud @Heil_Honkler @sickburnbro He wanted carbon fiber because he got his hands on declassified documents for a composite submersible the navy built and a buttload of expired prepreg CF from Boeing. Forging and machining a titanium tube would have cost a fortune and it'd require expensive foam for buoyancy.
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     Snidely_Whiplash (snidely_whiplash@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 10:17:25 JST Snidely_Whiplash

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     Carbon fiber on a sub, why? To save weight? It's a submarine. Metals get stronger with compression and working. Resin plastics get weaker. Each dive made the next dive less safe.
     The entire concept was fucked.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 10:21:25 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @wingedhussar @BroDrillard @Snidely_Whiplash @chud @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Heil_Honkler a front and rear ballast should kinda fix that, no?
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     Winged Hussar (wingedhussar@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 10:21:26 JST Winged Hussar

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     @sickburnbro @BroDrillard @Snidely_Whiplash @chud @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Heil_Honkler Its too heavy. It'd sink without ballast
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 10:22:32 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @wingedhussar @BroDrillard @Snidely_Whiplash @chud @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Heil_Honkler but yeah, I mean I guess it makes propulsion trickier as well? Oh well. I guess they learned the hard way that the sea doesn't care
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 10:28:35 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @wingedhussar @BroDrillard @Snidely_Whiplash @chud @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Heil_Honkler right, so they basically just thought they had a cheat code to submersibles
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     Winged Hussar (wingedhussar@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 10:28:36 JST Winged Hussar

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     @sickburnbro @BroDrillard @Snidely_Whiplash @chud @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Heil_Honkler Yeah but the amount of syntatic foam would be huge. Most submersibles are made from forged titanium
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 10:32:52 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @wingedhussar @BroDrillard @Snidely_Whiplash @chud @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Heil_Honkler Oh, I know - I don't like composites for that exact reason.
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     Winged Hussar (wingedhussar@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 10:32:53 JST Winged Hussar

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     @sickburnbro @BroDrillard @Snidely_Whiplash @chud @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Heil_Honkler Its not unbased. The navy did successfully build a reliable and safe composite sub that went deeper than the Titanic. However:
     1. They had endless government money
     2. They had navy yard resources
     3. Composites are unpredictable and do not yield like steels do.
     
     My favorite part of all this is that they broke every rule and somehow nature didn't spite them. The hull held. They then ignored their own patented hull strain monitoring system that told them theyre has been a significant structural failure. The hull survived 1 more dive after that. The 2nd one it imploded.
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     Winged Hussar (wingedhussar@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 10:35:52 JST Winged Hussar

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     @sickburnbro @BroDrillard @Snidely_Whiplash @chud @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Heil_Honkler The navy abandoned the project for those reasons. It was like...yeah it held but we don't know when it won't. Metals are predictable and handle load cycling well if everything is properly engineered.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 10:35:52 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @wingedhussar @BroDrillard @Snidely_Whiplash @chud @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Heil_Honkler everyone likes plastic deformation, simple proven math
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 11:08:54 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Elliptica @BroDrillard @Snidely_Whiplash @chud @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Heil_Honkler @wingedhussar it's why youtube is still a good thing - you can gain an appreciation for how technically difficult creating threads are. For standard threads, someone's already done the hard work once, and people just need to ensure the tooling doesn't wear out
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     Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 11:08:55 JST Anime Wong

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     @BroDrillard @Snidely_Whiplash @chud @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Heil_Honkler @sickburnbro @wingedhussar I had a realization like that once. I have an expensive camera that I wanted to attach to a telescope, but the telescope used a weird nonstandard connector. I found a guy in Florida would would make an adapter to a more standard connector, but he wanted, like, 100 dollars for a part that for a standard size would cost less than 10 (its basically just a metal ring). I managed to find someone else selling an adapter for around that price, but when I actually got it, it was really bad. I had a realization that, yeah, the camera costs ways more than 100 dollars, and if this cheap part broke I'd be really depressed, so I shouldn't cheap out here.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 11:25:35 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Elliptica @BroDrillard @Snidely_Whiplash @chud @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Heil_Honkler @wingedhussar yeah, I saw a video of a guy literally friction welding a fairly large part because he didn't properly clean the threads.
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     Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 11:25:36 JST Anime Wong

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     @sickburnbro @BroDrillard @Snidely_Whiplash @chud @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Heil_Honkler @wingedhussar Yeah, I had to take a metal working class in college, so I sort of thought "whats the big deal?" But we never made a big threaded part, just like screws and stuff like that.
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     petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 12:03:37 JST petra

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     @sickburnbro @Elliptica @BroDrillard @Snidely_Whiplash @chud @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Heil_Honkler @wingedhussar That's pretty cool, though. Probably how friction welding was discovered.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 12:03:37 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @petra @Elliptica @BroDrillard @Snidely_Whiplash @chud @Dr_Edgar_Friendly_MD @Heil_Honkler @wingedhussar what is the most impressive part is how much friction you can generate with threading. it makes sense when you think about how much can torque two parts together, but just not something you really think about "how that works"