• ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The problem wasn’t the game controller.

    The problem was using a composite construction for the pressure vessel that wasn’t pressure tested before diving.

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      7 months ago

      irrc it was pressure tested, just not stress tested.
      a.k.a the first dive is almost guaranteed to go fine, but the next ones cause the material to gradually fail

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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        7 months ago

        According to Behind The Bastards they could hear the carbon fiber hull deteriorating below 4000’ and Rush dismissed it as settling.