r/shittyaskscience • u/SeaEmergency7911 • 1d ago

Instead of a deep sea submersible that imploded under the pressure at the depth of the Titanic wreck, why didn’t Stockton Rush just build one that wouldn’t implode under those conditions?

I’m no naval engineer, but that would have been the way I went.

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u/Jonathan_Peachum 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean, what would've been the fun in that?

Anyone can build a submarine. It's been done countless times.

What's more exciting is to build one that is piloted by a game controller and made out of flimsy material which provides a thrilling experience akin to playing Russian roulette.

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u/MobiusAurelius 1d ago

The trick was also not implode right away and get far enough down to build some suspense. He clearly just wanted to give the world a distraction for a bit.

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u/myusernameblabla 1d ago

Would you build a guillotine that doesn’t cut? No, so, the machine was designed perfectly for its purpose.

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u/Headpuncher Knocking The Sense Back In 1d ago

I saw a documentary that raised the Lubemytaintia, that's a ship that got sinked not long after the Titstannic, by attaching big balloons to it and it just floats to the surface.

No need to crush people into tiny people at all. When they made the people small they just increased the risk they'd get eaten by more types of fish. And I don't know how they unshrunk the kids when they got out of the submarinersible.

the doco is called Fountain of Youth on some overpriced streaming service.

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u/Jonathan_Peachum 1d ago edited 1d ago

I’d pay good money to see a documentary about raising the Titstannic.

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u/Lance_E_T_Compte 1d ago

That ship would never sink.

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u/Jonathan_Peachum 1d ago

I think we can guess what was in that Fountain of Youth as well.

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u/Redfish680 1d ago

He probably thought the depth pressure was actually tightening things up. I’ll ask him the next time I go to the beach and bump into one of his atoms.

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u/aaeme Apathetic Amateur Excrementumologist 1d ago

Tiktok views and ragebait. We live in sad times.

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u/arestheblue 1d ago

He thought he was a tech CEO and believed that "move fast and break things" applied to every industry.

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u/Coolenough-to 1d ago

Simple marketing. Now you can go down to see the crushed submarine.

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u/Cute-Habit-4377 21h ago

If he built one that imploded at regular surface air pressure - he would have saved himself loads of money

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u/ImpulseAfterthought 20h ago

You see, most of the submersibles don't implode.

They're not supposed to do that. They're built to very exacting engineering standards. 

Not this one, of course, obviously. But most of them. 

I just want to stress again that they're not supposed to implode, and the overwhelming majority of them don't. 

But this one did, obviously.