StarCorps Industries

A giant nerd who makes nerd stuff for nerd people.
Visit my store on Etsy.
He/Him.

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Piston Junction is a fun place.

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@BGatesIsaPyscho I notice the ship loose power twice, which is why they called the shore authorities - and they got the bridge shut down just before this happened.

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The Piston Junction Time Trials continue as 11 contestants roar down the track!

https://t.co/I5pxIdcMqh

#hotwheels #diecast #madmax #postapocalyptic #diorama #racing #diecastracing

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15 cars try their skill at the Piston Junction Switchback in Time Trials, Group 2.

https://t.co/puzaMLPPvm

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The Piston Junction Invitational has over a hundred cars sent in by people all across the world. The time trials are a way for me to show off peoples cars and build my skill set with filming and editing before the races start.

https://t.co/SOQtVpSc1G

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A quick video I made to explain the basics of the world in which Gaslands is set.

https://t.co/CR1b7s9YjA

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@elonmusk People love a train wreck, Mr. Musk.

You just can't look away.

I mean... you also don't buy tickets for that train, either.

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@elonmusk @elonmusk - I have discontinued my Twitter Blue account - and I will be leaving this platform. I am a small fry, and just starting with Twitter, but I cannot afford to put more money or time into a platform that is so unstable, fickle and incompetently led.

Yes, I mean you.

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@elonmusk - I have discontinued my Twitter Blue account - and I will be leaving this platform. I am a small fry, and just starting with Twitter, but I cannot afford to put more money or time into a platform that is so unstable, fickle and incompetently led.

Yes, I mean you.

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@elonmusk Jesus Christ, I don't wanna read your crap.

Stop notifying me. I didn't follow you and I shouldn't have to block you just because you own the company.

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Hey @elonmusk .

I am a cisgender male. All that means is I have never felt like anything else than a man.

The only possible way this term is a slur, is if you think of 'trans' as some kind of slur, derogatory or negative term.

I invite you to reconsider your perspective.

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Usually I post funny things or craft/hobby related content. But today? Today I am angry.

So here's my rant instead.

Edit: This is copied over from my facebook page, found here: https://t.co/8voSpYLhHV

"Submarines, OSHA and Industrial Standards."

All jokes about Orca and dead billionaires aside, this matters to me. It matters to me because this is what unregulated industry looks like.

The hull of the Titan was made of 5 inch thick carbon fiber composite. This material is essentially long strands of fiber that are layered and glued together with resin to form a particular shape. It's been baked in a vacuum chamber to harden it.

Think of it like a really really really hard plywood or fiberglass. It is not a single piece construction such as a steel or titanium sphere.

The thing about carbon fiber is it doesn't crack. It doesn't have any flex. It is brittle. It does not deform. It does not bend or warp.

It shatters.

There is no warning. A steel or titanium hull might allow some warning that you've gone too deep and give you a chance to go back up. Carbon fiber is stupidly strong... Right until it isn't. That hull gives no warning and goes from full strength to implosion in milliseconds.

You also can't repair it effectively. Like aluminum air frames, every time it hits it's stress point, it will weaken. This is called stress fatigue. This is why airframes have strictly set lifespans. (Except the B-52. That things gonna live forever.)

So when the hull showed damage from the test dive, they couldn't fix it. They had to rebuild the hull entirely, and that's expensive.

So expensive that further damage would likely be concealed, downplayed or disregarded.

The viewport dome on the front of the vessel was made by another company. That company refused to certify it for more than 1,300 meters. Not because it couldn't go deeper, but because OceanGate refused to have the Titan classified by any legitimate outside agency so the dome maker would not promise anything more.

There appears to be no emergency surfacing protocol or system. Based on first hand reports, the way this machine released it's ballast to rise to the surface was by the passengers physically moving side to side to physically dislodge the industrial pipes used as ballast.

Most submarines use air tanks and compressed air for controlling their buoyancy.

OceanGate appears to have no contingency for emergency or rescue. The Russians, when they dive, send two ships so one can rescue the other.

The company specifically avoided hiring veteran, experienced submarine engineers, but focused on younger and inexperienced technicians and student engineers directly out of college.

They say this was to quote unquote inspire a younger generation of engineer... But I think we all know it's about hiring cheap people who won't tell you your idea is f****** stupid.

The company did not have a submarine operations and safety subject matter expert... Who would have also told them their idea was f****** stupid.

They do not appear to have used any of the object lessons from the aviation and space industry about what can go wrong and how to handle it. This was a sealed bottle full of oxygen that's bolted closed with no way out and no way to communicate with the surface.

There is no record of testing the onboard atmospheric system. And certainly not with a full load of passengers.

There is no way to ventilate the pressure hull. Any small fire, even smoking wires... And everyone is dead.

The supposed maximum depth of this machine, 4,000 meters, was never tested. It was only test it received before it carried passengers, was with with one man aboard, for ten hours at 3,000 meters.

There was no voice communications system. There was only a short range, small capacity sms/text system.

They lost the text and telemetry communication during testing and did not correct the issue or build a new comms system. They declared this was routine and acceptable.

When they lost communication the first time, the subject of an emergency beacon was brought up... But never implemented. This submersible designed to carry rich paying passengers did not have any sort of emergency beacon or locator.

There was no emergency breathing equipment on board. No safety equipment. So even if an issue occured at or near the surface, there was no way to survive.

The company has repeatedly made statements about how safety protocols slow down innovation.

The company specifically declined to have their vessel classed or rated by any independent agency, citing that that just slowed down innovation.

The company regularly touted that they met or exceeded industry standards for safety.

The industry regularly called them liars.

The company acknowledged in 2020 that this specific vessel had been damaged and could not go below 3,000 meters. Now I have reports they rebuilt that hull.

They then used this repaired, under-tested machine for several dives to the Titanic at 3,800 meters... and each one suffered some sort of system failure. This was not a reliable vehicle in the best of times.

More expeditions failed to reach the Titanic than succeeded. One voyage had a piece of the submarine fall off, and when they resurfaced, it was resecured with standard zipties.

One vourage even got lost and never managed to find the titanic because they could not communicate with the surface and there was no navigation equipment on board.

This was a homemade submersible built with off-the-shelf parts all kitbashed together by inexperienced engineers without the oversight of qualified veterans, with a hull that the industry repeatedly said was unsafe, never properly tested, and was never certified/Classed or inspected by any independent agency.

This vessel was not flagged to any nation as to actively avoid any regulations.

A man was fired for trying to raise the alarm about how unsafe this vessel was. He was then sued for trying to raise that alarm.

Another engineer resigned when his warnings about the safety of the vessel were discarded.

They knew. Knew. KNEW this vessel was not safe at the depth they went.

This is a submersible.

But this is also every industrial project that's ever inspired an OSHA regulation.

The reason there is an OSHA regulation against storing radioactive material in your crews quarters is not because someone was forward thinking.

It's because some asshole boss thought: there's no rule saying I can't... So let's store this radioactive shit where the men sleep.

Regulations and safety standards are written in the blood of workers.

And the only reason the world is going to care about this, is because it's the blood of billionaires now.

Edit: The debris field of the submersible has been located. It is 1600 meters from the bow of the Titanic. There are no survivors.

Catastrophic implosion is the primary cause of the incident.

It's likely that the Carbon Fiber hull took microdamage with every dive, slowly raising it's crush depth and on this dive, that depth was about (estimated) 3,400 meters, about 400 meters above the titanic, based on when they lost contact, and the size of the debris field.

Citations and links to further information below.

Final note: I never expected this post to get the reach it has. I am adding in this edit because I must use my platform for those who lack it.

For all the non-stop media coverage that this disaster with super wealthy people gets, there are people drowning and dying daily in the Mediterranean and other places, as they flee war, oppression and other issues.

These people do so on any vessel they can get, often overcrowded to the point of unimaginable risk, and European navies often refuse to assist these vessels in distress.

SOS Humanity is a donation funded charitable foundation that operates a vessel in the Mediterranean. This vessel is in danger of being unable to return to sea if they cannot raise the funds for it's overhaul.
https://t.co/NwysItbm1p

Please consider visiting and supporting them.

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@Mutsubae @jesusuckk @Potatopolitics This is actually in a park in central London. This is more like a natural swimming pool. There are three, men's, women's and mixed.

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@_SB_88_ @Potatopolitics I'm not certain what you're trying to ask. Can you clarify your question?

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@HideMeFromGod @Potatopolitics My man, I'm a socialist.

But even we have to pay for things, either through taxes or fees.

Else someone gets cheated.

We can argue if a fee is too high, but the need to pay for the services we use in some way still exists.

And I have TB because I am shit at spelling.

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@niko_knocks @Potatopolitics That is a fair point.

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@niko_knocks @Potatopolitics Uh huh.

You don't care enough that you initiated this conversation.

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@niko_knocks @Potatopolitics Sure.

https://t.co/ibmJsLnvU5

Here's the website of the location in question.

Take your concerns to them.

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@jesusuckk @Potatopolitics Then paid for by taxes. I'm totally okay with that. I actually love paying taxes when they provide services in return. But not all amenities are paid for by taxes in whole.

While many US national parks are free, several of them charge for some things, such as camping.

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@niko_knocks @Potatopolitics Then you are paying for it via your taxes.

But it's not free.