#PREVIEW: PPreliminary observations of the failure of the Titan. Charles Pellegrino.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 24 June 2023
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#PREVIEW: PPreliminary observations of the failure of the Titan. Charles Pellegrino.
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| 0:30.2 | I spoke to my colleague Charlie Pelagrino, author of Ghost of Asuvius, Ghost of the Titanic, |
| 0:36.9 | about what might have happened on board Titan as it failed, now that a brief field confirms that it is gone. |
| 0:46.2 | Charlie pointed to the composite material that made up the hull. |
| 0:51.0 | Charlie's dived in two spheres, two Titanic, mere one and mere two, steel made. |
| 0:58.3 | Charlie says they age but very slowly. |
| 1:01.8 | The material used for Titan, regarded as experimental. |
| 1:06.5 | Charlie points to that as inquiries will begin about why the failure. |
| 1:13.2 | Here's Charlie. |
| 1:14.8 | No, not like that. |
| 1:16.6 | I mean, we were in either solid steel hull or titanium hull. |
| 1:23.0 | And these materials, when you have epoxies and carbon fibers, |
| 1:28.8 | it's sort of like when we were pushing the edge, when they first built the comet passenger jets. |
| 1:35.0 | And they started falling out of the sky. |
| 1:37.0 | And there were things about stress on the materials and fatigue that were not known at the time. |
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