Subj : Re: Submarine Deaths
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Blue White
Date : Sun Jun 25 2023 08:06 am

-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to paulie420 <=-

 pF> Yes, it's light. Yes it has great tensile strength. But, it shatters.
 pF> Some of the newer America's Cup sailboats shattered in the waves and
 pF> foundered.

IndyCar car body parts are made of carbon fibre because it shatters on
impact and dissapates energy.  Good for that reason, but it would also make
me suspect that the pressures of the ocean depths could also cause that to
happen and someone should have thought of that.



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