Physics! ... anyone watch NOVA, raising the Concordia?
Talk aboutcher Final Exam on every level of F=MA..
This must compare, in the calculations and applied-math, to the comet landing.. Cost $1.2B; construction cost was $0.5B. Because an asshole wanted to show off.
Any engineering student should have been fascinated, seeing how simple-physics manifested in myriad ways, and how every step was so accurately (obviously enough..) planned. And then executed sans clusterfucks, except for the loss of a diver. Then a crew had to create all the monitoring, control interfaces and ... displays, involving hydraulics, huge water and air pumps: all vetted quite better than any Windoze release: for just one "job".
Anyone else see it?
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This must compare, in the calculations and applied-math, to the comet landing.. Cost $1.2B; construction cost was $0.5B. Because an asshole wanted to show off.
Any engineering student should have been fascinated, seeing how simple-physics manifested in myriad ways, and how every step was so accurately (obviously enough..) planned. And then executed sans clusterfucks, except for the loss of a diver. Then a crew had to create all the monitoring, control interfaces and ... displays, involving hydraulics, huge water and air pumps: all vetted quite better than any Windoze release: for just one "job".
Anyone else see it?
Ed: add
Sunken Ship RescueThis seems a later version, with more techno details illustrated.
The effort to salvage the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which ran aground and capsized off the coast of Italy on January 13, 2012, killing 32 people.
