Venus is easier than Titanic

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pipbarber
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Venus is easier than Titanic

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From USA Toady, so...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 509578007/

Buy a ticket to a cloud city on Venus...(from the people that brought you the Titan sub implosion)...what could possible go wrong?
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Re: Venus is easier than Titanic

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Hush! How many billionaires can they fit on the first ship out?
Greedy fuckers cannot self-regulate.
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Re: Venus is easier than Titanic

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Well 4 can fit on this next venture to visit the Titanic, the numbers appear to be increasing, not without some controversy though;
“(This) free-form and patent-protected acrylic pressure boundary has only been made possible because we decided to throw out the rule book and no longer be bound by the constraints of traditional geometries,” Lahey says.
Hmm, it occurs to me traditional geometries are used because they provide the highest strength to material ratio, so what he is saying is this new material is so strong it doesn't need to follow these rules, I'm sure I have heard that or similar somewhere before;

https://www.news.com.au/technology/inno ... cec0ad4a23
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