• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    14 days ago

    The Titantic was designed to stay afloat long enough to allow everyone to disembark in cohorts on life boats to rescue boats and send the lifeboats back for the rest- it was never intended to fit everyone on lifeboats all at once.

    It was that a mix of how telephone operators made more money off personal telegrams than ice warnings, and didnt relay the messages, and how nearby possible rescue ships had gone to bed and turned off their radios meant this process didn’t get executed, and how because the iceberg hit the ship, essentially creating a large gash the entire length of the ship, causing the flotation bulwarks to be breached, which is a very rare occurrence, caused so much death.

    In Tesla’s case, that much aforethought hasn’t been taken.

    • TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml
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      13 days ago

      People weren’t meant to stay in the life boats? That’s a new one on me, I’d read that they had space more life boats but utilise it, instead going with the legal minimum.

      Yes, I know I’m derailing the topic at hand, but I’m interested.