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Comment Re:It was protected (Score 1) 67

Some of the NAND chips were ripped off and were not found. The ones that weren't ripped off were shattered - cracks in multiple directions. The dies inside were almost certainly exposed to sea water.

Exposed to sea water, the cells probably lost all charge very rapidly.

I had been hoping that someone would have made the attempt anyway. I'd have liked to read that report.

Comment Re:Wandering off topic a bit ... (Score 1) 67

An artillery shell is subjected to one acceleration along a single axis of propulsion. It is a big acceleration, but not that big, and you mostly just need to organize the parts such that everything is supported along that axis.

Dealing with an implosion is different. Water with the density of concrete, moving around the speed of sound, bouncing everywhere and coming from all directions.

The SSDs look like someone put them in a pillowcase and beat them with hammers.

Comment It was protected (Score 5, Informative) 67

The SD card was inside of a camera rated for the depth it was at. The camera looks like a thermos with inch-thick walls. The camera housing was dinged up by being adjacent to the sub's implosion, but did not implode itself. The energy of the nearby implosion ripped components off of the camera's PCB, but didn't harm the SD card. This makes sense, because the SD card is light and compact.

The sub's computer bay was a much different story. It was filled with air and when it imploded, everything inside was charred and crushed into a lump that mangled every PCB and cracked every chip with more than a few pins. They specifically looked at the PCBs of the SSDs, hoping to find some data, but those PCBs looked like crumpled up paper. I think the report called it, eloquently, "distorted on all axes"

A diesel engine runs at 14:1 up to 25:1 compression, and the heat of this compression is literally what ignites the fuel. The computer bay implosion was more like 400:1, which superheated all surfaces, but only for a few microseconds.

Comment Re:Efficient (Score 2) 49

Plastic packaging disposal is super easy for me.

My area has a waste to energy facility (an incinerator) that burns all of our trash. Our recycling goes through a single-sort facility, then all paper and plastic from that stream gets burned in the incinerator too.

At this point, I think of my plastic waste as natural gas that had been borrowed temporarily from the local power plant.

Comment Re:Unless Trump dies he's going to run for a 3rd t (Score 1, Flamebait) 248

We have Rock solid evidence that approximately 7 million Americans got denied the right to vote using common voter suppression tactics last election.

I LOLd. What you have is rock solid evidence of 7 million fraudulent votes in 2020 when all 50 state election systems were in chaos.

Comment Re:For now (Score 5, Insightful) 119

People are slowly waking up to the truth that this was never about labor costs. The Chinese government deliberately built up their industrial capacity because production becomes power over time. They used every trick in the book to become attractive to manufacturing. For a while, cheap labor was one of the tools they had, but Chinese labor hasn't been cheap for a long time now. Sometimes now it is even more expensive than American labor, but we still can't compete because we've lost those skills, that knowledge, those networks.

WW2 was over before it started because America had the industrial capacity to outbuild the rest of the world combined, in every category. WW3 will go exactly the same way for exactly the same reasons, but it this time it won't be America.

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