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		UncleEntity 23 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A giant ball will help this man survive a year on ... I'm pretty sure the issue was with 'move fast and break things' and not using carbon fiber. I think it was on the youtubes I was watching a story about how they built that thing and it was <spoiler alert> not really fit for purpose. I mean, no big surprise in hindsight.

jjmarr 23 days ago [–]

Carbon fibre has poor compressive strength and good tensile strength.

That makes it inherently bad at holding pressure from outside in a submarine and good at holding pressure inside a spaceship or airplane.

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