Insect cyborgs and Titanic blamed in Q and A era piece
The piece notes UC Berkeley engineers building a remote controlled beetle cyborg for reconnaissance, DARPA funding insect-augmented flight, and speculation on future insect driven missions. It also asks whether human hubris or design flaws sank the Titanic, citing Adam Werner’s book on Hollywood physics.
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Strange rue Grand ship fails despite watertight design flaw
The Titanic type vessel boasted 16 buoyant compartments but flooding occurred after six sections flooded near the bow. Bulkheads rose only 10 feet, allowing water to spill over and doom the ship in 1912.
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