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Couldn’t have said it better myself. I was hoping they were dead since I first heard about it. I mean it sucks as human lives were lost (and the teenager, poor kid just wanted to spend time with his dad), but I couldn’t give a single fuck about the loss of a billionaire and a reckless “innovator” who openly flaunted his disregard for safety regulations.
This dufus decided on probably the worst composite material to use for a compressive load. Carbon fiber is very strong under high tensile load, it’s used all the time for pressure vessels where the pressure is inside the vessel. Compressive loads, not nearly as much (as little as 10% the tensile strength of the same material). See https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/materials-science/carbon-fiber-properties
