2682

I mean The Shape of Water is a film where a dude gets shot in the cheek and then another dude reaches into the hole and drags him around by it. An aquarium explosion fits right in.

2683

If you know a bit of German, you can listen to this architect explain that, at worst, you perhaps could puncture the dome a bit with a gun and some water would leak, but you “could not make it burst” and “such kind of Hollywood scenarios or worst-case scenarios could not happen here.”

2684

That’s what I’ve been wondering about, I have to think there’s no way this is made from anything considered “glass” that would be susceptible to a running failure like a fracture line. But then, massive pressures, massive weight might make advanced polycarbs or whatever behave the same way at the far end of the scale. I can’t come up with a way to cause it to dramatically fail that wouldn’t require lengthy sabotage along a bunch of different axes.

2685

I cannot recall anything like this happening, ever.

2686

Yeah, but it’s also (as far as I have read) the pinnacle example of what you can do with a transparent aquarium to date, so usual rules don’t apply. Like the old Calvin and Hobbes cartoon, you just keep driving heavier trucks over it until it fails, then you build it again. Not a great moment in materials science, specifically from the science angle.

2687

They should have used transparent aluminum. Or did they? I believe that it actually exists now.

2688

Heh, it did then too, but I don’t think it’s actually transparent. Or maybe it is, but I don’t think for uses at inches of thickness and millions of pounds of pressure.

2689

Seems like a nice big diamond would do the trick.

2690

Oh honey, it would for me. Call me.

2691

RichVR is the damselfish I’ve been angling for.

2692

Your bait is lacking. Call me.

2693

I’m your stomach sucker bae.

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2694

According to the wiki page for the AquaDom (AquaDom - Wikipedia) other plexiglass-type large aquariums have failed before: " Failures of large acrylic aquariums have happened at several places before including the T-Rex CafĂ© at Disney Springs in Orlando and the world’s largest aquarium at the Dubai Mall."

2695

@Alistair this could be us, but you playing.

2696

Who loves ya girl?

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2697

Get a tank, youse.

2698

Well
 you do look cute in that pic. But that’s not me. You catfishing now?

2699

Baby, I’m just giving you the abyssal missal that Alistair gonna try to dismissal. I send you a no-light appetite for what’s right and you gonna tell me a’ight?

2700

Okay. +1. Thumbs up. :)

2701

And that’s how little fish get made.