Comment on A matter of patience

• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The implosion incident with Super-Kamiokande happened in 2001

  “HOLY FUCK, an IMplosion?!”

  One of these tubes – each of which contains a vacuum – is thought to have imploded as the detector was being refilled with water following maintenance work.

  I guess “vacuum tube crushed by water” needed a bit of punching up.

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It was a giant cascade of implosions. More than half of the tubes (7000+ tubes) imploded in a cascade. One popped which caused a shockwave which in turn imploded its neighbors which popped and set off their neighbors…

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    • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oof that sounds expensive…

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      • teft@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Something like $30 million to replace them all. They put some plastic covers over the new ones to try and prevent it from happening again.

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well yes, one imploded, but the shock wave created by that first implosion then shattered 6600 of them.

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  did they see any since then?

  /j

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