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A matter of patience (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by Zuriz@sh.itjust.works to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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 7 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

It was a giant cascade of implosions. More than half of the tubes (7000+ tubes) imploded. 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 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Oof that sounds expensive...

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[–] teft@piefed.social 2 points 9 months 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 3 points 9 months ago

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

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