Spain's New S-80 Class Submarines Sink, But Won't Float

New submitter home-electro.com writes "In the era of total CAD and CAM, is it even possible to come up with a fundamentally flawed design ? Turns out, yes. This a fascinating engineering SNAFU. Spain's newly built submarine is 100 tons too heavy, which means it is unable to float. 'Unfortunately for the Spainards, Quartz reports that they have already sunk the equivalent of $680 million into the Isaac Peral, and a total of $3 billion into the entire quartet of S-80 class submarines. If Spain hopes to salvage its submarines, it must either find some weight that can be trimmed from the current design or lengthen the ship to accommodate the excess weight, The Local notes. Though the latter option is more feasible, it is expected to cost Spain an extra $9.7 million per meter.'"

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Re:at least they're trying...

[ChrisMaple]

These PEOPLE (not animals or machines or figments of our imagination, mind you), are already living hand-to-mouth, because unions are dead and businesses pay less than is needed to survive. These human beings rely on medicaid and food stamps and welfare and the like to survive. You want to take that away, AND add a sales tax to everything they need to buy? They'll die.
Or actually, they won't. People don't lay down and die willingly. They'll kill you, take your food, and live. And they'll be entirely justified in doing so.

Let's see. You consider it moral that people who are already leeching off me, then kill me, just because I stop them from stealing from me. Compared to you, Jack the Ripper was an honorable man.

And if you think unions help anyone but the union leaders, you're living in cloud-cuckoo-land.