Lion ponderings

 https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-chinas-legislature-approves-raising-the-retirement-age-now-among-world-lowest-for-major-economies In another sucker punch, Chinese men woke up to find they would no longer be retiring at 60 but now 63.   Chinese women discovered they would no longer retire at 55 but 58.  A story of things to come, as regards social security.  Lions still don't believe they'll be working after 60 & would be damn lucky to still be making money at 58.  Interestingly, life expectancy is only reported from the Mao famine onward, which gives a false impression of rapidly rising longevity being the cause of the shrinking retirement fund.  More realistically, the gubment is running out of someone else's money.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Another weekday crusher run, in search of the latest failed infrastructure project.  Lions have r...

      Our 1st view of the innards of the titan came from the auto recommended interview.  The most intriguing bit for lions was the fact that they heard carbon fiber strands breaking during pressure testing.  Then the breaks stopped & they called it good to go.  This is a common theme.  Aracebo had a similar breakage of strands ongoing, but they lived with it.  Aracebo had an advantage in a failure being more progressive than a submarine.    When lions envision the stress on a cylinder that could cause strand breakage, it's compression of the top & bottom halves & expansion of the sides.  The inner strands on the top & bottom would break & the outer strands on the sides would break.    A lot of gootubers for clicks have blamed failure of the window, but since the carbon fiber was never recovered it obviously was the part that failed.    Another interesting bit was how the titanium end pie...

  Most striking for lions was how the foam ballast was haphazardly stuffed in with no shaping to save space.  Maybe that's how it's always done.  Obviously, the carbon fiber is no more.  The batteries must have been the orange cases.  Everything is randomly thrown together. Some blurry transcoding of transcoded CBC footage shows other bits.  The front window area was intact.  The front window was obviously blasted out when the carbon fiber imploded.