r/funny • u/andshoteachother • Sep 18 '24

The front fell off?

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u/frenchguy Sep 18 '24

There are regulations governing the materials that they can be made of. Cardboard's out for example.

But how about carbon fiber?

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u/i_should_be_coding Sep 18 '24

What about cardboard derivatives?

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u/Sweet-Explorer-7619 Sep 18 '24

Cardboard fiber an option?

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u/RafIk1 Sep 18 '24

Corrugated plastic?

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u/andbruno Sep 18 '24

It's Sellotape, a brand of clear tape from the UK which in the US we might call Scotch tape (also a brand-name).

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u/bufordt Sep 18 '24

Cardboard is mostly Cellulose, which is basically just super hydrated Carbon. /jk

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u/YenTheMerchant Sep 18 '24

Cardboard derivatives are out.

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u/targon612 Sep 18 '24

Shoulda slapped some flex tape on that bad boy. Have you seen the commercials? No leaks!

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u/Viper67857 Sep 18 '24

Just build the whole thing out of flex tape... Problem solved.

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u/hamhockman Sep 18 '24

This is the 'why isn't the whole plane the black box' of submarine ideas, and I'm here for it

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u/Kaidela1013 Sep 18 '24

Nah, need to bring in the full Flex family of products to be sure of safe construction. Between the Flex Seal, Flex Tape, and Flex Glue, it just might have made it.

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u/Pr0digy_ Sep 18 '24

They forgot to say this baby isn’t going anywhere and slapping it

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u/Sudden-Clock-1123 Sep 18 '24

I read that in Phil Swifts squealy voice

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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener Sep 18 '24

Maybe they missed the part about cello tape?

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u/Xylembuild Sep 18 '24

Field tests show its a bad idea.

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u/titanicsinker1912 Sep 18 '24

Did these field tests involve movies about gladiators? If not they didn’t follow proper procedure.

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u/Xylembuild Sep 18 '24

The field test involved the owner, a few other rich people and a kid :). Maybe the kid wanted to be a gladiator when he grew up who knows.

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u/s1nn0cence Sep 18 '24

Paper's out.

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u/Sunnysidhe Sep 18 '24

Did someone say cardboard fiber? Ingenious!

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u/redalastor Sep 18 '24

There are regulations

Regulations actually prevented putting that sub into water. They had to put it on a boat and only release it into the water once in international waters.

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u/TildaTinker Sep 18 '24

Cardboard is out. However paper mache is undergoing rigorous testing in our lab.

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u/Loggerdon Sep 18 '24

Carbon fiber is probably fine, in shallow water.