Not finding the CF cylinder really does seem like the most telling part here. Given they've found the front, the back, and the bottom, you'd think the single largest component would be laying around in the same area. Unless ..
So looking at the instragram post it looks like steel plates just screwed together. The screw holes are visible too so definitely a hollow shell. Makes it a lot less cool to me :(
That isn't the one piece of metal left, there are literally other photos of parts in the collection. That is just one piece of metal that they happened to post a photograph of.
Seems like a strange headline... the teardown apparently didn't "reveal" anything unexpected at all.
"Lack of opsec" is still all fine and good as a comment about this story, but this article is implying (really, more than implying) that they actually found something hidden in the fan.
I’m surprised they didn’t have this thing imaged and further forensics done on it. Certainly numerous device logs show other useful information. Maybe they did, and I missed it though, or it was intended as a read only device in the field.
Enough that they didn't pay to have the metal layers "peeled off" one by one (or just all of them as Arubis suggests) so that we could start to guess what it really is....
I would say they did solve the mystery, there probably was no booklet, especially since internally there is metal rebar. bubbles could be from anything. 26 pages would have left a noticeable void.
I read it as though they might have miscalculated which tools they would need to open it, and now that it’s partly opened inside the “anti-atmosphere box” they can’t easily add additional tools.
One of the critics said that the pressure vessel is subject to fatigue and is not inspectable, so even testing the final article is not going to help. They are not facing small engineering issues, and didn’t seem well equipped to tacle hard stuff (I would venture, by lack of money).
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