[HN Gopher] NASA Built a Tiny Tank to Pop Shuttle Tires
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       NASA Built a Tiny Tank to Pop Shuttle Tires
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2023-11-17 17:01 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | vGPU wrote:
       | If we're talking 2.5 sticks of TNT, wouldn't drilling into the
       | tire... release that energy? Explosively? Drilling a hole isn't
       | exactly a controlled deflation.
        
         | pavel_lishin wrote:
         | Maybe this was for a scenario where a controlled deflation was
         | off the table, and they just needed a way to release the
         | pressure without killing an engineer.
        
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