Stanton: 'all I see is a tube'

From:: Richard Stanton
Date:: July 7, 2018 (approximate within July 6-8, 2018; thread mixes Pacific and Thailand timestamps)
To:: Elon Musk

With respect all I see is a tube, albeit made of fancy materials. We're ferrying in food in such a thing. The devil is in the detail. Breathing systems, off board gas venting systems, ballast trimming arrangements etc adding additional gas via Quick Release SCUBA compatible fittings. Why not have a long high pressure cylinder between the legs? Or a stepped tube with wider body and thinner leg section.

About this email

Stanton tells Musk the capsule design lacks detail on breathing, gas venting and ballast systems and suggests alternative layouts.

Notes

Musk Decl. Ex. C (email chain with British cave diver Richard Stanton, July 6-8, 2018). The exhibit prints the chain newest-first with timestamps from two mail clients (Pacific time and Thailand time), so the exact send time of individual messages is uncertain; the date is a best reading. Transcribed from a scanned exhibit; minor OCR variance possible. Musk posted screenshots of part of this chain on Twitter on July 10, 2018.

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Court record; attribution confirmed.

SpaceX, outside & personal. Tags: thai-cave-rescue, mini-sub, richard-stanton, unsworth-case

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