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Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris by gnarlouse on Sunday October 19, 2025 @04:17PM (#45637566)
Maybe the outermost layers just transferred the energy to the innermost, which exploded tiny shards of glass? In general though, I agree, weird.
Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris by Jalad on Sunday October 19, 2025 @04:47PM (#45637813)
And in tank warfare this is called spalling

A projectile hits the armor and doesn't penetrate it, but the armor inside still fragments and injured the operators

Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris by Aloisius on Sunday October 19, 2025 @05:49PM (#45638353)
There a picture of glass spall in the cockpit and it's not unusual for ballistics glass to spall when hit by a projectile.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatLookedExpensive/comments/1oalnx...

Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris by hinkley on Sunday October 19, 2025 @07:01PM (#45638812)
> Spalling

This was also adopted by The Expanse, where the interiors of ships (particularly war ships) are coated in antispalling coatings.

Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris by flashman on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:07PM (#45639105)
didn't help Shed Garvey lol
Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris by hinkley on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:45PM (#45639278)
My read is that it works mostly for battle shrapnel and space mining accidents and does nothing for kinetic weapons, hit or miss for micrometeoroids.
Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris by kataklasm on Monday October 20, 2025 @08:42AM (#45643247)
Shed was killed by a railgun round. These are kinetic projectiles, spall lining doesn't do anything against those.
Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris by hinkley on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:46PM (#45647592)
If it somehow could then aiming for the reactor would spin the ship so hard you’d pulp some of the crew.
Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris by lotrjohn on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:26PM (#45639185)
Hey bossman thanks for pointing this out. Will have to look for it next time I watch. Yam seng.
Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris by hinkley on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:42PM (#45639264)
It’s mentioned in the books, kopeng. I think it comes up in some of the repair scenes, but there’s such a jargon dump in many of them that it might slip by. Naomi is caressing some of it at one point, like she’s petting a cat. Which is not far off from how she sees the Roci.
Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris by usefulcat on Monday October 20, 2025 @01:05AM (#45640300)
*bosmang. I'm not sure it's mentioned in the show, but it is in the books.
Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris by hinkley on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:44PM (#45647564)
I can think of two in the show, but one is right before Holden needs to tell Nagata something important, and the other is in the middle of a brain dump at Tycho station when the Roci is being diagnosed for repairs.

Might have been a mention on the Agatha King.

Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris by hinkley on Sunday October 19, 2025 @07:03PM (#45638820)
That would be two layers though.

But the coloration in the window sure suggests spalling. I’m surprised the tempered glass did that much damage. That takes a lot of velocity. Which is probably why they aren’t thinking bird.