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Originally Posted by opendoor
Yeah, that's true. I know drilling carbon fibre can be tough by hand, but I guess with enough persistence it might be possible. Still though, who knows how stable that thing is on the surface after it has released its ballast. You might just end up causing it to sink again. And really, a functioning beacon would make that all mostly redundant. Once that thing is on the surface, it'd be pretty trivial to find it with that well before the oxygen ran out.
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I think I read that the capsule has a layer of titanium as well. Which also you could drill through with the right drill bits and powerful enough drill, but it wouldn't be easy. Still better than nothing though I suppose.