Showers in the office? No.

God I love corporate America.

Two reasons.

Oooh, interesting. If you ever find out what the grating is made out of I'm very curious.

Your wording is more precise, but mine is still grammatically correct. There are now even fewer anonymous critics, and he is no longer one of them. ;)

Oh, you're right, my bad. Thank god we don't live in the future.

"I called Ryan, who professionally eats delicious and expensive food for rich people as one of New York City's last anonymous restaurant critics for Bloomberg and the price hike."

Interesting. Definite possibility, though the Cathodic protection being scrapped entirely makes me think there was still a severe, underlying design flaw that couldn't be addressed in time.

No, the galvanic circuit isn't complete so you wouldn't see this kind of corrosion. Thermal expansion between dissimilar metals seems like a decent possibility.

I don't know, they could be a valuable asset down the line when they have to name future versions. Who else will know several desert options starting with J, Q, etc?

Interesting, are these support beams we're talking about? You've piqued my curiosity. The first thing that jumps to mind is thermal expansion joints on load bearing members, but I honestly don't know what this is (but I want to!)

You've clearly never looked at a warship up close. They essentially let them go to rust while deployed. Someone else posted a decent explanation as to why this is in another thread in the comments of this article.

Yes, it should have been solved at the design level. I'm not saying that what happened is a completely unsolvable problem or that it should have happened. I'm trying to explain how this could have happened.

Sacrificial anodes are a form of cathodic protection. I think you're talking about Impressed Current Cathodic Protection which is kind of a problem for a sophisticated warship with sensitive instruments.

If you use zinc, yes. This is why the navy doesn't use zinc anodes for warships that are deployed for long periods of time. They typically use aluminum instead, but you can't use aluminum anodes on an aluminum hull.

You try sticking a soft HCP metal like zinc in an impellar housing and let me know how it goes. Also, see how long it lasts.

Zinc still gets used, but its impractical for long-term deployment which navy ships need to be capable of. Unlike beryllium the carbonate formation is fairly slow, but still not slow enough.

Galvanic corrosion occurs any time you can form a circuit between two dissimilar metals. Just like when you stuck an iron nail and a piece of copper in a lemon in science class, you'll get current flow and galvanic corrosion on the metal that serves as the anode. The current involved is ordinarily CREATED by the…

Article got it wrong. It was a cellphone ringing, not a lighter.

That... that's not how galvanic corrosion works. Please read my summary on the problem (long, separate post). ;)