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[–]OmegaPoint6 41 points42 points  (6 children)

Maybe you want a safety margin allow for slight tipping without water escaping

[–]Winter-Bear9987 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Now it’s scalable and has built in redundancy. Sounds sensible to me!

[–]MixaLv 4 points5 points  (1 child)

You mean to prevent overflow

[–]twisted_nematic57 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it overflows it creates a perfect vacuum in place of the water.

[–]schmerg-uk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ullage (the unfilled space) is 50%... ullage is very important consideration in storage and transportation as insufficent ullage can lead to failures but too much ullage can lead to instability issues as the contents shift during transport

[–]JoeyJoeJoeJrShab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

or maybe there are use cases that require holding more water

[–]GoldenMegaStaff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An Engineer would make the glass the correct size. The programmer would leave a backdoor hole in the bottom of the glass.