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turns out the company used to have a guy who safety tested the deathtube but when he said it wasn't safe they just fired him then sued him when he told people it wasn't safe https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/oceangate-company-behind-missing-titanic-tourist-sub-once-subject-lawsuit-safety-complaints quote:"Rather than address [Lochridge’s] concerns or undergo corrective action to rectify and ensure the safety of the experimental Titan, or utilize a standard classification agency to inspect the Titan, OceanGate did the exact opposite – they immediately fired Lochridge," the counterclaim states. "OceanGate gave Lochridge approximately 10 minutes to clear out his desk and exit the premises."
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An audible, concerning crack forces silence over all occupants of the tube. A billionaire casts a glance around the space, perceiving a light come on, just a millisecond before he never perceives anything again.
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Those five dudes are dead right now. That submarine had worse build quality than experimental subs from the nineteenth century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puEXCyqkEKA
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I guess not all billionaires get a bail out.
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a lot of people like to say 'eat the rich' but only crabs have had the guts to follow through
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This is unfortunate and terribly sad, if only they had the ability to do a couple more journeys, maybe construct a few more of these, and then there could have been dozens of millionaires and billionaires who got instakilled instead of just a handful.
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They called it the Titan more like the Tighten.
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:This is unfortunate and terribly sad, if only they had the ability to do a couple more journeys, maybe construct a few more of these, and then there could have been dozens of millionaires and billionaires who got instakilled instead of just a handful. https://www.theonion.com/coast-guar..._source=twitter
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Bad Purchase posted:it did have INS, so the operator on board would've had some idea where / how deep they were, but it lost comms with the surface. this was apparently expected and happened on a previous dive, but in that case contact was regained when they began to surface at the end of the dive. Fun fact, INS is fine for open ocean nav but most navies don't rely on it for dived navigation once you get closer to shore. Current Ring Laser Gyro / Fiber Optic units are orders of magnitude better than the older mechanical ones but they still drift too much to rely on as a sole positional source. Different countries call it different things, but most dived navigation is done with an expanding oval, based around your last gps fix, and your dead reckoned position and speed. The calculation of which is based on a number of factors including your speed and time underwater between gps fixes. The sub is considered to be anywhere within that expanding oval, not necessarily where the INSs are saying you are. INS doesn't tell you how deep you are, you've got a pressure/depth sensor for that.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_Harding drat. This guy had already been to the bottom of the Marianas Trench in an actual no-poo poo properly designed submersible*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSV_Limiting_Factor He had personal, previous experience of what those sort of depths actually required! And he still got in the obvious death-trap. *Spherical Titanium pressure hull, of course.
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Three Olives posted:I think one of the most interesting military secrets that we know that exists but have no loving clue about it besides that it is certainly a capability that we have. quote:In 2004, the Navy shut down both transmitters, with the explanation that very low frequency (VLF) communication systems had improved to the point that the ELF system was unnecessary. Also like the main reason for having ELF communications with subs was to stay in contact with SSBN subs that stay deep submerged for months at a time during the cold war. These days the likelihood of needing to order a revenge strike against a surprise massive first strike attack is seen as low.
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ComfyPants posted:Billionaires learn one weird trick for getting a camel to pass through the eye of a needle loving lol
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:I guess not all billionaires get a bail out.
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Klyith posted:Also like the main reason for having ELF communications with subs was to stay in contact with SSBN subs that stay deep submerged for months at a time during the cold war. These days the likelihood of needing to order a revenge strike against a surprise massive first strike attack is seen as low. Yeah, I've also read that it is extremely unlikely that VLF has improved to similar capabilities because it is a physics limit and not a technological limit. source posted:Nukewatch said the Navy's closure announcement, while welcome, raises more questions than it answers. The Navy said " improved technologies" and "changing requirements of today's Navy" made ELF obsolete. However, "very-low-frequency (ELF) alternatives to ELF have been around for 30 years and the 'changing requirements' refer to the end of the cold war that happened 14 years ago," LaForge said. Three Olives fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Jun 20, 2023 |
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Deptfordx posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_Harding Yet another billionaire nerd who names their expensive toys after Iain M Banks scifi spaceships, ignoring that Banks was a socialist and the greedy rich motherfuckers in the books are villains.
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actual scientists watching the news:
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Commander Jebus posted:INS doesn't tell you how deep you are, you've got a pressure/depth sensor for that. you sure INS doesn't tell you depth? do they make special ones for ocean use that aren't 3-axis? i'm a bit familiar with their use in aviation (not super versed, i've worked on software that collects that data stream from a GPS/IMU, but don't really know all the math that goes into combining them into a final result), but i know it worked in all 3 axes. or do you just mean they would ignore the INS depth reading in oceanic use and rely on pressure instead? i could see how converting pressure to depth would be more accurate in the long run, since the IMU accumulates error from the moment you start using it. while whatever error there is in pressure to depth conversion would stay about the same the whole time. Bad Purchase fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Jun 20, 2023 |
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ComfyPants posted:Billionaires learn one weird trick for getting a camel to pass through the eye of a needle astonishing
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going to start a $125k submarine tour but just tell them that we’re diving and it’s just like star tours
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ComfyPants posted:Billionaires learn one weird trick for getting a camel to pass through the eye of a needle Lmfao
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Doesn't the military have the ocean floor pretty extensively mapped at this point? There are obvious reasons to avoid active sonar, but I feel like they probably have something like TERCOM via sonar if they really needed to.
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ComfyPants posted:Billionaires learn one weird trick for getting a camel to pass through the eye of a needle they can't keep getting away with it!!!!!
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Shishkahuben posted:The downside here is that if you survive you get a boner every time your ears pop Oooof
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Three Olives posted:Doesn't the military have the ocean floor pretty extensively mapped at this point? There are obvious reasons to avoid active sonar, but I feel like they probably have something like TERCOM via sonar if they really needed to. They probably don't really need to
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Pretty disappointed that news sites don't all have a big live timer ticking down until the air runs out tbh Playing the sonic water level music over it
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Just got back from tossing five or six car batteries in the ocean, hope one reaches our suffering friends 
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Three Olives posted:Doesn't the military have the ocean floor pretty extensively mapped at this point? There are obvious reasons to avoid active sonar, but I feel like they probably have something like TERCOM via sonar if they really needed to. you can get a job doing this and be referred to as a sounding professional
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Bad Purchase posted:you can get a job doing this and be referred to as a sounding professional I prefer the term Sounding Technician.
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Your majesty, they got assploded
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Three Olives posted:Doesn't the military have the ocean floor pretty extensively mapped at this point? There are obvious reasons to avoid active sonar, but I feel like they probably have something like TERCOM via sonar if they really needed to. Up until pretty recently only something like 5% of Earth's seafloor had been mapped. In 2017 an international project called Seabed 2030 launched with the goal of, shockingly, mapping the full sea floor by 2030. Most of their data apparently already existed and they just sourced it from governments/research labs/etc, anyway now we're closer to something like 20-25% mapped, which is a huge stride in just six years but still nowhere close to having the entire ocean floor mapped out. That said I have to imagine the area around the Titanic wreck is fairly extensively mapped given how much of a point of interest it is.
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My word, the designers of the sub are absolutely full on morons. https://youtu.be/4dka29FSZac is a pro-click. In addition to not having a window certified to that depth, and using carbon fiber instead of actual pressure vessel material, they...
These dudes are all dead. The loving thing exploded.
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Henry Lee Mucus posted:Your majesty, they got assploded all the kings horses and all the kings men couldnt put hamish harding back together again Raskolnikov38 fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Jun 20, 2023 |
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the question about mapping the sea floor just comes down to what resolution you mean. there are obviously coarse maps of the whole thing.
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kalleth posted:
Better hope they exploded because if not the inside of that thing is a loving rear end swamp by now.
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ComfyPants posted:Billionaires learn one weird trick for getting a camel to pass through the eye of a needle you are the funniest person alive, I love you
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Three Olives posted:Doesn't the military have the ocean floor pretty extensively mapped at this point? There are obvious reasons to avoid active sonar, but I feel like they probably have something like TERCOM via sonar if they really needed to. A US sub ran into an undersea mountain in 2021. So, maybe not?
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I was really freaking out thinking this was horrible and worrying about the people onboard then I saw that it costs 250,000 dollars for a trip and that everyone on board is executive of something or other basically and now my empathy kind of is flagging.
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