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SyNack Sassimov posted:Especially when the company linked on the last few pages, Triton Subs, makes a SPECIFIC MODEL for diving to the Titanic called the, get this, the Titanic Explorer, and it has a loving fully-acrylic shell for viewing. And presumably (given that they're used by all the professional filmmakers for documentaries), they meet various safety standards and have more actual data on the performance of their vehicle than these OceanGate jokers. Triton also claims they have a bunch of redundant systems for surfacing etc. only seats 2 which means when you get to the titanic you can gently caress
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hazardousmouse posted:only seats 2 which means when you get to the titanic you can gently caress quote:NTSB Identification: MIA92FA051 .
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'wow it's great to finally join the mile high club... i mean the 3000 feet.... no 2000 feet club... hmm'
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gee honey the only thing going down more than you right now is this plane!
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Lovin', no elevator Livin' it up when we're goin' down Lovin' no elevator Pullin' it up but we hit the ground
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Sagebrush posted:In order to pump to the outside of the submarine at the Titanic's depth, the toilet would have to pressurize the waste to over 6,000 PSI. My air gun pumps to 3000 psi, they easily go up to 6000 in little hand pumps. https://www.amazon.com/Ejoyous-0-60...ps%2C313&sr=8-1 Actually maybe this is what happened one of them was trying to flush and decided 5000 psi was good enough.
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The Bananana posted:Lovin', no elevator
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On the subject of gruesome underwater death, the old-style diving suits could be potential death-traps. The ones with a big brass helmet and a canvas suit. They had to be pressurised by a pump on the boat. This meant that if the diver was deep enough and the pump failed, the suit would depressurise and the diver's body would be crushed like a tube of toothpaste and at least partially forced upwards into the helmet. Mythbusters tried it out using a pig carcass.  Blood and gore warning:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEY3fN4N3D8
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Mr. Crow posted:Actually maybe this is what happened one of them was trying to flush and decided 5000 psi was good enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-1206
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Mozi posted:'wow it's great to finally join the mile high club... i mean the 3000 feet.... no 2000 feet club... hmm'
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:At-depth buoyancy has been solved for a while, syntactic foams basically have no buoyancy loss curve vs. depth, are pretty cheap, and are wildly customizable. You can make almost anything perfectly neutrally buoyant without trying super hard. In the 1960s the Trieste (first sub to go to the bottom of the Marianas Trench) used a shitload of gasoline for buoyancy because it’s less dense than water and pretty incompressible.
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Jesus Christ this is the Something Awful forums. The traditional response is that they could not have used an Xbox Controller because it is TOO HUGE and would have made the vessel too heavy to surface. RDM posted:They'd be alive if they had a turbo controller that could autofire Y (the surface button) That’s more like it.
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The Xbox controller became encrusted with seamen.
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Serjeant Snubbin posted:Jesus Christ this is the Something Awful forums. We have failed our forebears
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hazardousmouse posted:only seats 2 which means when you get to the titanic you can gently caress It's the implication.
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drat, Gordon Lightfoot just died a few weeks ago. Who's going to write the ballad of the brave sub captain who took one for the human race?
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My main issue with the controller is that they used the Bluetooth version of that controller and i wouldn't trust my life to Bluetooth.
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How else are you going to get your passengers who have literally no submersible piloting experience to drive the sub?
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Buttchocks posted:drat, Gordon Lightfoot just died a few weeks ago. Who's going to write the ballad of the brave sub captain who took one for the human race? It's already been written: https://open.spotify.com/track/2stkLJ0JNcXkIRDNF3ld6c?si=Q_m_Rxo9SzqTX8fOiFeSvw
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Preliminary reports state that someone forgot to shut off the blue tooth thing on their phone. Then they got a call and their Ringtone was Two Way Freak by Three 6 Mafia. Well, since the controller was from 2005 and the ringtone was something that the one guy downloaded 18 years ago for 3.50$ + tax, it was completely compatible with the controller, but it meant that the sub started going in the wrong direction and before they could figure out what the problem was, the remote control batteries died and the sub landed just inside the remains of the boiler room. This wouldn't necessarily a problem, as they have some spare batteries, but nobody has a tiny phillips head screw driver to open up the controller to change them. I read some engineering poo poo one time, so I'm pretty qualified to comment on this.
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No one has mentioned this fantastic seating arrangement yet? Here come sit on this bench and we will go see the titanic.
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https://newrepublic.com/post/173802/missing-titanic-sub-faced-lawsuit-depths-safely-travel-oceangatequote:The concerns Lochridge voiced came to light as part of a breach of contract case related to Lochridge refusing to greenlight manned tests of the early models of the submersible over safety concerns. Lochridge was fired, and then OceanGate sued him for disclosing confidential information about the Titan submersible. In response, Lochridge filed a compulsory counterclaim where he alleged wrongful termination over being a whistleblower about the quality and safety of the submersible. quote:At the meeting Lochridge discovered why he had been denied access to the viewport information from the Engineering department—the viewport at the forward of the submersible was only built to a certified pressure of 1,300 meters, although OceanGate intended to take passengers down to depths of 4,000 meters. Lochridge learned that the viewport manufacturer would only certify to a depth of 1,300 meters due to experimental design of the viewport supplied by OceanGate, which was out of the Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy (“PVHO”) standards. OceanGate refused to pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport that would meet the required depth of 4,000 meters. Oh.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:
Hmm.. What part of the sub is that?
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Kafouille posted:You can make pressure vessels just fine out of carbon fiber, high performance tanks often are CF now. But that only works if the inside of the cylinder is the high pressure bit, carbon fiber doesn't do poo poo in compression so using it for a sub is stupid as hell. I don't really work with carbon fiber and I was sitting here going "...but carbon fiber's poo poo in compression. right? is my brain not working again?" Nope, I remembered correctly. thanks. They made a loving cylindrical pressure vessel out of carbon fiber gently caress
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Skippy McPants posted:https://newrepublic.com/post/173802/missing-titanic-sub-faced-lawsuit-depths-safely-travel-oceangate Many thanks
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Csixtyfour posted:No one has mentioned this fantastic seating arrangement yet? Here come sit on this bench and we will go see the titanic. Oh you sweet summer child. These are disruptors! They don't concern themselves with such ancient technology as seating. The sub had a flat padded floor and everyone including the pilot sat cross legged on it like it was kindergarten again. Also they charged $250K for this.
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Log082 posted:I don't really work with carbon fiber and I was sitting here going "...but carbon fiber's poo poo in compression. right? is my brain not working again?" carbon fiber married to a titanium dome
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I found this picture of a test dive before they limited capacity to 5 and switched to the Logitech
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Glory to Italia!
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mustard_tiger posted:Oh you sweet summer child. These are disruptors! They don't concern themselves with such ancient technology as seating. The sub had a flat padded floor and everyone including the pilot sat cross legged on it like it was kindergarten again. Also they charged $250K for this. I mean, most small research subs barely have seating. Most have a cushioned floor, and maybe a tiny square of cushion on a wall you can lean against. Some sub are rated for 3 people, and the third person has to slav-squat for the entire trip. Their sub sucks poo poo, clearly, but lack of seating means nothing.
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George H.W. oval office posted:I want in on this *sigh* Alright. Start running and I'll get the truck.
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I found this simulation created at great expense of the final moments of the missing sub. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjyZdqg1sEo
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 is that Hunter S Thompson driving at the :10 second mark? Also that must go wrong a lot. Roping is a pain in the rear end but its a lot better for the animals than this Mad Max poo poo
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They clearly saw Jurassic Park The Lost World and stole the dino capturing tech.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf30qQzw7rk https://twitter.com/hausofdecline/status/1671288248327438337?t=_QCbDbBGshgqtZLZiy9IBg&s=19
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