Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Made Titanic. And Avatar
Titanic tourist sub missing
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Death to the artists!
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
this might be a good point to plug this excellent book about structures...
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
I actually lol'd at that, in fact snorted with laughter.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
ok got it wrong Cameron went to the bottom on the miriana trench with deep challager
and use a Soviet era sub to visit titanic
en.wikipedia.org
and use a Soviet era sub to visit titanic
Mir (submersible) - Wikipedia
T & P
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That’s interesting. I’ve just looked up the sub Cameron went down in, and as far as one can gather from the Wiki article, the design and tech gap between it and this Titan craft feels akin to an SpaceX rocket vs a homemade metal tube full of gunpowder built by a bloke trying to prove the Earth is flat
Deepsea Challenger - Wikipedia
T & P
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Damn it, all the effort in my previous post wastedok got it wrong Cameron went to the bottom on the miriana trench with deep challager
and use a Soviet era sub to visit titanic
Mir (submersible) - Wikipedia
Indeliblelink
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Let's not forget Cameron also made The Abyss, a film about searching for a lost submarine.
T & P
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Well, that’s your next conspiracy theory there…
Storm Fox
Trying the find the next noun to verb
In which he nearly drowns Ed Harris
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Yeah, I agree, really grim way to go. Pity he didn't decide to spend the £500,000 this trip cost him on food banks or providing clean water in developing countries.
You have to have a certain mindset to be a sub Mariner. There was a good programme on radio four a few years ago about life aboard one of the UK nuclear submarines. The preparation, food and all that sort of thing. I mean spending months in a metal can under the sea. Fuck that. I remember as a kid visiting the science museum and I was too chicken to go in the Apollo capsule. It just looked too small. I’d rather jump out of a plane without a parachute. Well okay with a parachute but if I had to go. And do something risky.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Not just "developing countries":
Navajo Water Project
Help DigDeep bring clean, running water to hundreds of American families. 1 in 3 Navajo homes don't have a tap or toilet. We can fix that.
www.navajowaterproject.org
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
It's a grim way to go, particularly if it's a slow death, certainly. But these people are the enemies of humanity.
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In the sadly rather unlikely case they locate the sub in the next few hours, would the rescue teams actually have a chance in hell of winching the sub up in time? I saw in the news they were going to fly in a wrenching craft. But how the fuck would they attach cables to it fast enough?
Looking at images of the sub, there’s no obvious or easy single exterior towing point to use. And since no diver could survive a sortie at that depth, it’d have to be done remotely using robotic arms. Does any rescue craft being brought in have that capability?
The sub’s designers could at least added a large metal ring to the roof, like those rubber ducks you’re meant to fish out of the water with a plastic fishing rod
Looking at images of the sub, there’s no obvious or easy single exterior towing point to use. And since no diver could survive a sortie at that depth, it’d have to be done remotely using robotic arms. Does any rescue craft being brought in have that capability?
The sub’s designers could at least added a large metal ring to the roof, like those rubber ducks you’re meant to fish out of the water with a plastic fishing rod
Thing is you don’t become a billionaire by having alturustic intentions. I mean if youor I had a spare billion quid knocking around, you’d think of the problems you could try and solve. but look at the boring pricks who just get rich off Real Estate, play golf. These are not creative problem-solving people necessarily. Never mind anything else. solving world hunger, giving people freshwater isn’t that sexy though is it. Giant robots with killer laser eyes, rockets and stuff. Yeah. have you given your Spotify money all to shelter. Are you buying PlayStation games when you could give that money away. Sounds petty I know but there is a bit of that on the grander scale. billionaires are an anathema though. No argument there.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Having seen some pictures of the thing - and based entirely on my experience of watching Reccy Mechs drag tanks and shit out of rivers, ditches and swamps - I simply don't see what you could attach anything to, and that if you wrapped a harness of some description round it, you'd inevitably break stuff on the outside of the pressure hull as soon as it came under strain.
It's just a death trap.
It's just a death trap.
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
Very good.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
My son was asking some things about why this material and not that one in construction, and I was sorely tempted to order that and Structures to see if he'd enjoy it as much as I had.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
At 19, you think you're immortal.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
The point being made mush was even if they got to the surface they couldn't get out. Plane doors can open at 3000m. Most people wouldn't think of opening them until the slip and slide life rafts were deployed.
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UrbaneFox
They've doubled in price
It's a lesson to us all.
UrbaneFox
They've doubled in price
Trillionaire ambulance chasers.
However, it could be a new Luxury Holiday Exploration wheeze, visiting the wreckage that went to see the wreckage, etc etc
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