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Sweetheart please suit the company that makes gameboy remote controls.I wonder if they’ve written notes for loved ones.
Batteries running out, or failure of the cable that links the controller to what is being controlled, are probably the most common points of failures in game controllers (from my experience using them).how rarely game controllers actually fail under heavy use
Batteries running out, or failure of the cable that links the controller to what is being controlled, are probably the most common points of failures in game controllers (from my experience using them).
I hope not
I hope not. Where's the humanity, rather than schadenfreude
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You’d think for $360,000 you’d at least get a seat for the journey
It's the lack of redundancy that's really concerning.Yes you would. Even being in a boat on top of the ocean has plenty of risks let alone what these guys were doing. Like going into the outback with little water and no gps or way of communicating.
would any of these work 4km underwater?It's the lack of redundancy that's really concerning.
In your example above, experienced travelers would have an emergency distress beacon and a SatPhone. You don't rely on just one comms device.
Ships carry lifejackets at 110% of crew capacity. There are plenty of examples.
What we know about this sub so far indicates there's zero redundancy in anything they've done.
EM radiation is quickly absorbed in water. You need sonar pings to communicate.would any of these work 4km underwater?
emergency beacon should be onboard in case they are floating in the ocean somewhere though.
They're examples of redundancy being integral to planning, not submarine-specific examples.would any of these work 4km underwater?
emergency beacon should be onboard in case they are floating in the ocean somewhere though.
It's the dumbest and most reckless thing I think I've ever seen, truly. Exploration okay, fine be an explorer but do not sell tickets to tourists and put teenagers on your unregulated, uncertified jerry built experimental sub.
There are reports through the press that it took OceanGate over six hours after last contact with the Titan, to call the Coast Guard.
That seems too long to my mind.
It's the lack of redundancy that's really concerning.
In your example above, experienced travelers would have an emergency distress beacon and a SatPhone. You don't rely on just one comms device.
Ships carry lifejackets at 110% of crew capacity. There are plenty of examples.
What we know about this sub so far indicates there's zero redundancy in anything they've done.
Don't understand why there's no tether cable. Gives you communications & a way to reel in the submersible if it breaks down. Seems like they had no contingency plan for a simple breakdown and/or the submersible becoming stuck.
Not even sure if the USA/NATO would know.Would we know if there were any Russian subs in the area at the time?
I was thinking about that, then thought a tether might become tangled but they probably shouldn't get that close anyway and it could come with a release.
Sorry for butting in, hard to resist though because it had been playing on my mind.
a simple breakdown and/or the submersible becoming stuck.
Tethers can become tangled but mainly at those depths they can act as a bit of sail for the submersible, dragging it around and occasionally getting them into spins. The mother ship can end up dragging them too.Don't understand why there's no tether cable. Gives you communications & a way to reel in the submersible if it breaks down. Seems like they had no contingency plan for a simple breakdown and/or the submersible becoming stuck.
Being a Titanic enthusiast i'll have to go into bat for it here. She was beyond safe for the time, met every regulation and even went beyond in some cases, including having more life boats than required (life boats in those days were not meant for whole ship evacuations, more for transport to other vessels). She was wounded by the iceberg in literally the only spot that could have sunk it that quickly. Part of what makes it such a fascinating and tragic story.