Time Waster
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You mean you're surprised it didn't go down the first time!
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You mean you're surprised it didn't go down the first time!
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Going down wasn't the problem. It was coming back up again that was tricky.
Time Waster
Veteran
Every since a famous military submarine sinking with all hands back in the 50s or 60s, they introduced some of the strictest quality standards for building military submarines. These were so good they got taken up by NASA. They are part of why military submarines are as safe as they are in the west.
Why on earth don't they apply those same standards to civilian submarines. I mean they're technically very complex vehicles to design, with very demanding conditions. Imagine if aerospace sector was allowed to build planes like that! I'd certainly never fly if they did. There should really be a system where you have to prove a class of submarine is safe like planes before use.
Why on earth don't they apply those same standards to civilian submarines. I mean they're technically very complex vehicles to design, with very demanding conditions. Imagine if aerospace sector was allowed to build planes like that! I'd certainly never fly if they did. There should really be a system where you have to prove a class of submarine is safe like planes before use.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
Going 'pop' was the issue. Or the opposite on 'pop' ! No scientist but a 'ball' is stronger than a tube and end caps.
Time Waster
Veteran
I suspect a good part of the going down was after implosion.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
I was surprised how 'not that deep' a military sub can go, but that's where it is with the shape, and you can't scan one from up top at that 'relatively' shallow depth.
Time Waster
Veteran
Would a full ball have an unstable movement through the water? I mean there's not anything you stop it rotating unless, I think, it's tethered to a line from above.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Ah but the 'human' hab bit is a sphere, the rest is stuck on, doesn't need the resistance. Most deep dive subs have had a sphere/ball for the squishy bits.
Time Waster
Veteran
Military subs are technically more complex than NASA shuttle and spacecraft. NASA still uses sub quality standards. Civilian subs are not as complex as military ones but still technologically complex. However, AFAIK they don't use the subs safety standards even though you can access them if you wanted to. A flaw in the system?
Cycleops
Legendary Member
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Anyone old enough to remember the plastic sub you got with Corn Flakes? You filled it with bicarb and it dived and surfaced.
steveindenmark
Legendary Member
There is lots on Facetube about. It just proves that the people who earn the most money are not necessarily the sharpest knives in the box.
matticus
Guru
Yeah, I remember those. But we never had one in our house :-(
We never had Sky TV either ...
Ajax Bay
Guru
- Location
- East Devon
You'll be telling us next that your father didn't make tools, he made little mats.
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
I thought that was Starmer who said his father was a tool maker
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
I thought that was Starmer who said his father was a tool maker
Were you named after the first Oceangate submersible?
