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3 hours ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

i can name most of them, but who is the titty chic,

Carrie Fisher

3 hours ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

the Asian man,

Shigeru Miyamoto

3 hours ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

the sunglass man to his right,

Hugh Hefner

3 hours ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

blue suit man in front row? 

Phil Swift

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1 hour ago, closetohumping said:

Man hands

 

 

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Shouldn’t it just be a pile of loose Lego bricks?

To All My Surly Friends:
It is with great pleasure that I proudly announce the birth of my new GoFundMe project - the formation of an innovative, science-driven undersea engineering company, whose mission it is to develop and implement a deep sea diving vessel for the commercial purpose of exploring the wreck of the late submersible Titan.
This is your opportunity to join me in funding this historic project. Details to follow soon. 
 

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5 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

To All My Surly Friends:
It is with great pleasure that I proudly announce the birth of my new GoFundMe project - the formation of an innovative, science-driven undersea engineering company, whose mission it is to develop and implement a deep sea diving vessel for the commercial purpose of exploring the wreck of the late submersible Titan.
This is your opportunity to join me in funding this historic project. Details to follow soon. 
 

I've got some controllers we can use to pilot the sub.

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3 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

To All My Surly Friends:

It is with great pleasure that I proudly announce the birth of my new GoFundMe project - the formation of an innovative, science-driven undersea engineering company, whose mission it is to develop and implement a deep sea diving vessel for the commercial purpose of exploring the wreck of the submersible late submersible Titan.

This is your opportunity to join me in funding this historic project. Details to follow soon. 

 

You're a GATA right?

Because of that I do not believe that you are arrogant or pompous enough for such a venture (plus I am a 50+ white male and nobody wants us around) so due to that....

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12 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

To All My Surly Friends:
It is with great pleasure that I proudly announce the birth of my new GoFundMe project - the formation of an innovative, science-driven undersea engineering company, whose mission it is to develop and implement a deep sea diving vessel for the commercial purpose of exploring the wreck of the late submersible Titan.
This is your opportunity to join me in funding this historic project. Details to follow soon. 
 

You should wait to see if Florida wins the CWS before embarking on your suicide mission.

Just now, Grade of D as in David said:

I've got some controllers we can use to pilot the sub.

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You brought one too many. 

10 minutes ago, Grade of D as in David said:

I've got some controllers we can use to pilot the sub.

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Joking aside, a complex vehicle providing real life-safety functions should have more functionality in its control devices.  That's why my design incorporates this time-tested suite of gadgets:

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5 minutes ago, BillyGoatHill said:

You're a GATA right?

Because of that I do not believe that you are arrogant or pompous enough for such a venture (plus I am a 50+ white male and nobody wants us around) so due to that....

Im Out GIF by Shark Tank

Dear sir, do not let your lack of familiarity with my personality deter you. Today and today only, if you invest before midnight, we will throw in a limited edition baseball cap with the company logo:  “I Have Deep Feelings!”

 

5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Joking aside, a complex vehicle providing real life-safety functions should have more functionality in its control devices.  That's why my design incorporates this time-tested suite of gadgets:

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Mine was solar powered…

13 minutes ago, UTGrad98 said:

 

F Biden!!  /no CR

seriously though, why the f didn't the US Navy tell everyone?  Secondly, that's f'n impressive to have sonar / whatever that can monitor every drop of ocean water for noises. Wow! 

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

My worst case scenario was that something with the balance/ballast had also gone wrong and the sub had went vertical, either nosed into the ocean floor, or was bobbing vertically at the surface, and so all five of them were forced into basically standing up, and spent a few days standing in shit and piss (or leaning on the sides with their feet/ankles in it)..  And vomit if they were stuck at the surface bobbing up and down.  I guess if it was bobbing up and down at the surface, they'd have fallen into the shit, piss, and vomit at some point.  And the smell would only get worse.  Days of standing/leaning in shit/piss/vomit, knowing they couldn't get out.

 

24 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Dear sir, do not let your lack of familiarity with my personality deter you. Today and today only, if you invest before midnight, we will throw in a limited edition baseball cap with the company logo:  “I Have Deep Feelings!”

 

Make it a pirate hat, throw in a daily ration of Rum and we have a deal...

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36 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

To All My Surly Friends:
It is with great pleasure that I proudly announce the birth of my new GoFundMe project - the formation of an innovative, science-driven undersea engineering company, whose mission it is to develop and implement a deep sea diving vessel for the commercial purpose of exploring the wreck of the late submersible Titan.
This is your opportunity to join me in funding this historic project. Details to follow soon. 
 

I am willing to help you with your historic mission. I do expect to be compensated for these important items but am willing to give you a surly discount. If you can Venmo me $350,000 by 7 pm CST tomorrow I can also throw in some beanie babies and legos. All of which I am sure you’ll be grateful to get.

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19 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

 

F Biden!!  /no CR

seriously though, why the f didn't the US Navy tell everyone?  Secondly, that's f'n impressive to have sonar / whatever that can monitor every drop of ocean water for noises. Wow! 

 

Once again bringing back Project Azorian to this thread; in 1968 the Navy found, within a 5 mile radius, a sunken Soviet sub in the North Pacific off of the underwater implosion signatures, and they didn't even know the exact date the sub sank, but "heard it" from their recordings:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian

 

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The American SOSUS hydrophone network in the northern Pacific was tasked with reviewing its recordings in the hope of detecting an implosion (or explosion) related to such a loss. The Navy analyzed acoustic data from four AFTAC sites and the Adak, AlaskaSOSUS array,[7] locating the wreck of the submarine to within 5 nautical miles (9 km). The site was hundreds of miles away from the Soviet Navy search area.[8]

Naval Facility (NAVFAC) Point Sur, south of Monterey, California, was able to isolate a sonic signature on its low-frequency array recordings of an implosion event that had occurred on March 8, 1968. Using NavFac Point Sur's date and time of the event, NavFac Adak and the US West Coast NAVFAC were also able to isolate the acoustic event. With five SOSUS lines-of-bearing, Naval Intelligence was able to localize the site of the K-129wreck to the vicinity of 40.1° N latitude and 179.9° E longitude (close to the International Date Line).[9]

 

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Hands down, no question, the best thread on Surly this year.  Might be a top 3 all-time.

7 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

I am willing to help you with your historic mission. I do expect to be compensated for these important items but am willing to give you a surly discount. If you can Venmo me $350,000 by 7 pm CST tomorrow I can also throw in some beanie babies and legos. All of which I am sure you’ll be grateful to get.

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Many thanks for your offer of the non-gender neutral Mr. Potato Head, what appears to be a Jimbo Fisher Brand Dumpster Fire…and a Lite-Brite.  While intriguing, the Beta testing will not include those items. 

I am, however, very interested in the emergency communication device.  

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Carrie Fisher

Shigeru Miyamoto

Hugh Hefner

Phil Swift

cliffclaven, "Who are four people who've never been in my kitchen?"  

 

39 minutes ago, UTGrad98 said:

I suspected.

57 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

To All My Surly Friends:
It is with great pleasure that I proudly announce the birth of my new GoFundMe project - the formation of an innovative, science-driven undersea engineering company, whose mission it is to develop and implement a deep sea diving vessel for the commercial purpose of exploring the wreck of the late submersible Titan.
This is your opportunity to join me in funding this historic project. Details to follow soon. 
 

Allow me to offer a tube of gorilla glue warrantied up to 2.3 dives. I can also provide some flex seal for a partners share.

Wondered if there’d be anything left to eventually wash ashore or how long it took for them to die and if they suffered.

Catastrophic Implosion of a submersible explained:

When a submarine hull collapses, it moves inward at about 1,500 miles per hour - that’s 2,200 feet per second.

The time required for complete collapse is 20 / 2,200 seconds = about 1 millisecond.

A human brain responds instinctually to stimulus at about 25 milliseconds. Human rational response (senseâ†'reasonâ†'act) is at best 150 milliseconds.

The air inside a sub has a fairly high concentration of hydrocarbon vapors.

When the hull collapses it behaves like a very large piston on a very large Diesel engine.

The air auto-ignites and an explosion follows the initial rapid implosion. Large blobs of fat (that would be humans) incinerate and are turned to ash and dust quicker than you can blink your eye.

Info Source: Dave Corley, former Nuke sub officer

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1 hour ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

why the f didn't the US Navy tell everyone?

I'm no expert, but sonar, while pretty awesome, isn't eyes-on-confirmation a government might feel comfortable announcing the death of five people on, with the idea of there being a minuscule chance it was a mistake.  So the Navy is damned-near positive it knows what it knows, but it goes through the motions (calls it training) until it finds something or, based on what it knows about their life-support duration, decides to operate on the theory that they're officially dead because the oxygen ran out.  Also, while we Surly-types are a bit more detached from the emotions involved, there are families and Blink182-loving step-children out there with one eye on the news and the other on OnlyFans, who are waiting with bated/bating breath, and relying on the veracity of what they're told (even though veracity seems to be in short supply these days). See Tik Tok Commenter Source Hillarity, infra.   So, in sum, the US Govt.'s just announcing, "We heard an 'earth-shattering kaboom' event, they're totally, friggin dead my dudes," just isn't how things are done by functional-top-levels-of-government.  Also, the Navy likes to keep secrets.  And neither probably is the worst thing in the world.

 

Some past presidents might have blabbed it out the instant they found out.  But I won't mention any by name because I have no intention of C/R-ing this awesome thread.

 

 

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Allow me to offer a tube of gorilla glue warrantied up to 2.3 dives. I can also provide some flex seal for a partners share.

Fuck! Stupid me!
I’ve been thinking only monetarily [emoji383]
I have this very nice blue and gold from SCUBA school (vintage 1983) plus some UDT shorts (though from recent tailgates, not gonna fit too many of you fatties) Grow a ‘stache (sorry Nicholle) and be as cool as Magnum PI [emoji41]

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6 minutes ago, GoPokes83 said:

Wondered if there’d be anything left to eventually wash ashore or how long it took for them to die and if they suffered.

Catastrophic Implosion of a submersible explained:

When a submarine hull collapses, it moves inward at about 1,500 miles per hour - that’s 2,200 feet per second.

The time required for complete collapse is 20 / 2,200 seconds = about 1 millisecond.

A human brain responds instinctually to stimulus at about 25 milliseconds. Human rational response (senseâ'reasonâ'act) is at best 150 milliseconds.

The air inside a sub has a fairly high concentration of hydrocarbon vapors.

When the hull collapses it behaves like a very large piston on a very large Diesel engine.

The air auto-ignites and an explosion follows the initial rapid implosion. Large blobs of fat (that would be humans) incinerate and are turned to ash and dust quicker than you can blink your eye.

Info Source: Dave Corley, former Nuke sub officer

So you are saying the Titanic is getting ashy?  Holy Shit, now this I gotta see, anyone got a ride?

. . . .

/delete post; ban user

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46 minutes ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

I suspected.

Allow me to offer a tube of gorilla glue warrantied up to 2.3 dives. I can also provide some flex seal for a partners share.

We now know that the Rhino Liner they covered the O/G sub with wasn't enough to overcome its shortcomings.  Might as well give the Gorilla a shot.

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1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

To All My Surly Friends:
It is with great pleasure that I proudly announce the birth of my new GoFundMe project - the formation of an innovative, science-driven undersea engineering company, whose mission it is to develop and implement a deep sea diving vessel for the commercial purpose of exploring the wreck of the late submersible Titan.
This is your opportunity to join me in funding this historic project. Details to follow soon. 
 

Best we can do is 350 Best Buy coupons and a leftover wreath fund.

Will the Gator-Sub serve rum ham?  Asking for a friend.

27 minutes ago, GoPokes83 said:

Wondered if there’d be anything left to eventually wash ashore or how long it took for them to die and if they suffered.

Catastrophic Implosion of a submersible explained:

When a submarine hull collapses, it moves inward at about 1,500 miles per hour - that’s 2,200 feet per second.

The time required for complete collapse is 20 / 2,200 seconds = about 1 millisecond.

A human brain responds instinctually to stimulus at about 25 milliseconds. Human rational response (senseâ'reasonâ'act) is at best 150 milliseconds.

The air inside a sub has a fairly high concentration of hydrocarbon vapors.

When the hull collapses it behaves like a very large piston on a very large Diesel engine.

The air auto-ignites and an explosion follows the initial rapid implosion. Large blobs of fat (that would be humans) incinerate and are turned to ash and dust quicker than you can blink your eye.

Info Source: Dave Corley, former Nuke sub officer

 

Oh.

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43 minutes ago, blacklab said:

It’s a jumbo fisher price dumpster fire

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5 minutes ago, dcbc said:

Will the Gator-Sub serve rum ham?  Asking for a friend.

If your financial remuneration is dependent upon serving rum ham, we will be serving the very best rum ham in the dual purpose bidet/buffet.    A bit over budget, but if we get all of the fancy ciphering right we can save on the pressure testing.  I have never had a propane tank or a scuba tank fail. I think those tests are a money scam. 

3 minutes ago, Horn Dogg said:

We’s some bad motherfuckers!

ummm the parts came from Taiwan.

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1 hour ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

 

F Biden!!  /no CR

seriously though, why the f didn't the US Navy tell everyone?  Secondly, that's f'n impressive to have sonar / whatever that can monitor every drop of ocean water for noises. Wow! 

Because the Navy thought it’d be funny to send the Coast Guard out to search for an imploded submersible.

34 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

So you are saying the Titanic is getting ashy?  Holy Shit, now this I gotta see, anyone got a ride?

Uh-hem…,

59 minutes ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

I suspected.

Allow me to offer a tube of gorilla glue warrantied up to 2.3 dives. I can also provide some flex seal for a partners share.

Your partner’s share can be full profit margins starting on the submersible’s second trip and after 

1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

Once again bringing back Project Azorian to this thread; in 1968 the Navy found, within a 5 mile radius, a sunken Soviet sub in the North Pacific off of the underwater implosion signatures, and they didn't even know the exact date the sub sank, but "heard it" from their recordings:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian

 

 

If they could pinpoint it within five miles in 1968, imagine how good they are now.

47 minutes ago, GoPokes83 said:

Wondered if there’d be anything left to eventually wash ashore or how long it took for them to die and if they suffered.

Catastrophic Implosion of a submersible explained:

When a submarine hull collapses, it moves inward at about 1,500 miles per hour - that’s 2,200 feet per second.

The time required for complete collapse is 20 / 2,200 seconds = about 1 millisecond.

A human brain responds instinctually to stimulus at about 25 milliseconds. Human rational response (senseâ'reasonâ'act) is at best 150 milliseconds.

The air inside a sub has a fairly high concentration of hydrocarbon vapors.

When the hull collapses it behaves like a very large piston on a very large Diesel engine.

The air auto-ignites and an explosion follows the initial rapid implosion. Large blobs of fat (that would be humans) incinerate and are turned to ash and dust quicker than you can blink your eye.

Info Source: Dave Corley, former Nuke sub officer

So, they were dead before ever realizing it happened. Can I go back in time and take a trip to the Titanic right as the opening kickoff happened in the 2021 Kansas game?

14 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Your partner’s share can be full profit margins starting on the submersible’s second trip and after 

So 1.3 dives, and they sign away their lives with a waiver? Deal. 

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